Unreleased content included in Public Image Ltd’s ‘Metal Box’ and ‘Album’ reissues

The Public Image Ltd. albums ‘Metal Box’ and ‘Album’ have been packed up with bonus content for reissue on October 28th.

There’ll be new 4CD and 4LP super-deluxe box-set versions of John Lydon‘s 1979 and 1986 post-Sex Pistols records, including remastered original tracklists, live recordings of gigs at Manchester’s Russell’s Club and the Brixton Academy, and unreleased mixes.

Check out the 4CD running orders below.

‘Metal Box’ 4CD reissue tracklists:

Disc 1
‘Albatross’
‘Memories’
‘Swan Lake (Death Disco)’
‘Poptones’
‘Careering’
‘No Birds Do Sing’
‘Graveyard’
‘The Suit’
‘Bad Baby’
‘Socialist’
‘Chant’
‘Radio 4’

Disc 2
‘Death Disco’ (7” edit)
‘Death Disco’ 12”
‘Half Mix / Megga Mix’ (b-side)
‘Death Disco’ – BBC TV, Top of the Pops July 12.7.72
‘Memories’ 12”
‘Another’ (b-side)
‘Poptones’ – BBCRadio 1, John Peel Sessions 1979
‘Careering’ – BBC Radio 1, John Peel Sessions 1979
‘Chant’ – BBC Radio 1, John Peel Sessions 1979
‘Poptones’ – BBC TV, Old Grey Whistle Test 5/2/80 (audio)
‘Careering’ – BBC TV, Old Grey Whistle Test 5/2/80 (audio)
‘Pied Piper’ (rare compilation-only track)

Disc 3
‘Poptones’ (version 3) (unreleased)
‘Swan Lake’ (monitor mix)
‘Albatross’ (monitor mix) (alternative mix)
‘Swan Lake’ (“master”)  (alternative mix) (unreleased)
Unknown INST Jam 1 (“Chant”) (unreleased)
Unknown Jam 2 (“Megachant”) (unreleased)
‘Music from an Oven’ (aka Memories)(unreleased)
‘Radio 4’ (“symphony suite”) (unreleased)
‘Home is Where The Heart is’ (original mix) (unreleased)
Unknown INST 2  (unreleased)

Disc 4 – Live at Manchester, Russell’s Club (The Factory) 18/6/79  (unreleased)
Chant
‘Swan Lake’ (aka Death Disco)
‘Memories’
‘Public Image’
‘Annalisa’
‘No Birds Do Sing’

‘Album’ 4CD reissue tracklists:

Disc 1
‘FFF’
‘Rise’
‘Fishing’
‘Round’
‘Bags’
‘Home’
‘Ease’

Disc 2 –  Live at Brixton Academy 27.5.86 (unreleased)
‘Kashmir’
‘FFF’
‘Low Life’
‘Fishing’
‘Poptones’
‘Pretty Vacant’
‘Banging the Door’
‘Flowers of Romance’
‘Bags’
‘Round’
‘Home’
‘Public Image’
‘Rise’
‘Annalisa’

Disc 3
‘Things in E’ (aka Ease) (alternative Laswell mix) (1986) (unreleased)
‘Rise’  (7” edit)
‘Rise’ (instrumental)
‘Home’ (7” edit)
‘Rise’ (Bob Clearmountain remix
‘Home’ – BBC TV, Old Grey Whistle Test 20/5/86  (audio)
‘Round’ – BBC TV, Old Grey Whistle Test 20/5/86  (audio)
‘Time Zone – World Destruction’ (12”)
‘Time Zone – World Destruction’ (Industrial Remix)

Disc 4
‘Animal’ (unreleased)
‘Black Rubber Bags’ (aka Bags) (unreleased)
‘European Cars’ (aka Round) (unreleased)
‘Fairwell Fairweather Friend’ (aka FFF) (unreleased)
‘Pearls Before Swine’ (aka Fishing) (unreleased)
‘Things in E’ (aka Ease) (instrumental) (unreleased)
‘Ben Hur’ (unreleased)   (instrumental) (unreleased)
‘Cats’ (unreleased) (instrumental) (unreleased)
‘Have a Nice Day’ (unreleased) (instrumental) (unreleased)
Untitled 3 (unreleased)  (instrumental) (unreleased)
‘Pearls Before Swine’ (aka Fishing) (alternate mix) (incomplete) (unreleased)