Nope I'm still around , you don't know who's dead and who's alive on here , one can sit and read ones own obituary :-) Don't believe all you see and hear on here its not always true :-)
@@ninjanne it is not dude . I HAVE seen more than 1,200 Bands live since 1984 & that sound is just the sound of PIL , nothing else . THe Damned also have great guitar sounds & so many other fantastic bands . GROW up from your little box of preferences & open up to the other amazing guitar sounds that exist world wide for more than 100 years .
@@andrewphippsphillips1455 F**k off pal,Echo and were f**king shit.U2 are in the top league.The Joshua tree and Achtung Baby are two of the best albums of all time
the reason it sounds so modern is because the actual guitaring was a take of Steve Howes guitar work on a song by the geniuses of 'YES' called 'Starship Trooper' by Keiths own admission, have a listen..... th-cam.com/video/VNCjQ1SulDI/w-d-xo.html
The guitar tone that Keith Levene gets on this, the very first PIL song, was something else. If you were lucky enough to be around at the time, it was so, so different. I was 14 when I bought this single, and fortunate that my Da spent a lot on his sound system. To hear this blasting through speakers that he used at discos, via a savage pre-amp and amp, ... you'd grit your teeth in the last bit. The neighbours complained, most of my friends thought it was insane. And today, it still sounds better than 80% of the music made now, because it was real. Because they meant it. It's art.
3.08 of relentless propulsion. It's so tense from beginning to end. Not a second is wasted. Bass, drums and guitar are killing it in every second. Lydon's finest moment and the best British single of 1978 by a long fucking way.
Nah this shits on kate bush especially now shes assoicated with stranger things running up that hill was wicked compared to wuthering heights the hooks are all there but sorry its something about stranger things really put me off
Keith Levenes guitar work in this song is so under rated. There is one bass line that plays thru the entire song (great one too), but there is no verse, chorus, bridge or middle 8 like most songs. The song moves along thru Levenes amazing use of chords and rhythm on the guitar. He flavors the song with brilliant guitar work. So many players could learn from his style.
kortick50 Great song.....but everything about this is very simple. The guitar parts are a piece of piss. Any half decent guitar player could learn and play this in no time at all. .....I know I did.
He was badass. Literally, back then: a lot of people were scared of him, rightly or wrongly, because he was something of a fighter and at that time also had major alcohol problems - which he very honestly describes in his autobiography.
I'm fast approaching 61... But I still listen to the bands that made an imprint in my brain that will not fade. I will listen to 'Real Music' until the grave. Rotten Rocks Big Time....
Can't believe this song still gives me goosebumps, and hardly ever failed to. How much I love Keith's guitar sound, and Wobble's "impossible bass" lines. Not to mention John's voice, simply sublime.
A classic single heralding the birth of post punk and a mandatory contender for my top ten. Keith Levene delivers one of the greatest riffs ever with Wobble in the drivers seat and Lydon in peerless form. Fantastic. It blew me away when I first heard it on initial release and still does. Timeless and exemplifies the vacuity of current chart music. Goodbye
I still have this on vinyl! It's a stonkingly great song from a great band and artist! Sad to hear that John's wife Nora has Alzheimer's. John has given a very moving interview in the Mail about that. The Sex Pistols were a big part of the soundtrack to my youth. I want to send out POSITIVITY and GOOD VIBES to John and Nora.
This was the classic Pil lineup. I can remember a few years ago reviewing Pils first album on a blog I used to have and Jah Wobble taking the time to read and thank me for it, which I thought was really kind of him.
Bought the single on release day! All three members of our 'School pUnK band' (North Chadderton Comprehensive) got the bus up into Oldham town centre to purchase this single in the 'Folded newspaper cover' from 'Discland' in the 'Market Avenue Arcade' ! We stopped off at 'Boots' on the way back to the bus stop home for me to purchase an 'Eyeliner and Mascara'! My Girlfriends loved it! dx
Simply a perfect song, the essence of post punk, smart, intellectual, critical, brilliant bass line, brilliant guitar riffs, Lydon's inimitable voice. It doesn't get better than this. It's up there with other Platonic essences like Tomorrow Never Knows or GBV's Gold Star for Robot Boy.
Bought this single when I was a 15 year old part-time punk living in the suburbs. For me, this song still stands up 40 years on. It's simplicity, power, anger and beauty have not dimmed. If anything the lyrics are even more pertinent today than when they were written in 1978. The bass is a work of the simplest genius.
*Timeless genius* 💜 Some still bleat about Lydon doing TV ads - to finance studio time, so what; not like he was an arms dealer, or estate agent - But they can't cope with him not being their caged pet punk, actually having a mind of his own. He's still as true as he ever was & they hate that..
Just a great song , one of the best . The driving bass , the melodic shards of guitar , coruscating lyrics and delivery . Is there anything better? Not much.
My god, the power of music! The sound of this song made the last 30 years of my life flash back into my mind. Thank you PiL for a trippin flash back! But why do I hold back these tears and my chest has gone tight? Feelings I have repressed from a time long ago. Pain, Love, Angst, Fear, Anger. The shortness of life, we are all here for a reason, find it and do what makes you the person you are. The power of music to take a person back in time to another place and see your journey in full perceptive. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Me and you together...How he can tour again after his personal loss is breathtaking. Looking forward to the new album...End of world...I am convinced an album to pay tribute to Nora but also have other meaning's.
If I could go back to the 70's and 80's I would, 11 years old, still at school, listening to this on a weekday evening on the radio tuned to MW as well , happy days, thanks guys.
To come out of the starting blocks with a song this great is pretty bloody seldom seen. Lydon cast off the Pistols and his former image with this manifesto of intent, but the music! My God, nothing sounded this powerful since early punk made us sit up and listen. Levine's amazing Eastern guitar, Walker's krautrock drum beat and perhaps the most important element, Wobble's dub loop bass line. Genius.
Keith Levene's guitar riff is maybe the most original and simplest. I love it for the first time I heard this brilliant song in 1979. My life means nothing without it!
Probably one of the best Bass intros of all time. The rest is up there as well ta boot. Was a late teen at the time and clearly remember this for the first time. Rottens voice and the most well structured noise anybody has ever created
Wish I could add another like everytime I watch this. I went back through the last 2 days comments. The guitar on this is absolutely unforgettable on its own. Another plug pulled from this mortal amplifier. Rest in Noise Keith Levene.
Christopher Raffell Can you give me names? I'd love to check out any new great artists I don't know of. Closest to Rotten I can think of right now is maybe Kanye West.
no sorry there is so much talent today thanks to media and globalisation people allways like to thinkin the past was true but if you think pil are anything like kayne west your misstaken try william
Thank you so much Keith! Without rupture and transgression, there is no evolution in anything in life! Thank you for your music and chords! Cheers from Brazil!
Can't think of a better place to pop by and pay my respects to Keith. This single was a defining musical moment for this teenager back in '78, and unlike me, never gets old. The melodious B-side "Cowboy Song" was always good if you needed an endless cough track. 😼
It's tragic that there's so little of Keith Levene's work on record. I was lucky enough to be around Townhouse Studios in London while PIL were recording Flowers of Romance, and KL actually gave me a masterclass on how to get that magisterial sheet-metal guitar sound. Then I changed my name to The Edge...OK, that bit's a lie. He was a gentle, friendly guy with absolutely no vanity about him. Little anecdote, his brother came down to the sessions one night. Affable, totally straight-looking schoolteacher chap, tweed jacket, pipe, but with a dry sense of humour. Mind you I don't know what was in the pipe. I digress. It's high time Keith Levene got his due. Any chance of an album of outtakes, great lost tracks etc?
"the public image belongs to me, its my entrance to my own creation my grand finale my good bye" dunno about anyone else but these lyrics are powerful to me
I doubt I've ever been as happy about anything in my life, as I am about having lived my teenage years through this era. I was thirteen when this came out, and can still remember buying the newspaper-clad single and monopolising my parent''s record player for weeks after.
One of the things I love so much about this song is that the lyrics have meaning. They actually sat down and wrote a song and sang it. I've heard so many songs lately that are just one or two sentences repeated over and over and they don't mean anything.
One of the greatest Rock n Roll songs, Bass, Drums, a bit of brilliant pilfering from the edge of U2's early day riffs and the vocal from Johny can not be replicated, one of the last of the legends of music and the world will be a sadder place when the honest Johny Lydon who lost his memory from 8 to 11yrs of age goes. In the meantime we have to listen to just in Beaver and his mates 👍keep spreading the love folks 🙋♂️🙋♀️❤
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Now aged 66, this remains one of my all time faves. A classic!
Me,66 yearz..our grand finale,but not goodbye ..Pil belongs to us..
Superb Track ❤
yep, me at 60 , luv it
Absolute classic. Age 75 I have to turn it up a bit on the headphones to hear it properly. 3 geniuses on stage.
Tf... Yeah thats why he never had any success with PIL and nobody cared about him until the 1990's sex pistols reunion.
Rest in peace Keith Levene. That guitar sound is breathtaking. Thank you.
Davi the great , hi na s a , 300,000 , 3hrs , k
Public Image Limited - Public Image 1359pm 5.1.23 aye; they all seem to be jossing it. hello....
Spot on
I DUNNO BUT IF THE GUITAR ADDS SOME FLANGER EFFECT WOULD BE MORE SPACEY PUNK ROCK WONDERFUL. IT JUST DOES IT.
The best punk guitar ever .
Julian Keith Levene (18 July 1957 - 11 November 2022) Will Never Be Forgotten 🖤
Nope I'm still around , you don't know who's dead and who's alive on here , one can sit and read ones own obituary :-) Don't believe all you see and hear on here its not always true :-)
@@TinMan-i9lthat’s the most dead brained thing I’ve heard
One of the greatest guitar sounds ever, sadly never to be heard again. RIP Keith
one of the greatest guitar sound ever ? u must by coming out a cave ..... or something similar .
@@BlueHopi144 what is wrong with you. It is one of the greateste guitar sounds ever.
@@ninjanne it is not dude . I HAVE seen more than 1,200 Bands live since 1984 & that sound is just the sound of PIL , nothing else . THe Damned also have great guitar sounds & so many other fantastic bands . GROW up from your little box of preferences & open up to the other amazing guitar sounds that exist world wide for more than 100 years .
@@BlueHopi144 who?
@@ninjanne what is that stuff u have put for profile picture ? is it not from your childhood u had issues with ? 😂
One of the best new wave tunes.
One of the best songs ever made. I still stand by that. Hasn't aged at all
Absolutel classic timeless 👌👌
It's number 1 for me without a shadow of a doubt, PIL are one of my favourite ever bands though!!!
@@englishorchard-haze4708 I love Poptones!!!
It is ace isn't it. Did he base his stage act on Larry's Richard III ?
Top 3 post-punk song of all time
Very cool....That bass intro is awesome
I'd never heard such a distinctive guitar sound as this back in 1978. The Edge owes it all to Keith.
And a nod of acknowledgement to Will Sargeant from Echo & the Bunnymen
@@andrewphippsphillips1455 F**k off pal,Echo and were f**king shit.U2 are in the top league.The Joshua tree and Achtung Baby are two of the best albums of all time
@@andrewphippsphillips1455Most Definitely
@@andrewphippsphillips1455I Love Echo & the Bunny Men, Over the Wall. Best Bunnymen Tune IMO 🤔
Yeah I can really hear the influence this had on the Edge for sure. Good call!
Written and recorded 40 years ago. And still sounds so modern... That guitar riff is the reason.
Wasn’t this the first one they released? The mind plays tricks these days but I am sure it was.
It's all of it; lyrics, vocals, guitar, bass, drums, no use separating them but together it's timeless genius.
the reason it sounds so modern is because the actual guitaring was a take of Steve Howes guitar work on a song by the geniuses of 'YES' called 'Starship Trooper' by Keiths own admission, have a listen.....
th-cam.com/video/VNCjQ1SulDI/w-d-xo.html
@@oleggorky906 You're Correct..
@@niad5630 👍 Thanks. I thought so.
RIP Keith Levene. His distinctive guitar sound makes this song one of the greats.
The guitar tone that Keith Levene gets on this, the very first PIL song, was something else. If you were lucky enough to be around at the time, it was so, so different. I was 14 when I bought this single, and fortunate that my Da spent a lot on his sound system. To hear this blasting through speakers that he used at discos, via a savage pre-amp and amp, ... you'd grit your teeth in the last bit. The neighbours complained, most of my friends thought it was insane. And today, it still sounds better than 80% of the music made now, because it was real. Because they meant it.
It's art.
Great comment, apart from 'its art', its music!!
Not all music is art, though!
A lot of modern stuff is art, with a capital F.........
Baahahahah! Indeed Sir.
SOOO true bud never ever been beaten
3.08 of relentless propulsion. It's so tense from beginning to end. Not a second is wasted. Bass, drums and guitar are killing it in every second. Lydon's finest moment and the best British single of 1978 by a long fucking way.
Second to Wuthering Heights
@@richardbrooks50 absolutely - Kate's voice and playing was extraordinary and even Lydon knows that
One of the best songs of the 1970's!
@@JfK--OBJECTivE you work for the un peacekeepers i take it
Nah this shits on kate bush especially now shes assoicated with stranger things running up that hill was wicked compared to wuthering heights the hooks are all there but sorry its something about stranger things really put me off
Keith Levenes guitar work in this song is so under rated. There is one bass line that plays thru the entire song (great one too), but there is no verse, chorus, bridge or middle 8 like most songs. The song moves along thru Levenes amazing use of chords and rhythm on the guitar. He flavors the song with brilliant guitar work. So many players could learn from his style.
kortick50 ..
Haha, what are you talking about? its like the most simple guitar stuff ever..
kortick50 Great song.....but everything about this is very simple. The guitar parts are a piece of piss. Any half decent guitar player could learn and play this in no time at all. .....I know I did.
kortick50 spot on fella
SuperEdge67 So what? Just because it’s simple doesn’t mean it don’t kick ass!
Thanks Keith. Sometimes this was the only jukebox track worth playing.
The bass line is prefect. Just perfect. Not too much, not too little. Just what the song needs. The bassist looks badass too
That is Jah Wobble, who is a fuckin' LEGEND.
Jah Wobbles solo work is also amazing, really varied discography. Loads to love whether you’re in to punk, new wave, dub or industrial.
He was badass. Literally, back then: a lot of people were scared of him, rightly or wrongly, because he was something of a fighter and at that time also had major alcohol problems - which he very honestly describes in his autobiography.
That bass, that guitar, the venom in that voice ...
Levine and Wobble are very underrated guitar players.
The drums are as equal and excellent and driving the march of the beat with menace and precission timing.
Is it Wobble ? Definitely not Allan Dias ...
@@22Bruinsdude Jah Wobble is the coolest dude. You don't mistake the Wobble.
Don't forget "Those drums..."
I was 13 in 1978.....this song meant everything.....
Just listened again, first time since 1980. Sounds just as exciting today.
Me too 13 in '78
Sounds fantastic...from the word go right through to the end....bags of balls....bags of attitude and great impact the music has on me here.
It’s September 2020. The need for some great music bought me here.
2021!!!!!!!
Me too
And in 21 !!!
Yes 2021 and 52 just had the best flash back ever
The best thing Lydon ever did, absolutely brilliant.
Well... No it's not the first thing he did
@@mtvso8000 he said best not first thing
@@HostileLemons oh I must've read that wrong haha sorry
Next to the country life butter ads
Rise is better
Quite possibly one of the finest Punk singles of all time.
Post-punk 🙂
@@anorakus8272 Always considered this the PIL Punk single after he left the Sex Pistols all the rest was Post-Punk.
@@anorakus8272Yeah, post-*punk* singles
I'm fast approaching 61... But I still listen to the bands that made an imprint in my brain that will not fade. I will listen to 'Real Music' until the grave. Rotten Rocks Big Time....
And me to mate I'm 61 and saw the pistols the stranglers as a punk in 1976 the best time ever was all at the London clubs watching the bands.
One of the best guitar riffs of all time. What a comeback for Lydon after the pistols with this truly great song.
He never went away. This was a tremendous followup!
You're kidding, right?
@@Helena-xu4lq Is who kidding about what?
Public Image starts great with Jah Wobbles bass,great ! Lydon is always greatin his own lyrics. Fine music !😊 - jon fisher
Can't believe this song still gives me goosebumps, and hardly ever failed to.
How much I love Keith's guitar sound, and Wobble's "impossible bass" lines.
Not to mention John's voice, simply sublime.
Wobble and lydon game over
I was a 78er, best punk song apart the light shines out of me.
@@johnvine3985you mean the great magazine song?😊
@@Bavodekat yep.
A classic single heralding the birth of post punk and a mandatory contender for my top ten. Keith Levene delivers one of the greatest riffs ever with Wobble in the drivers seat and Lydon in peerless form. Fantastic. It blew me away when I first heard it on initial release and still does. Timeless and exemplifies the vacuity of current chart music. Goodbye
WEll said
Don’t listen to chart music. There’s an underground post punk scene right now which genuinely might be as great as that of the late 70s/80s
@@inside1283 h alhn
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Absolutely agree .👍
John Lydon the intelligent and brave singer in PIL ! A superbad for a long time! I just loved it still I do it ! ❤ jon fisher
British music is the best music, greetings from Dalmatia
You are so right. (69yr old brit,)
The yanks like to take credit for everything but they're full of shit
I saw Croatia play at euro 96 and their fans were awesome
AND LEGENDARY song!!! and RIP Mr Levine, a guitar great !!!!!
Started as a guitarist is a punk band many yrs ago and finished as a jazz musician. Still revisit punk though, happy memories.
This song deserves to be heard.
In my opinion John Lyndon is one of the best 20th century singer song writers out there. Think he speaks for the common man 👍🏼😃
What on earth is a common man?
"I will not be treated as property"
Those words resonated back then and I still hold them dear.
Love love love everything about this song! ❤
God i miss bands like this. John voice is amazing ❤
RIP Keith Levene. What a loss for music. 😥
I agree
I still have this on vinyl! It's a stonkingly great song from a great band and artist! Sad to hear that John's wife Nora has Alzheimer's. John has given a very moving interview in the Mail about that. The Sex Pistols were a big part of the soundtrack to my youth. I want to send out POSITIVITY and GOOD VIBES to John and Nora.
Is this the best 3 mins of music...ever?
This was the classic Pil lineup. I can remember a few years ago reviewing Pils first album on a blog I used to have and Jah Wobble taking the time to read and thank me for it, which I thought was really kind of him.
So sad to hear of Your Beautiful Wife Nora's Passing! May She Rest In Peace! So Nice You Wrote A Song In Her Honour For The Irish Eurosong Heats!
Lovely post, thank you XXX
Bought the single on release day!
All three members of our 'School pUnK band' (North Chadderton Comprehensive) got the bus up into Oldham town centre to purchase this single in the 'Folded newspaper cover' from 'Discland' in the 'Market Avenue Arcade' ! We stopped off at 'Boots' on the way back to the bus stop home for me to purchase an 'Eyeliner and Mascara'! My Girlfriends loved it! dx
Jah Wobble is so chill, just sitting in a chair playing bass.
he couldn't play standing up
@@budlightdrinkeriswear it's a little more difficult to play standing up
They had to duck tape him onto the chair so he didn't start to walk off and swear at the other band members.
@@budlightdrinkeriswear Because he learned bass sitting down. That's the story.
Simply a perfect song, the essence of post punk, smart, intellectual, critical, brilliant bass line, brilliant guitar riffs, Lydon's inimitable voice. It doesn't get better than this. It's up there with other Platonic essences like Tomorrow Never Knows or GBV's Gold Star for Robot Boy.
Just unspeakably BRILLIANT. Post-Punk Heaven!!!
Seen John on his latest tour 2023 and he was bloody brilliant.His vocals and the arrangmenrs to the songs were fantastic..At 65 he,s still got IT..
Rest in Peace Keith Levene. Your guitarsound is absolutely amazing
A swirling, hypnotic masterpiece, P.I.L. invented Post Punk with this. Lydon's dance and diatribe is incomparable.
Dance&Diatribe...Good name for an album.
@@davidmatthews3131 Dance, Chants and Diatribe. Now that would be an awesome album. 😂
Followed John from day 1 .. PIL .. this my favourite track of ALL time 💙💙💙💙
Bought this single when I was a 15 year old part-time punk living in the suburbs. For me, this song still stands up 40 years on. It's simplicity, power, anger and beauty have not dimmed. If anything the lyrics are even more pertinent today than when they were written in 1978. The bass is a work of the simplest genius.
R.I.P Mr Keith Levene ,such a talented musician 🎸🔥🔥
RIP Keith, one of the most underrated guitarists ever, this riff man 👌
*Timeless genius* 💜 Some still bleat about Lydon doing TV ads - to finance studio time, so what; not like he was an arms dealer, or estate agent - But they can't cope with him not being their caged pet punk, actually having a mind of his own. He's still as true as he ever was & they hate that..
Brilliant song 🎶 brings all my memories back what a era
Lydon / Rotten ... Has shown real bollocks through time and no beating around the bush... My Hero. Thank you so much John!!!
Keith Levene and Jah Wobble. Does not get better than this. Timeless greatness.
Is Keith the skinny hippy looking guitarist at the Glastonbury concert? I love the guitar sound on this song...
Just a great song , one of the best . The driving bass , the melodic shards of guitar , coruscating lyrics and delivery . Is there anything better? Not much.
The Clash.
the whole discography of the sex pistols 😭 i just don't like pil that much
Best thing ever pressed to 7" Vinyl. Keith Levene is proper stand out, that Veleno Guitar with him playing is awesome. 2:31 sec is amazing 🙂
John Lydon and PiL and ” publi image” - a real great song ! Alwys loved it ! Great Stuff ! 😊 John Coolman
Wow, this has aged so well. He was (and still is) way ahead of his time. John is the voice of a generation.
My god, the power of music! The sound of this song made the last 30 years of my life flash back into my mind. Thank you PiL for a trippin flash back! But why do I hold back these tears and my chest has gone tight? Feelings I have repressed from a time long ago. Pain, Love, Angst, Fear, Anger. The shortness of life, we are all here for a reason, find it and do what makes you the person you are. The power of music to take a person back in time to another place and see your journey in full perceptive. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Music literally allows you to time travel!
one of the most underrated songs from the 1970's .. so so good
Keith Levene R.I.P. Unmistakable & unique guitar sound & tone on the early P.I.L records. God bless you fella.
R.I.P. Keith Levene, your guitar sound is your own creation, your grand finale, your goodbye ...
Some of PIL's intro's are insane. This, Annalisa, Under The House, Careering, Banging The Door, and many many others. I've loved PIL since 1978.
Me and you together...How he can tour again after his personal loss is breathtaking. Looking forward to the new album...End of world...I am convinced an album to pay tribute to Nora but also have other meaning's.
Voice, lead, bass and drums. So much sound from so little. Probably only the Jam managed that level.
1978. Russel Club, Hulme. This song blasting out of the building as I approached. Brilliant.
This Is One of the most beautiful Guitar sound I ever Heard .
His one truly great contribution to music!
Somebody needs to get out more!
If I could go back to the 70's and 80's I would, 11 years old, still at school, listening to this on a weekday evening on the radio tuned to MW as well , happy days, thanks guys.
To come out of the starting blocks with a song this great is pretty bloody seldom seen. Lydon cast off the Pistols and his former image with this manifesto of intent, but the music! My God, nothing sounded this powerful since early punk made us sit up and listen. Levine's amazing Eastern guitar, Walker's krautrock drum beat and perhaps the most important element, Wobble's dub loop bass line. Genius.
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Keith Levene's guitar riff is maybe the most original and simplest. I love it for the first time I heard this brilliant song in 1979. My life means nothing without it!
Probably one of the best Bass intros of all time. The rest is up there as well ta boot. Was a late teen at the time and clearly remember this for the first time. Rottens voice and the most well structured noise anybody has ever created
This is one of their most underrated songs for sure.
I still love it
Magnificent. The influence of this 3.08 minutes is off the scale. x
Wish I could add another like everytime I watch this.
I went back through the last 2 days comments.
The guitar on this is absolutely unforgettable
on its own.
Another plug pulled from this mortal amplifier.
Rest in Noise Keith Levene.
Rotten, one of the most forward thinking and bravest artists of the last 50 years. They don't make them like that no more.
get realhave a good think about your comment yes they do make them like that any more actualy
Christopher Raffell Can you give me names? I'd love to check out any new great artists I don't know of. Closest to Rotten I can think of right now is maybe Kanye West.
no sorry there is so much talent today thanks to media and globalisation people allways like to thinkin the past was true but if you think pil are anything like kayne west your misstaken try william
He hawked butter.
boknowsbaseball so what !
Jah Wobble's bass line intro grabs you from the get go! This is Brilliant!
If you play guitar, you know exactly just how innovative these early punk and New Wave compositions were!
Keith Levine RIP fella, your guitar work on some of PILs best work is not forgotten.
This was Public Image Ltd’s greatist debut song ! I still love it !John Lydon was so graat ! : ) - jon fisher
Два в одном. Ю ту сэкс пистолс
joy division, siouxsie and the banshees, pil... this is it
amen!
pls don't kill me for adding the cure, bauhaus and magazine to that list.
And Killing Joke. Never forget Killing Joke.
i don't want this to become pointlessly long list, but New Order must be added.
For you and you don't speak for me!
Thank you for the music Keith.
One of the very best songs ever. Absolutely amazing tune.
I had forgotten just how good this was, everything there was needed, not one note too many
Thank you so much Keith!
Without rupture and transgression, there is no evolution in anything in life!
Thank you for your music and chords!
Cheers from Brazil!
Can't think of a better place to pop by and pay my respects to Keith. This single was a defining musical moment for this teenager back in '78, and unlike me, never gets old. The melodious B-side "Cowboy Song" was always good if you needed an endless cough track. 😼
It's tragic that there's so little of Keith Levene's work on record. I was lucky enough to be around Townhouse Studios in London while PIL were recording Flowers of Romance, and KL actually gave me a masterclass on how to get that magisterial sheet-metal guitar sound. Then I changed my name to The Edge...OK, that bit's a lie. He was a gentle, friendly guy with absolutely no vanity about him. Little anecdote, his brother came down to the sessions one night. Affable, totally straight-looking schoolteacher chap, tweed jacket, pipe, but with a dry sense of humour. Mind you I don't know what was in the pipe. I digress. It's high time Keith Levene got his due. Any chance of an album of outtakes, great lost tracks etc?
"the public image belongs to me, its my entrance to my own creation my grand finale my good bye" dunno about anyone else but these lyrics are powerful to me
A fine piece of Shakespearean rock teathre. John Lyndon is absolute genius and PIL amazing band. This is pure art.
I agree!
Keep coming back to this record I'm 64 now still giving me energy
I'm 63. Couldn't agree more!
@@cherylthommo157 and still loving it,better than that modern rubbish 😮👍🙃🤣
@@petey9338 how is it modern ?
THIS is modern ! ;)
@@Ritff666l-e9e 1978/79 🙉
One of my favourite pieces of music from the 1970s. I can listen to this and Anarchy in the UK on repeat.
I doubt I've ever been as happy about anything in my life, as I am about having lived my teenage years through this era. I was thirteen when this came out, and can still remember buying the newspaper-clad single and monopolising my parent''s record player for weeks after.
What a group, what a sound. I’m not a big guitar fan but that boy could Play!!!
One of THE best intros of all time. The rest of the tune is pretty darn good as well
62 and still dancing with this all time favorite!!.
80s music blueprint - guitar sound, oversized jacket, movement - in 1978
One of the things I love so much about this song is that the lyrics have meaning. They actually sat down and wrote a song and sang it. I've heard so many songs lately that are just one or two sentences repeated over and over and they don't mean anything.
Rest in PiL! Keith Levene, founding guitarist dead at age 65. 🎸 His riff on this song .....
A complete song. Great guitar riff, great bass riff and the singing and lyrics awesome and poignant. Awesome stuff
One of the greatest Rock n Roll songs, Bass, Drums, a bit of brilliant pilfering from the edge of U2's early day riffs and the vocal from Johny can not be replicated, one of the last of the legends of music and the world will be a sadder place when the honest Johny Lydon who lost his memory from 8 to 11yrs of age goes. In the meantime we have to listen to just in Beaver and his mates 👍keep spreading the love folks 🙋♂️🙋♀️❤