The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
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Artist: The Sex PistolsBrand: SEX PISTOLS
Edition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Holidays in the Sun
- Bodies
- No Feelings
- Liar
- Problems
- God Save the Queen
- Seventeen
- Anarchy in the U.K.
- Submission
- Pretty Vacant
- New York
- E.M.I.
Music reviews of Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
Music Review: Greatest Hits EP
Rating: 4 Stars
For years, my reaction to anyone who claimed this was their favorite punk album was to assume they'd never heard it. Maybe they had a Sid Vicious t-shirt and a Green Day CD. Why? I was 14 when I first heard Anarchy - Radio Luxembourg had an interview with the band right after the Bill Grudy TV show. They played Anarchy three or four times and I Wanna Be Me twice. Visceral, blistering and exciting. I wanted to tell everyone I knew about this band, these songs. When God Save The Queen was released, the local record store had one copy and I stood there for hours hoping they'd play it a second time. Oh, and that b-side! No Fun....Pretty Vacant made Top of the Pops, but the initial thrill was gone.
Then Bollocks came out. Cajoled a tape from a friend's older brother. Rush home. Oh Dear. Far and away the best moments were the singles I'd already heard. Apart from Submission, nothing else was as good as No Fun or I Wanna Be Me. Much, much worse. Dull. Being 15, I loved Bodies. He was angry! He was cussing! He was venomous. Apart from that, I was deeply disappointed. Stomach ache disappointed. Listen-to-it-again-hoping-it's-better disappointing. And that was that. Until I was 17 and outgrew the shock value of Bodies. Poor Johnny Rotten wasn't yet ready to deal with the personal. Oh, and around this time they sang a song called "Belsen Was a Gas". Yeah, after Glen Matlock they were nothing. Complete and utterly worthless. Irrelevant.
25 years go by and I listened to Bollocks again. Blown Away by the singles, Submission now my favorite, Seventeen moving up the list. Even Holidays sounds better. Steve Jones impresses throughout; Lydon's petulant, angry, paranoid squaling raises the hair on my neck (oh, how I wish Bodies had a point of view...); the drummer appears competent. It's best thought of as a Greatest Hits package. The short, sharp, shock of the first three singles no longer overwhelms the album. Worth buying, worth listening to. If you missed the singles as they came out, and this was the first time you heard them, it's a terrific album, despite some clunkers like EMI and New York.
Oh, and revolution aside. It's now available everywhere even in an Eco-Friendly Package.
John Lydon would move on to create one of the all time best albums with PIL Metal Box/Second Edition. Finally he got the personal and broader politics right.Perfectly right. Challenging and brilliant. Justified belief inhis warped intellect. Tragically, that was it. Was he replaced by a less intelligent twin? Who knows.
Description of Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
No Description Available.Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 9-MAR-1989
Recognizing that there's no such thing as bad publicity, manager-Svengali Malcolm McLaren molded the Pistols into the most confrontational, nihilistic band rock & roll had ever seen. Propelled by Johnny Rotten's maniacal vocals, Steve Jones's buzz-saw guitar, and (most importantly) bass player Glen Matlock's hook-filled compositional skills, the Pistols' early singles "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen" defined the raging style of British punk. By the time they recorded their lone 1977 album, Matlock had been bounced, replaced by the image-correct but utterly untalented (and ultimately group-dooming) Sid Vicious. Not a 10th as good as the singles, the album nontheless remains a bile-filled emblem of the times. --Billy Altman
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