We hope you like Wire. Or, at the very least we hope you’re interested to hear about Wire because we have a lot to get through with this.

David couldn’t join us this week, but we were able to get a post-punk expert to join us for this mammoth two parter, so say hello to Ferruccio Quercetti of the Italian punk band Cut. He is a true font of knowledge and he provides a ton of context here, which frankly is worth the price of admission alone.

Anyway, Chris has been talking about nominating Pink Flag for years. Literally years. He made it known that he was thinking of pulling the trigger on this a few weeks back, which is just as well as this band have a lot of albums. That’s why this ends up as a two parter.

We cover about half of their career in this episode. The crux of Chris’s argument here is that Pink Flag is one o ...