154 is the third album by the English
post-punk band
Wire, released in 1979 (see
1979 in music) on
EMI imprint
Harvest Records in the UK and Europe and
Warner Bros. Records in America.
154 peaked at number 39 in the UK albums chart, the highest position the band has achieved. It was first issued on CD in 1987 by EMI Japan and later reissued by
Restless Records in 1989. First editions of the
vinyl album were accompanied by an
EP, the tracks from which are included on the Harvest CD, issued in 1994, along with an additional bonus track. The new remastered release, released by Pinkflag as
digipacks in 2006, does not contain any extra tracks, because, according to the band, such additions dishonour the "conceptual clarity of the original statements." The album is so named because the band had played 154 gigs in their career at the time of the album's release.
Pitchfork Media listed
154 as 85th best album of the 1970s.