Jah Wobbleby Steve HueyBorn John Wardle, Wobble was an old friend of Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten. When the Pistols broke up, Rotten formed Public Image Limited, and Wobble became the bass player. After the groups first few albums, Wobble had a falling out with Rotten (now Lydon) and...
With Jah Wobble's reggae-drenched bass way up front and Levene's dissonant guitar forays, the band pumps out droning, fragmented dance music — disco, Samuel Beckett style. Lydon's disembodied monotone vocals sound like they were phoned in long-distance. Virtually all the songs on the ...
The results were the epitome of unfettered musical instinct, as Primal Scream and their motley crew (including producer/DJ Andrew Weatherall, ambient-house pioneers the Orb, singer Denise Johnson, former PiL bass player Jah Wobble, and Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller) powered through the ...
Following a 1978 trip to Jamaica bankrolled by Virgin Records founder Richard Branson, Lydon—along with guitarist Keith Levene, bassist Jah Wobble, and a rotating cast of drummers—sought to marry the elastic rhythms and spacious sounds of reggae with punk’s confrontational, nihilist spirit. ...
Wonderful World is a track by Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart from the album Rising Above Bedlam released in 1991. This track has received 0 comments and 4 ratings from BestEverAlbums.com site members. BestEverAlbums.com provides a whole host of stat
" featuring Corbin and the sexy groove "WYDM" with The-Dream. His late BFFs XXXTentacion ("Jah's Interlude") and Juice Wrld ("Wake Up!") get some shine, too. "It's crucial, you should know that you startin' to look delusional/Comparin' me to anyone еlse ’cause I am not ...
Jah Wobble plays Public Image’s Metal Box. Wobble (real name John Wardle) will be recreating PIL’s seminal Metal Box album, one of the greatest post-punk records ever made. In this record, Lydon gave licence to all the disparate musical styles he loved and never got...
JAH WOBBLEReDux (Anthology 1978-2014)(30 Hertz/Cherry Red) An avid fan of Jamaican roots reggae and the sort of ethnic sounds now generically branded as “world music”, Wobble’s singular, dub-heavy bass-playing style was ideal for John Lydon’s post-Pistols project, PiL. His subsequent ...
Public Image Ltd. (PiL) originally was a quartet led by singer John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten, born January 31, 1956) and guitarist Keith Levene, who had been a member of the Clash in one of its early lineups. The band was filled out by bassist Jah Wobble (John Wordle) and drumme...
With Jah Wobble's reggae-drenched bass way up front and Levene's dissonant guitar forays, the band pumps out droning, fragmented dance music — disco, Samuel Beckett style. Lydon's disembodied monotone vocals sound like they were phoned in long-distance. Virtually all the songs on the album ...