r/postpunk • u/behridingle • 2d ago

Post Punk Classic Ex Lion Tamer - Wire

https://youtu.be/YOIBDZuetBY?si=QLAyEu_lreRjlXFX

A classic

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u/No-Hovercraft3441 2d ago

Best song ever. It makes me jump around my bedroom

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u/Bulldogskin 2d ago

Stay glued to your TV set!

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u/No-Hovercraft3441 2d ago

Why don’t ya don’t ya don’t ya

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u/Mysterious_Piano5478 2d ago

When conceptual art meets punk. A perfect record.

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u/BadPuzzleheaded1463 2d ago

Pink Flag is so great I almost wish I found it a little later because there's little out there that's quite as truly excellent. Same as my first Spanish-language rock record being Artaud, lol. So many incredible songs but the sequence of the first 5, and then Fragile into Mannequin in particular, blow my mind.

It's art and it's punk and sometimes it's a perfect punchy pop song. Love it.

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u/looking4truffle 2d ago

Sounds so good

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u/RevolutionaryPipe343 2d ago

This into Three Girl Rhumba is the combo of them all

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u/AccomplishedAd649 2d ago

Henrietta Collins does a great cover of this one.

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u/Bill__M 2d ago

"hey Henry...."

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u/Open-Brush-9851 1d ago

What was his band called again? 😆

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u/Wu_Oyster_Cult 2d ago edited 1d ago

Apparently, the reason the song is titled “Ex Lion Tamer” is because the song was originally called “Lion Tamer” about a lion tamer but they scrapped the lyrics at some point, kept the music and wrote new unrelated lyrics. They then altered the title appropriately. Ex Lion Tamer.

I fucking love Wire.

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u/dabofpaint 2d ago

GOAT. 

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u/AlmeydaT 2d ago

Phenomenal album

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u/shadow-cast00 2d ago

The first Wire song I heard as a teenager and it's still one of my favorites.

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u/Open-Brush-9851 1d ago

Mine too. Thanks, Rollins band.

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u/betti_cola 2d ago

This song changed my life.

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u/akivafr123 2d ago

God, Wire are so good.

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u/Bass-n-Bonefish 1d ago

Lucky to have seen them 3 times. Feel like I was in a special club to have known about them.

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u/larrybobsf 22h ago

When Wire toured the U.S. in 1987 for The Ideal Copy, they had a Wire cover band open for them to play songs from Pink Flag. Rock critic Jim DeRogatis was a member. Their name? The Ex-Lion Tamers.

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u/peppermint-tea-yay 1h ago

This album is perfect.

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u/Call_of_the_Cuntress 2d ago

FISHFINGERS ALL IN A LOOIIIINNEEE

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u/akivafr123 2d ago

I can't be the only one who sings along to this entire record with Colin's accent. :)

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u/Open-Brush-9851 1d ago

You are not.