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Thursday, 13 February 2014

PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED

"Paris au printemps"

Year: 1980

Label: Virgin

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 7

Time: 40 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Post Punk

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"first issue"
Year: 1978
Label: CBS
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 8
Time: 39 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Post Punk

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"second edition"
Year: 1979
Label: CBS
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 50
Genre: rock
Style: Post Punk

"Metal Box" is the second album by Public Image Ltd, released in 1979 by Virgin Records in a special package consisting a metal box with the vinyl album, booklet, pics, etc. It was reissued as "Second Edition" in 1980 as a "normal" vinyl album (without box). The album showed a radical departure from PIL's relatively conventional debut First Issue, released in 1978, with the band moving into a more avant-garde sound, characterised by singer John Lydon's cryptic vocals, Jah Wobble's propulsive dub reggae-inspired basslines, and a unique, "metallic" guitar sound, made from guitarist Keith Levene playing Veleno guitars which are made entirely of aluminium. Metal Box is widely regarded as a landmark of post-punk and experimental rock. In 2003, the album was ranked number 469 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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"flowers of romance"
Year: 1981
Label: Virgin
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 9
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Post Punk

"The Flowers of Romance" is the third studio album by experimental rock band Public Image Ltd. It was released on 10 April 1981, through record label Virgin records. The album is largely centred on percussion and Levene has described it as "probably [...] the least commercial record ever delivered to a [record] company. Occasional drummer Martin Atkins played on 3 songs, while band members Levene and John Lydon handled percussion duties on the other tracks. One, "Under the House", actually has both Levene and Atkins playing dual drumlines. The prominent, and heavily processed, drum sound was influenced by Peter Gabriel's third album, on which engineer Hugh Padgham had processed Phil Collins' drums. Collins, in turn, was so impressed with the sound on The Flowers of Romance that he hired the album's engineer, Nick Launay, to reproduce the sound for his own projects. Throughout the album, experimental and Musique Concrète sounds, such as amplified wristwatches, reversed piano and televised opera, weave in and out of the mix. Vocalist John Lydon contributed Stroh violin and saxophone (though he was not known to be trained on any particular instrument) and, according to a Rolling Stone article about the album, simply banged on anything handy for percussion, including the face of a banjo on "Phenagen". Keith Levene's innovative guitar style was stretched even further through the use of reversed tapes and trebly distortion, and his synthesisers drone and burble throughout the album. Several songs (for example "Four Enclosed Walls" and "Phenagen") have a Middle Eastern feel. Bass player Jah Wobble had left the group before "The Flowers of Romance" was recorded, so Keith Levene played bass on "Track 8" and "Banging the Door", the only 2 tracks to feature the instrument.

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"This is what you want"
Year: 1984
Label: Virgin
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 8
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: New Wave

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"album"
Year: 1986
Label: Virgin
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 7
Time: 38 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Post Punk

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"happy?"
Year: 1987
Label: Virgin
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 8
Time: 35 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Avantgarde Rock

"Happy?" was the PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED's sixth studio album, released in 1987. The cover art by Richard Evans is a homage to the style of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and an acknowledgement is made in the liner notes.

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Friedensreich Hundertwasser "Good morning city bleeding town" paintings, 1970.