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Public Image Ltd (abbreviated and stylized as PiL) are an English post-punk band formed by lead vocalist John Lydon (previously known as the lead vocalist of Sex Pistols), guitarist Keith Levene (one of the original members of The Clash), bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Walker in May 1978. The group's line-up has changed frequently over the years; Lydon has been the sole constant member. Following Lydon's departure from the Sex Pistols in January 1978, he sought a more experimental "anti-rock" project and formed PiL. That year PiL released their debut studio album First Issue (1978), creating an abrasive, bass-heavy sound that drew on dub, noise, progressive rock and disco. PiL's second studio album Metal Box (1979) pushed their sound further into the avant-garde, and is often regarded as one of the most important albums of the post-punk era. By 1984, Levene, Wobble and Walker had departed and the group was effectively a solo vehicle for Lydon, who moved toward a more accessible sound with the commercially successful studio albums This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get (1984) and Album (1986). After a late 1990s hiatus, Lydon reformed the group in 2009 and has released several further albums, including What the World Needs Now... (2015).
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The Public Image Is Rotten [Songs From The Heart] [2018]
Song | Duration |
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Public Image | 3:18 |
Seattle | 5:13 |
Death Disco | 9:23 |
The Body | 6:58 |
Memories | 4:51 |
Disappointed | 6:44 |
Warrior | 6:43 |
This Is Not a Love Song | 5:20 |
Don't Ask Me | 3:43 |
Bad Life | 3:50 |
Cruel | 5:28 |
Rise | 8:10 |
Home | 5:34 |
USLS 1 | 5:22 |
Criminal | 4:29 |
Poptones | 4:32 |
Careering | 7:33 |
Chant | 5:15 |
Acid Drops | 6:44 |
Love Hope | 4:04 |
Happy | 7:07 |
Annalisa | 0:06 |
Albatross | 10:18 |
Worry | 3:52 |
Think Tank | 4:55 |
Brave New World | 4:34 |
Same Old Story | 5:05 |
The Public Image Is Rotten: Songs from the Heart [2018]
Redux: Anthology 1978-2015 [2015]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:58 |
Poptones | 7:46 |
Careering | 4:32 |
Rise: The Collection [2015]
Song | Duration |
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Public Image | |
Careering | |
Chant | |
Banging the Door | |
Religion | |
This Is Not a Love Song | |
Rise | |
Seattle | |
Angry | |
Happy | |
Disappointed | |
Don't Ask Me | |
Covered |
Les Trésors du Rock de Philippe Manoeuvre [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Public Image | 2:59 |
Massive Hits! Punk Rock [2013]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
(This is Not a) Love Song | 3:59 |
Public Image | 2:56 |
Public Image [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Public Image |
100 Hits: Alternative [2012]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:58 |
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:12 |
100 Hits: Rock Classics [2012]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise [2005 Digital Remaster] | 6:16 |
This is Not a Love Song | 4:14 |
Live at Rockpalast [2012]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 3:22 |
Annalisa | 3:54 |
Religion | 5:12 |
Memories | 4:41 |
Flowers of Romance | 5:19 |
Solitaire | 2:58 |
Chant | 3:22 |
Anarchy in the UK | 3:10 |
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:41 |
Low Life | 3:32 |
Under the House | 5:43 |
Bad Life | 4:33 |
Live at Rockpalast, 1983 [2012]
Song | Duration |
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Annalisa | 3:54 |
Religion | 5:12 |
Memories | 4:41 |
Flowers of Romance | 5:19 |
Solitaire | 2:58 |
Chant | 3:22 |
Low Life | 3:32 |
Under the House | 5:43 |
Bad Life | 4:33 |
This Is Pil [CD+DVD] [2012]
Song | Duration |
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Warrior [Live][*] |
100 Hits: Driving Rock [2011] [2011]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 3:59 |
100 Hits: Punk & New Wave [2011]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:58 |
Death Disco | 4:16 |
100 Hits: The New Romantics [2011]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise | 4:30 |
BBC Radio 1 Peel Sessions 1977-1979: Movement [2011]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Poptones | 4:31 |
Massive Hits!: Rock [2011]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise | 6:17 |
101 Punk & New Wave Anthems [2010]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:56 |
A Man & A Machine II [2010]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Careering | 4:30 |
ALiFE 2009 [2010]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 3:50 |
Careering | 4:37 |
This Is Not a Love Song | 5:01 |
Poptones | 7:17 |
Albatross | 8:23 |
Death Disco | 5:57 |
Flowers of Romance | 8:32 |
Disappointed | 6:02 |
Warrior | 7:16 |
USLS 1 | 6:42 |
Chant | 2:51 |
Memories | 5:39 |
Annalisa | 4:35 |
Religion | 8:22 |
Rise | 7:01 |
The Ultimate Punk & New Wave Hits [2010]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:55 |
John Peel Session: 10th December 1979 [2009]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Poptones [BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session] | 4:29 |
Careering [BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session] | 7:33 |
Chant [BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session] | 5:15 |
Original Hits: 70s [2009]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:55 |
Playlist: New Wave [2008]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:59 |
Pure Driving Rock [3 Discs] [2008]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise | 6:18 |
This Is Not a Lovesong | 4:00 |
Pure Rock [EMI] [2008]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise | 6:15 |
The Edge of the 70's [2008]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Death Disco | 4:15 |
This Is 1979 [2008]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Death Disco | 4:17 |
This Is 1986 [2008]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise | 4:27 |
Waltz With Bashir [Original Soundtrack] [2008]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:11 |
Waltz with Bashir [2008]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:11 |
Where Were You: 1986 [2008]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise | 6:18 |
Pure: 70s [EMI] [2007]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:57 |
Pure: Rock [2007]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise | 6:17 |
Back to Mine [2006]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise | 6:03 |
Extended Seventies: The Dawning of the 12 Inch Era [2006]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Death Disco | 6:41 |
Archives, Vol. 4 [2005]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Home | 5:38 |
BBC: World Shut Your Mouth/O.S.T. [2005]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise | 5:46 |
Best of British One Pound Notes [DVD] [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Public Image | |
Death Disco | |
This Is Not a Love Song | |
Bad Life | |
Seattle | |
Warrior | |
Don't Ask Me | |
Cruel | |
Covered | |
Death Disco (Monitor Mix/Previously Unreleased) [Rare Monitor Mix] |
Gary Crowley's Punk Rock Juke Box [2005]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Careering | 4:34 |
Let's Get Loud [Disky] [2005]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:11 |
The Best of British One Pound Notes [Bonus Disc] [2005]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Don't Ask Me | 3:42 |
The Original Punk Album [2005]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:57 |
80s Alternative [2004]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:12 |
Death Disco: Songs from Under the Dance Floor, 1978-1984 [2004]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Death Disco | 4:15 |
Experiment [2004]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
U.S.L.S. 1 |
Going Underground [Disky] [2004]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:09 |
I Could Have Been a Contender [2004]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:57 |
Poptones | 7:47 |
Swan Lake (Death Disco) | 4:11 |
Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground [2004]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise | 6:18 |
New Wave Hits: Best Of New Wave [2004]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song |
Punk Generation: Total Anarchy [2004]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song |
Punk: 25th Anniversary Ultimate Collection [2004]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image |
Punk: The Worst of Total Anarchy [Simply the Best] [2004]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:12 |
AnotherLateNight [2003]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Religion I | 2:38 |
Die Geilsten Rock Hits [2003]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:12 |
Hang the DJ: The Alternative 80s [2003]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song |
Public Image: First Issue/Second Edition [2003]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Theme | 9:11 |
Religion I | 1:26 |
Religion II | 5:53 |
Annalisa | 6:05 |
Public Image | 3:02 |
Low Life | 3:38 |
Attack | 2:55 |
Fodderstompf | 7:48 |
Albatross | 10:35 |
Memories | 5:05 |
Swan Lake | 4:12 |
Poptones | 7:46 |
Careering | 4:32 |
Bad Baby | 4:32 |
No Birds | 4:41 |
Chant | 5:01 |
Rough Trade Shops: Post Punk [2003]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Careering | 4:32 |
Wild Dub: Dread Meets Punk Rocker [2003]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Death Disco | 4:15 |
Best of Driving Rock [2002]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise |
Complete Punk Collection: Cash from Chaos [2002]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:58 |
Eighties Complete, Vol. 2 [Box] [2002]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:12 |
Essential Eighties, Vol. 2 [2002]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:13 |
Complete Collection [2001]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Death Disco | 4:05 |
Public Image | 2:56 |
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:13 |
Punk: The Worst of Total Anarchy, Vol. 2 [2001]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song |
Wave to the 80's - Fetenkult [2001]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song - |
A Product of the Eighties [2000]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise |
Fetenkult Wave to 80s [2000]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:28 |
Greatest Hits of the 70's [Disky Box] [2000]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Death Disco | 4:05 |
Public Image | 2:56 |
Tetro Ultimate Collection, Vol. 3 [2000]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song |
Eighties Complete [CD2] [1999]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:12 |
Essential Eighties 2, Vol. 3 [1999]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:13 |
Greatest Hits of the 80's [1999 Disky] [1999]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:13 |
Now: 1983 [2 CD] [1999]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:11 |
Plastic Box [1999]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:58 |
Theme | 9:05 |
Religion I | 1:40 |
Religion II | 5:40 |
Annalisa | 6:00 |
Low Life | 3:35 |
Attack | 3:12 |
Poptones [BBC John Peel Session] | 4:32 |
Poptones | |
Careering [BBC John Peel Session] | 7:33 |
Careering | |
Chant [BBC John Peel Session] | 5:15 |
Chant | |
Death Disco | |
Memories | 5:06 |
Albatross | 10:32 |
Bad Baby | 4:30 |
Flowers Of Romance | |
Under the House | 4:32 |
Banging the Door | 4:49 |
This Is Not A Love Song | |
Bad Life | 3:50 |
Solitaire | 3:59 |
F.F.F. | 5:31 |
FFF | |
Rise | 6:00 |
Home | 5:50 |
Seattle | 3:40 |
Angry | 4:14 |
The Body | |
Disappointed | 5:34 |
Happy | 3:58 |
Warrior | |
USLS 1 | |
Don't Ask Me | 3:43 |
Criminal | 4:29 |
Luck's Up | 4:07 |
God | 5:33 |
Cruel [BBC Mark Goodier Session] | 5:28 |
Cruel | |
Acid Drops [BBC Mark Goodier Session] | 6:44 |
Acid Drops | |
Love Hope [BBC Mark Goodier Session] | 4:04 |
Love Hope | |
Think Tank [BBC Mark Goodier Session] | 5:25 |
Think Tank |
Plastic Box [UK] [1999]
Rage the Album [1999]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise | 6:19 |
CMJ the Year in Alternative Music 1980 [1998]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Poptones | 7:45 |
Sound of the Suburbs [#1] [1998]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:30 |
Best of New Wave [1997]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image |
Slam Jams, Vol. 1 [1997]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:52 |
Basquiat [1996]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:58 |
Lost Property [1996]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:29 |
Modern Rock 1987: Hang the DJ [1996]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Seattle |
Rock of the '90s, Vol. 1: Rock from the Revolution [1996]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Covered |
The Best of '80s Rock, Vol. 6 [1996]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song |
Alternative Rock Classics 1978-1985, Vol. 1 [1995]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song [Original 12" Mix] | 4:30 |
Best Punk Album in the World...Ever [1995]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image |
Devolution One [1995]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song [Original 12" Mix] |
The Very Best of UK Punk [#1] [1995]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:59 |
Death Disco | 4:15 |
The Very Best of UK Punk [#2] [1995]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:59 |
Death Disco | 4:15 |
Cutting Edge, Vol. 2: Best of Modern Rock Hits [1994]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Acid Drops |
In the Air Tonight: Virgin's Greatest Hits [1994]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise |
Reading Indie Album [1994]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise | 4:24 |
After the Anarchy [1993]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:59 |
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:12 |
Now: 1986 [1993] [1993]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise | 4:13 |
That What Is Not [1992]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Acid Drops | 6:35 |
Luck's Up | 4:07 |
Cruel | 5:19 |
God | 5:33 |
Covered | 4:41 |
Love Hope | 3:48 |
Unfairground | 5:17 |
Think Tank | 4:40 |
Emperor | 4:08 |
Good Things | 5:34 |
Volume Three [1992]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Criminal [#] |
Never Mind the Main Stream: The Best of MTV's 120 Minutes, Vol. 2 [1991]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:11 |
Point Break [1991]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Criminal | 4:29 |
Billboard Top Modern Rock Tracks 1990 [1990]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Don't Ask Me | 3:43 |
Don't Ask Me [1990]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Don't Ask Me | 3:43 |
Rules and Regulations | 4:32 |
Warrior | 7:05 |
The Greatest Hits, So Far [1990]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Public Image | 2:59 |
Death Disco | 4:16 |
Memories | 5:07 |
Careering | 4:34 |
Flowers of Romance | 2:51 |
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:13 |
Rise | 6:18 |
Home | 5:50 |
Seattle | 3:41 |
The Body | 6:38 |
Rules and Regulations | 4:34 |
Disappointed | 6:45 |
Warrior | 7:08 |
Don't Ask Me | 3:44 |
Virgin Value Collector Series 1 [1990]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Angry |
9 [1989]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Happy? | 3:57 |
Disappointed | 5:34 |
Warrior | 4:17 |
U.S.L.S. 1 | 5:37 |
Sand Castles in the Snow | 3:45 |
Worry | 3:55 |
Brave New World | 4:19 |
Like That | 3:42 |
Same Old Story | 4:19 |
Armada | 4:43 |
Hiding Out [1987]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Seattle | 3:38 |
This Is What You Want...This Is What You Get [1984]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Bad Life | 5:16 |
This is Not a Love Song | 4:12 |
Solitaire | 3:59 |
Live in Tokyo [1983]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Annalisa | 5:22 |
Religion | 5:49 |
Low Life | 2:47 |
Solitaire | 3:59 |
Flowers of Romance | 4:47 |
This Is Not a Love Song | 5:21 |
Death Disco | 5:08 |
Bad Life | 4:45 |
Banging the Door | 4:55 |
Under the House | 1:56 |
The Flowers of Romance [1981]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Flowers Of Romance | 2:51 |
Under The House | 4:33 |
Banging The Door | 4:49 |
Go Back | 3:46 |
Flowers of Romance [Instrumental] | 2:51 |
Paris au Printemps [1980]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Theme | 8:24 |
Chant | 4:24 |
Careering | 6:50 |
Bad Baby | 6:26 |
Low Life | 4:19 |
Attack | 3:07 |
Poptones | 7:10 |
Profile [1980]
Song | Duration |
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Fodderstompf | |
Careering | |
Annalisa | |
Attack | |
Low Life | |
Chant | |
Death Disco | |
Poptones | |
Religion | |
Bad Baby | |
Public Image | |
Memories |
Sci-Fi [1980]
Song | Duration |
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Chant | |
Annalisa | |
Memories | |
Low Life | |
Public Image | |
Attack | |
Death Disco | |
No Birds |
Second Edition [1980]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Albatross | 10:35 |
Memories | 5:06 |
Swan Lake | 4:19 |
Poptones | 7:46 |
Careering | 4:32 |
Bad Baby | 4:31 |
No Birds | 4:43 |
Chant | 5:01 |
Troublemakers [1980]
Song | Duration |
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Public Image | |
Swan Lake |
Death Disco [1979]
Song | Duration |
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Death Disco |
Extra Issue [1979]
Song | Duration |
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Theme | |
Low Life | |
Annalisa | |
Public Image | |
Attack | |
Public Image (Encore) |
Metal Box [1979]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Albatross | 10:34 |
Memories | 5:05 |
Swan Lake | 4:19 |
Poptones | 7:46 |
Careering | 4:32 |
No Birds | 4:43 |
Bad Baby | 4:30 |
Chant | 5:01 |
Nubes [1978]
Song | Duration |
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Theme | |
Low Life | |
Annalisa | |
Public Image | |
Attack | |
Public Image (Encore) |
Public Image Limited (First Issue) [1978]
Song | Duration |
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Theme | |
Religion I | |
Religion II | |
Annalisa | |
Public Image | |
Low Life | |
Attack | |
Fodderstompf |
Live at Drury Lane [1974]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Albatross | 1:19 |
Original Hits: 80s Pop
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 4:00 |
Paris in the Spring
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Theme | 8:38 |
Chant | 4:24 |
Careering | 6:50 |
Bad Baby | 6:26 |
Low Life | 4:18 |
Attack | 3:07 |
Poptones | 7:10 |
Public Image: First Issue
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Theme | 9:11 |
Religion I | 7:46 |
Religion II | 5:55 |
Annalisa | 6:04 |
Public Image | 6:05 |
Low Life | 3:37 |
Attack | 3:38 |
Fodderstompf | 7:47 |
Rockin' 80's, Vol. 2 [19 Tracks]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Rise |
Unknown Album
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This Is Not a Love Song | 5:21 |
Warrior [Live; Bonus Track] | |
Religion II | 1:25 |
Public Image | |
Careering | 4:32 |
Albatross | 10:34 |
FFF | 5:31 |
Rise | 6:17 |
U.S.L.S. 1 | 5:37 |
Poptones | 7:47 |
Attack | |
Low Life | |
Bad Baby | 4:30 |
Chant | 5:01 |
Theme | |
Death Disco | |
Warrior | 4:17 |
Fodderstompf | 2:55 |
The Body | 3:12 |
Home | 5:50 |
Disappointed | 5:34 |
Seattle | |
Solitaire | 3:59 |
Bad Life | 4:44 |
The Order of Death | 4:49 |
Hawaii | 3:31 |
Dirty Murky Delight | 2:29 |
Being Stupid Again | 4:32 |
The Do That | 2:38 |
North West Passage | 4:40 |
Car Chase | 3:46 |
Pretty Awful | 4:51 |
Walls | 3:20 |
End Of The World | 5:26 |
Strange | 3:32 |
L F C F | 4:36 |
Down On The Clown | 4:21 |
Penge | 3:04 |
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