GENRE..... Electronic, Rock
STYLE..... New Wave, Alternative, Experimental
LABEL..... Virgin Records Ltd.
MODE ..... VBRkbps / Joint-Stereo
REL.DATE... 31-03-2010
COUNTRY... UK
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'Plastic box' seems designed to replace the first five PiL studio albums, collecting all of
them in one place. All of 'Flowers of romance' is included, but then the other four ('First
issue', 'Metal box', 'This is what you want', 'Album') are each almost wholly present, but
each with a track or two absent. If you want 'Fodderstompf' you'll have to buy 'First
issue'. If you want 'Bags' you'll have to buy 'Album'. Additionally some rare tracks are
added.
They are:
- most of the non-album B-sides: 'The cowboy song', 'Another' ('Graveyard' with vocals),
'Home is where the heart is' (hardly a rarity, as it's been a bonus track on the 'Flowers of
romance' CD for years), 'Blue water' (the only track from the 'Commercial zone' bootleg
album ever to get an official release), 'Question mark' and 'Selfish rubbish'
- a three-song Peel session (the packaging just says 'BBC session') - the date was actually
17 December 1979
- the 12" of 'Death disco' and its B-side, '1/2 mix meg[g]amix' (a version of
'Fodderstompf')
- 'Pied Piper' (a rare 1980 compilation track, and possibly the first recording from after
Jah Wobble's departure)
- 'This is not a love song' - here labelled '12" remix', but this mix is unique to 'Plastic
box'. It's similar to the unreleased 'Commercial zone' version in that the lyrics are
incomplete
- 'Criminal' (from the 'Point break' soundtrack)
- 12" mixes of 'The body' and 'Warrior' (NB: both of these are different to the remixes on
'The greatest hits so far')
- a four-song BBC session (again, no details given, but it was for Mark Goodier, 25 February
1992)
Almost all of these are worth having, and fill the gaps between the studio albums. The likes
of 'Question mark' and 'Pied Piper' are experiments rather than songs.
A note on this reissue: it is NOT the same as the original 1999 edition. Firstly, it lacks
the PVC slipcase which fastened around the double-jewelcase - here, you get the
double-jewelcase on its own. Secondly the original 36-page booklet included photographs of
PiL artwork and promotional items has been chopped-down to a pictureless 8-page insert. You
get some scattily-edited quotes from Lydon, and that's all. There are no recording/release
dates, no songwriting/production credits, no lineups (this would have been especially
useful, given that it's so hard to keep track of PiL's countless configurations), no lyrics.
Tracklist:
CD1
01 Public Image
02 The Cowboy Song
03 Theme
04 Religion I
05 Religion II
06 Annalisa
07 Low Life
08 Attack
09 Poptones (BBC Session)
10 Careering (BBC Session)
11 Chant (BBC Session)
12 Death Disco (12' Remix)
13 1,2 Mix Megamix
14 No Birds Do Sing
15 Memories
CD2
01 Another
02 Albatross
03 Socialist
04 The Suit
05 Bad Baby
06 Radio 4
07 Pied Piper
08 Flowers Of Romance
09 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
17 Home Is Where The Heart Is
CD3
01 This Is Not A Love Song (12' Remix)
02 Blue Water
03 Bad Life
04 Question Mark
05 Solitaire
06 Tie Me To The Length Of That
07 Where Are You
08 The Pardon
09 1981
10 The Order Of Death
11 F.F.F
12 Rise
13 Fishing
14 Round
15 Home
16 Ease
CD4
01 Seattle
02 Angry
03 The Body (US 12' Mix)
04 Selfish Rubbish
05 Disappointed
06 Happy
07 Warrior (12' Extended Version)
08 USLS 1
09 Don't Ask Me
10 Criminal
11 Luck's Up
12 God
13 Crul (BBC Session)
14 Acid Drops (BBC Session)
15 Love Hope (BBC Session)
16 Think Tank (BBC Session)
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