![]() And the abrasive nature of Lydon’s voice is died down ever so slightly so the countless reverb and echo effects added to it wouldn’t drive the listener mad. While the Commercial Zone versions of the songs are incredibly stark and minimal, with Lydon’s caustic vocals the center of attention, the This Is What You Want versions are polished with an 80s shine. I was originally going to do a track-by-track rundown of the differences between the Commercial Zone and This Is What You Want… versions of the songs, but that’s really pointless because all the tracks were changed in the exact same way. Listening to them both back-to-back is a lesson in album production, as most of the songs on Commercial Zone found their way onto This Is What You Want… albiet in radically re-worked forms. As such, fans were able to get two entirely different versions of the same album in 1983/84, the Levene-mixed Commercial Zone, as well as the final version, This Is What You Want…This Is What You Get. It just wouldn’t happen! He’d be able to get five copies out the door before the label would bust in and shut his ass down.īut I guess things were different in 1984, because Levene was able to make two complete pressings of this album and even sell it in American record stores for over a year before the label was able to successfully shut him down. But not just as a “fuck you,” but as an illegal bootleg release that you would have to actually buy. Imagine if, after the sessions were mostly done, Lou Barlow just said “fuck it, I’m sick of J and his bullshit (again)” and, without telling anyone, he stole the master tapes to the album and put them on the Internet. He did this without permission from anyone in the band or their label. As if that act of sabotage wasn’t enough, he then mixed and mastered the recordings on his own and put the album out under the title Commercial Zone. He took with him the master tapes to their yet-unreleased follow-up to The Flowers of Romance. When Keith left the band, he didn’t leave empty handed. Considering the events that followed, it can be assumed that the split was not a clean one. In 1983, Keith Levene and Pete Jones left Public Image Ltd. – Commercial Zone (complete album download) ![]()
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