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The Flowers of Romance

That is such a great album cover

It's hard to imagine a record like this ever coming out on a major label. Metal Box was already such a radical departure from anything resembling pop music and while the songs are shorter here they are only stranger in their sound.

Mostly they have no instruments besides a percussive loop, which barely sounds like 'drums' so much a various objects being hit or attacked. Lydon screams over these in his most neurotic, shaking register. The songs are like tribal ceremonies for goths. Even though ... read more