Release Date: 16 December 2016
Format: Boxed Set Vinyl
Label: UMC
£349.99 £149.99
Public Image Limited Metal Box Limited Super Deluxe 4LP Vinyl Box Set
Overview:
On 28th October, PiL will reissue the seminal albums ‘Metal Box’ and ‘Album’. ‘Metal Box’ was the band’s second album, originally released on 23rd November 1979 and ‘Album’ was their 5th studio album and was originally released on 3rd February 1986, marking 2016 as its 30th anniversary.
· The album’s will both be issued as 4 CD and 4 vinyl LP super-deluxe box sets, as well as digitally. The editions will include rare and previously unreleased material along with a live disc. The CD version’s feature additional tracks to the vinyl editions due to running time restrictions, however, the vinyl edition will include a download card for all tracks on the CD version’s. ‘Metal Box’ will be issued in a square metal tin (CD & LP) (the 1979 original was issued in a round metal film canister) with an embossed PiL logo. ‘Album’ will be issued in a square card box with de-bossed artwork. Both super-deluxe editions will include a 72 page booklet together with an exclusive poster, art-prints (LP version) and postcards (CD version).
· With all lyrics written by John Lydon ‘Metal Box’ was recorded with original PiL members Keith Levene and Jah Wobble. Original drummer Jim Walker had left, to be replaced by a succession of drummers. ‘Metal Box’ came out less than a year after PiL’s debut ‘Public Image: First Issue’ yet it was nothing like its predecessor. Things had changed, and so had PiL. While outside pressures mounted PiL channeled their energies (negative and positive) into a record that would set them apart back in 1979, and indeed today in 2016. Whether it be John’s powerful and passionate vocals; Keith’s wailing guitar and melodic synths; Wobble’s sub-disco reggae basslines; or the crashing rhythm that holds it all together, ‘Metal Box’ has many strengths. The album was originally released as 3 x 45rpm 12” singles, housed in a metal ‘film’ canister. As made by ‘The Metal Box Company’ in London’s East End; hence the name. The deluxe edition includes rare and unreleased mixes from the recording sessions, along with B-sides and BBC sessions, plus a live recording from a now legendary unplanned show at Factory Records Russell Club in Manchester arranged on the day of a Granada TV appearance.
Featured Tracks:
LP 1: Metal Box
LP 2: Metal Box (continued)
LP 3: Live at Manchester, Russell’s Club (The Factory) 18/6/79
LP 4: Rare Mixes and BBC Radio Sessions
LP 1 & 2:
‘Metal Box’ studio album
Disc 1 (side 1):
Albatross
Memories
Disc 1 (side 2):
Swan Lake (Death Disco)
Poptones
Careering
Disc 2 (side 1):
No Birds Do Sing
Graveyard
The Suit
Disc 2 (side 2):
Bad Baby
Socialist
Chant
Radio 4
LP 3:
Live at Manchester, Russell’s Club (The Factory) 18/6/79 (unreleased)
Disc 3 (side 1):
Chant
Swan Lake (aka Death Disco)
Memories
Disc 3 (side 2)
Public Image
Annalisa
No Birds Do Sing
LP 4:
Rare Mixes & BBC Session
Disc 4 (side 1):
Swan Lake (monitor mix)
Albatross (monitor mix)
Disc 4 (side 2):
BBC Radio 1, John Peel Sessions 1979
Poptones
Careering
Chant
Release Date: 20 July 2018
Format: Boxed Set Vinyl
Label: UMC/Virgin
£139.99 £124.99
Release Date: 07 May 2018
Format: Boxed Set Vinyl
Label: UMC
£99.99 £69.99
Release Date: 26 February 2018
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Virgin
£18.99
Release Date: 14 July 2014
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: UMC
£26.99 £19.99
