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The Flowers of Romance by Public Image Ltd.

The Flowers of Romance by Public Image Ltd.

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Key Information
Artist: Public Image Ltd.
Record Label: Warner Bros. Records (Record Label)
Genre: Rock and Pop
Subgenre: Alternative
Release Date: January 10, 1989
Number of Discs: 1
Song List: Disc 1
: 1. Four Enclosed Walls
2. Track 8
3. Phenagen
4. Flowers of Romance
5. Under the House
6. Hymie's Him
7. Banging the Door
8. Go Back
9. Francis Massacre
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Details: Public Image Ltd.: John Lydon, Keith Levene, Martin Atkins. This import of FLOWERS OF ROMANCE contains 3 bonus tracks. Public Image Ltd.: John Lydon (vocals, guitar); Keith Levene (guitar); Martin Atkins (drums). 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 hauntin...
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