Public Image Ltd. - Memories Lyrics

1.33 someone remembers to flip the switch, lol

What if I told you you all have been cheated?

Greatest Post Punk album ever

Holy fuck that singing is incredible. Johnny is at really demonstrating the incredible skill of punk singing. He is singing with such a passion in the punk style that it is comparable to an opera.

if you say so

Such a tune, absolutely breathtaking

love this .set of good speakers.will enhance

to any one out there
in 82 this sound totally different
what the fuck
now it so beautiful
27 yrs since i last put thiS on
holy fuck this a masterpiece
along with eno
hope kanye never hear this or flipper
think he invent it

WOW! This ages well...

very well,you do understand what im sayin back in the day..this was crazy unbearable
godliness..you felt only i ans many others love this. wow this sound now.ama

There are many fake people in France right now ... A lot! This country is pulled down, Amen!

Listen, enjoy like a fine wine whining, quality biscuits

Good work guys!

oh john how i love you!!

lo mejor!!!

A candid and half apologetic rejoinder. Addressed to Malcolm McLalren. No holds barred. Epic.

If I was asked to do a cover version of a Sex Pistols song, this is the one I would do....

...Memories? You would do this on what instrument? I play drums.

someone is censoring comments

+sushi sioux So,anyway. What is your problem here,fool. who the fucking hell typed the name of of the band in this comment right here. Have you lost your mind ? Get a hold of yours

+sushi sioux What the hell is the problom here? Have you lost your fuckin mind? Why the fuck would we care? Nobody even mentioned the name of the band. Who the fuck are you? Who do you think you are, you fucking moron? and who are you talking to especially? Ha? Ha? Ha?

Mark Slater except it’s not the Pistols

Lots of memories, i was slightly late,looking back

am i the only one who thinks this track influenced radiohead's idioteque? thom's vocal performance

I've seen thom wear a pil shirt before and know he cited them as an influence

genious song! great art!

Sublime ♡

Alien-music and JL's bleating anti-singing voice. Its unique.

Hardly "ahead of its time." I was 16 when this toe tapper came out. Pioneering, okay. Has aged tremendously well, for sure. More like it came along at just the right time.

something

It was a little ahead of it's time. About ten years later the style of music PIL played became extremely popular. It doesn't exactly sound like an album of it's time, or at least, the popular opinion of what songs of that era sounded like.

XoxeroThePoet You're right. Ahead of its time means it was already sounding like music that no one else had even contemplated at that time. Post punk took a while to catch up to this and by the time it did, PiL had moved on.

it just means it sounds like nothing else out at that time, so much so that PIL style of music didn't gain appreciation or stylistic elements didn't become trendy until years later on. thats basically it. for example, people say john carpenter did vaporwave music before vaporwave even existed as a genre.

and yeah, PIL is pioneering for sure.

so fresh

This will be the album we will be dancing to when the apocalypse comes.

agree .. providing theres still an electric supply :-)

KJ's Fire Dances too !

brilliant

like we didn`t know it

Sublime poetry. This song is about fake people. 

+Richard Ames It's about memories

+Tampa Bay Free Press no. its about fake people. listen to the lyrics.

+Richard Ames you listen it personifies memories as a fake person

its about that disease he had as a kid that made him forget everything

I think it's about "nostalgia" and living in the past.

Such a ground breaking album. pre house and Jah Wobbles Dub influence a 12 year olds music trip in his bedroom on the old Garrard stereo

Over three decades old, but still 50 years ahead of it's time.

It was heavily influenced by disco. John Lydon does not deny this at all; it was the only music he was listening to at the time.

At the time all the bandwagon jumpers made disco suck which gave rise to punk. JL, ever the subversive, brought a disco (and ska) influence into PIL after all the punk wannabes made punk 'suck'. Fast forward to 2013, and Lydon's still a legend and Chic's Nile Rogers is topping the charts with er, Daft Punk. Circle of life continues for the originators..

Tell that to the Beegees.

disco isn't a genre....

This will be the dance record to the apocalypse. Watch and see.

I am just saying it doesn't sound like Disco in the slightest. At least the disco I have heard.

Just like other @jcjordie21 said, i'm not being troll, just pointing out that the song, like others from metal box, it's influenced by disco, and it's shown especially in the drums and partially in the bass. Lydon admitted that he inspired on disco during the composition of metal box.
Finally, this songs and other of metal box prove that disco itself isn't bad, just needs a right twist to be something amazing.

But it doesn't sound disco AT ALL!

He's not being a troll it's genuinely considered a disco tune

Troll.

one of the best disco tunes

Never in the mood of the alzheimer disease.

Always in the mood for this!

30 years almost for me as well, wrecked my hearing on a tape walkman with this on auto reverse while being put to work on the ranch at a far too tender age.

Easily one of PiL's greatest songs, up there with Public Image, Religion and Warrior. Rise and Low Life are both fucking awesome as well.

They (Keith and Wobble) played their own reunion of sorts, it's actually kinda neat.

so dark so beautiful

Agree 100% ... been that way for 30 years for me - amazing production choice and makes this one of my top 3 PIL tracks.

The week this came out in the UK I asked a nice lady who was going there for a holiday to bring me a copy. She did. I have the first copy to touch north American shores.Now thats a memory!
However useless. But , having played it twice before I got the second edition it is in near perfect condition . Sonically , you cant believe the bass . nothing like a cd .

@kildare97 BaseX, which used to be on Bachelor's Walk, if memory serves me. Back then I'd spend a few hours most Saturdays there, and up the stairs in Freebird on Grafton Street. Great little record shops with the dimmest light bulbs in Dublin.

@Beelzebubbbbles Did u buy it up in dublin?If so whereabouts?

@Beelzebubbbbles ---:(, so bad!!

To think I left my metal box on a fuckin' bus in Dublin...

Awesome song, so gutted I lost my copy of this album :(

is tht 2 diffrent TAKES edited 2 getha @1:33 ??
may-B JUST a BASS overdub it drop's OUT @ 2:07
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then back in @ 2;50
JUST scene a live video wer john has 2 guitarist's and poss an small orchestra stage right to do this LIVE.
good
in FACT @ his BEST
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bono poss saw that SHOW
video video
FANX
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anthony WILSON if you listen carefully to the track, the first part is recorded with a flat eq, then then whole thing is overdriven deliberately.