Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Greatest Hits, So Far is Public Image Ltd's greatest hits album. It compiled all of the band's singles from 1978's "Public Image" to 1990's "Don't Ask Me", a new track that, as a single, reached #22 in the UK and #2 on the US Modern Rock chart. "This Is Not a Love Song" is not represented in its original single form, but as the remake from This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get."I wanted 28 tracks," John Lydon told Select, "but you have to be reasonable, I suppose. Virgin only wanted eight – 'Ooh, that's all we can get on one album' – and I thought, 'Hold on, I've been on your label 12 years and you only want eight songs? Fuck off!' I refused to deal with them until they came round to my way of thinking. I relished the chance to see what things like 'Warrior' would sound like next to 'Death Disco' and 'Memories', to see if there was any vein running through them. And I was very pleased: there is. They sound like a solid piece of work. They could all have been done at the same time. All musically different, but the attitude is predominant. So I'm pleased with myself."The title suggests there would be more to come, and there was - but PiL released only one more studio album (1992's That What Is Not) before taking a twenty-year hiatus. A more comprehensive PiL compilation, the 4-disc Plastic Box, was released in 1999.. }
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- The_Greatest_Hits,_So_Far abstract "The Greatest Hits, So Far is Public Image Ltd's greatest hits album. It compiled all of the band's singles from 1978's "Public Image" to 1990's "Don't Ask Me", a new track that, as a single, reached #22 in the UK and #2 on the US Modern Rock chart. "This Is Not a Love Song" is not represented in its original single form, but as the remake from This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get."I wanted 28 tracks," John Lydon told Select, "but you have to be reasonable, I suppose. Virgin only wanted eight – 'Ooh, that's all we can get on one album' – and I thought, 'Hold on, I've been on your label 12 years and you only want eight songs? Fuck off!' I refused to deal with them until they came round to my way of thinking. I relished the chance to see what things like 'Warrior' would sound like next to 'Death Disco' and 'Memories', to see if there was any vein running through them. And I was very pleased: there is. They sound like a solid piece of work. They could all have been done at the same time. All musically different, but the attitude is predominant. So I'm pleased with myself."The title suggests there would be more to come, and there was - but PiL released only one more studio album (1992's That What Is Not) before taking a twenty-year hiatus. A more comprehensive PiL compilation, the 4-disc Plastic Box, was released in 1999.".