Paris au Printemps
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Paris au Printemps
- Artist: Public Image Ltd.
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- Release Date: 1980 11
- Total Time: 40:54
- Type: Live
- Genre: Rock
Review
Released primarily to cut down on bootlegs of the same concerts from early 1980, Paris au Printemps catches Public Image Limited at the peak of the band's career. While the album was criticized at the time for being nothing more than a live album and thus not adhering to the group's avant-garde rhetoric, the music more than makes up for any breakdown in the band's ideology. Jah Wobble issues forth pseudo-reggae liquid basslines while John Lydon moans and whelps over heavy, almost free-form guitar from Keith Levene. Although the songs remain quite similar to their album versions, there are far more prominent synth effects on this recording, adding more of an element of dark psychedelia to the mix and enhancing the menacing aspect to such songs as "Bad Baby," and the droning "Careering." Meanwhile, the epics -- "Theme" from First Issue, and "Poptones" from Metal Box -- sound arguably even better live. Unfortunately, while the music is great, the album has been pasted together quite sloppily from two concerts, placing the tracks in a bizarre order while leaving out some of the group's best numbers. Nonetheless, Paris au Printemps is a fine release, especially in the absence of any other live recordings of the band from this period. [Note: The CD is currently out of print in America and is also known as Paris in the Spring.] ~ Geoff Orens, Rovi| Paris au Féminin (2003 Album by Various Artists) | |
| Paris by Night (1992 Album by Niels Lan Doky) |
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Paris au Printemps
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| Live album by Public Image Ltd | ||||
| Released | 14 November 1980 (UK) January 1981 (Japan) |
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| Recorded | Le Palace, Paris, France, 17–18 January 1980 |
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| Genre | Post-punk | |||
| Length | 40:54 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Producer | Public Image Ltd | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
| NME | (?)[2] |
Paris au Printemps is a live album recorded by Public Image Ltd (given as 'Image Publique S.A.' on the cover) in 1980 on two consecutive dates in January in Paris, and released in November the same year. The title of the album is French for 'Paris in the Spring', with French names also given to the band itself and songs in the track listing. It is notable as the band's last full-length release featuring founding bass player Jah Wobble. The album reached number 61 on the UK album charts.
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Recording
John Lydon has stressed that the album was made and submitted to Virgin Records to cover the band's expenses for the Metal Box album. During a BBC radio interview in 1992 he said:
| “ | We had to do that to finance the making of Metal Box. Because money was very, very tight. I did explain that in every interview I ever did. Don't buy this live record, because it's not very good.[3] | ” |
It has additionally been described as countering an abundance of "unlistenable" bootlegs of the band's live performances being released at the time. Lydon has elaborated that the album cost the band "exactly the price of one reel-to-reel tape to record", which they did on a Revox recorder, consequently receiving £30,000 from Virgin Records for it.[4][3] The same amount has been mentioned as the sum the band had previously invested into the release of the Metal Box album.
Packaging
The front cover painting is by John Lydon and represents himself, Keith Levene and Jeannette Lee.[4]
Track listing
Side one
- "Thème"
- "Psalmodie" ("Chant")
- "Précipitamment" ("Careering")
Side two
- "Sale Bébé" ("Bad Baby")
- "La Vie Ignoble" ("Low Life")
- "Attaque" ("Attack")
- "Timbres De Pop" ("Poptones")
Personnel
- John Lydon – vocals, sleeve paintings
- Keith Levene – guitar, synthesiser
- Jah Wobble – bass
- Martin Atkins – drums
Charts
UK
- “Paris Au Printemps” briefly entered the UK Albums Chart, where it stayed for 2 weeks and reached #61 on 22 November 1980.[5]
Other countries
- In the USA, the album was not released.
- In New Zealand, “Paris Au Printemps” briefly entered the Top 50 Albums Chart, where it stayed for 2 weeks and reached #48 on 1 March 1981.[6]
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ NME review
- ^ a b BBC radio interview with John Lydon on 22 February 1992
- ^ a b Fodderstompf | PiL Discography | Paris Au Printemps LP
- ^ Theofficialcharts.com website
- ^ Charts.org.nz website
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