Public Image LTD. - Metal Box 1979 Virgin ORIGINAL 3LP
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This listing is for the original 1979 pressing! Not the 2009 re-issue. Includes track list insert.
Label: Virgin
Release Year: 1979
Cat#: METAL 1
Box Condition: Very Good Minus. Box shows some noticeable wear. The metal shows some denting, scuffs and rust (pictured).
Record Condition: All discs are a solid Very Good Plus. Vinyl has some some very light surface wear.
Fidelity: Stereo
TRACK LISTING:
Metal 1 A Albatross 10:32
B1 Memories 5:05
B2 Swan Lake 4:19
Metal 2 C1 Poptones 7:45
C2 Careering 4:32
D1 No Birds 4:43
D2 Graveyard 3:07
Metal 3 E1 The Suit 3:29
E2 Bad Baby 4:30
F Socialist/Chant/Radio 4 12:31
PiL managed to avoid boundaries for the first four years of their existence, and Metal Box is undoubtedly the apex. It's a hallmark of uncompromising, challenging post-punk, hardly sounding like anything of the past, present, or future. Sure, there were touchstones that got their imaginations running -- the bizarreness of Captain Beefheart, the open and rhythmic spaces of Can, and the dense pulses of Lee Perry's productions fueled their creative fires -- but what they achieved with their second record is a completely unique hour of avant-garde noise. Originally packaged in a film canister as a trio of 12" records played at 45 rpm, the bass and treble are pegged at 11 throughout, with nary a tinge of midrange to be found. It's all scrapes and throbs (dubscrapes?), supplanted by John Lydon's caterwauling about such subjects as his dying mother, resentment, and murder. Guitarist Keith Levene splatters silvery, violent, percussive shards of metallic scrapes onto the canvas, much like a one-armed Jackson Pollock. Jah Wobble and Richard Dudanski lay down a molasses-thick rhythmic foundation throughout that's just as funky as Can's Czukay/Leibezeit and Chic's Edwards/Rodgers. It's alien dance music. Metal Box might not be recognized as a groundbreaking record with the same reverence as Never Mind the Bollocks, and you certainly can't trace numerous waves of bands who wouldn't have existed without it like the Sex Pistols record. But like a virus, its tones have sent miasmic reverberations through a much broader scope of artists and genres.
Domestic shipping $4.00, USPS medial mail. $1.00 for each additional LP
Canadian shipping: $8.00, USPS first class International. $2.00 for each additional LP
International shipping $15.00, USPS first class International. $5.00 for each additional LP
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