Metal Box -- does anyone hate this as much as me?

Metal Box is hard to love, but then PiL never really wanted anyone to send flowers. Can't agree with this general slagging of Levene, however. The guitar on the first changed something fundamental about how guitars sounded, distorted but also shiny and clean. It was something genuinely new and exciting. Loads of people ripped it off, or went trad in opposition to the trend. You could make similar arguments for Poptones.

should read "guitar on the first single changed somehthing etc.."

Nobody is slagging Levene on the basis of his Guitar playing.

Still, now I have to sing it:

Riders on the storm
riders on the storm
getting riid of the al-ba-trossssss

The OP most certainly was!

I didn't mean you Mark. I had been reading early threads.

I mean posts. Brain barely functioning tonight

WTF I can't believe you haters

― akm, Saturday, May 16, 2009 4:23 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

this album is perfect.

also, for how "difficult" it's supposed to be i remember thinking it was poppier than i expected when i first heard it.

it's basically a ramones record compared to flowers of romance.

seriously

Kind of a downer, though.
I have to be in the mood for it.

yeah, not really getting this thread. i've never thought it was that super difficult of a record. loved it the first time i heard it as a teenager and still do.

let the take flood down!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmfzuAd_u2E

s/b takes ffs never mind

A take is raining, across the border.

thought this had been revived for this

As I’ve commented before -j can’t stand some of the trivial puerile shit that you see on Twitter . I mean I co wrote metal box-that’s heavy shit, but whatever , I often ponder -what’s better ? Munchies or Rollo ? The crunchy biscuit base of the former or the classic chewy latter pic.twitter.com/a6r6exdCn5

— Jah Wobble (@realjahwobble) November 20, 2021

ive got a mind to buy the best, before the rest

(maltesers)

pil stinks.