PUBLIC IMAGE LTD Metal Box Original UK Triple LP + Insert Post Punk Sex Pistols

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Metal Box

Original UK Triple LP released on Virgin Records in 1979.
Three 12" records in metal 'film can' tin.
Includes tracklist insert.
Includes original circular paper sheets to separate the records.
Box has 'METAL 1' sticker on rear.
Also includes some (folded) press clippings from original owner:
1. Melody Maker album review (November 24, 1979).
2. New Musical Express album review (24th November, 1979)
3. Full page Metal Box advertisement (New Musical Express, 24th November 1978)

***PLEASE NOTE - due to the shape & weight of the box, there is NO COMBINED SHIPPING available with this item. Any other purchases will be invoiced and shipped separately.***

METAL-1-A-2   tim-cbs   /   METAL 1-B-1   TY-CBS
METAL-1-C-2   tim-cbs   /   METAL-1-D-1   TY-CBS
METAL-1-E-1   TY-CBS   /   METAL-1-F-2   tim-cbs

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 fuelled 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.

Tracks Are :-

A: Albatross

B: Memories / Swan Lake

C: Poptones / Careering

D: No Birds / Graveyard

E: The Suit / Bad Baby

F: Socialist Chant Radio 4

Released on 'Virgin Records' in 1979

Catalogue No. METAL 1

Discs are in EX condition (some light surface marks)

Box is in VG condition (it's a bit rusty / tarnished - and has an edge dink)

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