The stark cover design of Wire ( band ) | Wire's debut LP, Pink Flag, symbolized the evolution of punk style.

The group exhibited a steady development from an early raucous punk style ( 1977's Pink Flag ) to a more complex, structured sound involving increased use of guitar effects and synthesizers ( 1978's Chairs Missing and 1979's 154 ).

Wire's debut album, Pink Flag ( 1977 ) – " perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk ", according to Allmusic – contains songs which are diverse in mood and style, but most use a minimalist punk approach, unorthodox structures, " Field Day For The Sundays ", for example, is only 28 seconds long.

Chairs Missing followed in 1978, and found Wire stepping back from the stark minimalism of Pink Flag, with longer, more atmospheric songs and synthesizer parts added by producer Mike Thorne.

Wire announced that they would perform none of their older material, hiring The Ex-Lion Tamers, ( a Wire cover band named after a song title from Pink Flag ), as their opening act.

Rumours abounded of a renewal of activity to mark the 30th anniversary of the band's debut as a four-piece and the re-release of Pink Flag.

* Pink Flag ( 1977 )

He immediately signed Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company, and Columbia went on to sign Laura Nyro, Electric Flag, Santana, The Chambers Brothers, Bruce Springsteen, Chicago, Billy Joel, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Loggins & Messina and Pink Floyd.

It has an extensive promenade and several beaches, two of which are Blue Flag beaches: a tourist-oriented beach at Trecco Bay, at the east end of the town ; a sandy beach at Rest Bay, which lies to the northwest of the town ; and the quiet and sandy Pink Bay leading out towards Sker Point where a tarmac-covered car park serves a sandy beach.

Quite different from anything that any of the members would become involved in later, the three albums ran the gamut from psychedelic infused grindcore on For The Security to dischordant jazz-metal weirdness on Disharmonization to something apparently stranger and more avant-garde on Screaming Machines, and described as " the worst of Sonic Youth, Syd Barret era Pink Floyd, old Black Flag, and Voivod " by Christofer Johnsson.

Pitchfork ranked Pink Flag number 22 in its list " Top 100 Albums of the 1970s ".

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* " Pink Flag "/" Land of Treason " ( 1990 )

the drone songs on Wire's ' Pink Flag '".

Although it features some of the minimalist punk rock of the band's debut Pink Flag, it features more developed song structure ( taking some cues from 70's prog-rock, psychedelia, and art rock ), keyboard and synthesizer elements brought in by producer Mike Thorne, and a broader palette of emotional and intellectual subject matter.

" BBC Music called the album " glorious avant-pop coup " and ( referring to the 2006 edition of the album ) " the most satisfying of the three reissues others being Pink Flag and 154 ( album ) | 154.

In addition to her work in the Jicks, Weiss was the primary drummer for the group Sleater-Kinney, and has recently played with Bright Eyes, John Doe and Wild Flag, while Coomes has been working with Pink Mountain and on his solo project, Blues Goblins.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.

James Todd Spader ( born February 7, 1960 ) is an American actor best known for his eccentric roles in films such as Pretty in Pink ; Less Than Zero ; Sex, Lies, and Videotape ; Crash ; Stargate ; and Secretary.

Pink Narcissus is an artistic film by James Bidgood about the fantasies of a hustler.

The Rolling Stones responded to Sgt Pepper later in the year with Their Satanic Majesties Request, and Pink Floyd produced what is usually seen as their best psychedelic work The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

" Pink tide " is a term being used in contemporary 21st century political analysis in the media and elsewhere to describe the perception that Leftist ideology in general, and Left-wing politics in particular, are increasingly influential in Latin America.

* United We Stand: What More Can I Give, another 9 / 11 benefit concert, is held at RFK Stadium in Washington D. C., featuring performances by Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, James Brown, Al Green, Carole King, America, Huey Lewis, Backstreet Boys, Pink, ' N Sync, Goo Goo Dolls, and others.

Night of the Living Dead is parodied in films such as Night of the Living Bread and Shaun of the Dead, and in episodes of The Simpsons (" Treehouse of Horror III ", 1992 ; " Treehouse of Horror XIII ", 2004 and " Treehouse of Horror XX ", 2009 ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, South Park (" Pink Eye ", 1997 ; " Night of the Living Homeless ", 2007 ), Medium (" Bite Me ", 2009 ) and Invader Zim (" Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom " 2001 and " FBI Warning of Doom " 2002 ).

Producer John Simon is often cited as a " sixth member " of the Band for producing and playing on Music from Big Pink, co-producing and playing on The Band, and playing on other songs up through the Band's 1993 reunion album Jericho.

The album Music from Big Pink, in particular, is credited with contributing to Clapton's decision to leave the super group Cream.

Another example is Pink Floyd's album Animals, where the band put the sound of a barking dog through the device.

** Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of rock's landmark albums, is released in the US.

Edwards is best known for directing most of the comedy film series The Pink Panther, and all of the entries starring Peter Sellers as the inept Inspector Clouseau.

Some of the scenes in which the dog's name is uttered were later shown in the 1982 film Pink Floyd The Wall.

The Monday during the funfair is called " Roze Maandag " ( Pink Monday ), and is primarily gay-oriented, though also enjoyed by many heterosexuals.

A lack of research means that there is relatively little data on the dispersion of gay men throughout the camps however Heger suggests in his book The Men with The Pink Triangle that they were subjected to harsher labor than smaller targeted groups, such as the political prisoners, and furthermore suffered a much higher mortality rate.

The cover of Pink Floyd's album A Saucerful of Secrets ( 1968 ) is also of this type.

Pink noise or 1 / ƒ noise ( sometimes also called flicker noise ) is a signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the power spectral density ( energy or power per Hz ) is inversely proportional to the frequency.

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau () ( formerly Inspector ) is a fictional character in Blake Edwards ' The Pink Panther series.

In the 2006 Pink Panther revival and its 2009 sequel, he is played by Steve Martin.

Though the animated character was never given a name, he is clearly based on Clouseau and the cartoons later appeared as part of the animated Pink Panther Show series.

The opening credits were animated by Richard Williams, featuring Clouseau once again seeking to retrieve the Pink Panther diamond after it is stolen by the Phantom.