This is THE song that changed my life. I was a metal head and punk rock kid heading into his freshman year of engineering school at university. I didn’t know it at the time but I had been assigned the dorm hall, wing and floor that was basically the nucleus of the college radio station. I vividly remember hearing this song coming from one of the upper class men’s room. Turns out he was the music director of the radio station. The voice sounded so familiar. I was a shy kid but I had to know what the song was and if it was Johnny Rotten or a pretender sound-alike. I quickly got into the whole college radio scene and alternative music. Next thing I knew I was the guy entrusted with making Metal Wednesdays really take off. Then I was the Metal music director and eventually overall Music Director. Fun as hell and I got to experience a whole lot of new music. Never got my degree due to a severe and chronic health issue but I have a lot of great memories all because of PiL and Disappointed.
because people wont venture they stay w/cookie cutter music!!! fuck em their morons who will never know what their missing.... this song like many are gold!!!!!
That main guitar riff is simple, yet not easy to play. McGeoch just plays it so smoothly and perfectly and it really makes the song, in my opinion. Not to be overlooked is the importance of the backup singers. Their voice harmonies really give the song an uplifting moment. A great arrangement.
This is a very well done song. Its so different than the typical stuff of the day and flows so well. He is a really good stand up guy. His wife has dementia very badly and he waits on her 24/7/365 at home. He is hell bent on taking care of her himself. Very devoted to his wife.
@@sexobscura glad you noticed his constant reference to Alzheimers desease. He has helped bring it to the forefront in regards to people who are not aware that such a delibatating desease can need round the clock care. You're a bit of a smart arse aren't you
Soundtrack of our lives. Summer 1989, 15 years old, riding my bike around a midwestern suburb. Hear the intro to this song (not included in the video) playing on some outside speakers of a record store. I was into alternative. Asked some snobbish college guy working there who it was. He looked at me like I was bothering him and answered me like I should have known who PIL was. Discovered them and bought their stuff when I got the coinage. John Lydon/Rotten developed his own cool character and image post Sex Pistols as seen in their videos. The hypnotic The order of death.
What can you say about the legend that is Johnny "Rotten" Lydon that hasnt already been said just a diamond geezer 😎✌️👍 .... "Disappointed " one of many PIL classics .... Was gutted for Johnny when lifelong partner Nora died may she rest in peace 😑🙏➕️.
Well when Hollyweird are over promoting people like Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga? You gotta wonder... you don’t even see Kate Bush getting any recognition anymore... heck as incredible as Peter Gabriel is, you don’t see him much in Hollyweird.... they never promote nor speak much about him and he’s a genius too... I used to wonder about these things... but lately I’ve been learning a lot about Hollyweird and why people like Beyoncé and Jay Z are so overly rated.... it has something to do with “selling out” (literally no joke) I used to think that the whole selling your soul to Satan thing was a crazy Christian conspiracy... but I guess there’s truth to it. Isaac Kappy spoke about it two years ago now he’s deceased...
Saw them in '89 at the Boathouse in Norfolk Va. My teenage son still wears the t-shirt I got that night. Still the most sonically powerful show I've ever seen. Johnny mooned the crowd !
John Lydon and PIL are simply one of the most important, creative and original bands,...person to come along in a very long time. PIL and The Ramones. Best ever. Scary so good and original. IMPORTANT.
Just heard this for the first time in my life tonight, after " " . Played it a few times already. What a deep song within the pop. A guote about the song I just dug up from John Lydon: "Friends will let you down, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have friends. You should enjoy it for the very fact that they are human beings and fallible, that that very fallibility is what you should enjoy about human contact. Otherwise, really what you're asking for is sycophantic robots that merely compliment your ego. And there's no enjoyment in that."
Never heard that quote before, I like it. I recommend early PiL (1978-1983). Maybe This Is What You Want... and Commercial Zone. But the rest is kind of boring compared to the experimentation in Metal Box and Flowers of Romance.
I've always loved how happily the singers sing "What friends are forrrrrrr" and how happily John says "What are friends for!?" when the sentiment beneath is actually so negative.
That is typical thinking on John's behalf. After he recovered from his illness years ago, his mind was re-set to thinking that way. Good thing that happened, and that he survived, we are all better off today because of John.
This song actually has a positive sentiment. Lydon's said that you should learn to accept and even enjoy when your friends inevitably let you down, because that shows they are real people and not spineless sycophants. I still think your point stands about the juxtaposition of tones: triumphal singing and yet worrying subject matter, it's quite funny actually.
These songs made me want to live in the UK so badly. I grew up in Los Angeles where gratefully I got to listen to KROQ and DJs like Richard Blade. He truly informed us all about what was badass musically happening in the UK. I truly felt we had an insight to the best music in the world IMHO.
I thought I was crazy, but this singer is at another level. This is so much fun to watch and listen to. Great song. Trying to imitate his faces is actually therapeutic to me!
This is probably PiL's best song. I remember the tour for this album, in 1989. It was New Order, Public Image Limited and The Sugarcubes. Had I been older than 15 at the time, I definitely would have been in attendance. =/
Cool song, cool video, cool lineup of PiL here. Love John's demented energy and dance moves! He's a very powerful songwriter and performer. The lyrics are personal, the "fools and horses" part is enigmatic. I can't help thinking "Disappointed" is about his original PiL bandmates, Levene and Wobble, but maybe not. A sad breakup, must have caused them all heartache...but glad they're all still making music to this day.
Spinal meningitis at 7 and it practically erased his memory clean, he had to start again and fight for his life, he never seemed to stop after that! What a guy,!
Jimmy Pop Johnny Rotten is a bum. He talks shit about Sid cuz to this day Sid gets all the attention for Sex Pistols even though he couldn't play for shit. And Mr. Rotten goes from anarchy to singing ballads. What a sellout who couldn't sell records. PiL sucks ass.
There's the PiL and Sex Pistols documentaries and he's written 2 books... so it could happen. I think he's just trying to keep it together for himself and his wife right now. Johnny Rotten is a stage persona, you might see him around Venice Beach these days...well, probably not with everything going on Mar 2020...
The extended mix of this track is amazing! It's the only version I ever listened to, and to hear it cut short in this radio-friendly edit is always... disappointing! 😉Love this song so much, though! Absolutely spot-on conceptually... learned it, knew it, lived it...
Lydon explained, "Friends will let you down, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have friends. You should enjoy it for the very fact that they are human beings and fallible, that that very fallibility is what you should enjoy about human contact. Otherwise, really what you're asking for is sycophantic robots that merely compliment your ego. And there's no enjoyment in that."[4] Lydon has since called "Disappointed" one of his favorite songs that he has written, commenting, "If I could ever call a song a friend, 'Disappointed' is one of them."[5]
Absolutely superb song on any level - PIL are a hit and miss band to a lot of people but they always come up with some belting songs and this is one of the best - Lou's guitar as always unreal
they need this song in one of those new tv series things .... THIS NEEDS MORE RECOGNITION!!!!!!!!!!!! This song is fucking amazing!!!! I swear if they use this song in a hip whatever tv series they do now a days its gonna be AMAZING and a younger generation will be like YESSSSSSS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS! I can wish.... Love u man
Still have this CD I bought back in 1989 with the original longbox! Also had a t-shirt with the pixelized PIL logo that I wore the hell out of back in the early 90's. I really loved that shirt!
I love John, was never into the Pistols and didn't follow his career until recently but he is an amazing man; funny, talented and a real humanitarian. Can't wait to see PIL on tour next year woo hoo! 😁👍
@@ArgoLupus Of course New Order and PIL were great reasons to see the show, but the Sugarcubes in 1989 were at their musical height! It must have been a great show!
Lydon cracks me up. (I read both his books.) He is the ultimate schizophrenic malcontent. He claims to HATE 80s new wave. (And yet, he loves Duran Duran.) And this whole album 9 is amazing at capturing that 80s vibe. His voice suits that era so well. PiL's BEST albums (at least they're my faves) are the ones they made in the 80s... 1. This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get (1984) (Lydon's most experimental & least commercial album from this era.) 2. Album (1986) (C'mon. Ginger Baker & jazz drummer Tony Williams on drums & guitarist Steve Vai. My fave! I bump this in my car at FULL volume all the time. It ROCKS!) 3. Happy? (1987) 4. 9 (1989) ( Pure ear candy! It's GREAT!)
John's reputation always preceded him and he was in many ways more famous than his band. What seems to be often overlooked is the insane musicianship of PIL. They're all world-class session-level players and they wrote, played and gelled with each other and Lydon so well.
Dissapointed a few people When friendship reared its ugly head Dissapointed a few people Well, isn't that what friends are for? (What friends are for) What friends are for (What friends are for) What are friends for? You, you're just a really sad person Who won't, you won't listen to anyone No not you With those half moon eyelids Just babbling on, your usless defenses So sad Dissapointed a few people When friendship reared its ugly head Dissapointed a few people Well isn't that what friends are for (What friends are for) What friends are for (What friends are for) What are friends for? This erratic haphazard, fluttering This to-ing and fro-ing Like a confused moth The collision, illusion And it's all ad infinitum You're a really sad person You're really so sad Dissapointed a few people When friendship reared its ugly head Dissapionted a few people Well isn't that what friends are for (What friends are for) What friends are for (What friends are for) What are friends for? Fools and horses Running their courses And brow beaten down Like dust on the ground You cheat easily Like sweet charity And all of the bastards The world despises In newer disguises You cheat easily Like all charity Fools and horses (What friends are for) Running their courses (What friends are for) And brow beaten down (What friends are for) Like dust on the ground (What friends are for) You cheat easily(What friends are for) Like sweet charity(What friends are for) And all of the bastards(What friends are for) The world despises(What friends are for) In newer disguises(What friends are for) You cheat easily(What friends are for) Like all charity(What friends are for)
I'm reading Anger Is An Energy. So inspiring to read about John's life. A true genius. True honor is sometimes found where you least expect it. I'm discovering a whole new world in his words.💖
One of my favorite PiL songs, with one of my favorite bass players, Allan Dias. Here he's got a whammy bar on his bass, something you don't see every day. 2:14
Fucking awesome. The lyrics are amazing, even Nobel Prize quality. Genius guitar and the rest of it. Lydon is an actor too, for sure with his natural body language.
Wow I have not listened to this song since my teens! I went out and bought the single...amazing song. I Still have that 7" record. As someone else mentioned, great melodic pop song, with meaning, great hooks and that awesome uplifting guita!
And yet it's about more than simply that. It's about *remaining* friends with people who let you down. Because your friends WILL let you down and you have to love them anyway. Isn't that what friends are for?
I was gifted to see P.I.L. tour in 1990. I was front stage amd when he sang Rise he rubbed my mohawk(I could be black or white!) Yes I also got his autograph....Deep Ellum Dallas Tx 1990! Black chic!
This is THE song that changed my life. I was a metal head and punk rock kid heading into his freshman year of engineering school at university. I didn’t know it at the time but I had been assigned the dorm hall, wing and floor that was basically the nucleus of the college radio station. I vividly remember hearing this song coming from one of the upper class men’s room. Turns out he was the music director of the radio station. The voice sounded so familiar. I was a shy kid but I had to know what the song was and if it was Johnny Rotten or a pretender sound-alike. I quickly got into the whole college radio scene and alternative music. Next thing I knew I was the guy entrusted with making Metal Wednesdays really take off. Then I was the Metal music director and eventually overall Music Director. Fun as hell and I got to experience a whole lot of new music. Never got my degree due to a severe and chronic health issue but I have a lot of great memories all because of PiL and Disappointed.
HUGS, dude! What a great story...
Cool story.
That's awesome!
rotten lefts the sex pistols has a punk rocker and creates Public image ltd has a post-punk band
Una muy buena historia 😮👌
This band are not celebrated enough. They are brilliant
Why doesn't this have over a million views? This is why we have the great 1990's alternative rock. Wake up!!!
It does now!!!
because people wont venture they stay w/cookie cutter music!!! fuck em their morons who will never know what their missing.... this song like many are gold!!!!!
Brilliant song.
Johnny needs more credit than he has been given.
He is about as honest as they come.
Well, not really. He was a firm anti-monarchist once, yet just a few years ago he said how much he admires the then Queen.
@@permaveg
Because you'd get cancelled if youre anti feminism in 2023
They don't come like john anymore. He's a genius
@@permavegpeople mature. Opinions change. Its allowed. Doesn’t mean he wasn’t being honest. Then or now.
thats what he WANTS you ti think :+)
That main guitar riff is simple, yet not easy to play. McGeoch just plays it so smoothly and perfectly and it really makes the song, in my opinion. Not to be overlooked is the importance of the backup singers. Their voice harmonies really give the song an uplifting moment. A great arrangement.
Agreed. The backup singers are absolute dolls.
McGeoch and Sara Lee are 2 Secret Weapons and MVP of post/post/new wave/whatever we called it then .
Always made me think of Brenda Holloway's "Look What You Done" 1967 Motown not 2 mention Chris Squire's bass guitar riff at 2:47 to 2 : 57 !
Disappointed a few people
John was always amazing in any band he was in
One of McGeoch's finest tones and riffs.. so uplifting throughout. xo
This is a very well done song. Its so different than the typical stuff of the day and flows so well.
He is a really good stand up guy. His wife has dementia very badly and he waits on her 24/7/365 at home. He is hell bent on taking care of her himself. Very devoted to his wife.
wow, I wasn't aware about his wife's condition, it's not like he goes about telling anybody who'll listen about it
@@sexobscura glad you noticed his constant reference to Alzheimers desease. He has helped bring it to the forefront in regards to people who are not aware that such a delibatating desease can need round the clock care. You're a bit of a smart arse aren't you
@@sexobscura Just like the meningitis he had when he was a child
Ya se ha ganado la gloria terrenal y ahora con esa acción se ha ganado la gloria celestial
Outstanding,true to his wife, you're a good man Jonny.
Soundtrack of our lives. Summer 1989, 15 years old, riding my bike around a midwestern suburb. Hear the intro to this song (not included in the video) playing on some outside speakers of a record store. I was into alternative. Asked some snobbish college guy working there who it was. He looked at me like I was bothering him and answered me like I should have known who PIL was. Discovered them and bought their stuff when I got the coinage. John Lydon/Rotten developed his own cool character and image post Sex Pistols as seen in their videos. The hypnotic The order of death.
He was... disappointed that you didn't know who they were.
What can you say about the legend that is Johnny "Rotten" Lydon that hasnt already been said just a diamond geezer 😎✌️👍 .... "Disappointed " one of many PIL classics .... Was gutted for Johnny when lifelong partner Nora died may she rest in peace 😑🙏➕️.
John is a CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED songwriter. CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED!
i like pil better than that other band he was in pil is awesome. and i was listening to them 9 yrs ago in college
Rotten or McGeoch?
Well when Hollyweird are over promoting people like Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga? You gotta wonder... you don’t even see Kate Bush getting any recognition anymore... heck as incredible as Peter Gabriel is, you don’t see him much in Hollyweird.... they never promote nor speak much about him and he’s a genius too... I used to wonder about these things... but lately I’ve been learning a lot about Hollyweird and why people like Beyoncé and Jay Z are so overly rated.... it has something to do with “selling out” (literally no joke) I used to think that the whole selling your soul to Satan thing was a crazy Christian conspiracy... but I guess there’s truth to it. Isaac Kappy spoke about it two years ago now he’s deceased...
@@JG_1114 you are indeed correct
Where do you get your underrated facts from?
Saw them in '89 at the Boathouse in Norfolk Va. My teenage son still wears the t-shirt I got that night. Still the most sonically powerful show I've ever seen. Johnny mooned the crowd !
I saw them twice on that tour in Sydney and John actually slapped my hand during the show!
Mooning,.........an important element of almost any show🙄🥸🤯
Lydon defintely knows how to send a message!! The guy is an undoubted songwriting genius! Love this tune.
John, you have inspired us all. God bless you Brother.
One of my favorite PIL songs of all time! Says a lot.
John Lydon and PIL are simply one of the most important, creative and original bands,...person to come along in a very long time. PIL and The Ramones. Best ever. Scary so good and original. IMPORTANT.
im 59 years old and ive listened to p il since my early 20s..they are just as great now as then. to my ear. always be a huge fan!!!
Johnnys eyes are so intense. I love it!
PIL! This one has always been at the top for me.... "Happy?" was always in a regular rotation in my car back then as a high school kid....
My kids are so jealous I got to grow up in the 80's. I tell a lot of my stories to them through these musical gems. So many to choose from.
Just heard this for the first time in my life tonight, after " " . Played it a few times already. What a deep song within the pop. A guote about the song I just dug up from John Lydon:
"Friends will let you down, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have friends. You should enjoy it for the very fact that they are human beings and fallible, that that very fallibility is what you should enjoy about human contact. Otherwise, really what you're asking for is sycophantic robots that merely compliment your ego. And there's no enjoyment in that."
Great quote
Good old Wikipedia
J B nice 👍
Edifying and just what I needed to hear.
Never heard that quote before, I like it. I recommend early PiL (1978-1983). Maybe This Is What You Want... and Commercial Zone. But the rest is kind of boring compared to the experimentation in Metal Box and Flowers of Romance.
John McGeoch was such an incredible guitarist (R.I.P.)
❤
Extraordinary record, great lyrics, massive drums and backing vocals, great McGeoch riff, sublime bass line and Rotten Johnny
I love how expressive he is, in everything he does.💚💚
This editing is like a fever dream.
One of the very best songs ever. Anthemic. Iconic
One of the best live gigs I've seen on here.
You don't need dozens of cameras and camera angles. Band sounded fantastic.
I've always loved how happily the singers sing "What friends are forrrrrrr" and how happily John says "What are friends for!?" when the sentiment beneath is actually so negative.
That is typical thinking on John's behalf. After he recovered from his illness years ago, his mind was re-set to thinking that way. Good thing that happened, and that he survived, we are all better off today because of John.
Jonathan Bloom - yes it is so brilliantly dry and vaguely angry.
This song actually has a positive sentiment. Lydon's said that you should learn to accept and even enjoy when your friends inevitably let you down, because that shows they are real people and not spineless sycophants. I still think your point stands about the juxtaposition of tones: triumphal singing and yet worrying subject matter, it's quite funny actually.
What principal
It's not negative at all. Lydon is singing this song to himself.
These songs made me want to live in the UK so badly. I grew up in Los Angeles where gratefully I got to listen to KROQ and DJs like Richard Blade. He truly informed us all about what was badass musically happening in the UK. I truly felt we had an insight to the best music in the world IMHO.
KROQ & 91X.... I miss the 80s and 90s in So Cal.... Hard to even recognize this place anymore....
Love the sonic style of this era in music in general. Jangly guitars, huge reverb on the drums. Crisp, clean and spacious. What a tune!
The 80s
I thought I was crazy, but this singer is at another level. This is so much fun to watch and listen to. Great song. Trying to imitate his faces is actually therapeutic to me!
P.I.L as usual, with their great sound, lyrics and all! Loved this band since I was a teenager. Mr.Lydon craziness so contagious
This is probably PiL's best song. I remember the tour for this album, in 1989. It was New Order, Public Image Limited and The Sugarcubes. Had I been older than 15 at the time, I definitely would have been in attendance. =/
Rise towers above everything they've done for me.
Saw that show in Philly. Then later that year saw them at a smaller venue with Flesh For Lulu, which was much better!
I saw that show at the Mann in Philly.
I saw them 3 times in the 80’s. They didn’t disappoint one bit. I just ordered their 5 CD set. And here reminiscing
I saw that show at Darien Lake in upstate New York! Great memory.
Saw them in New Haven CT sometime in the 80's. They were just fantastic. Hearing this live the crowd went crazy.
The BEST PIL song, like the lyrics, and the sound is something that you would hear throughout the 90's
Cool song, cool video, cool lineup of PiL here. Love John's demented energy and dance moves! He's a very powerful songwriter and performer. The lyrics are personal, the "fools and horses" part is enigmatic. I can't help thinking "Disappointed" is about his original PiL bandmates, Levene and Wobble, but maybe not. A sad breakup, must have caused them all heartache...but glad they're all still making music to this day.
One of my all time favorites by P.I.L. Saw them open for NEW ORDER at Jones Beach,New York! FLOORED ME MAN!!!!
Saw them opening for New Order as well. I went specifically to see New Order but PIL were very much better.
Spinal meningitis at 7 and it practically erased his memory clean, he had to start again and fight for his life, he never seemed to stop after that! What a guy,!
Johnny Rotten deserves his own biopic, he's a really inspiring person
Jimmy Pop Johnny Rotten is a bum. He talks shit about Sid cuz to this day Sid gets all the attention for Sex Pistols even though he couldn't play for shit. And Mr. Rotten goes from anarchy to singing ballads. What a sellout who couldn't sell records. PiL sucks ass.
@@talksickvisionz7500 if PIL sucks why are you here then? 🙄
There's the PiL and Sex Pistols documentaries and he's written 2 books... so it could happen. I think he's just trying to keep it together for himself and his wife right now. Johnny Rotten is a stage persona, you might see him around Venice Beach these days...well, probably not with everything going on Mar 2020...
He's already been played onscreen in Sid N Nancy, with a Scottish accent if I remember!
Yes
The extended mix of this track is amazing! It's the only version I ever listened to, and to hear it cut short in this radio-friendly edit is always... disappointing! 😉Love this song so much, though! Absolutely spot-on conceptually... learned it, knew it, lived it...
Epic tune. Epic.
Lydon explained, "Friends will let you down, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have friends. You should enjoy it for the very fact that they are human beings and fallible, that that very fallibility is what you should enjoy about human contact. Otherwise, really what you're asking for is sycophantic robots that merely compliment your ego. And there's no enjoyment in that."[4] Lydon has since called "Disappointed" one of his favorite songs that he has written, commenting, "If I could ever call a song a friend, 'Disappointed' is one of them."[5]
I swear John McGeoch's guitar in this song is fucking genius. It's my go to riff when I need a lift.
It's because he is pure genius, in my top 5 influences no question about it.
this song and Warrior they improved the songs at the Glastonbery festival. the guitarist was amazing
@@gdust6579 What year of Glastonbury was this?
Discover Will Sergeant
@@rocknjbindad3707 You mean the bunnymen guitarist?
I was listening to this song every day while I was traveling Europe.
John is straight forward on everything that's why I love his music forever a fan of john lydon blessings to the band and everyone
This has been and will be one of my favorite songs.
Still amazing after all these years. A belter of a song!
I asked my aunt when I was 14 to got the tape for Xmas.
Thanks Annie-and I'm french.
Brilliant! Not boring Sydney, Not boring !
Absolutely superb song on any level - PIL are a hit and miss band to a lot of people but they always come up with some belting songs and this is one of the best - Lou's guitar as always unreal
another classic where the song speaks volumes to many
they need this song in one of those new tv series things .... THIS NEEDS MORE RECOGNITION!!!!!!!!!!!! This song is fucking amazing!!!! I swear if they use this song in a hip whatever tv series they do now a days its gonna be AMAZING and a younger generation will be like YESSSSSSS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS! I can wish.... Love u man
a lot of the music sync people have very boring mainstream tastes, except when they're desperate for something unusual
This is very Great 😊 ! John Lydon is very Great ! Love this . .- jon fisher
Still have this CD I bought back in 1989 with the original longbox!
Also had a t-shirt with the pixelized PIL logo that I wore the hell out of back in the early 90's. I really loved that shirt!
I love John, was never into the Pistols and didn't follow his career until recently but he is an amazing man; funny, talented and a real humanitarian. Can't wait to see PIL on tour next year woo hoo! 😁👍
found this cassette at at a used record store in the very late 90's with the concert ticket stub inside from 1989.
That is so cool and sad
Score.. Man that's Awsome.
I was at that tour. The Sugar Cubes opened and New Order closed.
you've been chosen. how are things now?
@@ArgoLupus Of course New Order and PIL were great reasons to see the show, but the Sugarcubes in 1989 were at their musical height! It must have been a great show!
Brilliant. The brilliance of this is staggering.
This song just gets more and more relevant.
picked up PILs greatest hits on cassette tape theother day and its getting alot of play time in my truck...taking me back to a great decade of music..
Lydon cracks me up. (I read both his books.) He is the ultimate schizophrenic malcontent. He claims to HATE 80s new wave. (And yet, he loves Duran Duran.) And this whole album 9 is amazing at capturing that 80s vibe. His voice suits that era so well. PiL's BEST albums (at least they're my faves) are the ones they made in the 80s...
1. This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get (1984) (Lydon's most experimental & least commercial album from this era.)
2. Album (1986) (C'mon. Ginger Baker & jazz drummer Tony Williams on drums & guitarist Steve Vai. My fave! I bump this in my car at FULL volume all the time. It ROCKS!)
3. Happy? (1987)
4. 9 (1989) ( Pure ear candy! It's GREAT!)
Always been one of my Top10 PiL songs. I still miss John McGeoch.
That feeling when you just needed to hear that song and now you've heard it.
Very nice song. Timeless.
John's reputation always preceded him and he was in many ways more famous than his band. What seems to be often overlooked is the insane musicianship of PIL. They're all world-class session-level players and they wrote, played and gelled with each other and Lydon so well.
His songs are always so catchy. You know it’s him because he on purpose makes his voice sound different. No one sounds like him.
Dissapointed a few people
When friendship reared its ugly head
Dissapointed a few people
Well, isn't that what friends are for? (What friends are for)
What friends are for (What friends are for)
What are friends for?
You, you're just a really sad person
Who won't, you won't listen to anyone
No not you
With those half moon eyelids
Just babbling on, your usless defenses
So sad
Dissapointed a few people
When friendship reared its ugly head
Dissapointed a few people
Well isn't that what friends are for (What friends are for)
What friends are for (What friends are for)
What are friends for?
This erratic haphazard, fluttering
This to-ing and fro-ing
Like a confused moth
The collision, illusion
And it's all ad infinitum
You're a really sad person
You're really so sad
Dissapointed a few people
When friendship reared its ugly head
Dissapionted a few people
Well isn't that what friends are for (What friends are for)
What friends are for (What friends are for)
What are friends for?
Fools and horses
Running their courses
And brow beaten down
Like dust on the ground
You cheat easily
Like sweet charity
And all of the bastards
The world despises
In newer disguises
You cheat easily
Like all charity
Fools and horses (What friends are for)
Running their courses (What friends are for)
And brow beaten down (What friends are for)
Like dust on the ground (What friends are for)
You cheat easily(What friends are for)
Like sweet charity(What friends are for)
And all of the bastards(What friends are for)
The world despises(What friends are for)
In newer disguises(What friends are for)
You cheat easily(What friends are for)
Like all charity(What friends are for)
Thanks!
Great song john im in a horrible marriage and you always cheer me up
What a great song this is I remember when it came out good to dance to
I’m not Disappointed when I’ve been listenin’ to PIL - a great band with really great singer and songwriter ! 😊- Jon Fisher
PIL é sinônimo de originalidade e irreverência. Músicas e clips são sensacionais !!!!
I'm reading Anger Is An Energy. So inspiring to read about John's life. A true genius. True honor is sometimes found where you least expect it. I'm discovering a whole new world in his words.💖
Same!
What a great song !!!
brings back such good memories !!
One of my favorite PiL songs, with one of my favorite bass players, Allan Dias. Here he's got a whammy bar on his bass, something you don't see every day. 2:14
Love this track so much, johnny you absolute legend!!
Fucking awesome. The lyrics are amazing, even Nobel Prize quality. Genius guitar and the rest of it. Lydon is an actor too, for sure with his natural body language.
Realmente amo esta cancion ...Lo maximo ...la amo
Adictiva
Exelente, siempre tuvo un gran oído para componer y escribir John Lydon así como sus compañeros de Public Image
Wow I have not listened to this song since my teens! I went out and bought the single...amazing song. I Still have that 7" record. As someone else mentioned, great melodic pop song, with meaning, great hooks and that awesome uplifting guita!
This song is a true statement of about 99.9% of the people I come into contact with, animals are much more reliable!!!
I promise - there are good people out there.
Buy guns.
The world suck. People are not true
sicko
Like Sid Vicious once said "I met the man in the street and hes a cunt".
The drummer is so hyped!!
Such a great tune.
this a meaningful song because it about fake friend that claim to be loyal but there action speak louder than words
Probably he recognises Bullshit because he has been full of it most of his life.
And yet it's about more than simply that. It's about *remaining* friends with people who let you down. Because your friends WILL let you down and you have to love them anyway. Isn't that what friends are for?
This is a great pop song
Excellent,loved this back in the day.
Best use of the term "ad infinitum" in a song ever. Perhaps the only use
How Brilliant would John be as the Joker?
Hes not a great actor, check out his movie with Harvey Keitel, its woeful.
WRONG. LYDON IS GODLIKE. IN EVERYTHING HE DOES.
A gargantuan ego to go with it.
Are you on the Trump bandwagon? Follow like the rest of the sheep.
raybid13 You're a really sad person.
30 years of this incredible album thank you
No. Thank YOU!
Fabulous...love it. That drive!
Saw them at the Crule World Fest and loved every second. So grateful for the experience ❤
What a fantastic song
The album is wonderful also
love this song and not going to lie word for word this is how i am feeling about one of my "friends" that i did a creative project with recently
PiL had what Sex Pistols missed - great instrumentalists that really highlited and showcased Johnny's specific vocal talent
This music helped me through many things. One of my favourite
I could easily have listened to this in The Madchester era!!!!!
Seen them in concert. So good!
This song is so amazing!
一番好きな曲です。歌詞も深くて好き。
Esta canción está en mi top 10
awesome tune 👍
only John could be the coolest guy imagineable while dressed like he just took a break from fighting Batman
Another one of my favorite PIL songs!
I was gifted to see P.I.L. tour in 1990. I was front stage amd when he sang Rise he rubbed my mohawk(I could be black or white!) Yes I also got his autograph....Deep Ellum Dallas Tx 1990! Black chic!
You rock :) hello from Galveston
I got to see P.I.L Ltd. performance at the Studio 54.. Greatest Show Ever. Truly enjoyed it..
This is a great song ! Among many others of course. PiL was a great band, thanks to,John Lydon. - john coolman