Wire - 23 Years Too Late
December 31, 2007
This is my best-of-2007 list. I hate best of lists. My list only has one item:
Wire's "23 Years Too Late" (off the EP Read & Burn 03) is not just the best song of 2007, it's the best anything of 2007. Very little this year has brought me as much pleasure as this song. I love love love when a band that started before I was born can still make amazing music. The ominous, bass-y spoken word makes this song almost like a post-punk version of Thriller. Now that I think about it, that's a fairly apt comparison.
(FYI: The rest of the EP is alright, but this one song makes the purchase more than worth it. I hardly ever get to the other songs on the CD because I keep listening to this one over and over and over.)
Posts
January 9, 2008 at 1:40 AM
Point the First:
'23 Years Too Late' is AWESOME.
Point the Second:
The fact that your blog is the first Google result for '23 Years Too Late' is AWESOME.
January 15, 2008 at 11:51 PM
Whaddya know...here I am, an old lady by contempo standards, that is to say, 'way more than 23 years too late in terms of hearing Wire for the first time on a local Seattle indy rock station, and posting a comment about it (also my first blog comment ever), which is also to say how blown away by their sound I was...and how happpily that same sound harkened me back to olden days (sixties-seventies)when rock was young and punk wasn't even around yet.
December 27, 2008 at 9:49 AM
Great song!!
October 25, 2010 at 2:20 PM
Actually, this whole EP is one of the best things Wire have released, at least since the late '80s, if not ever. Amazing little album.
July 20, 2011 at 11:46 AM
A masterpiece!