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Metal Box (Reissue)

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What The World Needs Now...

Banging The Door: John Lydon Reclaims His Irish Identity

Articles 9

Books

Music Made Of Winter: An Interview With Michael Bracewell

Kiran Sande interviews Michael Bracewell about his recent book, Souvenir
Anniversary

The Sound Of Freedom: PiL’s The Flowers Of Romance 40 Years On

Richard V. Hirst relishes in an album that's the equivalent of bare concrete, the glare of the mortuary slab, the brightly lit hospital ward...
A Quietus Interview

Touching The Big Mind: Jah Wobble Interviewed

Duncan Seaman sits down with Jah Wobble for a career spanning chat about working with members of Can, Bill Laswell's "for real" theft of Jackson Pollock's paint spatters and Zen Buddhism

Anniversary

Lightning Strikes Twice: Nicholas Lezard On PiL’s Metal Box

Critic Nicholas Lezard looks back 40 years to the post punk versus punk stand off between Public Image Ltd and The Clash, and finds, in John Lydon at least, an example of lightning striking twice in the same place

Anniversary

The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle By The Sex Pistols 40 Years On

Michael Hann is ready to acknowledge the multiple faults of The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle, but he'd still sooner listen to it than Never Mind The Bollocks...

Black Sky Thinking

Songs Of Discomposure: Quietus Writers Pick Their Most Disturbing Pieces Of Music

We asked our contributors to write about the songs that most disturbed them. From Carl Orff to Leonard Cohen, via Tom Jones and The Beatles, disturbance manifests itself in many forms
Anniversary

Private School – Public Image: What PiL’s Album Means To Me

Wyndham Wallace recalls how Public Image Ltd.’s most commercially successful release, Album, helped him survive life at a red brick boarding school
Black Sky Thinking

My Favourite Miles Davis Album By Lydon, Nick Cave, Wayne Coyne, Iggy & More

As Bitches Brew turns 50 John Doran asked Iggy Pop, Jim Sclavunos, Jason Pierce, Mike Patton, Paul Weller and many other musicians to tell us about their favourite albums by Miles Davis
A Quietus Interview

Thinking Outside The Box: PiL’s John Lydon Interviewed

David Gavan finds John Lydon in unusually candid mode, discussing PiL, friends past and former, Irish and English identity and his idea of a good read

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 13

Baker's Dozen

Open Doors: Gavin Friday’s Favourite Albums

From the intensity of working with Scott Walker, to the transformative thrill of seeing Joy Division live, via Mahler, Brel and Bowie, former Virgin Prunes frontman Gavin Friday takes Julian Marszalek through the 13 albums that shaped him
Baker's Dozen

Unshakable: Nonpareils’ Aaron Hemphill’s Favourite Albums

From underage drinking soundtracked by Germs to the ton-of-bricks hit of Prince And The Revolution, via classics in hip hop, goth, easy listening and metal, former Liars and current Nonpareils musician Aaron Hemphill takes Luke Turner through an eclectic Baker's Dozen
Baker's Dozen

Curiosity, Community, Cacophony: Helm’s Baker’s Dozen

Helm, aka Luke Younger, takes us through the 13 records that shaped his prolific career, from a teenage love of Manic Street Preachers and Therapy? to chance encounters with Bob Tilton and John Luther Adams
Baker's Dozen

Master Blaster: Kevin Richard Martin’s Baker’s Dozen

The artist also known as The Bug talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about the records that changed his life, from anxious encounters with African Head Charge in Weymouth to being blasted by Swans at the ICA
Baker's Dozen

The Weirder The Better: Buzz Osborne Of Melvins’ 13 Favourite Records

Melvins founder King Buzzo takes tQ through a list of his thirteen favourite records, from Tom Waits to Butthole Surfers via PiL, Pixies and The Who
Baker's Dozen

Transgressive & Alien: ADULT.’s Favourite Albums

As ADULT. prepare to tour Europe, Nicola Kuperus and Adam Miller tell Daniel Dylan Wray about their 13 favourite albums drawn from the tough and leather side of life, from Throbbing Gristle to Nitzer Ebb, Einstürzende Neubauten to Drexciya
Baker's Dozen

Howls From The Soul: Bobby Gillespie’s Favourite Albums

After the release of Primal Scream's eleventh album, Chaosmosis, the singer boils his record collection down to a mean 13, a selection that formed his "own private world" while he was growing up in Glasgow
Baker's Dozen

Champion Versions: Steve Mason’s Favourite Albums

With his new solo album, Meet The Humans, just released, the prolific musician and former Beta Band man gives Joe Clay a tour of his record collection, meandering through electro, hip-hop, punk and more
Baker's Dozen

Again, Melancholy: Sarah Cracknell’s Favourite Albums

Off the back of releasing her second solo LP, Red Kite, the singer-songwriter and Saint Etienne member diligently jogged her memory, picked her 13 top records and made annotations. She talks Gary Kaill through her notes
Baker's Dozen

No Reconciliation Necessary: Doug McCombs’ Favourite LPs

With the prolific bassist and guitarist and Tortoise and Brokeback founder about to release a new album, Works For Tomorrow, with Eleventh Dream Day, he gives Nick Hutchings a tour of his most seminal records
Baker's Dozen

Take It From The Man! Anton Newcombe’s Favourite Tracks

With The Brian Jonestown Massacre's UK and Ireland tour in support of recent LP Revelation starting in Brighton on Saturday, the band's frontman shirks the album rundown request, opens up his DJ bag and gives Julian Marszalek a top 13 songs mixtape
Baker's Dozen

Joking Aside: Jaz Coleman’s 13 Favourite Albums

Killing Joke's front man chooses his 13 favourite albums. As told to Dayal Patterson
Baker's Dozen

Killing Joke’s Youth On His 13 Favourite Records

In our latest Baker's Dozen feature, Youth tells us about his 13 favourite albums

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