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I remember when "Disappointed" was on 120 Minutes a lot, and that may have been the first I knew of the band, tbh. I would have been ... 14 or so? Never bought that record, though. Weirdly, I do remember the New Order/PiL/Sugarcubes tour that summer (didn't go), and def. got into New Order and Sugarcubes, but again, not PiL. A couple of years later I finally got Second Edition and liked that a lot, but found myself gravitating more toward whatever Wobble and Atkins were doing elsewhere. Invaders of the Heart, Ministry, Killing Joke, etc. Not sure I ever bought a PiL album besides Second Edition, come to think of it, though I did like the odd song or two. I also saw the band on its reunion tour in 2010 but was not feeling it at all.
Funny enough, I did see the documentary, which has some incredible footage and good interviews but is still pretty boilerplate. The thing about Lydon is that he by his very nature sucks all the focus onto himself, always, which can be a bit exhausting. The end credits feature, for some reason, him hanging out with John Waters and meeting Ian MacKaye, and those fleeting moments made me wish for a movie that wasn't just another long episode of the Johnny Lydon show. He's always going on about how difficult this or that situation was, or this or that person was, but as if it wasn't totally obvious decades ago, *he's* clearly the difficult one. Again, by design. He might mock Malcolm McLaren's love of situationism, but Lydon embodies that more than almost anyone else, on an epic scale, all by himself.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
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it doesn’t really feel like it belongs under the PiL banner, but given that my answer to the poll question is “1989”, i wish him all the best with wherever he wants to drive the bus
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Saturday, 4 February 2023 07:48 (one year ago) link
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