Public Image Limited managed to avoid boundaries for the first four years of their existence, and "Second Edition" is undoubtedly the apex. It's a hallmark of uncompromising, challenging postpunk, hardly sounding like anything of the past, present, or future. The dense pulses of Lee Perry's productions fuelled their creative fires - but what they achieved with their second record is a completely unique hour of avant-garde noise. It's tones have sent miasmic reverberations through a much broader scope of artists and genres. For instance the Sex Pistols wouldn't exists if it wasn't for this Public Image Limited album.