off, maybe...
― hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 5 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 6 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
ILM OTM imo
― StanM, Monday, 6 December 2010 05:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"Disappointed" still their second best single (after "Public Image")
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone thinking of getting back on the bus for <i>This is PiL</i>? Heard the new track linked over at <A HREF="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/song-premiere-public-image-ltd-deeper-water-20120517)">Rolling Stone</A> and it seems okay enough. Got the <i>One Drop</I> EP for RSD this year but still haven't gotten around to listening to it...was a bit scared, tbh.
― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
Whoops, meant to convert my code. New track is at http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/song-premiere-public-image-ltd-deeper-water-20120517
― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 21 May 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, almost bought the e.p.
Should, really...
― Mark G, Monday, 21 May 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
huh that's pretty good!
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
Actually I really like that new track!
I don't think I ever got off the bus with PiL, but Lydon's collab with Afrika Bambaataa would make me get off any bus or cliff
― poxen, Monday, 21 May 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
After two spins, the new album is half-brilliant, half-not-doing-it-for-me. About the same as "That What Is Not" in terms of hit/miss ratio. I'm particularly enmored with "Lollipop Opera", which feels like a Fall song!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 21 May 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
wtf @ this, "World Destruction" is a killer single
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
One Drop ep is very good.
― van smack, Monday, 21 May 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
Aero otfm. "World Destruction" is all-time, and I bet it'd get a helluva reception in any club
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, and the track PiL did on the Dennis Miller show is fantastic:http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=vyOJ91KYh7E
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
Never got off this bus
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
Not really.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
By the way, they were awesome live in 2010 with some interesting reinventions of old songs. There's been a bunch of live shows from that tour released, anyone have a recommendation on which one is the best?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
there is a live show or two on spotify, which I guess were released? they are pretty good, and I liked the new single, will check them out again if they tour since I missed that 2010 show. but yeah, happy through that what is not is some serious dregs that they wisely have avoided in recent setlists.
album is a fucking classic though, I love it (along with Swans Burning World, the other 'laswell jazzbo sellout' production from the same era)
― akm, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
"World Destruction" is the sound of two all-time musicians reaching their nadir at the exact same moment.
― poxen, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
there remained an awful lot of nadir to go, man
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
btw I won't hear a thing said against "Disappointed."
finding it hard to believe that anyone hates 'world destruction'
― mark e, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
we live in a world that has made Justin Bieber an international superstar, of course there are people who hate "World Destruction"
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
oh not you too, Dan
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Huh! I'm genuinely surprised it has its fans!
― poxen, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
GTFO, World Destruction slays.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
this recent anti-WD mood on ILX takes me completely by surprise
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
Want to boldly say something like 'Album is the only thing involving Laswell I ever need to hear again' but ehh I guess there's Ask The Ages.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
what, She's The Boss didn't move you?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
D^%E&Y*&^(&*#$^*(
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
World Destruction is classic - took me ages to figure out what that song was when I kept hearing it on KROQ as a teen
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
wtf, no not me too, I'm just saying it's kind of crazy to assume everyone loves a song (unless that song is "Wanna Be Starting Something")
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
I could be wrong but I think Alfred was referring to your Bieber diss.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
That's not even a diss (even though it's true I intensely dislike Bieber), it's more an acknowledgement of the existence of Venn diagrams
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
so.....should I check out their show on Friday?
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
it could be good, it could be bad
― Euler, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
it could be wrong, it could be right
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maxe3u9vhF1qa6myvo1_250.jpg
― Euler, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
they put a hot wire to his head!
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
now in the endless summer, I could be happy or in distress, depending on the company
― Euler, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
I never imagined a time when Brian Wilson would look better than John Lydon.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
i saw them in 2010 and the first issue/metal box stuff was FANTASTIC - even if none of them actually played on it. The "psycho's path"/"rise"/"disappointed" seemed to please those old enough to remember them from college radio, but I just waited it out. Latest song they played was that Leftfield "Open Up" number though - would totally see them again on a Plays Metal Box tour but not sure about the new material.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
i should exclude "psycho's path" from that college rock comment
― da croupier, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
Wobble & Levene have been doing Plays Metal Box shows this year, to Lydon's withering contempt
― ┐(´ー`)┌ (sic), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 05:30 (eleven years ago) link
Things that don't earn Lydon's withering contempt:
- John Lydon- Butter advertisements- The Slits
― Half Jaglom Half Winkler (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 05:55 (eleven years ago) link
- Poly Styrene
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
To give him his due, it really is good butter.
― Mates of 808 State (S-), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 06:45 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder how that Wobble/Levene ep released earlier this year is?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
The Slits
I've never heard someone go off on someone else as savagely as Lydon did when talking to me about Ari Up (this was in the early 90s, long prior to her passing.) He was not kind. I've since heard he spent a lot of time teaching Ari's kids to read, since she didn't believe they needed to know this herself. I've never heard him much praise the Slits, to be honest . . . though he was quite lavish in his praise for the Raincoats.
Pretty good so long as you're not expecting Metal Box II. But don't bother, as it appears that all four tracks appear in the new album, plus six more. I haven't heard that, so I can't confirm that the versions are identical, but buyer beware.
― crustaceanrebel, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link