Joan Of Arc Was A Sorceror
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Dale's mention of PIL had me remembering that I haven't really given them much of a listen. With the exception of this album, which I REALLY really dig. 
Here's some stuff from wiki:Occasional drummer Martin Atkins played on three songs, while band members Levene and John Lydon handled percussion duties on the other tracks. The prominent, and heavily processed, drum sound was influenced by Peter Gabriel's third album, on which engineer Hugh Padgham had processed Phil Collins' drums.[4] Collins, in turn, was so impressed with the sound on The Flowers of Romance that he hired the album's engineer, Nick Launay, to reproduce the sound for his own projects.Throughout the album, musique concrète sounds, such as amplified wristwatches, reversed piano and televised opera, weave in and out of the mix. Vocalist John Lydon contributed Stroh violin and saxophone (though he was not known to be trained on any particular instrument) and, according to a Rolling Stone article about the album, simply banged on anything handy for percussion, including the face of a banjo on "Phenagen".Keith Levene's innovative guitar style was stretched even further through the use of reversed tapes and trebly distortion, and his synthesizers drone and burble throughout the album. Several songs (for example "Four Enclosed Walls," "Phenagen") have a Middle Eastern feel.Kurt Cobain cited this as one of his favorite albums in his Journals.The Flowers of Romance (the band) were an early punk band, formed in the summer of 1976 by Jo Faull and Sarah Hall. The band never played live or released any recordings, and, like London SS and Masters of the Backside, are more famed for the number of band members that later became well known, including Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, as well as Keith Levene, (an early member of The Clash and later of Public Image Ltd.), Palmolive and Viv Albertine, who went on to play in The Slits. Despite never playing live, they were interviewed by a fanzine named SCUM, in which Sid Vicious proclaimed "I'll always be the thug I am now".
Here's some stuff from wiki:Occasional drummer Martin Atkins played on three songs, while band members Levene and John Lydon handled percussion duties on the other tracks. The prominent, and heavily processed, drum sound was influenced by Peter Gabriel's third album, on which engineer Hugh Padgham had processed Phil Collins' drums.[4] Collins, in turn, was so impressed with the sound on The Flowers of Romance that he hired the album's engineer, Nick Launay, to reproduce the sound for his own projects.Throughout the album, musique concrète sounds, such as amplified wristwatches, reversed piano and televised opera, weave in and out of the mix. Vocalist John Lydon contributed Stroh violin and saxophone (though he was not known to be trained on any particular instrument) and, according to a Rolling Stone article about the album, simply banged on anything handy for percussion, including the face of a banjo on "Phenagen".Keith Levene's innovative guitar style was stretched even further through the use of reversed tapes and trebly distortion, and his synthesizers drone and burble throughout the album. Several songs (for example "Four Enclosed Walls," "Phenagen") have a Middle Eastern feel.Kurt Cobain cited this as one of his favorite albums in his Journals.The Flowers of Romance (the band) were an early punk band, formed in the summer of 1976 by Jo Faull and Sarah Hall. The band never played live or released any recordings, and, like London SS and Masters of the Backside, are more famed for the number of band members that later became well known, including Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, as well as Keith Levene, (an early member of The Clash and later of Public Image Ltd.), Palmolive and Viv Albertine, who went on to play in The Slits. Despite never playing live, they were interviewed by a fanzine named SCUM, in which Sid Vicious proclaimed "I'll always be the thug I am now".
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