#publicimageltd.

[gavintatesmusicjournal]

Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box (Vinyl) Album Overlook ***46 Year Anniversary***

23/11/25

By Gavin Tate

for Gavin Tate's Music Journal

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"THE THREE PIECE GROUP FORSAKES ALL OTHER INSTRUMENTS SAVE THREE SETS OF DRUMS..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on front and back sleeve art to the "Flowers of Romance" 7 inch vinyl single by English post-punk/experimental music group PUBLIC IMAGE LTD., released on the Virgin Records label in 1981. 📸: Jeannette Lee.

"..."Flowers of Romance" follows, here a briefer and stripped of the resoundingly echoed drum and stick beat out that was such a violation of percussive politeness on the 12” version, but Levene’s violin playing again evokes Two Thousand And One Arabian Nightmares with rococo, sliding into dementia swirls over Lydon’s barely audible cries for help. The three piece group forsakes all other instruments save three sets of drums over pre-recorded synthesizer and brief guitar noise relays..."

-- THE BOOK OF SETH on the "Flowers of Romance" (1981) title track, via Julian Cope's Head Heritage, c. August 2000

Sources: www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/public-image-limited-the-flowers-of-romance, Another Magazine, & Atlas Records (UK).

[modernretrogroove-blog]

Some John Lydon to ease us into the weekend. This song samples Schooly D's PSK.