This Is What You Want This Is What You Get (Elektra 75 Edition) vinyl

Public Image Ltd's fourth album followed a messy split with founding guitarist Keith Levene, who'd assumed the songs would be released under contestable (and lesser) name Commercial Zone. John Lydon scrapped the lot and rebuilt from scratch, drafting in session players and keeping only the bones of the original. This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get ended up a stranger, starker listen: 'Bad Life', 'Solitaire' and 'The Order Of Death' emerged re-recorded and shorn of Levene's input, while new additions like 'Tie Me To The Length Of That' stirred earlier lyrical absurdisms from Lydon, and 'This Is Not A Love Song' came as a swipe back at naysayers against Lydon who'd said he'd sold out. The record's title crops up repeatedly, in lyrics and in Copkiller, a shelved film PiL had briefly been attached to and for whose soundtrack This Is What You Want... was for a time intended.