This Is What You Want [Import]

Public Image Limited | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 9, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B00000733R
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,280 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bad Life

2. This Is Not A Love Song

3. Solitaire

4. Tie Me To The Length Of That

5. The Pardon

6. Where Are You?

7. 1981

8. The Order Of Death

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shivers up your spine, June 23, 2000

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John C. Springer (Stuttgart, Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is What You Want (Audio CD)

I bought this album when I was 14 and just starting to get into punk. This album is not punk but a mixture of what is now known as industrial and beat jazz. If you want to hear PIL at it's finest and most bare to the bone BUY this album. The key players are just Lydon and Atkins (Keith Levene did record tracks for this album but left and Johnny wiped them out. A recording of the original version is out there somewhere.) Anyway, this is the album that made me a major PIL fan and started my descent into industrial.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars these are not love songs, September 29, 2004

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J. Brady (PAWLEYS ISLAND, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Is What You Want (Audio CD)

This is not the death of PiL that many fans are calling it. There are some great songs here. "1981" is cool - great drums, great lyric , reminds me of the Flowers of Romance album, which i love . "Tie me to the Length of That" has a spooky Vincent Price vibe to the lyric and vocal, and a welcome return to a hooky bassline. "The Order of Death", despite being featured in an episode of Miami Vice - uuuugh - is one the best Pil songs ever, its chants of "this is what you want, this is what you get" becoming more and more bitter and sarcastic the more they are repeated. Even the then-current Brit-funk experimentations of "Bad Life" and "This is Not a Love Song" cannot hold them back. They have an undeniable energy, despite their somewhat dated sound. This is, after all, 1983. And a sight better than Kajagoogo or A-ha.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What are the rest of you talking about this effort rules, June 6, 2004

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Paul F. Doig (chicago il) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Is What You Want (Audio CD)

Okay anyone that listens to Solitaire off this release and still thinks that Lydon is not an incredible singer is just plan wrong. As Rolling stone said when they named Lydon best male singer for the Flowers of Romance release" he is truly the scarest sounding singer ever" Tie me to the link of that is just plan awesome. Okay this isn't the sex pistols they went away this was an attempt to make a new sound and this record made dancing cool for the aging punk in me. It was smart edgy and clever and yeah scary...Hey this is not a love song is a classic laugh at the whole make a love song and make a hit industry that Lydon tried to destroy. If you love music for the art and the evolution of a genre then you should love PiL and this record. Their best efforts are in order CD(I bought it as Album), this one here, and Flowers of Romance