ihatemusic

Don't suppose anybody'd know anything about the likelihood of P.i.L. getting remastered reissues of their 1st 4 lps?
Just finished reading the Metal Box book and it says that the only reissued material to that point was on the 4cd box set. & even then they rejected a lot of material that drummer Martin Atkins was willing to supply.

I know there's a tin version of Metal Box on cd when I'm pretty sure the early cd release was based on 2nd Edition's packaging. So I'm wondering how that fits into things.

Not sure if Paris Au Printemps warrants further investigation if I've got other live sets from the time. Not sure what else I'd have with Jah Wobble & Martin Atkins both on though. Looks like they played far less live dates than they maybe oughta done. Though I guess the U.S. tour has both.

& original drummer Jim Walker only seems to have done a handful of live dates

Stevo

Stevo wrote:I know there's a tin version of Metal Box on cd when I'm pretty sure the early cd release was based on 2nd Edition's packaging. So I'm wondering how that fits into things.

P.i.L. was a major discovery for me sometime in 2007. Still I can't answer anything you're asking.
I have that "tin version" of the Metal Box-CD, but the meagre info it came with doesn't mention anything being re-mastered here (if that's what you meant to imply).

I find Paris au Printemps to be a quite nice item in the official catalogue, last but not least for the sound quality being obviously superior to the circulating live stuff I heard so far (though "Paris..." still is relatively poor for an official release).

On a side note: What I just did recently was extracting the audio-track from YouTube vids recorded at the Old Grey Whistle test from I believe 1980 - by far my favorite "Careering"-version!

Johnny Lydon became an interesting musician when he formed PIL. And Jah Wobble was at one point the ultimate hidden underground cinderella musician. I loved PIL growing up and was so relieved when bands like them, Killing Joke, Wire, The Wipers, The Birthday Party, early Siouxsie, Joy Division, et al came around to blow away the still red ashes and cinders of the highly overrated, almost unlistenable, yet undeniably interesting punk thing. There are so many great pieces to PIL's first three I wouldn't no where to start.