Metal Box - PIL, Public Image, John Lydon, Sex Pistols

	£		72
	$		95

PIL - Metal Box, triple 45 rpm LP in metal film canister style tin

ORIGINAL COPY. FIRST UK PRESSING. Released 1979. Stereo. Virgin Records, catalogue number; Metal 1.

ANOTHER CLASSIC ON AUCTION, THE ORIGINAL UK METAL BOX BY PUBLIC IMAGE LTD

THIS 3 DISC SET COMES IN THE ORIGINAL CANNISTER, WITH ALL THE DISC PROTECTION SHEETS AND INLAY SHEET INTACT . The previous owner has even got a lyric sheet and interview for you from Record Mirror!

The 'METAL 1' sticker is present on the back. The four paper separating sheets are included, and look like new. The track listing sheet is in EXcellent condition.

A superb and groundbreaking release..... which cost the band £35,000, of their advance from Virgin Records to get released. Though another idea the band had was to issue the album in a rough sandpaper sleeve to make a mess of all the rest of your record sleeves, which would have been a lot cheaper and just as memorable, even if for all the wrong reasons.

Disc 1 side 1. ALBATROSS side 2 MEMORIES, SWAN LAKE

Disc 2 side 1 POPTONES, CAREERING side 2 NO BIRDS, GRAVEYARD

Disc 3 side 1 THE SUIT BAD BABY side 2 SOCIALIST CHANT RADIO 4

This record is deleted and not available new on vinyl.

The last copies sold on eBay went for £40-£125.

99p start.

Overall Sleeve Condition : EXCELLENT (NEAR MINT)

The box is not dented or scratched, no corrosion, one or two fingermarks.

Vinyl Condition, Visual:  MINT.

The 3 12" records look unplayed and as new.

Vinyl Condition, Audible: MINT.

No skips, no jumps, no static crackle, no dust crackles, no sign of any play, no wear. Plays superbly.  Well preserved and cared for, no decrease from the original sound quality.

Label Condition : MINT.

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.

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