Public Image Ltd – Seattle

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  General Comment:The grundge band Mudhoney was opening for PIL in Seattle(this was before the whole grunge thing went national). The band bad mouthed John Lydon to the crowd during their set, then trashed his dressing room while PIL was on stage getting boo'd by the crowd of seattle grunge fans. I was at this show and John Lyden was being a complete dick to the crowd through the whole thing until the crowd finally started pelting him with spit and bottles. The song's about hating Seattle.

  Flag theButtMonkeyon October 28, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:One of my favorite PIL songs. I'm glad to know what it's about. This song came out before Seattle became the Grunge capital.

  Flag OneFleshon November 25, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:About a time they got booed by a crowd at seattle when they were playing there, This song describes their feelngs towards the people of seattle. This is very poppy but is so so good!

  Flag To-live-is-to-dieon October 19, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:Hey "heartbeats_xxx" thank you for that, I never heard of that story before.
  
  It's a shame really that people are so reactionary and wouldn't think about something before responding. For all they know, he could have been singing about London and comparing it to Seattle. Etc..
  
  As for what the song is about, I'm not sure. I'm not even sure he is particularly critiquing Seattle. I wonder if maybe he was on a tour or something and was feeling homesick or something, and ended up in Seattle at some point, and got a bad feeling about the place for some reason. It's "unfamiliar" and maybe he felt it was big and easy to feel lost. Or maybe some people were horrified by his punk looks and said something like, "What in the world?!" and he felt hurt, and felt like they wanted him to get out of their world.
  
  That is my guess anyway. I suppose I would have to google for interviews or something to find out the real meaning.

  Flag ilikethepixieson August 27, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:The band played a gig in Seattle and they were bottled offstage by a very hostile crowd. Following this, they wrote a song about how much they hate Seattle.

  Flag heartbeats_xxxon May 23, 2006   Link

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