Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Public Image
2. Cowboy Song, The
3. Theme
4. Religion - (1)
5. Religion - (2)
6. Annalisa
7. Low Life
8. Attack
9. Poptones - (previously unreleased)
10. Careering - (previously unreleased)
11. Chant - (previously unreleased)
12. Death Disco - (12" remix)
13. 1/2 Mix Megamix
14. No Birds Do Sing
15. Memories
DISC 2:
1. Another
2. Albatross
3. Socialist
4. Suit, The
5. Bad Baby
6. Radio 4
7. Pied Piper
8. Flowers of Romance
9. Four Enclosed Walls
10. Phenagen
11. Track 8
12. Hymie's Him
13. Under the House
14. Banging the Door
15. Go Back
16. Francis Massacre
DISC 3:
1. This Is Not a Love Song - (12" remix)
2. Blue Water
3. Question Mark
4. Solitaire
5. Tie Me to the Length of That
6. Where Are You?
7. Pardon, The
8. 1981
9. Order of Death, The
10. F.F.F.
11. Rise
12. Fishing
13. Round
14. Home
15. Ease
DISC 4:
1. Seattle
2. Angry
3. Body, The - (US 12" mix)
4. Selfish Rubbish
5. Disappointed
6. Happy
7. Warrior - (12" extended version)
8. U.S.L.S. 1
9. Don't Ask Me
10. Criminal
11. Luck's Up
12. God
13. Cruel - (previously unreleased)
14. Acid Drops - (previously unreleased)
15. Love Hope - (previously unreleased)
16. Think Tank - (previously unreleased)
| Details | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
PLASTIC BOX contains album tracks, 12 inch versions, B-sides and previously unreleased radio sessions.
Includes liner notes by John Lydon.
Anyone looking for a rounded overview of Johnny Lydon's post-Sex Pistols career will find this the only place to begin. Thrown fortuitously together as P.I.L. with fellow punk fallouts Keith Levene and Jah Wobble, Lydon swapped his trademark vitriolic rasp for a harrowing wail. The trio, plus assorted drummers, delivered two groundbreaking albums in FIRST EDITION and METAL BOX, with Levene's critical guitar squall underpinned by Wobble's dub-influenced basslines. Even as that group inevitably fell apart, FLOWERS OF ROMANCE, a percussion-heavy experiment, proved an engaging set. A succession of session players came and went, either side of an association with Bill Laswell for ALBUM. P.I.L.'s later output then slipped into a somewhat repetitive, though highly competent cycle of techno-rock. PLASTIC BOX also includes a clutch of rarities and radio session recordings from Lydon's early days, and it's for those that fans will find this collection worth revisiting.
Editorial Reviews
...Rehearing the inspired METAL BOX material included here....you wonder whether PIL's brutal reinvention of reggae got embedded in the consciousness of the nascent Massive Attack...
The Wire (03/01/1999)
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