Album (also known as Compact Disc or Cassette depending on the format) is the fifth studio album by English rock band Public Image Ltd., released on February 3, 1986 (1986-02-03). The packaging concept is a pastiche of generic brand products. One of the ways they achieved this was by using the sans-serif font Helvetica. However striking the execution of this design, there are valid questions regarding the concept's originality. Flipper, a punk band from San Francisco, California, released an album with the same concept and a near-identical name, Album - Generic Flipper, in 1982. Later in 1986, Flipper retaliated for this apparent act of concept theft by releasing a live album entitled Public Flipper Limited Live 1980-1985. At any rate, what meaning is intended for the packaging concept as applied to this particular release by PiL is open to interpretation. As unusual as the packaging is the album's personnel: world-renowned but uncredited musicians from a variety of genres play innovative, complex arrangements to accompany the vocals of John Lydon, former frontman for the punk rock group the Sex Pistols.