God, forgot about This is PiL, yeah that and the EP are goodies too, love the One Drop single, and the spoken word piece ala Magazine (The Place I AM In I think it was called). Saw the tour supporting it, was a really good night out (as were the Metal Box gigs from a few years back too, esp Manchester).

As an 11 year old I'd not become aware of PiL yet (or even punk for that matter). I was deeply, deeply into the John Foxx Metamatic LP, Human League's Reproduction/ Dare/ Travelogue and Gary Numan's PLeasure Priciple and Telekon, along with The Normal's TVOD/Warm Leatherette. Ws lucky in having a pal who was a good few years older who used to get all the cool new electronic/synth pop LP's I couldn't afford to buy and tape them for me. Also had the seminal k-Tel album Modern Dance, which introduced me to Simple Minds, OMD, Japan and The Cure. Modern Dance http://www.discogs.com/Various-Modern-Dance/release/504872

Come 1982, I discovered Bauhaus and John Peel and it all went tits up from there.