Flowers of Romance
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April 11, 2011
Our friends at New Wave Time Warp remind us that Public Image Ltd.’s Flowers of Romance album came out thirty years ago yesterday. Its un-rockist vibe blew my mind when I purchased it — thanks to the guidance of my friend John Cradock — at Newbury Comics, in Harvard Square, as a 9th- or 10th-grader.
“Four Enclosed Walls” is the album’s startling opening track.
There was a great b-side from that album, which admittedly sounds like (and probably is) an outtake from “Second Edition”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uODZlcw7qzM
I can remember dancing to this at The Mudd Club, Danceteria and the old Peppermint Lounge…GREAT song. Great album. Insane times.