Public Image Ltd. in general

Sid is dead. Long live the Queen! As messily as The Sex Pistols and UK punk vomited onto the public eye, as messily had they crumbled away and dissolved. The post-mortem of punk was post-punk, and Johnny Rotten turned John Lydon was one of the pathologists. In the first carnation (the carnation and period often referred to as most relevant), Lydon joined by Jah Wobble on baloony reggae inspired bass, and *forgot first name, see dave27's general PiL op* Levene from The Clash on guitars with 'some' drummer, formed Public Image Ltd. As a virtual punk super group they first dished out the single 'Public Image'; the lyrics almost an obituary to ...  Read the complete review

THROBBBBBBBB!!!!!! CHANK-CHANK-CHANK-CHANK-SKREE!!!! If I wanted to..... Public Image Ltd, a different kind of tension, a marginal, mainstream, hating, loving concoction of sound, with the height of earnest rock and throb and the lows of self deprecating humour. A shadowy, eerie stage, a singer crouching back to the audience, to one side a lean and befringed guitarist cranking out well weird trebly sounds, to the other a seated, stocky bass player in a hat sending out subterranean waves of sound, thumping away at the pit of the stomach while a faceless, nameless drummer at the bank pours out funky rhythms... This is the unmistakable ...  Read the complete review