Dead Roses

Selling these ended with a right mess on Ebay, as did the sale of Court of the Crimson King, see below, Ebay is dead to me, I’d rather give it away. But for disaccumulation purposes, Made of Stone, Elephant Stone and She Bangs the Drums went, in mint condition. After all, what on earth were the Stone Roses going on about?

PiL – Seattle

This single, Seattle, entered the UK Top 75, where it stayed for 4 weeks and reached No.47 on 22 August 1987. This is the limited edition boxed single with a sew-on patch, a postcard and a Happy? badge. The vinyl condition is excellent, and the box opens in a counter-intuitive way, it folds back left to right, continuing the tradition of frustrating PiL luxury goods, which began with Metal Box, and its ill-fitting records. The image here is two photos together, one of the box cover and another of it opened with the badges and card showing. The single is taken from the PiL album Happy? released in 1987. In 1988 they toured America as part of the INXS Kick tour. Bill Laswell, who produced PiL’s previous album, was supposed to produce Happy?, but Laswell wanted to replace the PiL line-up with his own session musicians – as he did for Album – but Lydon wasn’t up for it. The production is very sterile, the default clean rock aesthetic of the era.