PIL pt.3

April 30th, 2006 by nodog

What happens when a band splits up? Normally some fights, legal or otherwise, but the way the early line-up of PIL managed to do it is something different altogether.

Keith Levene quitted and stole the tapes of their fourth album, releasing “Commercial Zone” without anyone’s authorization. John Lydon and drummer Martin Atkins started recording again with session musicians. Typical Johnny Rotten quote: “This is What You Want is just me giving orders and them receiving them. There was no feedback. If I had a crap idea, the crap idea would go onto vinyl almost immediately.”

So the fans are left with two rather halfbaked albums. Still… even halfbaked PIL is better than most other bands. Get this torrent and puzzle your own favourite album out of it I’d say:
Demonoid | Torrentspy

Extra: Video of “This Is Not A Love Song”, note: It’s not the same mix as on the album. The mindbendingly awful brass-samples on the albumversion have to be heard to be believed! : )