Death Disco

"Death Disco" is a song by Public Image Ltd. The record was released in both 7" and 12" single formats with a "½ Mix" of the song and "Megga mix" (an instrumental version of "Fodderstompf" from Public Image: First Issue) on the 12" version. It reached number twenty on the UK Singles Chart. The song was released in an alternative shorter version as "Swan Lake" on the group's second album, Metal Box, with slight changes at the end. The title change reflects the quote from Tchaikovsky's ballet score that surfaces in Keith Levene's guitar part.

In his autobiography, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, Lydon stated that the song was written for his mother, who had died of cancer not long before. "I watched her die," he told Select in 1990. "She was tough, my mum. She asked me to write a disco song for her funeral. This was hardly happy stuff."^[5]

According to AllMusic, "the song is built on a dense groove informed equally by dub and disco" and features both "Lydon at his most desperate and stark" and Keith Levene "dishing out shards of guitar that complement the rhythm one moment and then shift into horrific riffing the next."^[3]

"Death Disco" was also included on the 1983 album Live in Tokyo.

The song was ranked at No. 11 among the top "Tracks of the Year" of 1979 by NME.^[6]

Paul Lester of The Guardian wrote that "Death Disco" was "the biggest hit with a load of rhythmical dissonance [...] until the dosser disco of Happy Mondays' "Hallelujah" ten years later."^[7]

Track listing

7" vinyl

"Death Disco" – 4:11
"No Birds Do Sing" – 4:41

12" vinyl

"½ Mix" - 6:42
"Megga Mix" - 6:51

Personnel

John Lydon - vocals, piano on "No Birds Do Sing"
Keith Levene - guitar, synthesizer
Jah Wobble - bass
David Humphrey - drums on "Death Disco", "½ Mix"
Richard Dudanski - drums on "No Birds Do Sing"
Jim Walker - drums on "Megga Mix"

References

^ Alexander, Phil (1 April 2014). "20 Great Post-Punk Tracks". Mojo. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
^ Reynolds, Simon (2012). Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture. Soft Skull Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-59376-477-7.
^ ^a ^b Kellman, Andy. "Death Disco - Public Image Ltd. | Song Info". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
^ Blyweiss, Adam (23 February 2017). "10 Essential Dance-Punk Tracks". Treble. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
^ Select, December 1990
^ "Albums and Tracks of the Year". NME. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
^ Lester, Paul (11 July 2008). "What's the weirdest chart hit of all time?". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 June 2017.

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John Lydon Lu Edmonds Bruce Smith Scott Firth Keith Levene Jah Wobble Jim Walker Richard Dudanski Karl Burns Martin Atkins Stella Nova Ken Lockie John McGeoch Jeannette Lee
Studio albums	Public Image: First Issue Metal Box The Flowers of Romance Commercial Zone This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get Album Happy? 9 That What Is Not This Is PiL What the World Needs Now... End of World
Live albums	Paris au Printemps Live in Tokyo
Compilation albums	The Greatest Hits, So Far Plastic Box
Singles	"Public Image" "Death Disco" "Memories" "Flowers of Romance" "This Is Not a Love Song" "Bad Life" "Rise" "Disappointed"
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