PUBLIC IMAGE LTD (PiL) Metal Box 1979 UK VIRGIN ORIGINAL & COMPLETE MINT
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£ 122
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Dec 26, 2016
Sold Date
Dec 16, 2016
Start Date
£ 24
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Great Britain
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PUBLIC IMAGE LTD (PiL) Metal Box 1979 UK VIRGIN ORIGINAL & COMPLETE MINT
PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITEDMetal Box
UK VIRGIN (METAL 1) *COMPLETE* FIRST PRESSING (November 1979)
AN OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL COPY - BARELY PLYED
WITH THE ADDITION OF TWO CONTEMPORARY PAGES FROM NME BOTH DATED NOVEMBER 24th 1979
MATRIX RECORD ONE: METAL 1 - A - 1 TY - CBS / METAL 1 - B - 1 (with the B corrected from an A) TY - CBS
MATRIX RECORD TWO: METAL 1 - C - 2 TY - CBS / METAL 1 - D - 3 TY - CBS
MATRIX RECORD THREE: METAL 1 - E - 1 TY - CBS / METAL 1 - F - 1 TY - CBS
PiL managed to avoid all boundaries and Metal Box is undoubtedly the apex of their vision.
It's a hallmark of uncompromising, challenging post-punk, sounding unlike anything else.
There were touchstones - the bizarreness of Captain Beefheart, the open and rhythmic spaces of Can, and the dense pulses of Lee Perry's dub productions - 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.
It's all 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 recognised 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.
Metal 1.1: Albatross
Metal 1.2: Memories / Swan Lake (which plays endlessly into the run-off groove)
Metal 1.3: Poptones / Careering
Metal 1.4: No Birds / Graveyard
Metal 1.5: The Suit / Bad Baby
Metal 1.6: Socialist - Chant - Radio 4
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels - barely played - one or two light spindle traces on a couple of the sides, none on the others
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
All six surfaces shine like new with just a few harmless light marks
VINYL Audio: MINT/NEAR MINT
Apart from a split second touch of interference at the end of "Radio 4" (NM) the set plays as-new (M) with no other audible issues of any kind
BOX: NEAR MINT
Apart from the normal tarnish the metal tin is perfect - no dents - the METAL 1 sticker is untouched
DIVIDERS: NEAR MINT
The four white dividers are clean and unmarked with only light signs of handling
INSERT AND CLIPPINGS: NEAR MINT
POST & PACKING:
THE CONTENTS OF THE TIN WILL BE SECURELY PADDED TO PREVENT ANY MOVEMENT DURING TRANSIT (ALL THREE RECORDS WILL BE PLACED IN NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS) AND THE SET WILL BE SECURELY BOXED
UK: FREE (2nd class standard)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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779 (GS 7.0.4 (779))
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