It s Beginning to and Back Again Ibtaba

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1. Any fans of this odd 1989 record? Its a live album, but its been heavily processed in the studio. Its quite electronic-sounding. No crowd noise, glossy and strong. It has a strong menstruum charm though I suppose fans of raw fare might be put off. I just revisited the CD last nighttime and information technology sounded meliorate than I recalled.

   Any other examples of albums that follow this methodology? King Crimson's "Starless and Bible Black" and Zappa's "Sheik Yerbouti" immediately spring to mind, though they've aged a scrap more gracefully since the studio tinkering had a warm 70s charm.

2. I always liked it, and I didn't realize at the time exactly what they had done with the material. I knew it had the feel of a compilation and there was prior textile washed in a different way, but I could never quite put my finger on it. Alas, I didn't really care and but turned information technology up.

3. Many other Zappa records
   Grateful Dead's Anthem Of The Dominicus and Infrared Roses
   Neil Young'southward Rust Never Sleeps and Life

   I think we accept had other threads most this. Never got effectually to hearing this Wire record although I have always been curious about it.

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   I similar this anthology, even the 'tame-for-Wire-standards' hit unmarried "Eardrum Buzz". Of class, information technology, and other records of the time concord a special identify in my centre, as it was the time when I met my future married woman, and we were both working at a tape store in DC.

5. I passed-upwards the anthology at the time of release. I wasn't totally enamored of Wire'southward evolution in the 80's.

   I've seen the mail BC Gilbert version of the band twice at present, and I hunted down everything I'd missed by the grouping afterwards seeing them on the Reddish Barked Tree tour. IBTABA was ane of the holes in my drove along with the four-song Eardrum Buzz EP and a couple other things. I must accept heard bits of IBTABA at the time, merely was turned-off by the thought of their re-recording contempo cloth. In fact, the versions on that album are often superior to earlier recordings and I retrieve that was function of the album's inspiration, that the group was unhappy with some of their contempo work.

   Anyway, 23-years on I consider it a fine album in their catalog... much more satisfying than Manscape or The First Letter.

6. I quite liked mid-fourscore'south Wire (for what it was) and thought IBTABA was a pretty practiced anthology. The version of Finest Drops blows away the earlier studio version particularly.

7. I demand to mind to information technology again, I didn't similar it when I first listened to it xv years ago, simply I have a feeling I might modify my heed if I give information technology another risk, which I call back I will do. I am a huge fan of Pink Flag and Chairs Missing. Thanks for bringing it up!

8. I simply recently listened to "A Bong Is a Cup...Until It Is Struck", I really similar the finest drop. the instrumental and Kidney bingo

9. Wait, this is actually a live album? I've loved it for years but never picked up on that; information technology certainly explains the much more aggressive edge. I ever figured they were and then unhappy with the lackluster sound of A Bong Is A Cup that they re-recorded the stronger tracks. If I grab for a second-phase Wire LP, information technology's either IBTABA or The Platonic Copy.

10. I loved their 80s electropop(ish) 80s era, and also love alternate versions of songs, so this one went down quite well with me. I even so enjoy information technology.

11. 4 songs in, it'due south cracking, I dig information technology more than I remember at the time I first listened to it. I call up I was wrong to just dismiss it outright, guess I was just pissed it wasn't pink flag good at the time and.

12. _The A List_ is an excellent compilation of 8os Wire.

13. I really really hope they bout the US in 2013.

14. They put this anthology out after somewhat disgruntled reception of their return - The Ideal Copy and A Bell Is a Cup. The versions recorded were originally live, but for some strange reason they decided to add together to them in the studio a la Talking Heads Cease Making Sense - which was a huge hit.

    I dear the versions hither ameliorate than their album versions. But man, they've got to remaster this affair. A jewel in their catalog, only harsh as hell.

15. There isn't much bear witness of information technology, that's for sure. Information technology's more accurate to say that the basic tracks were live and in that location was extensive studio piece of work utilizing those basic tracks.

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