Name: Second Edition - Remastered
Brand: Public Image

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

cdvdr2512

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2011-01-31

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Universal

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Public Image

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

remastered version. 'metal box', pil's second album, arrived in stores in 1979, packaged in a metal can modelled after a film canister. the expensive album, slightly re-sequenced and refitted with a traditional sleeve, was re-released the following year as second edition. the 11-minute 'albatross' opens the proceedings, centred upon powerful bass punctuated by spiky guitars. 'poptones' brings lydon's vocals to the forefront of the mix as he delivers an elliptical lyric about being driven into the woods and executed while the tune in question plays on the car radio. 'socialist' is a fast instrumental that introduces bubbling keyboards to the bass and drum mixture. another instrumental, 'graveyard', comes perilously close to a parody of spy /thriller movie themes before being saved by searing guitar bursts. 'bad baby's prominent keyboard line plays over the bass and drums while lydon intones the tale of a baby abandoned in a parking lot. far from a cheerful album, second edition highlights some of wobble's most expressive bass playing alongside lydon's patently off-kilter vocal style and aggressively anti-social lyrics.

Second Edition - Remastered

Music GB