100 Reasons why FLOWERS OF ROMANCE is fucking awesome

What sort of band's have you worked with since PiL?

Around that time I also recorded Kate Bush's 'The Dreaming' album. In fact, we used PiL's bass on Kate's LP, Kate loved the tone so much she wanted to buy it. Just after 'Flowers of Romance' I did Killing Jokes: 'What's This For'. The Gang of Four's: 'Capitol', and 'To Hell with Poverty'. The Slits: 'Earthbeat'. The Birthday Partys: 'Release the Bats' and 'Blast Off' for the Junk Yard LP. Virgin Prunes: 'Pagan Love Song'

20. Nick Launay

22. Unheralded prescient Arabic influence

23. Lydon's lyrics: nonsensical, memorable, chilling
Joan of Arc was a sorcerer

24. Lydon's phrasing of said lyrics
spread her body / naked and silly / a bulbous heap / batting her eye / lids

25. Because albums based entirely around huge drums are awesome

26. Sounds great when you're at the end of your rope

27. Can be found cheap almost anywhere, because bunches of PiL fans bought it and hated it

28. Pop-album-as-irritant is an underutilized approach

29. It's punk rock as fuck

30. Good for scaring unwelcome guests and roommates

31. Will never show up on Top X Album of X lists, unless category is see #21

32. Reading about the circumstances of its creation is almost as entertaining as listening to it

35. the title track's muezzin-call freakiness.

37. Drum sound was inspiration for "In The Air Tonight".

Veto.

38. The Warner CD cuts off right when the noise stops on "Francis Massacre," so if you're listening to it late at night with the sound way down you hear the sudden, jarring sound of the CD stop spinning.

Metal Box pulls a similar trick with the groove of "Swan Lake" going all the way to the label, I think.

39. Even the outtakes amaze.
40. As scary as Lydon's vocals are on the title track, the instrumental b-side is even scarier.
41. When the band toured America for this album, they brought a zillion drums onstage for the only song they played from it; "Under The House," and even Levene and Lydon played drums.
42. The UK CD has three bonus tracks.
43. It was delayed for about a year, and I remember everyone claiming that it was because their label was forcing them to come up with a more "commercial" sound. Ha!

44. That "girl on the cover" now co-runs Rough Trade.

45. http://991.com/newgallery/Liars-They-Were-Wrong-S-275162.jpg

THIS ALBUM HAS BEEN DESTROYING MY LIFE RECENTLY

it's a black hole, unreal album

i just to walk around boston listening to this on headphones really loud, for some reason. good memories actually.

USED to walk around

last time I listened to it I felt like its time had kinda passed for me :/

obviously, it is a black hole of an album, but there's something about it that gets me very exuberant....i find its insistence and persistence really admirable.

glad this thread exists, hearing this for the first time, this will be my listening for the next few weeks

where do i read about the making of this album

text friend saying thanks for the record, his response

46. This is what happens when you kick spurs fans out of your band

20. Nick Launay

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 13 October 2006 19:28 (4 years ago)

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where do i read about the making of this album

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:50 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

some good stuff on it in "rip it up and start again"

in case you forget drums it will remind you what a drum is

how have we only gotten to 46 here

I dunno, but this album fucking rules and is up there with the first two PiL records, IMO.

Finally found the CD, in Rome of all places.

(Two weeks later, it was found in HMV Reading, but hey)

This album has always been kinda boring but I love its sound.