This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get
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| Studio album by Public Image Ltd | ||||
| Released | 6 July 1984 | |||
| Recorded | 1983–1984 | |||
| Studio | Maison Rouge Studios, London, England | |||
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| Length | 36:36 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Producer | Public Image Ltd | |||
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| Robert Christgau | C+ |
This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get is a 1984 album by Public Image Ltd. It is the band's fourth official studio album and includes the single "Bad Life" and a re-recorded version of a "This Is Not a Love Song", which had been a No. 5 UK and international hit when released as a single in 1983.
An early version of the album was released in 1983 by founding PiL guitarist Keith Levene as Commercial Zone. The album was then re-recorded after Levene's departure from the band, with no contributions from either Levene or bassist Pete Jones (who contributed to several tracks on Commercial Zone).
The song "The Order of Death" appears in the 1990 science fiction-horror film Hardware and on the soundtrack to the 1999 horror film The Blair Witch Project. It was also featured in the Miami Vice episode "Little Miss Dangerous" and the Mr. Robot episode "eps2.7_init_5.fve". "This is Not a Love Song" appears in the film Waltz With Bashir. The line "This is what you want... This is what you get" appears in both "Bad Life" and "The Order of Death".
All songs by John Lydon, Keith Levene, and Martin Atkins except * by John Lydon and Martin Atkins
Five songs on This is What You Want...This is What You Get are re-recordings of tracks which originally appeared on Commercial Zone: "Bad Life" (originally titled "Mad Max"), "This is Not a Love Song" (originally titled "Love Song"), "Solitaire" (entitled "Young Brits" on the second pressing of Commercial Zone), "The Order of Death" (originally titled "The Slab"), and "Where Are You?" (originally titled "Lou Reed Part 2"). Four songs from Commercial Zone, "Bad Night," "Lou Reed Part 1," "Blue Water" and "Miller Hi-Life", were not re-recorded for This is What You Want...This is What You Get (although a remixed version of "Blue Water" was included as the B-side on the "This is Not a Love Song" single). Songs on This is What You Want...This is What You Get which did not appear in any form on Commercial Zone are "Tie Me to the Length of That," "The Pardon" and "1981," and are the only songs on the album which do not credit Keith Levene as a co-writer.
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