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{{Infobox album| <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
{{Infobox album| <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
Name = The Ideal Copy |
Name = The Ideal Copy
Type = [[Album]] |
| Type = Album
Artist = [[Wire (band)|Wire]] |
| Artist = [[Wire (band)|Wire]]
Cover = WireTheIdealCopy.jpg |
| Cover = WireTheIdealCopy.jpg
Released = April 1987 |
| Released = April 1987
Recorded = 1986 |
| Recorded = 1986
Genre = [[Post-punk]]<br/>[[Electronic music|Electronic]] |
| Genre = [[Post-punk]]<br/>[[Electronic music|Electronic]]
Length = 34:39 (Original album)<br />63:18 (Reissue with bonus tracks) |
| Length = 34:39 (Original album)<br />63:18 (Reissue with bonus tracks)
Label = [[Mute Records]] |
| Label = [[Mute Records]]
Producer = [[Gareth Jones (music producer)|Gareth Jones]] |
| Producer = [[Gareth Jones (music producer)|Gareth Jones]] |

|
Last album = ''Ahead''<br />(1987) |
| Last album = ''Ahead''<br />(1987)
This album = ''The Ideal Copy'' <br /> (1987) |
| This album = ''The Ideal Copy'' <br /> (1987)
Next album = ''The Peel Sessions''<br />(1987) |}}
| Next album = ''The Peel Sessions''<br />(1987) |}}


{{Album ratings
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} <ref>{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r22093|pure_url=yes}}</ref>
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r22093|pure_url=yes}}</ref>
| rev2 = [[Rolling Stone]]
| rev2 = [[Rolling Stone]]
| rev2Score = <small>(Not Rated)</small> <ref>http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/wire/albums/album/102560/review/5940315/the_ideal_copy {{dead link|date=November 2010}}</ref>
| rev2Score = <small>(Not Rated)</small><ref>http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/wire/albums/album/102560/review/5940315/the_ideal_copy {{dead link|date=November 2010}}</ref>
| rev3 = [[Robert Christgau]]
| rev3 = [[Robert Christgau]]
| rev3Score = B− <ref>http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1682&name=Wire</ref>
| rev3Score = B−<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1682&name=Wire |title=CG: Wire |publisher=Robert Christgau |accessdate=5 June 2012}}</ref>
}}
}}


'''''The Ideal Copy''''' is the fourth studio album [[Sound recording|album]] by the [[England|English]] [[Rock music|rock]] group [[Wire (band)|Wire]]. It was the first full-length recording following the band's hiatus of 1980–1985. (The band had recorded and released the [[Snakedrill]] [[Extended play|EP]] in 1986 after reuniting). [[Mute Records]] released the album.
'''''The Ideal Copy''''' is the fourth studio album [[Sound recording|album]] by the English rock group [[Wire (band)|Wire]]. It was the first full-length recording following the band's hiatus of 1980–1985. (The band had recorded and released the [[Snakedrill]] [[Extended play|EP]] in 1986 after reuniting). [[Mute Records]] released the album.


Wire had used [[Electronic music|electronic]] instruments on the albums ''[[Chairs Missing]]'' and ''[[154 (album)|154]]'', but following their hiatus, Wire more openly embraced the use of [[music sequencer|sequencers]], [[synthesizer]]s, and [[drum machines]]. This prompted [[music critics]] to compare ''The Ideal Copy'' to groups such as [[New Order]].<ref name=davis>Davis, Michael. Record review. ''[[Creem]]'' September 1987: 21</ref><ref name=trouserpress>DeRogatis, Jim & Neate, Wilson. {{cite web|title=Wire|work=Trouser Press|url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=wire|accessdate=25 February 2005}}</ref> One critic, Kirk Fillmore, further compared the [[bass guitar|electric bass]]'s sound on the [[Single (music)|single]] "Ahead" to that of New Order's [[Peter Hook]], though bassist [[Graham Lewis]] had played in such a style on previous Wire albums.<ref name=fillmore>Fillmore, Kirk. [[Vinyl record|Record]] review. ''Façade'' June 1987: 4</ref> Indeed, journalist Richard Grabel pointed out that "New Order and any number of other synths-and-[[guitar]]s bands took cues from late-70s Wire," suggesting that "things [had] come full circle."<ref name=grabel>Grabel, Richard. "Wire of the Tastiest Kind." ''[[Creem]]'' September 1987: 31+</ref>
Wire had used [[Electronic music|electronic]] instruments on the albums ''[[Chairs Missing]]'' and ''[[154 (album)|154]]'', but following their hiatus, Wire more openly embraced the use of [[music sequencer|sequencers]], synthesisers, and [[drum machines]]. This prompted music critics to compare ''The Ideal Copy'' to groups such as [[New Order]].<ref name=davis>Davis, Michael. Record review. ''[[Creem]]'' September 1987: 21</ref><ref name=trouserpress>DeRogatis, Jim & Neate, Wilson. {{cite web|title=Wire|work=Trouser Press|url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=wire|accessdate=25 February 2005}}</ref> One critic, Kirk Fillmore, further compared the electric bass's sound on the single "Ahead" to that of New Order's [[Peter Hook]], though bassist [[Graham Lewis]] had played in such a style on previous Wire albums.<ref name=fillmore>Fillmore, Kirk. [[Vinyl record|Record]] review. ''Façade'' June 1987: 4</ref> Indeed, journalist Richard Grabel pointed out that "New Order and any number of other synths-and-guitars bands took cues from late-70s Wire," suggesting that "things [had] come full circle."<ref name=grabel>Grabel, Richard. "Wire of the Tastiest Kind." ''[[Creem]]'' September 1987: 31+</ref>


In May 1988, ''The Ideal Copy'' became the first popular music recording to be commercially released on [[Digital Audio Tape|DAT]] format.<ref>{{Cite journal | title=Back in the Days of '88 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=5oyYjDeNc_AC&lpg=PA71&pg=PA71#v=onepage&q&f=false | journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] | volume=4 | issue=9 | month=December | year=1988 | page=71 | accessdate=April 29, 2011}}</ref>
In May 1988, ''The Ideal Copy'' became the first popular music recording to be commercially released on [[Digital Audio Tape|DAT]] format.<ref>{{Cite journal | title=Back in the Days of '88 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=5oyYjDeNc_AC&lpg=PA71&pg=PA71#v=onepage&q&f=false | journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] | volume=4 | issue=9 | month=December | year=1988 | page=71 | accessdate=29 April 2011}}</ref>


== The album title ==
== The album title ==
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#"Over Theirs"&nbsp;– 5:18
#"Over Theirs"&nbsp;– 5:18


In addition to the eight album tracks, the [[compact disc]] and [[Compact audio cassette|cassette]] configurations appended the ''[[Snakedrill]]'' EP in its entirety, along with three concert recordings:
In addition to the eight album tracks, the compact disc and [[Compact audio cassette|cassette]] configurations appended the ''[[Snakedrill]]'' EP in its entirety, along with three concert recordings:


#<li value="9">"A Serious of Snakes"&nbsp;– 4:53
#<li value="9">"A Serious of Snakes"&nbsp;– 4:53
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== Personnel ==
== Personnel ==
*[[Bruce Gilbert|B. C. Gilbert]]&nbsp;– [[guitar]]
*[[Bruce Gilbert|B. C. Gilbert]]&nbsp;– guitar
*[[Robert Gotobed]]&nbsp;– [[Drum kit|drums]]
*[[Robert Gotobed]]&nbsp;– drums
*[[Graham Lewis|Lewis]]&nbsp;– [[Singing|voice]], [[bass guitar]]
*[[Graham Lewis|Lewis]]&nbsp;– voice, bass guitar
*[[Colin Newman]]&nbsp;– voice, guitar
*[[Colin Newman]]&nbsp;– voice, guitar


== References ==
== References ==
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Revision as of 03:35, 5 June 2012

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Allmusic[1]
Rolling Stone(Not Rated)[2]
Robert ChristgauB−[3]

The Ideal Copy is the fourth studio album album by the English rock group Wire. It was the first full-length recording following the band's hiatus of 1980–1985. (The band had recorded and released the Snakedrill EP in 1986 after reuniting). Mute Records released the album.

Wire had used electronic instruments on the albums Chairs Missing and 154, but following their hiatus, Wire more openly embraced the use of sequencers, synthesisers, and drum machines. This prompted music critics to compare The Ideal Copy to groups such as New Order.[4][5] One critic, Kirk Fillmore, further compared the electric bass's sound on the single "Ahead" to that of New Order's Peter Hook, though bassist Graham Lewis had played in such a style on previous Wire albums.[6] Indeed, journalist Richard Grabel pointed out that "New Order and any number of other synths-and-guitars bands took cues from late-70s Wire," suggesting that "things [had] come full circle."[7]

In May 1988, The Ideal Copy became the first popular music recording to be commercially released on DAT format.[8]

The album title

The phrase "the ideal copy" is repeated throughout the song "Ambitious." Graham Lewis, in a Creem interview, stated "the ideal copy" ultimately refers to DNA, "but Bruce [Gilbert] had a dream about it and decided we had to take that out of the song".[7]

Track listing

All titles written by Wire (Lewis/Newman/Gilbert/Gotobed).

  1. "The Point of Collapse" – 3:18
  2. "Ahead" – 4:53
  3. "Madman's Honey" – 4:23
  4. "Feed Me" – 5:50
  5. "Ambitious" – 4:00
  6. "Cheeking Tongues" – 2:02
  7. "Still Shows" – 4:00
  8. "Over Theirs" – 5:18

In addition to the eight album tracks, the compact disc and cassette configurations appended the Snakedrill EP in its entirety, along with three concert recordings:

  2. "A Serious of Snakes" – 4:53
  3. "Drill" – 5:05
  4. "Advantage in Height" – 3:05
  5. "Up to the Sun" – 2:50
  6. "Ambulance Chasers" (Live) – 3:02
  7. "Feed Me" (Live) – 4:27
  8. "Vivid Riot of Red" (Live) – 2:28

The UK CD edition on Mute Records (CD STUMM 42), in addition to the eight album tracks, appends a different version of Ahead, as well as the Snakedrill EP and the three concert recordings:

  2. "Ahead (II)" – 3:29
  3. "A Serious of Snakes" – 4:42
  4. "Drill" – 5:03
  5. "Advantage in Height" – 3:02
  6. "Up to the Sun" – 2:42
  7. "Ambulance Chasers" (Live) – 2:55
  8. "Feed Me" (Live) – 4:28
  9. "Vivid Riot of Red" (Live) – 2:22

Personnel

References

  1. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r22093
  2. ^ http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/wire/albums/album/102560/review/5940315/the_ideal_copy [dead link‍]
  3. ^ "CG: Wire". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  4. ^ Davis, Michael. Record review. Creem September 1987: 21
  5. ^ DeRogatis, Jim & Neate, Wilson. "Wire". Trouser Press. Retrieved 25 February 2005.
  6. ^ Fillmore, Kirk. Record review. Façade June 1987: 4
  7. ^ a b Grabel, Richard. "Wire of the Tastiest Kind." Creem September 1987: 31+
  8. ^ "Back in the Days of '88". Spin. 4 (9): 71. 1988. Retrieved 29 April 2011. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
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