KEITH LEVENE (RIP) 11/11/22. One of the GREATEST AVANT GARDE guitarists EVER. SO FAR AHEAD of the curve. Made 21st century music way back in the 1970s. So sad. :( :( :(
this is so true,i,m almost60yrs old,14yrs ols when punk opened a new world for me,i met so many diffirent people,black,white,brown,didn,t matter,we were allready kicked out by the consumption society,reggae,rai,techno,dub,drum&bass etc i enjoyd ,but the beginning from this fantastic journey was punk,if i see the young generation nowadays,i think damn what went wrong?Emptyness all around,tik tok,facebook,instagram ,...the most boring fucked up stuff ever created,get a grip and choose something else!choose life!
Sorry to disagree. Jah Wobble was a rubbish player. Listen to Norman Watt Roy from Ian Dury and The Blockheads. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. That is the bass line of the last century.
I didn't really care much for the Pistols but loved PIL. Am I alone here? This seems to be what J Lydon excelled at and what he should be best remembered for. This and Careering - pure magic, distilled intoxicating misery. Fantastic.
I can identify with this song I’ve been a fan of PIL since early 80s and I know it’s about his mum dying from cancer, years later the same happened to my mum the last week of her life she was unable to speak and these lyrics kind of resonate with my mum, I miss her ❤
Je dédie cette chanson à mon grand père, décédé du cancer cette année. La signification prends tout son sens lorsque l'on est confronté a la perte d'une personne atteinte de cette terrible maladie. Les yeux silencieux, que Lydon décrit dans la chanson, sont une réalité... C'est pour toi, qui est là-haut...
The very best of Pil. A far more interesting band musically than the 'Sex Pistols'. One of the truly important UK bands. Seminal, original, passionate inspiration. I used to play this all the time very loud driving everyone else crazy. Got me into bass. One of Lydon's very best. Also 'Bad Life', truly punk. No faking it 'Rock N Roll', like the relatively lightweight Pistols, A 'top of the Pop's parody of rebellion. *'Ever felt you've been had'?* With the talented Keith Levine and Jah Wobble, good drumming! Intense mourning his mom. Lydon's best. Mesmerizing darkness and pain!
The late 70's / early 80's were an amazing time for music . This was a time music was mixing styles so much . Listening to this reminds me of ESG and some of the early post Disco .
Hace más de un mes murió mi hermano. Cuando veía a mi madre frente a la caja me dolía y en mi mente sonaba está canción ... Más que nada por mi madre y me acordé de Juanito rotten y lo que sintió cuando veía a su mamá. Rayos. Que triste y que feo. Dios le de paz a mi hermano. Dios bendiga a todos y valen a sus padres.
I see two Golden eras. The first, the better known Hippie era (the Beatles, Doors and Hendrix etc) and then the lesser known equally creative and brilliant 'Post punk era'. Pil, Lene Lovich, Siouxsie, The Cure, the Clash, The Furs, The Talking Heads, Ian Dury, and later Depeche Mode and the Stone Roses. Both creative peaks with mucho talent.
Seeing in your eyes Words can never say the way Told me in your eyes Final in a fade Never no more hope away Final in a fade Seeing in your eyes Seeing in your eyes Never really know, never realize Silence in your eyes Silence in your eyes Never really know, till it's gone away Never realize The silence in your eyes Seen it in your eyes Seen it in your eyes Never no more hope away Final in a fade Watch her slowly die Saw it in her eyes Choking on a bed Flowers rotting dead Seen it in her eyes Ending in a day Silence was a way Seeing in your eyes Seeing in your eyes Seeing in your eyes I'm seeing through my eyes Words cannot express Words cannot express Words cannot express
Remember when music was THIS exciting? I miss it. RIP Keith. I never met you but you formed my late teenage guitar playing years with this work, along with John McKay, John McGeoch, Bernard Sumner and Paul Reynolds. Oh and anyone who comments that this is "rubbish" or "piffle" or whatever, have a look at "John Hassell - Vernal Equinox" and marvel at what passes for "genius" these days before you snipe at this work.
On that lydon proved, that you doesn't need a sad melodie to write a song about losing people (his mother). This Is much more powerfull than the other klichee-songs about this thema
Really quite splendid the way it gains momentum throughout the song. And a top performance by 3 of the worlds top musicians-John,Keith and Hugh Dennis. I never tire of watching this video.
Great songs are inspired by emotional events or experiences that happened the writer either consciously or unconsciously...like this and Yesterday by McCartney and Sing me back home by Haggard
Yes jah wobble,went to the same school,st Mary's and st Michel's,st George's baths,good swimmer,bass player extreme,one of the original 4 John's,east end of London meets the Finsbury park, hackney misfits,cherry's at hackney dog,the pistols verses staying alive,bee gees,it wasn't Saturday night fever,it was Friday night,get up off your arse and dance till you feel better,soulboys meets the unwashed,good times,lvcx
The way the guitar, bass and drum come together at 18 seconds in. Sublime 👌
KEITH LEVENE (RIP) 11/11/22. One of the GREATEST AVANT GARDE guitarists EVER. SO FAR AHEAD of the curve. Made 21st century music way back in the 1970s. So sad. :( :( :(
*made 'timeless' music*
21st century music is s**t. He made 1970s music (the greatest in history).
Yeah definitely ahead of his time but then pil were when you look back
@@JfK--OBJECTivEok boomer
@Groovys whatever decade, there are always people doing interesting stuff, might be hard to find sometimes, but...
This song was for the loss of his mum. Very powerful lyrics and a great tune.
did it kill her listenin to it?
No cos she was already dead she never heard it, she had asked John to write a disco song for her funeral, hence the title.@@thestaunt
She did hear it and loved it, words from the horse's mouth.
Wow thanks, I hadn't already read this 57 times in the comments. Thanks for clarifying.
@@t.n.3819 Did you know
2021, the world needs PIL's post punk and craziness again
this is so true,i,m almost60yrs old,14yrs ols when punk opened a new world for me,i met so many diffirent people,black,white,brown,didn,t matter,we were allready kicked out by the consumption society,reggae,rai,techno,dub,drum&bass etc i enjoyd ,but the beginning from this fantastic journey was punk,if i see the young generation nowadays,i think damn what went wrong?Emptyness all around,tik tok,facebook,instagram ,...the most boring fucked up stuff ever created,get a grip and choose something else!choose life!
True, but Johnny is too old already.
@@patjedub with all due respect, you’d be the same if you was born in this generation.
You are not worthy.
They're still going!
bass line of the century
Sorry to disagree. Jah Wobble was a rubbish player. Listen to Norman Watt Roy from Ian Dury and The Blockheads. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. That is the bass line of the last century.
that bass intro is up there
A good bass player never remains seated.
he must be the exception to the rule
@@rhodsullivan7773two very different approaches to bass. there is nothing to compare in this case..
I didn't really care much for the Pistols but loved PIL. Am I alone here? This seems to be what J Lydon excelled at and what he should be best remembered for. This and Careering - pure magic, distilled intoxicating misery. Fantastic.
I can identify with this song I’ve been a fan of PIL since early 80s and I know it’s about his mum dying from cancer, years later the same happened to my mum the last week of her life she was unable to speak and these lyrics kind of resonate with my mum, I miss her ❤
Bless you mate. Lost my mum recently and miss her as well.
He was singing into the void in pain on this song, it's a magnificent song
Absolutely, proper catharsis.
one of the best bass lines in the history of mankind
One of the greatest post-punk songs ever written right here👍
The bit of Tjaikovski used is brilliant.
Swan Lake!
Good catch! The melody was inspired by Tchaikovsky's _Swan Lake_
From "God save the Queen" to this in only a couple of years. That's quite impressive!
Talented bastard!
Never seen someone in as much distress as in this video. Pure adrenaline and raw emotion driving this song.
I rather think it's amfetamines.
This is what disco music should've sounded.
Je dédie cette chanson à mon grand père, décédé du cancer cette année. La signification prends tout son sens lorsque l'on est confronté a la perte d'une personne atteinte de cette terrible maladie. Les yeux silencieux, que Lydon décrit dans la chanson, sont une réalité...
C'est pour toi, qui est là-haut...
❤🙏💛🙏💚
He's still looking out for you.
This song makes me feel like I'm riding a horse into the deep, dark woods. Crackin' bassline
Virtually a mourning song you can hear John's screams of anguish come through at the loss of his mum.
Never heard that before - shit that's good. RIP John's mum.
When punk began to explore new territories... was the onset of a remarkable era... here the raw energy combined with the lyrical and introspective
Was that a quote from yr exams?
@@patkelly3966 No haha 🤣🤣 just my own thoughts.
Punk died as soon as it was marketed and turned into a "genre" Johnny was always his own genre and he's likely damn proud of it
A standout bass line and one of my favourite PIL songs
Rest in peace Keith,so many great moments
The very best of Pil. A far more interesting band musically than the 'Sex Pistols'. One of the truly important UK bands. Seminal, original, passionate inspiration. I used to play this all the time very loud driving everyone else crazy. Got me into bass. One of Lydon's very best. Also 'Bad Life', truly punk. No faking it 'Rock N Roll', like the relatively lightweight Pistols, A 'top of the Pop's parody of rebellion. *'Ever felt you've been had'?* With the talented Keith Levine and Jah Wobble, good drumming! Intense mourning his mom. Lydon's best. Mesmerizing darkness and pain!
I love Jah Wobble.
may not be of my taste but very creative lyrics when analysed with a deep mindset... Massive respect to him for doing this for his mum, top lad John!
RIP KEITH LEVENE, THE MOST UNDERAPPRECIATED, INCOMPREHENSIBLY GENIUS PLAYER EVER
Heroin ☹
My favorite PiL song, probably one of my favorite songs period
He's literally one of the coolest musicians ever
Eh he was now he's just an egotistical twat who can't shut up for two seconds.
Who
@@gostrum1 Keith Levine, RIP
All of them tbf
Woke up this morning with this in my head. Don't know why. Don't know if that's good or bad. I'm here now tonight listening to it anyway..
The late 70's / early 80's were an amazing time for music . This was a time music was mixing styles so much . Listening to this reminds me of ESG and some of the early post Disco .
+IAN m Gosh! Have you thought about becoming a Music Journalist?
+IAN m Yeah: James White & The Blacks, Liquid Liquid, Gang Of Four, Magazine, Devo, etc..
+Roberto Ginsburg Hey thanks forgot about Liquid Liquid
***** Cabaret Voltaire..many more
The Pop Group, The Fall, early Simple Minds
Post Punk genius
Still got Metal Box! Still makes the needle skip across the tracks!!!
Musicians deserve a lot of credit too for this classic
Hace más de un mes murió mi hermano. Cuando veía a mi madre frente a la caja me dolía y en mi mente sonaba está canción ... Más que nada por mi madre y me acordé de Juanito rotten y lo que sintió cuando veía a su mamá. Rayos. Que triste y que feo. Dios le de paz a mi hermano. Dios bendiga a todos y valen a sus padres.
The cross before you, the world behind you. RIP Keith Levene.
I won the 'Metal Box' on John Peel's radio show ! dx
Cool 😃👍
Privileged to of grown up through the best music and talented musicians of all time
I see two Golden eras. The first, the better known Hippie era (the Beatles, Doors and Hendrix etc) and then the lesser known equally creative and brilliant 'Post punk era'. Pil, Lene Lovich, Siouxsie, The Cure, the Clash, The Furs, The Talking Heads, Ian Dury, and later Depeche Mode and the Stone Roses. Both creative peaks with mucho talent.
Praise Jah !
Seeing in your eyes
Words can never say the way
Told me in your eyes
Final in a fade
Never no more hope away
Final in a fade
Seeing in your eyes
Seeing in your eyes
Never really know, never realize
Silence in your eyes
Silence in your eyes
Never really know, till it's gone away
Never realize
The silence in your eyes
Seen it in your eyes
Seen it in your eyes
Never no more hope away
Final in a fade
Watch her slowly die
Saw it in her eyes
Choking on a bed
Flowers rotting dead
Seen it in her eyes
Ending in a day
Silence was a way
Seeing in your eyes
Seeing in your eyes
Seeing in your eyes
I'm seeing through my eyes
Words cannot express
Words cannot express
Words cannot express
Cheers marra..
Thanks for the lyrics. Lyndon expresses the memory of my feelings the last time I saw my mother barely alive in an NHS hospital. Say no more.
@@timarnold1634 Exact same Tim :(
@@timarnold1634 snap mate.
Respect...43 yrs Nora....a wellrespected man ...aye...Nora....
remember buying it in woolworths in shotton deeside
RIP Keith Levene,,,,,another sad day in music
Seriously, this is my favorite John Lydon song He is remarkable!
Beauty guitar sounds from Keith.
I hope somebody writes something even half as good as this for me when I'm dying.
brilliant song from one of the best albums ever
Remember when music was THIS exciting? I miss it.
RIP Keith.
I never met you but you formed my late teenage guitar playing years with this work, along with John McKay, John McGeoch, Bernard Sumner and Paul Reynolds.
Oh and anyone who comments that this is "rubbish" or "piffle" or whatever, have a look at "John Hassell - Vernal Equinox" and marvel at what passes for "genius" these days before you snipe at this work.
You should check out Keith's biggest inspiration, Steve Howe .
Jah wobble and the bassline pure genius 😀😀😀😀😀😀
this pil works.
It certainly does real horror show my droog
I love the use of the theme from Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake". (In fact, PiL recorded another version of this song with that title.)
Ian Downey Isn't it the same, just an alternate title?
Like saying croatian isnt the same as serbian?
xddd
Andrew Barrett Hehehe, for me, Swan Lake and Death Disco are the same song.
The death disco version i slightly different than the swan lake album version. But yeah its the same song
Bye Keith thanks for the memories ✌️💗
PiLs finest moment in my humble opinion
On that lydon proved, that you doesn't need a sad melodie to write a song about losing people (his mother). This Is much more powerfull than the other klichee-songs about this thema
Immediate and real.
I love this bassline
Just brilliant! That distorted disco is awesome!
The best ever PIL line-up - the original !
It'll be 300 million plus in no time. I told my fam to have a beer and sing along with Johnny this song when I croak :)
Levine & Wobble send a hard script but Lydon delivers with ease - This is classic
Except it's actually Lydon's script, written for his cancer-stricken mum when she was dying.......
god they were good. I remember playing this on my grans old record player on repeat lol.
This may be a weird question but Was John Lyden a fan of Jim Morrison?? 'Cause John's stage presence & body language remind me so much of Jim!
mackychloe Yes! He loved the Doors. Is written on his autobiography.
Thank you, Livia.
this is a ridiculously good piece of music
Really quite splendid the way it gains momentum throughout the song.
And a top performance by 3 of the worlds top musicians-John,Keith and Hugh Dennis.
I never tire of watching this video.
Hugh Dennis 🤣
Fantastic song but very dark being about John mum 😢💙
Still Absolutely Outstanding
THIS IS A NEW STYLE OF MUSIC
Was - its over forty years old 😃
Masterpiece
Lcd Soundsystem has based its entire career on this song's drum sound
my fave obksur disko 4ever!
Death is this song... Fantastic is this song... Thoses voices like a persitence...
What a bassline.
Great songs are inspired by emotional events or experiences that happened the writer either consciously or unconsciously...like this and Yesterday by McCartney and Sing me back home by Haggard
I still own my metal box/second edition n flowers of romance and they ARE MASTERCLASS !
Levene’ s gaze at 1:32 is terrifying! Lo ve it
Absolute performer , tonnes going on. Class .
Awesome songgg
Yes jah wobble,went to the same school,st Mary's and st Michel's,st George's baths,good swimmer,bass player extreme,one of the original 4 John's,east end of London meets the Finsbury park, hackney misfits,cherry's at hackney dog,the pistols verses staying alive,bee gees,it wasn't Saturday night fever,it was Friday night,get up off your arse and dance till you feel better,soulboys meets the unwashed,good times,lvcx
where is/was st george´s baths ?
@@hjillumi880 the highway London E1,
Such a great song!
Ах, Петр Ильич...
RIP Keith 😢
loved it
The sad, distressing lyrics and the way they are sang, reminds me of Genesis P-Orridge of the early Throbbing Gristle.
always reminds me of city centre driving late at night..
Got the single somewhere in the attic! Addictive listening.
I`m only 5 and I think this is the best song ever.
Johnny rotten wiz his special voice 😍
RIP Keith
R.I.P. Keith Levene
Στην λευκη με αγαπη αλεξανδρος 1991 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
best song,,,,
O Baixo está sensacional.
The music is very universal.
jah´s great performance...
Love it thanks 😊
JUst a killer tune with bags of energy! Pain is there for all to see
Try birdland by Patti Smith,songs about death,Gilbert O'Sullivan,alone again naturally,good stuff to play at a wake,enjoy,lvcx
Beautiful!
this bass
great another bass song
THANK YOU
Way ahead of the times
He wrote this song for his mother who passed away not long before he wrote this