Tracks:
1. Albatross
2. Memories
3. Swan Lake
4. Poptones
5. Careering
6. No Birds
7. Graveyard
8. The Suit
9. Bad Baby
10. Socialist
11. Chant
12. Radio 4
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One of my favourite albums ever (I've got it in my top 100 on here). Absolutely amazing, from the crazy preacher-like howling of Lydon, to the amazing bass playing ("Socialist" for Christ's sake!) and the overall atmosphere. Absolutely terrifying, and still danceable.
I agree with thejoj on this album being better than what the Sex Pistols released, but I don't believe what the Sex Pistols released is the only thing that made them great. And this record is definitely much better than PIL's debut.
If you don't know it, or want to know what postpunk was about, well, it's all in here.
Everything everyone else has said, but: Jah Wobble stands alongside Mike Watt, Tina Weymouth, Peter Hook, and others as one of the greatest bassists of all time, solely for his work on this album. His basslines are like rubber.
Jah Wobble stands alongside Mike Watt, Tina Weymouth, Peter Hook, and others as one of the greatest bassists of all time, solely for his work on this album. His basslines are like rubber.
Absolutely. Which reminds me to remind you to listen to Jah Wobble's The Legend Lives On - Jah Wobble In 'Betrayal' (1980), a perfect complement to Metal Box. On one occasion, Jah Wobble even almost seems to regret not having Lydon around to sing. Check it out! Great dub-inspired postpunk.
One of the few albums that I still remember exactly where I was the first time I heard it, and being completely horrified by it. It was my dad's vinyl, in the metal box and it always stuck out like a sore thumb on the shelf next to the other (conventionally packaged) records. I was like 14, and it looked like a time capsule. I put it on and I just remember wondering what the fuck it was. It wasn't like anything I'd ever heard. 'Albatross' did not resemble music remotely, not by the standards of what I'd heard up to that point in my life. I remember my dad, upon seeing that I'd got it out to listen to, asking if I'd liked it and me replying, "I don't know". I still went back to it again and again. I grew to love it, and eventually bought the CD re-issue (in the metal box - so now it sticks out like a sore thumb on the shelf next to my other CD's). A stunning album.
Which reminds me to remind you to listen to Jah Wobble's The Legend Lives On - Jah Wobble In 'Betrayal' (1980)
Thanks! I will check it out later this morning! And if you weren't aware of it, there's the Snake Charmer EP with Jah Wobble, Holger Czukay, and The Edge; and the Full Circle LP with Jah Wobble, Jaki Leibzeit, and Holger Czukay. Not great in my opinion, but worth listens.
Yep, don't think I can add much more here, it's an album that just needs to be experienced... and it's like few experiences I've ever had just listening to an album.
And if you weren't aware of it, there's the Snake Charmer EP with Jah Wobble, Holger Czukay, and The Edge; and the Full Circle LP with Jah Wobble, Jaki Leibzeit, and Holger Czukay. Not great in my opinion, but worth listens.
Yep ! They're on that endless 'to listen to' list.
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