John Lydon's post Sex Pistols outfit Public Image Limited produced some of the best dance tracks of the late 80s/early 90s. One of the best is "Warrior". The sound on the embedded clip isn't the greatest (there are much better mixes of this song; e.g. on PiL's greatest hits compilation) but you can still catch the things I really like about this song: complex machine-like underlying rhythm track with plenty of interesting auxiliary percussion, great long slow synth washes enhancing the narrative content, Lydon's urgent vocals. The drum breaks are great, emphasizing the multilayered texture when the various tracks come back in. This song has the three things that make a song great: rhythm, atmosphere, and good-sounding chord changes. It gets me there.
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This is indeed an awesome song. The Nouvelle Vague version is an awesome bossa nova take on it.
One of my favorite John Lydon songs is world destruction, by 'time zone', a collaboration between him and Afrika Baambaataa
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