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  Type Album
  Artist Wire
  Cover Wire_Pink_Flagjpg
  Background orange
  Released 1977
  Recorded Advision Studios
  Genre Punk Rock
  Length 37:02
  Label EMI
  Producer Mike Thorne
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''Pink Flag'' is the first album by the band Wire , released in 1977 . A seminal and influential release, it is notable for its thrashy, short songs, some less than a minute long. It features what is perhaps Punk Rock 's first instrumental song, "The Commercial". Although the album was released to huge critical acclaim, it was not a big seller.

The cover is a photo of a flagless flagpole with the pink Flag painted on.


TRACK LISTING

All songs composed by Bruce Gilbert/Graham Lewis/ Colin Newman /Robert Gotobed, except "Different to Me" by Annette Green.
# "Reuters" (3:03)
# "Field Day for the Sundays" (0:28)
# "Three Girl Rhumba" (1:23)
# "Ex Lion Tamer" (2:17)
# "Lowdown" (2:26)
# "Start to Move" (1:12)
# "Brazil" (0:40)
# "It's So Obvious" (0:53)
# "Surgeon's Girl" (1:14)
# "Pink Flag" (3:50)
# "The Commercial" (0:49)
# "Straight Line" (0:44)
# "106 Beats That" (1:12)
# "Mr. Suit" (1:25)
# "Strange" (3:58)
# "Fragile" (1:18)
# "Mannequin" (2:37)
# "Different to Me" (0:43)
# "Champs" (1:46)
# "Feeling Called Love" (1:21)
# "12 X U" (1:55)

Various CD reissues have included additional tracks: the initial US release included "Options R", and the 1994 Harvest release included both "Options R" and "Dot Dash". However, all such extra tracks have been removed from the 2006 remastered reissues, because they, according to the band, didn't honour the "conceptual clarity of the original statements".


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