PiL's 1986 'Album' gets all of the plaudits, deservedly so, it is a great album. Its 1987 follow up, 'Happy?' as I recall did not get such a warm critical reception. As someone who was seeing PiL at the time I quite liked it. Listening to it now it does suffer from the blight of 1980's production and there is a degree of fret wanking in there too, but I stand by my original opinion of the album. In truth I also think that there was the fact that the 18 year old me was still rather in awe of Mr Lydon at that time.
In 2024 there is no doubt that he has become something of a marmite character, nevetheless, there is no denying that he has a talent having changed the face of music not once but twice. For me the contentious point seems to be his reluctance to recognise the fact that other musicians were also part of that musical transformation, be they a Pistol or a member of Public Image Limited. Any interpretration of of the music in which he has had an involvement, whether that relates to the recent gigs by Cook, Jones and Matlock or the Metal Box In Dub work of Wobble and Levine, seems guaranteed to get Johnny a-skwarking! Shame really.
Many thanks to the original Dime/101Guitars uploader.
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-ol6UxrOC2z
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-b2Wy05ZA9L
01. Save Me02. Rise
03. Seattle
04. Four Enclosed Walls
05. F.F.F.
06. Low Life
07. Open And Revolving
08. Home
09. Rules And Regulations
10. Bags
11. Hard Times
12. World Destruction
13. Angry
14. The Body
15. Public Image
16. Tie Me To The Length Of That
17. This Is Not A Love Song
18. Religion
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