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This Is What You Want… This Is What You Get found John Lydon and Public Image Ltd pushing their abrasive post-punk sensibility toward something more polished without sacrificing its essential strangeness. Produced with a glossy sheen that sits in uneasy tension with Lydon’s caustic lyricism, the album is a fascinating artefact of early-eighties musical contradiction. It captures a band simultaneously courting mainstream appeal and undermining it at every turn.
