PUBLIC IMAGE LTD PiL Metal Box 3 x 12" Orig LP IN TIN
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THIS AUCTION IS FOR AN ORIGINAL “PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. METAL BOX LP.”
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL VINYL SET RELEASED BY VIRGIN UK IN 1979 COMPLETE WITH THE METAL 1 STICKER ON THE BACK OF THE TIN. THE TIN ITSELF IS IN GOOD CONDITION - HAS SOME OF THE USUAL LIGHT RUSTING TO THE OUTER SURFACE BUT NO DENTS.
CONTAINS 3 X 12" VINYL DISCS – LOOK TO BE IN OVERALL GOOD CONDITION – MY DRIVE BELT ON MY RECORD DECK IS BROKEN SO I HAVN’T HAD A CHANCE TO CHECK THE RECORDS
COMES COMPLETE WITH 3 x ORIGINAL WHITE SEPARATION DISC SHEETS – EACH DISC HAS BLACK PIL LABEL ON ONE SIDE AND RED ON THE OTHER.
Track Listing as follows:
Metal 1.1: Albatross
Metal 1.2: Memories / Swan Lake (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
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.
This is one of the iconic punk / new wave releases of the 1970’s. And unique as far as I know coming in a metal tin – a great exercise in whacky packaging. Rare and extremely cool – don’t miss this chance to add this to your collection..
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