Contents 1 Pink Flag (1977) 2 Chairs Missing (1978) 3 154 (1979) 4 Snakedrill (1986) 5 The Ideal Copy (1987) 6 A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck (1988) 7 Kidney Bingos (1988) 8 Silk Skin Paws (1988) 9 It's Beginning To and Back Again (1989) 10 Manscape (1990) 11 The Drill (1991) 12 1985-1990: The A List (1993) 13 Send (2003) 14 Object 47 (2008) 15 Red Barked Tree (2011) 16 Additional information

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Pink Flag (1977)Edit

1. Reuters
2. Field Day for the Sundays
3. Three Girl Rhumba
4. Ex Lion Tamer
5. Lowdown
6. Start to Move
7. Brazil
8. It's So Obvious
9. Surgeon's Girl
10. Pink Flag
11. The Commercial
12. Straight Line
13. 106 Beats That
14. Mr. Suit
15. Strange
16. Fragile
17. Mannequin
18. Different to Me
19. Champs
20. Feeling Called Love
21. 1 2 X U

22. Options R

22. Dot Dash
23. Options R

Chairs Missing (1978)Edit

1. Practice Makes Perfect
2. French Film Blurred
3. Another the Letter
4. Men 2nd
5. Marooned
6. Sand in My Joints
7. Being Sucked In Again
8. Heartbeat
9. Mercy
10. Outdoor Miner
11. I Am the Fly
12. I Feel Mysterious Today
13. From the Nursery
14. Used To
15. Too Late

16. Go Ahead
17. Former Airline
18. Question of Degree

16. Outdoor Miner (long version)
17. A Question of Degree
18. Former Airline

154 (1979)Edit

1. I Should Have Known Better
2. Two People in a Room
3. The 15th
4. The Other Window
5. Single K.O.
6. A Touching Display
7. On Returning
8. A Mutual Friend
9. Blessed State
10. Once Is Enough
11. Map Ref. 41°N 93°W
12. Indirect Enquiries
13. 40 Versions

1. Song 1
2. Get Down, Parts I & II
3. Let's Panic Later
4. Small Electric Piece

18. Go Ahead

Snakedrill (1986)Edit

1. "A Serious of Snakes"
2. Drill
3. Advantage in Height
4. Up to the Sun

The Ideal Copy (1987)Edit

1. The Point of Collapse
2. Ahead
3. Madman's Honey
4. Feed Me
5. Ambitious
6. Cheeking Tongues
7. Still Shows
8. Over Theirs

13. Ambulance Chasers (live)
14. Feed Me (live)
15. Vivid Riot of Red (live)

A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck (1988)Edit

1. Silk Skin Paws
2. The Finest Drops
3. The Queen of Ur and the King of Um
4. Free Falling Divisions
5. It's a Boy
6. Boiling Boy
7. Kidney Bingos
8. Come Back in Two Halves
9. Follow the Locust
10. A Public Place

11. The Queen of Ur and the King of Um (alternative version)
12. Pieta
13. Over Theirs (live)
14. Drill (live)

Kidney Bingos (1988)Edit

1. Kidney Bingos
2. Over Theirs (live)
3. Drill (live)
4. Pieta (La Piccola)

Silk Skin Paws (1988)Edit

1. Silk Skin Paws (full Length version)
2. German Shepherds
3. Ambitious (remix)
4. Come Back in Two Halves (rerecorded)

It's Beginning To and Back Again (1989)Edit

1. Finest Drops
2. Eardrum Buzz
3. German Shepherds
4. Public Place
5. It's a Boy
6. Illuminated
7. Boiling Boy
8. Over Theirs
9. Eardrum Buzz (12" version)
10. The Offer
11. In Vivo

Manscape (1990)Edit

1. Life in the Manscape
2. Stampede
3. Patterns of Behaviour
4. Other Moments
5. Small Black Reptile
6. Torch It
7. Morning Bell
8. Where's the Deputation?
9. What Do You See?
10. Goodbye Ploy
11. Sixth Sense
12. Children of Groceries
13. You Hung Your Lights in the Trees / A Craftman's Touch

The Drill (1991)Edit

1. In Every City?
2. Whats Your Desire?
3. Arriving/Staying/Going?
4. (A Berlin) Drill
5. Do You Drive? (Turn Your Coat)
6. Jumping Mint?
7. Did You Dugga?
8. Where Are You Now?
9. (A Chicago) Drill (live)

Albums by Wir
Albums: The First Letter (1991)

1985-1990: The A List (1993)Edit

1. Ahead
2. Kidney Bingos
3. A Serious of Snakes
4. Eardrum Buzz
5. Drill
6. Ambitious
7. In Vivo
8. The Finest Drops
9. Madman's Honey
10. Over Theirs
11. Silk Skin Paws
12. The Queen of Ur & The King of Um
13. Torch It!
14. Advantage in Height
15. Point of Collapse
16. Feed Me

Send (2003)Edit

1. In the Art of Stopping
2. Mr Marx's Tale
3. Being Watched
4. Comet
5. The Agfers of Kodack
6. Nice Streets Above
7. Spent
8. Read and Burn
9. You Can't Leave Now
10. Half Eaten
11. 99.9

1. 99.9
2. Germ Ship
3. Mr. Marx's Table
4. First Fast
5. Read and Burn
6. The Agfers of Kodack
7. Comet
8. In the Art of Stopping
9. Spent
10. I Don't Understand

1. I Don't Understand
2. Trash/Treasure
3. Raft Ants
4. Germ Ship
5. 1st Fast
6. Artificial Gravity
7. DJ Fuckoff
8. 12 Times U
9. Our Time (minimal mix)
10. Desert Diving (alternative mix)
11. 12 Times X

Object 47 (2008)Edit

1. One of Us
2. Circumspect
3. Mekon Headman
4. Perspex Icon
5. Four Long Years
6. Hard Currency
7. Patient Flees
8. Are You Ready?
9. All Fours

Red Barked Tree (2011)Edit

1. Please Take
2. Now Was
3. Adapt
4. Two Minutes
5. Clay
6. Bad Worn Thing
7. Moreover
8. A Flat Tent
9. Smash
10. Down to This
11. Red Barked Trees

Additional information

Band members: Colin Newman Graham Lewis Robert Gotobed Matt Simms (touring only) Former members: Bruce Gilbert Margaret Fiedler (touring only) Related artists: Wir Colin Newman

Genres: Punk Rock Post-Punk

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