i try to post everything as a FULL CUT now to youtube if i can, but the original video got blocked unfortunately. posted it up on my patreon instead - www.patreon.com/kirawasareactor thanks for understanding:)
here's a SHOCK Listen to PINK FLOYD - The Nile Song 1969 (so even before Black Sabbath) and tell me if it sounds like Punk / Metal was actually a Pink Floyd experiment they left for others to work on😂
EMI were a record company that gave the pistols a 1 million pound contract then terminated it in a few weeks when they found out how controversial they were.
It's hard to overstate how different this album sounded to my suburban, American ears in 1979. At the time, my brothers and I were listening to Bad Company, Ted Nugent, Styx. This album cut through all that and sounded like REAL ROCK AND ROLL. This album changed everything.
Ramones are my all-time fav band - but there isn't a person in the world who can tell me that this isn't the ultimate punk rock album. Everything about it is perfect, and every person I've ever talked to who was THERE says the same thing: the 70s went from black-and-white to technicolor with the release of this record. Revisionist try-hards will try to downplay the Pistols importance. Those people don't know what they're talking about. An incredible rock'n'roll album that sounded like nothing else at the time. The Ramones from America, The Saints from Australia and Sex Pistols from the U.K changed everything. Period.
As a crusty old fart who was there, I can say you hit the nail on the head. The Ramones gave us the sound, The Pistols brought the attitude and it felt like a whole new world.
I was so happy to discover the Pistols, the Stooges, the Ramones, the Runaways, X-Ray Spex, et al. back in the day. Everyone in my high school was into Kansas and Styx (nothing wrong with those bands) but these bands really spoke to me.
…..and I’m only 58 , so I’m the ”youngling” here !! My favourite album. My three sons took me to a tattoo parlor at my 40th birthday and got it inked in on my arm. ”You’re always blasting that album , dad. Now youll always have it with you”.
Remember the first time I heard this LP probably in 78. My sister and her mate got hold of a copy. Well when Bodies came on, I remember thinking "good job our mam and dad are out" One of th best LP's of all time - No Feelings being my favourite track.
This album was and is still a classic.You had to be there when it first came out in the 70s when it came out to really appreciate the impact. Love your reaction,you get it!
E.M.I. signed Sex Pistols and cancelled the contract (having to pay them $50,000) after pulling, "Anarchy in U.K.", the only single they released. EMI is the label of The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Queen.
Still one of the best profanities ever invented. It covers a myriad of subjects. Hence the saying - What a load of old bollocks 😂. I use it EVERY day if I can. Album's a bit of alright as well. 🤘
The year, the politics and the context in general is everything to just how seismic this album was? But so glad it can still resonate, not to the same degree maybe, today. Thanks for listening. 😍
Not a punk guy, but this album is a perfect 10. Lots of ear worms, groove and the mix is perfect, everything is so loud and clear. Sex Pistols are the only Punk band that mattered to these ears.
I would agree this album that hit all the rights buttons and was a seminal and influential (for better or worse) moment in punk and music. I bought it on vinyl when it first came and own and still listen to the cd today. Sadly, it was all an ACCIDENT of brilliance by a band that couldn't play its instruments, couldn't sing, was put together as a marketing prop (product) by Malcolm McLaren the way similar, later svengalis assembled boy bands, and it disintigrated almost immediatley because there was no substance or talent there to begin, only chaos. Once you've shocked the world once with outragous looks and blasphemous lyrics it's harder to offend or get people's attention a second or third time. They've already heard it, and without real musical talent there is nothing else left after the initial shock-and-offend factor has worn off or been diluted.
Steve Jones’s guitar tone is fantastic (probably cuz it was overdubbed multiple times). Be sure to find ‘Did You No Wrong’ which was the b-side of ‘God Save the Queen.’ IMHO, along with their cover of ‘Substitute.’ Their best stuff.
As a child of the 70's (born in '69). my introduction to the "pistols" was from Megadeth with their cover of "Anarchy in the UK" on the album "So Far , So Good, So What". Loved it. You should check that out at some point.
You should react to Public Image - first issue by Public Image Limited (PiL). Singer John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten founded this band after leaving the Sex Pistols. The album released one year after this, its a post-punk gem !
"EMI" is the band dissing their former record label. Label-dissing songs are a nice little genre. Graham Parker's "Mercury Poisoning" is a classic of the genre. The Clash's "Complete Control" is another.
Bollocks is effectively a singles/hits collection Anarchy, God Save, Vacunt, Holidays were all singles with older songs and Bodies, EMI, Holidays being few songs which were written around the album recording. New York as song critiqued the New York Dolls (like Stooges) proto punk band which had become more renowned for their drug lifestyle than their great musical influence. EMI is about the record label that released Anarchy but fired the band like A&M mentioned in song who fired the pistols with out releasing anything! Sub - Mission was written in response to band manager/miss-manager MacLaren idea to write a song to have a BDSM theme so Rotten and Matlock decided to take piss out of this idea by producing a twisted love song about not about Submission but a Submarine Mission. Anarchy was their first recording and as you say sticks out from rest of album. Great that you enjoyed this album I would love you to react listen to X-ray Spex album Germ Free Adolescents you will get so much from it.
Great reaction! Other classic 70s UK punk albums to consider (I see you have already done The Damned and The Clash): The Adverts - Crossing The Red Sea With The Ruts -The Crack X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents The Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine Penetration - Moving Targets The Outsiders - Close Up Crass - Stations Of the Crass The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus Alternative TV - The Image Has Cracked The Vibrators - Pure Mania The Undertones - Self-titled The Jam - In the City
Some fun facts not many people seem to know. Glen Matlock was the founding member on bass but only recorded Anarchy In The UK. Sid Vicious came onboard after Matlock quit or was sacked depending on who's telling the story. Sid couldn't actually play bass, the last shows he played with the band his bass wasn't actually plugged in. Steve Jones plays bass on the rest of the record and that's the Sex Pistols sound. As engineer on the record Glynn Johns categorised it, "Panzer Division"
There was a great dramatization of the Pistols rise and career a year or so back on Amazon Prime called Pistol, at one point it went into the background of the Bodies track, it was very dark but very interesting. Worth a watch imo.
New York is part of a triology of songs. The first was New York Dolls - "Looking for a kiss" which Sex Pistols - "New York" is about. The last one is Johnny Thunders - "London Boys" which is an answer to the Sex Pistols-track. Johnny Thunders was a New York Doll (guitar). Also on the last track ("London Boys") Steve Jones and Paul Cook (from Sex Pistols) are doing guitars and drums.
Good stuff, but defining punk is pretty hard. The Ramones and the NY Dolls can be called early US punk, the Pistols, Damned and a metric ton of garage bands were the first wave of British punk, follow the timeline to the present day and there's a whole world of different sounds that have been stickered as punk.
You need to listen to the first Public Image Ltd album now, same singer but a different bunch of musicians. I think it'll be a wild experience for you, but in the best way.
The Pistol's manager told the band to write a song that would advertise his punk boutique shop called Submission. So the band, with their anti- tendencies, wrote the song about being under water. Not sure if the manager was happy with the song.
Their manager, Malcolm McLaren, had a clothes shop called Sex, hence half of the band's name. His shop was previously called Let it Rock and had rocker clothes (Elvis era styles). He had the idea of selling 'sex clothing' like leather, PVC, bondage chains, that was up to then only sold by mail order or in adults only sex shops, not in a regular clothes shop, where, horror, average people and kids might see them. Malcolm wanted originality and shock value. Submission is a joke combining themes of bondage (submitting in S&M) and openly punning on sub(marine) mission. Punk hadn't yet been invented. (the name 'punk' came later, from a journalist). The band was formed from a guy who worked at the shop (Glen), Malcolm's friend (Steve) and friend's friend (Paul) plus a guy they had heard about (John). Of course Malcolm was happy with the song. It was on the album, the album made money. Happy Malcolm.
Not bad for a band that has influenced so many, and they did it with only one album and four singles over a period of 3 years. Pretty damn impressive if you ask me.
The Velvet Underground & Nico, the start of the whole Punk/Alternative Universe. Not only one of the best debut albums of all time, but also the most influential on so many other musicians. In the beginning it only sold a meagre 30 000 copies, " but everybody who bought a copy started a band!" (Brian Eno). It was Lou Reed's streetwise and nihilistic lyrics combined with John Cale's sinister and menacing soundscapes that would change Rock music forever, paving the path for so many things to come. A must listen if you wan't to be taken seriously as somebody who is skilled in the knowledge of Rock music and it's history.
When this album came out (of nowhere for U.S. audiences) most 60's classic rock bands where gone or withering on the vine, 70's rock bands where becoming over-produced product (except perhaps for Zeppelin, Heart, asnd Springsteen) and radio airplay was drowning in third-rate disco atrocities and mind-numbing soft rock (I'm looking at you "Seasons In The Sun"!). The Sex Pistols saved rock and roll in every way possible: ripping away MOR convention, opening up new and stripped down musical possibilities, and most importantly, showing that rock music could still be dangerous, as well as funny and insightful. All the great and influential bands and genres that were just breaking through, or followed in the late 70's (including future influencers like Joy Division, Talking Heads and The Clash), owed their existence to the Pistols. I'll say it again, the Pistols and Never Mind The Bollocks saved music for an entire generation. And it also just rocks!
@paulrollings6573 Oh I know - stooges, mc5, velvet underground, early/mid sixties garage , rockabilly etc.- sometimes I joke that " when the caveman smashed two rocks together, that's when punk was invented- I'm just talking about this more "solidified" version of "punk" Come on GUY ; ]
Thank you for reminding me how awesome this album is. The sex pistols and Ramones were my first proper introduction to punk and it changed my whole life
You were spot on with the Kinks and the Doors. The Doors had to pay tne Kinks money because of how similar it is to All Day.... I think a good album from that era for you to check is Pink Flag by Wire.
Watch the sex pistols Doco 'The Filth and The Fury' its excellent I love Problems as well - When The song God Save The Queen and the album got to no 1 in the UK in 1977 The Queens Jubilee 25 year anniversary - The name was left blank -just the number was listed EMI are the record company that ended their record contract because of controversey Virgin ended up bringing out the Album
You should also listen to the third big band of that time (besides the Clash and Sex Pistols), it's the Ruts - the Crack album, the best thing from punk rock in my opinion
I bought this record when it first came out in 1977, I was 21 and in university. Even though I was in Canada, I had heard about the controversies around the band (how they kept getting dropped by record labels) & the controversy around God Save the Queen (during her Silver Jubilee) so I bought it on impulse, out of curiosity. I took it back to my university residence room and played it immediately, shocking all the my neighbours who were stuck in only listening to prog rock, some of which had become very stale. Some of them said "Is THAT the Sex Pistols?!" I loved this album, it has so much energy and was a breath of fresh air. The chorus of God Save the Queen with the "no future, no future, no future for you" gave my goosebumps. To freak out my neighbours, I'd play songs from this album interspersed with Italian opera.
There was a Canadian all female band called The Organ, they only released one full lenght album called 'Grab That Gun', and it turned out to be one of the greatest records in the history of post punk, with no filler on it !
This is pretty much the quintessential punk album. It set the tone for all that was to come and there's really great songs on there. Steve Jones is definitely the hero of the album with that killer guitar tone and playing that drives the music. I highly recommend trying out Stiff Little Fingers as your next punk band.
Brings back so many memories. I was 12 years old when this was released and remember stuffing this LP up my school jumper to sneak it into the house. Previously tried to buy it with a record token that I got for my birthday, but my mum was having none of it
Anarchy In The UK was a clarion call when it came out, do not underestimate it. Seventeen was always their most throwaway track and one of the first they wrote.
Crank it up! 😃 "Holidays in the Sun", "Pretty Vacant", "Submission", yep! PS: "EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London."
They should have never got rid of Glen. People can say what they want about them (some of it deservedly so) but Nevermind The Bollocks is a damn good album.
My 'dad-band' performed this entire album live at a local Detroit rock show, and it was quite the thrill.......Give Amyl and the Sniffers a listen to see how far this sound has evolved......
You've jus listened to my early teenage year's there, it was a great time to follow this band back then different times in the UK in the 70s, if you can watch the filth and the fury it may give you a greater understanding of the times
You should react to Filth and the Fury documentary about the Sex Pistols its kinda the best way to understand where they came from and how they changed music and the punk attitude.
The Cramps are Freakin' Awesome! Sadly I only got to see 'em once, but..., ... OH GOD! What an AMAZING ONCE! Watching the gorgeous Ivy throwing an empty Bourbon bottle at Lux, after he swapped HIS empty, for her Half-Full one, which he then smashed on the edge of a monitor (after finishing it, of course) and proceeded to use to slice his pants off (cutting his legs several times), while Singing, Dancing, Bleeding & Writhing around the stage, during a truly epic 15 minute version of 'Surfin' Bird'. So, How good was the show? ... ... ... Well... It was so fantastically brilliant, that I didn't even care, when I found out that my car had been 'booted' and I'd gotten a £120 Release Fee/Parking Ticket, while I was at the gig. 😂🤪🤣🤣🤣 🎶💀🧛🏼♂🎤🎵👩🏼🦰🎸🎶 😎
Dude, EMI was one of the largest recording and media companies in the world as research would show. I assume they still teach research at the University of Melboune. The Pistols signed to EMI and then the company dropped them because of the contrroversies surrounding them. They signed with Virgin who, paradoxically was bought by EMI later. After EMI went bung it was bought, at least in part, by Warner, one of the mega media companies who along with the others form a cartel.
My very first ever punk album was 1978's Tell us the Truth from Sham 69 at the tender age of 11 (so it hold a very special place in my heart) but I followed it up with this one and I have been a punk ever since. Oi!
Check out "inflammable Material" by Stiff Little Fingers - genuine social commentary from a band living in the war zone of 70's Northern Ireland - great bass work as well !!
EMI is a record Label they get kicked out, but gettin much Money. I think you would enjoy Buzzcocks. Great Music, brilliant melodies, another different accent😊
I was 19 when this album was released, now in my mid 60s, it is still a guilty pleasure to play this (and the Stranglers) loud in the car away from my wife's disapproval!
They had a certain influence on metal as well. Megadeth covered them, changed it to Anarchy In The USA. Anthrax actually did two of their songs, God Save The Queen and Friggin In The Riggin (which is a fun sea shanty of all things). And Guns N Roses covered their song Black Leather. Motley Crue did Anarchy as well. I’ll probably keep thinking of them.
