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Public Image Ltd. – Metal Box (3 x 45 RPM 12″ Vinyl) Limited Edition Original UK Pressing In Metal Can
Virgin Records (1979)

5.00 out of 5 based on 1 customer rating
(1 customer review )

$190.00

Very Rare Actual 1979 UK First Pressing Of The Groundbreaking Second Public Image Album. Still In Amazing Condition Over 40 Years Later & Complete With Circular Metal Container, Dividers & Insert! “METAL 1” Sticker On Back, Records Have Custom PIL Labels.

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SKU: METAL 1 Categories: Audiophile, Rarities, Rock Tag: Public Image Ltd.
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Very Rare Actual 1979 UK First Pressing Of The Groundbreaking Second Album By John Lydon & His Public Image Ltd. Still In Amazing Condition Over 40 Years Later & Complete With Circular Metal Container, Dividers & Insert! “METAL 1” Sticker On Back, Records Have Custom PIL Labels.

Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Couple of very light surface marks on Records 1 & 2, which are not audible at all. Record 3 is NEAR MINT and all three sound incredibly good!!!

Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! A fine example of this classic collectable ~ no rust! Insert has some creases, two small dents and signs of oxidation on back of metal can.

Side 1:
Albatross (10:32)

Side 2:
Memories (5:05)
Swan Lake (4:19)

Side 3:
Poptones (7:45)
Careering (4:32)

Side 4:
No Birds (4:43)
Graveyard (3:07)

Side 5:
The Suit (3:29)
Bad Baby (4:30)

Side 6:
Socialist / Chant / Radio 4 (12:31)

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Origin

UK

Condition

EX / EX

Format

3LP Box Set

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1 review for Public Image Ltd. – Metal Box (3 x 45 RPM 12″ Vinyl) Limited Edition Original UK Pressing In Metal Can
Virgin Records (1979)

  1. geoffofdunnlirium@hotmail.com
    5 out of 5

    AMG – December 16, 2019

    A hallmark of uncompromising, challenging post-punk, hardly sounding like anything of the past, present, or future. 5 Stars 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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