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Certain Songs #1681: Public Image Ltd – “Rise”

November 14, 2019 by Jim Connelly

Album: Album
Year: 1986

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But of course, Johnny Lydon was too damn restless to stay in any place for very long, and so after Jah Wobble left, 1981’s The Flowers of Romance, was less bass-heavy, and 1984’s This is What You Want…This is What You Get, where Lydon wiped Keith Levene from the finished tracks and added shitty horns, and while it sported a relative hit, that relative hit was the dreadful “This Is Not A Love Song.”

So imagine my surprise a couple of later when Lydon released my favorite song of his entire solo career, the unlikely “Rise”, which somehow melds one of the greatest jazz drummers in history with one of the most overplaying guitarists with an old Irish folk saying and utterly anonymous mid-1980s production.

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Certain Songs #499: Girls – “Lust For Life”

April 7, 2016 by Jim Connelly

homepage_large.d0617cec Album: Album
Year: 2009

Christopher Owens only made two albums and an EP with Girls, but at the time, he felt like a major new voice.

On the debut album, Album, as well as the follow-ups Broken Dreams Club and Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Girls were able to make rock and roll that had wore both its influences and its heart right out on Owens sleeves, and yet feel fresh and new.

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