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The fourth Public Image Limited album is something of a milestone. Spread across its 33 minutes is some of the harshest and least "user-friendly" music ever recorded for a major record company. FLOWERS, the first album following the departure of the band's initial bass player, finds John Lydon largely abandoning guitars in the construction of his songs. The music is mainly comprised of jerking, off-kilter drumming, layered with creepy keyboard effects.

Echoing, buried backing vocals add menace to his uniformly disturbing lyrics. The tone of "Spread her body all naked and silly, a bulbous heap batting her eyelids" ("Track 8") and "What do you want, you're annoying go away, it's not my fault that you're lonely" ("Banging the Door") is not atypical. In "Under the House," a tale of a ghostly haunting in a dream-house, the almost lethargic vocals are undercut with frenzied drumming, distant growls, and creaking sounds. "Go Back," one of Lydon's classic anti-middle-class-complacency rants, features a tinny, squalling guitar--almost as an afterthought to the rigid drums. "Francis Massacre" ends the record abruptly with a mixture of seemingly unrelated drums, samples, and vocals. FLOWERS is a classic album of awkward and disturbing anti-"pop" music.

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This import of FLOWERS OF ROMANCE contains 3 bonus tracks.

Public Image Ltd.: John Lydon (vocals, guitar); Keith Levene (guitar); Martin Atkins (drums).

Public Image Ltd.: John Lydon, Keith Levene, Martin Atkins.

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Category Rock Albums, Alternative CDs, Rock/Pop, Experimental Rock
Label Warner Bros.
Orig Year 1981
All Time Product Rank 52,007
CD Universe Part number 1243695
Catalog number 23536
Discs 1
Release Date Oct 25, 1990
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Public Image Ltd.
Personnel Martin Atkins - drums
John Lydon - vocals, guitar
Keith Levene - guitar
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2Track 8 * See All 53:16 $0.99
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5Under The House * See All 74:33 $0.99
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8Go Back * See All 53:47 $0.99
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9Francis Massacre * See All 53:30 $0.99
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Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars) 4 stars

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I remember this LP getting the label "unlistenable." Well, if you don't know what you're in for, I suppose. But then you miss Atkins attack of the drums, not like machinegun fire, but sporadic, even deliberate, like a Colt 45 being fired into a crowd. Keith Levene was an exciting guitarist as the early single "Public Image" made clear but here his noodling is twisted and distorted. I rather like Mr. Lydon's nasty call to prayer on Four Enclosed Walls. It,alone, will set alot of folks off, for sure. These aren't happy pop songs. P.I.L let the bubblegum crowd do that. Sparse, harrowing, and unforgettable. Classic.
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