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Artist: Public Image LtdBrand: PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1996-03-26
Music Label: EMI Europe Generic
Soundtracks:
- Theme
- Religion I
- Religion II
- Annalisa
- Public Image
- Low Life
- Attack
- Fodderstompf
Music reviews of Public Image Ltd
Music Review: Never Mind The Sex Pistols, Here's John Lydon's Real Legacy
Rating: 4 Stars
Let it not be forgotten just how villified John Lydon was when Public Image Ltd emerged in the immediate post-punk era. Already despised by the press/public, Lydon (the face of Punk) was at this point also copping the derision of hardcore punks who labelled him a sell-out amid the messy break-up of the Sex Pistols. Which makes PiL's debut album all the more remarkable. While Steve Jones and Paul Cook were sticking with Malcolm McLaren as he bilked the Sex Pistols moniker beyond parody point, and Sid Vicious was inching ever closer to his ignoble and inevitable death, it was Lydon who managed to reinvent himself in the full glare of the public, with an album that sounds nothing like "Never Mind The Bollocks" but is equally powerful - due primarily to the expert musicianship that surrounded Lydon's lyrical/vocal broadsides, courtesy of ex-Clash guitarist Keith Levene, novice bassist Jah Wobble and drummer Jim Walker. The insidious sparsity of PiL's first album has an aural menace that contrasts with the guitar wall-of-sound that was the Pistols' trademark. Comprised mostly of short, punchy anti-pop numbers, Lydon is at his most cathartic, tearing into the media in the classic single "Public Image" ("You never listen to a word that I said/You only seen me for the clothes that I wear"), "Bourgeois Anarchist" Malcolm McLaren in "Low Life" ("Egomaniac traitor/You never did understand/You fell in love with your ego/It did not fit into plan") and Christian hypocrisy in the venomous "Religion II." But the album is bookended by longer, improvisional "songs" which anticipate "Metal Box" - the opening "Theme" is a lengthy, steady-paced torrent of doom, with bass and shrieking guitars and Lydon alternating between fiendish cackles and anguished screams ("I wish I could die"). But nothing compares to the jaw-droppingly-weird improvisational closer "Fodderstompf" - 8 minutes of Wobble's disco-dub beat with the band in Silly Voice mode, muttering away cynically and nonsensically (and intoning "We only wanted to be loved" over and over again in Gollumspeak). If the album as a whole is not quite as satisfying as most of its parts (the spoken-word "Religion I" is superfluous), it was to be expected for a debut effort. By and large, this is an above-average starting point for the adventurous and underrated PiL.
Description of Public Image Ltd
Never at a loss to mock the mainstream, Johnny Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) wrapped P.I.L.'s 1985 effort in a generic package stamped "album" that was alternately " or "Compact Disc" depending on the format. The sound was anything but generic though, melding the styles of such disparate collaborators as Steve Vai called "Cassetted Ryuichi Sakamoto. The hit "Rise" skillfully weaves Lyden's venomous punk delivery against a backdrop of heavy-rock and Celtic folk. Other highpoints on this classic mid-80s venture include the opener "FFF" and "Home."Alternative Rock CDs
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