Wire - I'm The Fly

[IVIIIVV]

sympathy for the fly

[TheEnchantingWizard1]

catchiest chorus ever

[nacrank]

@armpits17 Have you never heard Girls and Boys?! An 'homage' perhaps? But, anyway I still like Blur and Elastica homage or no. Not sure where this is going?

[hologramdog]

what is this video from? was it actually made by wire for a music video?

[alan3735]

mas psicodelico que el carajo

[DarthLego100]

Back in 2006, I listened to this daily.

[randomeddie]

'Chairs Missing'...unbelievably brilliant album!

[johnnywas123]

never worked WIRE out, seen em once at READING, bout 91, bit to clever for a simple punk like me !



[flabnblab]

@johnnywas123

they were ORIGINAL first wave PUNKS

all music and no fashion

check out their 40 sec, 1 & 2 min max at time songs, right when they started.

but Wire was never ever about uniformity

1990 one guy left...they called themselves Wir and

released

So and slow it grows.

This is the period you probably saw them in...at their most assessable

Why they seem complicated is because a lot of times they pay with language and words

[rvcgizmo]

Hey thanks! This was a blast from the past :)

[davisevan11]

@drstevie first thought I had!

[BrianJones1888]

wonderful, genius. Elastica never expected that one day the MP3-internet revolution will explode and everything they ripped from The Wire will be well documented!

[HaikuAutomation]

Great song, wonderful stuff!

[19680606Doud]

je suis une mouche alors vien me botter les fesses et plutot deux fois qune parce quen fait jen ai deux de fesses. tendrement. P.S. merde a RotoPlasmX un debile notoire qui doit pas connaitre grand chose aparte de CELINEDION the voice of universe

[jdunkaroo]

@19680606Doud je parle un peu de francais muu facka

[RotoPlasmX]

Boy, this video is horrible!

[jdunkaroo]

@RotoPlasmX  youre horrible!

[RotoPlasmX]

@jdunkaroo Thank you :D

[dangerfellini]

Strange video which does NOT feature the members of Wire in it. And why do they have Psychic Crosses on the backs of their raincoats ?

[luzhizui]

@drstevie Definitely a major influence on Blur, but that doesn't make it a rip-off as such, but defo ahead of it's time....

[chiquitabanana420]

definitely okay music. rock and roll ca n occasionally produce something that isnt a totaly "stinker"

[tabtrader]

For a bunch of guys who had no idea how to play there insurments,...they showed us that it can be done without years of training. I look up to these guys! Thanks wire.

[dummytree]

@goldstar62 People always diss Elastica and Blur for it. Hey people...remember how obscure Wire was back in the early 90s ! Before the neo post-punk thing circa 2004, very few people knew about them. They were actually pretty cool to have this influence back in the day...

[pongnose]

@dummytree I don't agree, Wire were not at all obscure for musicians of Blur's generation. They were one of the most rated new wave bands of all. I remember seeing them at the Town & Country / Forum in the late 80s, which is a big venue, not exactly a pub. You forget how many people in England grew up listening to John Peel.

[wir154]

@dummytree You don't think that being coverd by REM (before Elastica and Blur) got quite a few people interested in them? But then again REM are really obscure and few people have heard of them! Same with Colin Newman's first solo single "Alone" (which I think may have been intended as a Wire song originally) appearing in that obscure arthouse film "Silence of the Lambs"! (Actually I don't think many people are aware of that, come to think of it!)

[dummytree]

@wir154 OK, fair enough. I AM WRONG. I'd forgotten about the REM cover (who were really into Gang of Four, Wire, Pylon also). No need to be condescending.I don't think there's a universal truth here though. I'd say Wire was more popular in the UK than elsewhere back in the early 90s. It's a fact that I've never read the name "Wire" more than in 2004-2005...not in the early 90s. But then, I didn't have much access to the british rock press.

[hologramdog]

@wir154 very well said, and it's nice to point out such props from such mainstay acts. i want to dismiss both elastifuck and blurb for several reasons. and dummytree does seem to seeing things from a very singular angle, like probably from america. i first heard wire on tape around '88 or '89 thx to someone in a very small u.s. town who had IBTABA, idealcopy, pink flag. he listened to indie ppl such as dead milkmen, dead kennedys and also joy division. not bad for being so isolated.

[hologramdog]

my point is, Wire was not obscure as most think. here or there or otherwise. notable indie and pop bands knew them, and the good ones acknowledged influence or respect, and left of the dial/college radio had them on rotation. also, Blur has some my respect due to Albarn's work on the side, such as the soundtrack to "Ravenous," Hewlett's shared hate of Hollywood/types, hooking up with Terry Gilliam, Gruff Rhys, Mark E. Smith, and his all-time best scam about Glee.

[hologramdog]

However fucking Justine from Elastica is still the single most infamous fact that I cannot get over. Elastica is what I imagine I'd have to endure watching if I was ever tortured like Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

[RotoPlasmX]

too much bass. sounds muddy.

[BboyFlimsy]

@RotoPlasmX The crunchy and muddy sound is what makes it so good.

[RotoPlasmX]

@BboyFlimsy Then why does it sound different on my LP? My LP sounds much better than this. I'm saying that this was uploaded in a a careless manner.

[BboyFlimsy]

@RotoPlasmX Sounds the same to me. I don't have the best ear for music though, so that might be it.

[BboyFlimsy]

@BboyFlimsy Oh shit, no wait. I just put in my better head phone, I totally see what your talking about now. It's like the bass overpowers everything else.

[MegaDRjohn]

@RotoPlasmX utube does that with its compression etc, out of sync also is a trait.. it forces people to buy rather than rip

[RotoPlasmX]

@MegaDRjohn I know all that, but this sounds REALLY muddy and compressed. There's other versions on youtube of I Am The Fly that don't sound this shitty.

[front131]

Absolutely love this.

Later in 1980ish, there was a club in Plymouth called Zones I think, maybe Klones, whatever, always used to play this then (She's lost) Control, the two seemed to go really well together (so he did it all the bloody time! bless).

[oberellis]

I love the impending chaotic, post-apocalyptic haz-mat feel. You can't tell where your internet streaming breaks down but it goes with this awesome iconic tune.

[lMaximumlHeat]

Reminds me of a much shorter, punk version of Hey Jude.

[bluehairspaz]

@lMaximumlHeat what? awesome. it makes no sense at all but i love unjustifiable statements.

[AlternativeOfficials]

No that's just too much. I think this doesn't have anything to do with Girls & Boys by Blur.

[sedg]

@drstevie I agree, but I still like Blur and Elastica. I remember as I first heard of each of them I thought "Wow, Wire and Gang of Four" Then I learned of the intermingling of the bands. Well, anyway great to see and hear this again but I wish the quality was better.

[ady10001]

@GARGANTUA1967

Maybe some of us like to fuck nuts.

[andrewlewis963]

oodies before oodies were oodies

[phildread]

quality!

[alcolol]

tune

[vikingbattleforhalo]

if someone doesnt have audio preview on their text comments i`ll go fucking insane