RARE 3 x 12" PIL TIN RECORD SET-1ST PRESS METAL 1-NEVER BEEN PLAYED-LOOK-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 insert.
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
RECORDS IN UNPLAYED CONDITION.. THE METAL TIN IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION , WITH NO RUST AT ALL , UNLIKE SOME OF THE ONES THAT ARE ADVERTISED ON EBAY. THIS SET IS REALY A SHINING EXAMPLE. STICKER METAL 1 STILL ON TIN.. ALL RECORDS ARE GRADED VISUALY.. I Grade My Items Using The Standards Set By Record Collector Magazine In The UKOur Condition Of Purchase Is We Offer A “No Quibble” Money Back Refund On Returned Goods (If Negative or Neutral Feedback Is Not Given).
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