Metal Box

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Description: "I don't give a fuck about John Lydon ... still, I think he knows what he's doing, and PIL is the proof ... because Metal Box is one of the strongest records I've heard in years." - LESTER BANGS, 1980 "Summons up everything from the unpleasant portentousness of middle-period Jim Morrison to what sounds like the deranged Kaddish of a punk rabbi. This is not, in short, exactly a party record ...the joke, of course, will be on me if fifteen years from now everything on the radio sounds like this. But it wouldn't surprise me too much." - STEREO REVIEW , 1980 The second album by John Lydon's post-Sex Pistols ... (more)

Manufacturer: EMI/Virgin
Release date: 3 August 1996
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0077778747321 UPC: 077778747321

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"Johnny Rotten went full post-punk after Sex Pistol broke up. Metal Box is in my opinion his magnum opus, a kind of album where many things are done purposefully "wrong" and the whole package just works still. The hypnotic bass is easily the best part of these songs."

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