Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols

Premier, premier subject - get this album if you never buy anything else - history in the making. The Sex Pistols were one of those once in a lifetime happenings. They weren't just a band, they were a moment, a movement, a phenomenon, a brash outpouring of a generation's rage and bitterness, a revolution, a barking, sneering scream of cynicism. They were IT. All that mattered. Period. In the late 1970's there was an amazing coming together of a million minor events, and the snotty, chaotic, angry little group of people from whom the Pistols and a thousand other lesser known acts emerged were prepared to add their mark to history. ...  Read the complete review

THIS is proper punk, take no notice when people start gabbing on about Blink 182 or Green Day (although I do like Green Day!) – The Sex Pistols is what Punk was all about! I can't imagine where Rock music would be today without the Sex Pistols. While not as musically influential, the Pistols are every bit as important as Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin. It was all about attitude, pure and simple. The Sex Pistols were short lived. Formed in 1976, and gone again in 1978. In that time, they managed just one studio album. Just before the recording of this album, the band sacked the original bass player Glen Matlock, and hired Sid Vicious. Only ...  Read the complete review

1977 was a year in which many a great band would release an album,many of them debut records. Indeed, the year introduced the record world to The Clash,The Stranglers,The Damned, and in one of the most famous instances, The Sex Pistols. Formed by manager Malcolm McLaren,basically as a promotional tool for his business partner Vivien Westwood's boutique named Sex,the band consisted of 'vocalist' John 'Johnny Rotten' Lydon,bassist Glen Matlock,guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook, and would become known as the Sex Pistols. Naturally the group wore all clothes from Sex, most famously Lydon's 'DESTROY' T-Shirt which featured a Swastika and upturned cross. ...  Read the complete review

Practically every modern British rock band owes a debt of gratitude to the Sex Pistols. Given the heritage of this band, it's kinda surprising, after all, the Pistols were a manufactured band, like Hear'Say or god knows who else, and they also suffered from one major drawback....they couldn't play. Somehow, this band, the most influential band since the Beatles, managed to overcome that. The Pistols were accused of not being able to play. Listen to this album, their only 'proper' album, I think (although I can't claim that to be hard fact), and you'll hear what was basically the biggest revolution in music since rock n' roll ...  Read the complete review

Punk - ripped jeans, pink mohicans and safety pins. Oh and the music. But everyone knows punk was just overrated hype, right? I mean, the so-called songs were only three random chords with someone screaming and spitting over the top... Wrong. Most of rock n roll's greatest songs consist of really straightforward musical structures - that's why 'Smoke on the Water' is the first thing you learn to play on the guitar. The Sex Pistols just take this to its ultimate extreme. The agressive delivery is perfectly suited to the bitingly sarcastic lyrics: I nearly cried with laughter the first time I heard Mr Rotten shouting 'I'm a lazy sod' repeatedly. The ...  Read the complete review