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Public Image Limited - Second Edition [2WX 3288 USA 1979 2LP Promo 24-Bit FLAC]

I've ripped my copy of Metal Box a few times over the years, however this edition came my way recently and just had to be ripped! I've always found the mastering on Metal Box to be a little shrill, and often wondered how the album would sound when mastered as a 33rpm long player.

The band's American label, Island Records (via Warners) declined the opportunity to expensively mirror Virgin's triple 45rpm tin edition and instead sent the reels to Sterling Sound Inc in New Jersey for mastering and then to the highly regarded Capitol Records Pressing plant in Los Angeles. Virgin Records adopted this format and title for subsequent UK versions of the album from around February 1980 onwards.

Here are the results, my recent acquisition is a 1979 original pressing - complete with the gold embossed promo stamp as shown. I couldn't resist the opportunity to create a 176.4kHz archive.

Turn this up, play loud ...it is time to give your subwoofers a proper workout!

A1 Albatross
A2 Memories
B1 Swan Lake
B2 Poptones
B3 Careering
C1 Socialist
C2 Graveyard
C3 The Suit
D1 Bad Baby
D2 No Birds
D3 Chant
D4 Radio 4




Comments

  1. Blogmeister24 January 2022 at 19:02

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  2. badgerstump24 January 2022 at 19:59

    Hello Wobble!

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  3. apf25 January 2022 at 04:45

    Thank you Blogmeister !

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  4. Anonymous25 January 2022 at 08:51

    Sounds great, organic and open – thanks a lot

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  5. John25 January 2022 at 23:01

    It's not always the music it's also the knowledge and understanding of this perpetually amazing tome and its different cuts in the master stages
    i have to thank you for everything you do as always...

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  6. Echorich28 January 2022 at 06:17

    Still a game changing album for me almost 42 years later. Levene and Wobble created a sound that stands alone and the test of time. Lydon's art would never be a well captured as it was on this album.

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  7. Leper Lord29 January 2022 at 09:07

    Beautiful

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  8. Leper Lord15 February 2022 at 01:04

    Does anyone have issue playing the 88.2: in Jriver?

    i just get his and a bit of music then hiss

    This has happened with most of the higher bit rate rips

    They all work great in foobar,which means i have some settings in Jriver wrong?

    Thank you

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  9. Leper Lord15 February 2022 at 01:09

    Correction to the last post

    i am having issues in Jriver with all 176.4: files,not 88:2

    My apologies

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  10. Anonymous22 November 2022 at 13:29

    That video is hilarious. Agree about the Metal Box, so thanks for this.

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  11. cabeadelica4 January 2023 at 01:40

    Track B3. "Careering" seems to be corrupted. I can't get it to extract or play properly.

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