- Audio CD (2 April 1990)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Virgin Records
- ASIN: B00000AQQQ
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 73,230 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a fantastic album - this is from when PIL were quite experimental and quite unlike their rock period of the mid-late 80's. When i was about 13 i was a huge fan of PIL's rock period ('Album', 'Happy' etc) and bought both 'Flowers Of Romance' and 'Metal Box' on the strength of what i had heard - lets just say that i was quite scared and freaked out by these 2 albums! However, over the next couple of years and after repeated listenings i came to love them. In particular, 'Flowers Of Romance' is something very special and owes a lot to the percussive efforts of Martin Atkins - as Metal Box owed a lot ot Jah Wobble's basslines. It feels quite abrasive, even by todays standards, but shows just how different PIL were at the time - which other reletively mainstream (supposedly) band was doing this back then? Well worth a listen and many repeated listening after that.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
After schorching our minds with the fearful, terrific (I mean to use that word in two ways: both terror inducing and great) "Metal Box" album (aka "Second Edition"), Public Image Ltd underwent a period of change. Bassist Jah Wobble, whose bass work defined the mood of the first two albums, left and John Lydon and Keith Levene regrouped with drummer Martin Atkins and created "Flowers of Romance."
With Wobble gone the music took on a heavily drum reliant sound, Lydon continued to wail as he had done on the previous album whilst Levene's guitar work was hidden in the depths of the millitant beats. Whereas in "Metal Box" the dense sounds fused to create a nightmare soundscape, here the sound was distinctly minimalist, with Lydon's melancholic tinged lyrics providing a vein of angst for him to vocally exorcise.
The standout tracks on the album, for me at least, have to be "Four Enclosed Walls," "Flowers of Romance," "Under the House," "Banging the Door," and "Go Back." The other tracks are good, but those were the ones which lingered in my mind after listening to it.
The CD comes with three additional tracks, an instrumental version of "Flowers of Romance" and two b-sides dating from the time and mood of "Metal Box": "Home is Where the Heart is", complete with Dub-reggae style production, funky bass and vitrolic lyrics, whilst "Another" adds Lydon's haunting, wailing vocals to the "Metal Box" instrumental track "Graveyard".
All in all it is worth listening to, though some may argue that it is a let down after the brilliance of "Metal Box", simply because it sounds like nothing else PIL ever did.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:MP3 Download
last great album before the vertical decent to utter mediocrity, great art, one small quibble, 'Another' was released on the b side of 'memories' as in when wobble was in the band and i seem to remember before metal box, so i dont see why this should be included here (great track though).
Pil never made a half decent track after this, i can remember when the pathetic this is not a love song came out many people said to me hes back to making proper music, in reality it meant that metal box and flowers of romance was above their heads and only when he dumbed down to their level could they comprehend again.
So for those with taste in art buy metal box and flowers of romance, for those into haircuts and kareoke punk buy all the drivel afterwards.
Pil never made a half decent track after this, i can remember when the pathetic this is not a love song came out many people said to me hes back to making proper music, in reality it meant that metal box and flowers of romance was above their heads and only when he dumbed down to their level could they comprehend again.
So for those with taste in art buy metal box and flowers of romance, for those into haircuts and kareoke punk buy all the drivel afterwards.
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Interfloral delight
The bass player left and the bottom end dropped off somewhere on beachyhead then this became something of a soliloquy. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles
Flowers of Interest !
This is the most interesting album to listen to that i,me, and myself own i really can't get my head around it everything about this album seems mysterious and sort of well... Read more
Published 23 months ago by J. Arthur
Ignore the criticisms
After ejecting their bassist for doing what the name "Public Image Ltd" would suggest was appropriate, PIL made this album without any bassist at all and the results are freakishly... Read more
Published on 19 May 2008 by DH Dixon
The dark stuff...
PIL, or Public Image Ltd. as they had become by this point in 1981 had started off as an abrasive project - debut single 'Public Image' perfectly encapsulating this. Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2006 by Jason Parkes
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