New/Sealed
RSD Exclusive / Ltd. 1200 USA
2LP
ROCK
PINK FLAG 0000028
UPC: 5063176061010
Release Date: 4/12/2025
 
Combining the run of early singles with more obscure later period tracks underlines the strength in depth that Wire had. This is pop art as art/pop and an exploration of the blank canvas of pop culture and how far that canvas can be stretched going from three minute constructs to ambient washes. The 7” single was always the ultimate artefact and statement with the A side being the band momentarily paused in time and distilled and freeze-framed into the forever with less than three minutes of electric sound. These “sevens” released from 1977 to the end of that decade signpost the band's remarkable development from their brilliantly monochromatic early phase to the textured complexity of the almost psychedelic unzipping of their sound and vision. ‘In some ways the compilation of Nine Sevens onto a double album makes for quite a weird documentation of the band in this period. The first disc, to some extent, follows the script of a singles / greatest hits collection but the second one goes wildly off-piste and ends up somewhere quite far from where the collection started.
 
Disc 1
Track     
 
Title
 
1
Mannequin
2
Feeling Called Love
3
12Xu
4
I Am the Fly
5
Ex-Lion Tamer
6
Dot Dash
7
Options R
8
Outdoor Miner (Single Version)
9
Practice Makes Perfect
10
A Question of Degree
11
Former Airline
12
Map Ref. 41ºN 93ºW
 
Disc 2
Track     
 
Title
 
1
Go Ahead
2
Our Swimmer
3
Midnight Bahnhof Café
4
Second Length (Our Swimmer)
5
Catapult 30
6
Song 1
7
Get Down 1 + 2
8
Let’s Panic Later
9
Small Electric Piece