Release Date: 07 May 2018
Format: Boxed Set Vinyl
Label: UMC
£99.99 £69.99
Public Image Limited Album Limited Super Deluxe 4LP Vinyl Box Set
Overview:
On 28th October, PiL will reissue the seminal albums ‘Metal Box’ and ‘Album’. ‘Metal Box’ was the band’s second album, originally released on 23rd November 1979 and ‘Album’ was their 5th studio album and was originally released on 3rd February 1986, marking 2016 as its 30th anniversary.
· The album’s will both be issued as 4 CD and 4 vinyl LP super-deluxe box sets, as well as digitally. The editions will include rare and previously unreleased material along with a live disc. ‘Metal Box’ will be issued in a square metal tin (CD & LP) (the 1979 original was issued in a round metal film canister) with an embossed PiL logo. ‘Album’ will be issued in a square card box with de-bossed artwork. Both super-deluxe editions will include a 72 page booklet together with an exclusive poster, art-prints (LP version) and postcards (CD version).
· With all lyrics written by John Lydon ‘Metal Box’ was recorded with original PiL members Keith Levene and Jah Wobble. Original drummer Jim Walker had left, to be replaced by a succession of drummers. ‘Metal Box’ came out less than a year after PiL’s debut ‘Public Image: First Issue’ yet it was nothing like its predecessor. Things had changed, and so had PiL. While outside pressures mounted PiL channeled their energies (negative and positive) into a record that would set them apart back in 1979, and indeed today in 2016. Whether it be John’s powerful and passionate vocals; Keith’s wailing guitar and melodic synths; Wobble’s sub-disco reggae basslines; or the crashing rhythm that holds it all together, ‘Metal Box’ has many strengths. The album was originally released as 3 x 45rpm 12” singles, housed in a metal ‘film’ canister. As made by ‘The Metal Box Company’ in London’s East End; hence the name. The deluxe edition includes rare and unreleased mixes from the recording sessions, along with B-sides and BBC sessions, plus a live recording from a now legendary unplanned show at Factory Records Russell Club in Manchester arranged on the day of a Granada TV appearance.
Featured Tracks:
LP 1: Album
LP 2: Original 1985 Album demos
LP 3: Various, mixes & outtakes etc 1
LP 4: Various, mixes & outtakes etc 2
LP1:
‘Album’ studio album
Disc 1 (side 1):
FFF
Rise
Fishing
Round
Disc 1 (side 2):
Bags
Home
Ease
LP2:
Original 1985 Album demos
Disc 2 (side 1):
Animal (unreleased)
Black Rubber Bags (aka Bags) (unreleased)
European Cars (aka Round) (unreleased)
Disc 2 (side 2):
Fairwell Fairweather Friend (aka FFF) (unreleased)
Pearls Before Swine (aka Fishing) (unreleased)
Things in E (aka Ease) (instrumental) (unreleased)
LP3:
Various, mixes & outtakes etc 1
Disc 3 (side 1):
Things in E (Ease) (alternative Laswell mix) (unreleased)
Disc 3 (side 2):
Rise (7” edit)
Rise (instrumental)
Home (7” edit)
LP4:
Various, mixes & outtakes etc 2
Disc 4 (side 1):
Home - BBC Old Grey Whistle Test 20/5/86
Round - BBC, Old Grey Whistle Test 20/5/86
Rise (Bob Clearmountain remix)
Disc 4 (side 2):
Time Zone - World Destruction (12”)
Time Zone - World Destruction (Industrial Remix)
Release Date: 20 July 2018
Format: Boxed Set Vinyl
Label: UMC/Virgin
£139.99 £124.99
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Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Virgin
£18.99 £9.99
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Format: Boxed Set Vinyl
Label: UMC
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Label: UMC
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