To quote Pete Townshend, Never Mind the Bollocks is the greatest rock n roll album of all time. The fella in the grey top is clearly missing the point, which is a shame.
I did not know that. What an accolade. It is THE timeless album. The fact they changed music and created the culture we have today, with only ONE album? What a testament
Pistols stand alone. Bollocks to the Stones and Doors. I was 14 in '77 and when these came along it was a game changer. Blew everyone before them away. Songs still sound amazing today. And Glen Matlock was the original bassist. Vicious was just a junkie tool. Punk made me the person I am today. It was more than music.
they arnt interested in critiquing the music, just having a good frat-boy time making fun and yes, talking over the very sections of the songs that might explain things for them...horrible
@@mainprimate3827 Matlock is only on Anarchy on the U.K. the rest is Steve Jones on bass. Johnny wrote all the lyrics no one else the music was Matlock and Jones so ya Jones did compose the music.
The funny thing about the supposed influence of the US acts like The Stooges/MC5/New York Dolls/Ramones on UK punk is that none of the original British punk bands really cite them as an influence (with the sole exception of The Damned). The British punk bands were mostly influenced by 1960's acts, many of whom were still around in the mid-late 1970s, but had largely gone off their game. The Sex Pistols track 'New York' on Never Mind The Bollocks is an explicit rejection of New York punk and the CBGBs scene - which was generally artier, more intellectual, more gender-and bending than the UK version. It is confusing to many who believe implicitly in the US influence on British punk to learn that it was almost impossible to get American punk records in the UK in 1975/76, hear them on the radio or TV in the UK in 1975/76. In fact, if you count up the bands name-dropped by members of the Pistols, The Clash, The Damned and more in biographies and interviews, it seems the biggest influences on British punk, bizarrely, are The Small Faces and Mott The Hoople. I kid you not.
Come on,man,the biggest influence of Steve Jones was Johnny Thunders.Malcom Laren,the Sex Pistols manager ,who managed brieftly the New York Dolls,with the commie look,returned from New York with the Gibson Les Paul Custom owned by Sylvain Sylvain,the NYDolls other guitarist and gave it to Steve Jones. The New York Pistols song was written ,for the lyrics,by Johnny Rotten .It's agressive because of rivalry between The NY guys and The London lads. When the first Ramones came out,Joe Strummer said everybody ,including himself,listened for hours to that album.With his last band,the Mescaleros,Joe Strummer made a Ramones cover live,Blietzkrieg Bop.At the first Ramones concert in London,every London punk rocker was there.The Ramones gave a beer to Johnny Rotten ,after pissing in the beer. Mick Jones played a Gibson Les Paul Junior because of Johnny Thunders.Like Strummer,he just loved the Dolls. When Mac Laren organised the Anarchy Tour,to put the Sex Pistols on the map,with the Clash and the Damned ,hé asked Johnny Thunders to came in the UK with his band. And so on... A couple of years ago,an old man,named Johnny Rotten almost got in a fight with another youngster Mark Bell about who creates Punk Rock.It was funny. In 1974,the New York Dolls came in London to do a concert with Rod Stewart.In the audience,there was Steve Jones,Mick Jones and Brian James. You could found the punk rock records ,at least on major labels,in the USA,and in Europe absolutely very easily. In those Times,no web.But radio everywhere.And a lot of rocking newspapers.In London,three every week.The New Musical Express,the Melody Marker and Sounds.All three available world wide,and so on again. You're absolutely right when you're talking of Mott the Hoople, especially for Mick Jones.But not only Mott,the glam rock scene also. After Johnny Thunders,Mick Ronson is the biggest influence on London punk rock scene,with Johnny Ramone
Punk was full on rebellion music used to air the youths discontent with unemploymemt, poverty, prospects polictics and society in general thats why the establishment in the uk was so anti punk. Its roots were quite different to the New York arts scene
Mott the Hoople and The Small Faces, eh? I think someone suckered you. There really was no blueprint, which you would know if you listened to 20 different 77 British punk bands. They all sounded unique. It was the Americans who declared a 'punk sound' as nauseously propagated by Green Day and others.
I am 13 years old and this is how i found out about the pistols. When i was 11 i liked Harry Styles music and after a while i found out he was in a band called one direction so i started lisening to them and beacame obsessed. After being in the 1d fandom for a while i found out that 1d (short for one direction) used to tour with a band called 5 seconds of summer or 5sos(short for 5 seconds of summer). I started listningen to 5sos, a band that was popular in the 2010s that had 90/2000s pop punk influcated songs. I started to love that band and i thought omg i have never heard music this good music in my life. I later found out that the band that inspierd 5sos was Green day. I started lisening to Green day and was like omg this is soooo old school but so good. And now about 2 weeks ago i watched an old Green day interweiv on youtube and found out that their music insperasion was the pistols. I was like omg they have a funny name and i started lisening to Anyrcy of the Uk on Spotify and i LOVED IT IT WAS SO PUNK AND SO OLD SCHOOL BUT SOOO GOOD. Now i have lisent to their pink and yellow album on Spotify on repeat. My friends HATE my music taste but i dont care beacus i know that i have better music taste them them. I HATE BTS and all the morden pop stuff.(sorry for bad spelling, i am from Sweden so i am not so good at writing in English)
Your English is more legible than some native speakers tbh, no worries. I was around your age when I discovered the Pistols as well, they truly are an amazing band. Check out the Subhumans, DOA, Big Boys, Rudimentary Peni, Johnny Thunders, Amebix, Chron Gen, UK Subs, Sham 69, MDC, Discharge, GBH, Chaos UK, and Oxymoron while you're at it; you won't regret it.
New Rose by The Damned is the other classic 1977 punk song alongside Anarchy. Also try Babylon's Burning by The Ruts which came out a couple of years afterwards.
I was at boarding school in the late 70's and discovered punk through the iconic British DJ John Peel. I used to listen to his show after lights out through an old mono earpiece. Still love The Pistols 45 years later. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for doing it.
You have to bear in mind that punk was meant to be egalitarian at the outset. The idea wasn't to be great musicians. The idea was that anyone who had something to say could pick up an instrument and say it through music. No one expected punk bands to be great musically. It was more of a political statement than a musical exercise so trying to analyze them musically is missing the point.
malcolm wanted spectacle to this day, the guys in the band still think it was their idea to get rid of glenn...because glenn like the beatles now they all admit to liking the beatles
@@thewkovacs316 Glen played one gig with Sid before him and Nancy moved to NY it was benefit they never had a "band".Get your facts straight before you write anything you tosser!
I was 13 years old. Jackson 5, Osmonds, The Carpenters and disco were being played in my house. A friend, the same guy who would bring Penthouse mags to school, told us all about this group so I stopped a the record store and bought the album. The day I heard this album on my record player changed my entire life! I listened to it over and over absorbing this angry explosive sound! Tried to get my dad to take me to see them live at The Winterland in San Francisco and after seeing the crowd lined up to get in, he turned the car around and drove home. Broke my heart. I went on to discover much better punk especially The Clash! But the Pistols were game changers!
Sid Vicious didn't play a note one this album. the original bassist Glenn Matlock played on 1 song(can't remember which) but Steve Jones the lead guitarist overlayed his guitar on production to make it sound like a bass
Glen played on anarchy in the uk it was recorded 1976 November when he was still in the group he left feb 1977. I've met him nice guy, 250 items in my colkection seen them 7 times never mind the bollocks the sex pistols are ace.
Translated to American English it means something similar to 'Ignore the nonsense'. BTW, it may sound like pop today, but only because of the HUGE influence they had on EVERYTHING since (Music, fashion, personal freedom and more). At the time, ABBA were pop.
Watch 'the filth and the fury' documentary about the pistols then youll understand the context of the period and the philosophy of what they were doing cos youre niave as hell when it comes to the meaning of punk music
"Post Beatles", and "not long after Clockwork Orange", it was eternity between the early 70s and 1977. Punk was a counter to the over produced corporate stuff being produced by nearly all of the mid-70s bands.
I just don’t think they get real punk. It’s way outside their zone. The punks didn’t give a fuck about anything so these kids come from a generation which is all about safety and being offended. Punks major aim was to offend.
I guess you had to be there. I remember being 15 and seeing them on the 6pm live evening news show, they swore several times and took the piss out of the presenter who goaded them. I was hooked. They were kids themselves and suddenly stars. Half the nation loved them and half hated them. The government truly felt they were a danger to the nation, and the press demonised them. All I can say was, it was a brilliant time to be a teenager. One perfect album and gone.
Sorry ...last thoughts . How loud was it in the headphones ? PAUL COOK ON DRUMS !!!! And here's a little tune from 1972... that all the bands heard. ua-cam.com/video/6YMeZSxNWV8/v-deo.html
The Ramones started before the Sex Pistols. The Ramones didn't like to be labelled punk. The Pistol's manager, Malcom McLaren, used the word "punk" as a marketing tool, which pretty much mainstreamed the phrase "punk."
stooges. velvet underground, mc5, new york dolls, patty smith, television, richard hell, modern lovers....all came long before the pistols all seen as rock and there was no label july 4 1976...ramones play at the roundhouse in london 2k in attendance including all the members of the pistols, clash, damned, bromley contingent that was the spark that told these folks they could do original stuff and make it lydon, who claims that he wasnt influenced by the ramones, begged to meet joey there is an interview with lydon where a fan wrote in asking if he was the cherie currie of the band that really pissed him off
@@thewkovacs316 The Pistols were playing a gig on the 4 July 1976 at The Black Swan in Sheffield supported by The Clash. So that appears to be utter bollocks.
Youve got tounderstand . At the time everyone was stoned ,wearing bellbottoms and still hung over from the 60s. Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles and fun dancing funk was in fashion... and these snarling short haired kids show up.
Americans reacting to the Pistols is always pointless. The Pistols created EVERYTHING that influenced EVERYTHING that came after it. Yes the Ramones and Iggy Pop came before but the Pistols CHANGED THE WORLD in a way Iggy Pop and the Ramones could never have done.
"Pauline was a girl who used to send these letters to me from some nuthouse up North in Birmingham. She was in a mental asylum. She turned up at my door once wearing a see thru plastic bag. She did the rounds in London and ended up at everyone's door. She had a very curious way of finding out where people lived. Like most insane people, she was very promiscuous. The fetus thing is what got me. She'd tell me about getting pregnant with the male nurses at the asylum or whatever. There's a line in the song about Pauline living in a tree. She actually had a tree house on the estate of the nuthouse. The nurses couldn't get her down and she'd be up there for days. Apparently punk rock pulled her out of her cocoon. She didn't seem to have a problem either...one of the many lunatics that used to attach themselves to us." ~ John Lydon "You had to keep your distance from Pauline. She was a mad fan who used to turn up everywhere. She turned up at my door too. She was dangerous and very crazy...someone you really had to worry about. She was a pretty girl but she had those mad eyes." ~ Paul Cook "Everything - tune and lyrics inspired by the infamous Pauline from Birmingham. The girl with the crazy look who would follow us around. The mad opening of the song still reminds me of her. " ~ Steve Jones
Members of the Sex Pistols saw the Ramones play live in the UK and were heavily influenced by their sound and by their dress. I believe that the Ramones' first album came out before the Sex Pistols' album, however, either way, The Ramones were already established on the US punk scene before the Sex Pistols were a thing.. The first official punk record in the UK was released by The Damned. Listen to their single "New Rose". The Sex Pistols sound was still great and ground breaking due to their aggression, their lyrics, their swearing and their dress. The band owed much of their success to their front man Johnny Rotten and his snarling, vicious and obnoxious vocals. I idolized these punk rockers growing up. Punk later morphed into the new wave movement, which spawned many great new US and UK bands!.
It’s easy to laugh at this but you can’t imagine going from disco to punk !!! No one had ever heard anything like this . Listen to Crass … Dead Kennedys… punk lives on
You should cover Rotten’s later band. Public Image Limited. They did a lot of great tracks. They did the eponymously titled single and another great song called Rise.
The timeline of the punk sound going forward from 70's to 00's and beyond for me is: Iggy - Pistols - PiL - Nirvana - Foofighters.... but the Pistols were the first of the punk lineage. Emulated by many but nothing great as the original.
I love an alternate view of any track, in any genre, but someone just said "punk is kinda pop really" You are in no way qualified to be a music reviewer if you genuinely think the Sex Pistols are "pop" Their entire existence was to be anti pop. How long can it take for at least one of you to do a tiny bit of research, and at least understand why punk started in the UK. I guess you already know this, as you only have 1k followers 5 months later.
I think in North America, USA in particular, punk is more associated with 'hardcore', where bands more or less go out of their way to not be catchy. Indeed, if you look at most modern bands in alternative genres, they tend to go towards the extreme, to be non-melodic, so for younger generations hearing punk or metal that isn't just visceral rage, but is actually melodic, is kind of surprising.
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Steve Jones couldn't play guitar but the band needed a guitarist so he stole a guitar from Pete Townsend from the Who, did a two week bender on speed, practicing guitar non stop, by the end of the two weeks he could play the guitar. He is now one of the most iconic guitarists of punk, and 80s rock.
Bollocks is a word of Middle English origin, meaning "testicles". The word is often used figuratively in British English and Hiberno-English in a multitude of negative ways; it most commonly appears as a noun meaning "rubbish" or "nonsense", an expletive following a minor accident. Since Juan and Marco don't really like Johnny Rotten's voice, skip Public Image Limited or PIL, but at least then the ZedGen duo can see how current production value may have altered his voice. I just saw him at the Cruel World festival a few weeks ago and that bastard is still spicy. I would think that Johnny would like the belief that his anarchistic beliefs from then are the happy music of today and is compared to Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine as proof his legacy has infected everyone! I cannot wait to see who is picked for the start of the US punk scene... Maybe something from "Some Old Bullshit" will be thrown in to really confuse Juan and Marco - Sex Pistols - The Doors - The Rolling Stones
jimmy page was messy? page was one of the most sought after studio musicians before he formed the yard birds how many things are you going to be wrong about in this vid
If something is described as, “the bollocks” it’s the best. So Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols means - never mind the best, here’s the Sex Pistols. Better than the best. Obversely, ‘a load of bollocks’ means fucking awful. The dogs bollocks means it is excellent. You can’t lick the dog’s bollocks. We’ll you could, would you want to, would the dog let you.
Punk Rock/The Sex Pistols ..wasn't so much the music it was more an attitude which combined music,clothing,hair,make up,art,politics..it was a very small upmarket movement..that exploded after an appearance on a primetime tv show..when they swore on live tv..John Lydon (Rotten ) was only 17/18 at this time.
Bollocks is an old british for testicles, the meaning of "Never mind the bollocks" means don't care about the other shit, here is the Sex Pistols. The americans don't use this term, its typical british. Nice greetings from Germany
I'm a huge fan meet glen and John, muffled no way sorry I disagree amazing band with energy and allways sounded great looked amazing and could play very well, ok sid was not great but listen to him on belsen demo he sounds decent, bur anyway great band and era seen them 7 times on reunion tours,and they were amazing met glen,and John.
So glad I grew up in 70s and 80s instead of now and ending up like these woke wasters who think they know everything but actually know nothing about anything
I wear t shirts held together with safety pins that are older than these guys. never known a time bad enough to make them get the fight or flight choice. not fit to listen to the pistols.
If you're focusing on how well The Sex Pistols' "Never Mind the Bollacks" is mixed, you don't get it!
To quote Pete Townshend, Never Mind the Bollocks is the greatest rock n roll album of all time. The fella in the grey top is clearly missing the point, which is a shame.
He needs a kickin'.
I did not know that. What an accolade. It is THE timeless album. The fact they changed music and created the culture we have today, with only ONE album? What a testament
Pistols stand alone. Bollocks to the Stones and Doors. I was 14 in '77 and when these came along it was a game changer. Blew everyone before them away. Songs still sound amazing today. And Glen Matlock was the original bassist. Vicious was just a junkie tool. Punk made me the person I am today. It was more than music.
i was 16
started listening to the ramones in 76
i was 12 when i first heard the modern lovers
13 when i first heard the stooges
where were you?
I'm 53 . Been a punk since 86 . Rock on homie.
Same here, well said mate. I went a bit too far and ended up in one of Margaret Thatcher's Detention Centres lol Fuck em!
Zen Punk Mindset.
Gen Z? These guys look like my uncle.
hahaha
The Sex Pistols where the last genuine rock n roll band with the intention of destroying Rock Music.
Talked over the best line in Anarchy, Get Pissed Destroy.....
they arnt interested in critiquing the music, just having a good frat-boy time making fun and yes, talking over the very sections of the songs that might explain things for them...horrible
Attention spans of a moth.
Yeah, Johnny got lucky there: 'Pissed' in the U.K means getting drunk :)
I'm 61 but anarchy still makes me want to shout in the street, and no you sound nothing like him
Wanna like this ten times!
The bass player on the album knew exactly what he was doing and wrote many of the songs, then he got replaced with Sid who didn't know how to play.
Steve Jones played most of the bass on the album
@@alistairmacdonald2634 true, he didn’t write it tho.
@@mainprimate3827Yep it was mostly Lydon who penned the lyrics, although Matlock wrote Pretty Vacant
He could play. It's all BS
@@mainprimate3827 Matlock is only on Anarchy on the U.K. the rest is Steve Jones on bass. Johnny wrote all the lyrics no one else the music was Matlock and Jones so ya Jones did compose the music.
Anyone wearing a fashion house t-shirt has nothing to say that I want to hear.
Can't take in music for the first time because you have to jabber non-stop in your Guess t-shirt
Thank you!
The funny thing about the supposed influence of the US acts like The Stooges/MC5/New York Dolls/Ramones on UK punk is that none of the original British punk bands really cite them as an influence (with the sole exception of The Damned). The British punk bands were mostly influenced by 1960's acts, many of whom were still around in the mid-late 1970s, but had largely gone off their game. The Sex Pistols track 'New York' on Never Mind The Bollocks is an explicit rejection of New York punk and the CBGBs scene - which was generally artier, more intellectual, more gender-and bending than the UK version. It is confusing to many who believe implicitly in the US influence on British punk to learn that it was almost impossible to get American punk records in the UK in 1975/76, hear them on the radio or TV in the UK in 1975/76. In fact, if you count up the bands name-dropped by members of the Pistols, The Clash, The Damned and more in biographies and interviews, it seems the biggest influences on British punk, bizarrely, are The Small Faces and Mott The Hoople. I kid you not.
Come on,man,the biggest influence of Steve Jones was Johnny Thunders.Malcom Laren,the Sex Pistols manager ,who managed brieftly the New York Dolls,with the commie look,returned from New York with the Gibson Les Paul Custom owned by Sylvain Sylvain,the NYDolls other guitarist and gave it to Steve Jones.
The New York Pistols song was written ,for the lyrics,by Johnny Rotten .It's agressive because of rivalry between The NY guys and The London lads.
When the first Ramones came out,Joe Strummer said everybody ,including himself,listened for hours to that album.With his last band,the Mescaleros,Joe Strummer made a Ramones cover live,Blietzkrieg Bop.At the first Ramones concert in London,every London punk rocker was there.The Ramones gave a beer to Johnny Rotten ,after pissing in the beer.
Mick Jones played a Gibson Les Paul Junior because of Johnny Thunders.Like Strummer,he just loved the Dolls.
When Mac Laren organised the Anarchy Tour,to put the Sex Pistols on the map,with the Clash and the Damned ,hé asked Johnny Thunders to came in the UK with his band.
And so on...
A couple of years ago,an old man,named Johnny Rotten almost got in a fight with another youngster Mark Bell about who creates Punk Rock.It was funny.
In 1974,the New York Dolls came in London to do a concert with Rod Stewart.In the audience,there was Steve Jones,Mick Jones and Brian James.
You could found the punk rock records ,at least on major labels,in the USA,and in Europe absolutely very easily.
In those Times,no web.But radio everywhere.And a lot of rocking newspapers.In London,three every week.The New Musical Express,the Melody Marker and Sounds.All three available world wide,and so on again.
You're absolutely right when you're talking of Mott the Hoople, especially for Mick Jones.But not only Mott,the glam rock scene also.
After Johnny Thunders,Mick Ronson is the biggest influence on London punk rock scene,with Johnny Ramone
Punk was full on rebellion music used to air the youths discontent with unemploymemt, poverty, prospects polictics and society in general thats why the establishment in the uk was so anti punk. Its roots were quite different to the New York arts scene
Mott the Hoople and The Small Faces, eh? I think someone suckered you. There really was no blueprint, which you would know if you listened to 20 different 77 British punk bands. They all sounded unique. It was the Americans who declared a 'punk sound' as nauseously propagated by Green Day and others.
Bollocks in England generally means testicles, but it is also used to mean; rubbish, trash or nonsense. It can be used in the same way “Bullshit” is.
I am 13 years old and this is how i found out about the pistols. When i was 11 i liked Harry Styles music and after a while i found out he was in a band called one direction so i started lisening to them and beacame obsessed. After being in the 1d fandom for a while i found out that 1d (short for one direction) used to tour with a band called 5 seconds of summer or 5sos(short for 5 seconds of summer). I started listningen to 5sos, a band that was popular in the 2010s that had 90/2000s pop punk influcated songs. I started to love that band and i thought omg i have never heard music this good music in my life. I later found out that the band that inspierd 5sos was Green day. I started lisening to Green day and was like omg this is soooo old school but so good. And now about 2 weeks ago i watched an old Green day interweiv on youtube and found out that their music insperasion was the pistols. I was like omg they have a funny name and i started lisening to Anyrcy of the Uk on Spotify and i LOVED IT IT WAS SO PUNK AND SO OLD SCHOOL BUT SOOO GOOD. Now i have lisent to their pink and yellow album on Spotify on repeat. My friends HATE my music taste but i dont care beacus i know that i have better music taste them them. I HATE BTS and all the morden pop stuff.(sorry for bad spelling, i am from Sweden so i am not so good at writing in English)
Your English is more legible than some native speakers tbh, no worries. I was around your age when I discovered the Pistols as well, they truly are an amazing band. Check out the Subhumans, DOA, Big Boys, Rudimentary Peni, Johnny Thunders, Amebix, Chron Gen, UK Subs, Sham 69, MDC, Discharge, GBH, Chaos UK, and Oxymoron while you're at it; you won't regret it.
New Rose by The Damned is the other classic 1977 punk song alongside Anarchy. Also try Babylon's Burning by The Ruts which came out a couple of years afterwards.
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Two guys in the middle just don't get it and never will, as John Lydon said in a song once "anger is an energy".
I was at boarding school in the late 70's and discovered punk through the iconic British DJ John Peel. I used to listen to his show after lights out through an old mono earpiece. Still love The Pistols 45 years later. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for doing it.
'A Clockwork Orange came out around this time'?I Yeah, six years earlier LOL.
You have to bear in mind that punk was meant to be egalitarian at the outset. The idea wasn't to be great musicians. The idea was that anyone who had something to say could pick up an instrument and say it through music. No one expected punk bands to be great musically. It was more of a political statement than a musical exercise so trying to analyze them musically is missing the point.
This is the absolute truth.
Those boys wouldn’t have lasted 30 seconds at a pistols concert. 😂😂
What a bunch of muppets talking over The music, it’s about the Berlin Wall and communism
Replacing glen, their original bass player with sid was the beginning of the end.
malcolm wanted spectacle
to this day, the guys in the band still think it was their idea to get rid of glenn...because glenn like the beatles
now they all admit to liking the beatles
when sid tried to form a new band, he had glenn on bass
@@thewkovacs316 That's bass not base and no Sid did not start a band or tried to start with Glen.
@@derekdykeman9160 you dont know squat
@@thewkovacs316 Glen played one gig with Sid before him and Nancy moved to NY it was benefit they never had a "band".Get your facts straight before you write anything you tosser!
I was 13 years old. Jackson 5, Osmonds, The Carpenters and disco were being played in my house. A friend, the same guy who would bring Penthouse mags to school, told us all about this group so I stopped a the record store and bought the album. The day I heard this album on my record player changed my entire life! I listened to it over and over absorbing this angry explosive sound! Tried to get my dad to take me to see them live at The Winterland in San Francisco and after seeing the crowd lined up to get in, he turned the car around and drove home. Broke my heart. I went on to discover much better punk especially The Clash! But the Pistols were game changers!
i was 15 and listening to the ramones
Sid Vicious didn't play a note one this album. the original bassist Glenn Matlock played on 1 song(can't remember which) but Steve Jones the lead guitarist overlayed his guitar on production to make it sound like a bass
Glen played on anarchy in the uk it was recorded 1976 November when he was still in the group he left feb 1977. I've met him nice guy, 250 items in my colkection seen them 7 times never mind the bollocks the sex pistols are ace.
Yes Sid did play on it in fact you can find alternate versions of songs with Sid on bass
Sid played on bodies
Translated to American English it means something similar to 'Ignore the nonsense'.
BTW, it may sound like pop today, but only because of the HUGE influence they had on EVERYTHING since (Music, fashion, personal freedom and more). At the time, ABBA were pop.
ok, I don't think these Z's are ready for something like TG.
My man w/ the sunglasses look like Walter from The Big Lebowski
Watch 'the filth and the fury' documentary about the pistols then youll understand the context of the period and the philosophy of what they were doing cos youre niave as hell when it comes to the meaning of punk music
Drummer was Paul Cook, best friend to guitarist, Steve Jones.
First bass player was Glenn Matlock in 1976 in UK.
Current day young people can have no idea about why punk started or the state of the world back then.
If you start out with the idea of using Jimmy Paige and Zeppelin as a comparison, you do not get it.
"Post Beatles", and "not long after Clockwork Orange", it was eternity between the early 70s and 1977. Punk was a counter to the over produced corporate stuff being produced by nearly all of the mid-70s bands.
I just don’t think they get real punk. It’s way outside their zone. The punks didn’t give a fuck about anything so these kids come from a generation which is all about safety and being offended. Punks major aim was to offend.
I guess you had to be there. I remember being 15 and seeing them on the 6pm live evening news show, they swore several times and took the piss out of the presenter who goaded them. I was hooked. They were kids themselves and suddenly stars. Half the nation loved them and half hated them. The government truly felt they were a danger to the nation, and the press demonised them. All I can say was, it was a brilliant time to be a teenager. One perfect album and gone.
The riff from Holidays in the Sun is a direct copy of The Jam. In the City.
Except Anarchy came out 9 months before.
@kimn9802 Anarchy isn't Holidays in the Sun
Don't forget THE RAMONES .
Sorry ...last thoughts .
How loud was it in the headphones ?
PAUL COOK ON DRUMS !!!!
And here's a little tune from 1972... that all the bands heard.
ua-cam.com/video/6YMeZSxNWV8/v-deo.html
The Ramones started before the Sex Pistols. The Ramones didn't like to be labelled punk. The Pistol's manager, Malcom McLaren, used the word "punk" as a marketing tool, which pretty much mainstreamed the phrase "punk."
stooges. velvet underground, mc5, new york dolls, patty smith, television, richard hell, modern lovers....all came long before the pistols
all seen as rock
and there was no label
july 4 1976...ramones play at the roundhouse in london
2k in attendance
including all the members of the pistols, clash, damned, bromley contingent
that was the spark that told these folks they could do original stuff and make it
lydon, who claims that he wasnt influenced by the ramones, begged to meet joey
there is an interview with lydon where a fan wrote in asking if he was the cherie currie of the band
that really pissed him off
@@thewkovacs316 The Pistols were playing a gig on the 4 July 1976 at The Black Swan in Sheffield supported by The Clash. So that appears to be utter bollocks.
@@IamLertimo funny....because joe insisted he and everyone else was there. think joe was lying?
yes they would say that because ramones were no where near punk,,,,,yes im from uk
Caroline Coon came up with the term punk. The Sex Pistols started in 1975.
It's called ORIGINALITY a new idea new attitude new sound new everything something you've never heard of 🎉
Youve got tounderstand . At the time everyone was stoned ,wearing bellbottoms and still hung over from the 60s. Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles and fun dancing funk was in fashion... and these snarling short haired kids show up.
Americans reacting to the Pistols is always pointless. The Pistols created EVERYTHING that influenced EVERYTHING that came after it. Yes the Ramones and Iggy Pop came before but the Pistols CHANGED THE WORLD in a way Iggy Pop and the Ramones could never have done.
There’s no Americans on that panel
True enough. Also Johnny's lyrics and delivery made ALL the difference, plus factors of 'look' and 'attitude'
@@Maulicious they yapped over the songs. not cool.
"Pauline was a girl who used to send these letters to me from some nuthouse up North in Birmingham. She was in a mental asylum. She turned up at my door once wearing a see thru plastic bag. She did the rounds in London and ended up at everyone's door. She had a very curious way of finding out where people lived. Like most insane people, she was very promiscuous. The fetus thing is what got me. She'd tell me about getting pregnant with the male nurses at the asylum or whatever. There's a line in the song about Pauline living in a tree. She actually had a tree house on the estate of the nuthouse. The nurses couldn't get her down and she'd be up there for days. Apparently punk rock pulled her out of her cocoon. She didn't seem to have a problem either...one of the many lunatics that used to attach themselves to us." ~ John Lydon
"You had to keep your distance from Pauline. She was a mad fan who used to turn up everywhere. She turned up at my door too. She was dangerous and very crazy...someone you really had to worry about. She was a pretty girl but she had those mad eyes." ~ Paul Cook
"Everything - tune and lyrics inspired by the infamous Pauline from Birmingham. The girl with the crazy look who would follow us around. The mad opening of the song still reminds me of her. " ~ Steve Jones
Wits the score wae sunglasses indoors?
Members of the Sex Pistols saw the Ramones play live in the UK and were heavily influenced by their sound and by their dress. I believe that the Ramones' first album came out before the Sex Pistols' album, however, either way, The Ramones were already established on the US punk scene before the Sex Pistols were a thing.. The first official punk record in the UK was released by The Damned. Listen to their single "New Rose". The Sex Pistols sound was still great and ground breaking due to their aggression, their lyrics, their swearing and their dress. The band owed much of their success to their front man Johnny Rotten and his snarling, vicious and obnoxious vocals. I idolized these punk rockers growing up. Punk later morphed into the new wave movement, which spawned many great new US and UK bands!.
If i were 20 listening to this!! i would destroy the entire room possessed by the music.
1 The Doors / 2 Sex Pistols / 3 Rolling Stones
iggy pop created stage diving and crowd surfing
It’s easy to laugh at this but you can’t imagine going from disco to punk !!! No one had ever heard anything like this . Listen to Crass … Dead Kennedys… punk lives on
You should cover Rotten’s later band. Public Image Limited. They did a lot of great tracks. They did the eponymously titled single and another great song called Rise.
The timeline of the punk sound going forward from 70's to 00's and beyond for me is: Iggy - Pistols - PiL - Nirvana - Foofighters.... but the Pistols were the first of the punk lineage. Emulated by many but nothing great as the original.
You could also try Killing Joke.
not the only album.
Sid Vicious didn't play on the album, the original bassist was kicked out with encouragement of their manager
I love an alternate view of any track, in any genre, but someone just said "punk is kinda pop really" You are in no way qualified to be a music reviewer if you genuinely think the Sex Pistols are "pop" Their entire existence was to be anti pop. How long can it take for at least one of you to do a tiny bit of research, and at least understand why punk started in the UK. I guess you already know this, as you only have 1k followers 5 months later.
I think in North America, USA in particular, punk is more associated with 'hardcore', where bands more or less go out of their way to not be catchy. Indeed, if you look at most modern bands in alternative genres, they tend to go towards the extreme, to be non-melodic, so for younger generations hearing punk or metal that isn't just visceral rage, but is actually melodic, is kind of surprising.
It's not their only album check out the Great Rock and Roll Swindle.
Production muffled? Dear me. Wash your ears out boy
This endless analyzing everywhere goes beyond limits...when turning into action?
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The English music video for this song is on the "Fueled By Ramen" official channel, not the official channel of ONE OK ROCK..
clockwork orange came out in 71
Steve Jones couldn't play guitar but the band needed a guitarist so he stole a guitar from Pete Townsend from the Who, did a two week bender on speed, practicing guitar non stop, by the end of the two weeks he could play the guitar. He is now one of the most iconic guitarists of punk, and 80s rock.
It has been in commercials...now .40 years after it was written .
Punk was/is a comradery. Of course its uplifting.. we need inspiration to fuck shit up.
Bollocks is a word of Middle English origin, meaning "testicles". The word is often used figuratively in British English and Hiberno-English in a multitude of negative ways; it most commonly appears as a noun meaning "rubbish" or "nonsense", an expletive following a minor accident.
Since Juan and Marco don't really like Johnny Rotten's voice, skip Public Image Limited or PIL, but at least then the ZedGen duo can see how current production value may have altered his voice. I just saw him at the Cruel World festival a few weeks ago and that bastard is still spicy. I would think that Johnny would like the belief that his anarchistic beliefs from then are the happy music of today and is compared to Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine as proof his legacy has infected everyone!
I cannot wait to see who is picked for the start of the US punk scene... Maybe something from "Some Old Bullshit" will be thrown in to really confuse Juan and Marco
- Sex Pistols
- The Doors
- The Rolling Stones
has to be Black Flag, then some Minor Threat and finish with Fugazi. Husker Du/Nomeansno following those
Respect & Peace
Mr Grey t-shirts ignorance is astonishing! And depressing at the same time.
Need to do Dead Kennedys at some point if you appreciate the Pistols.
jello is a funny guy
jimmy page was messy?
page was one of the most sought after studio musicians before he formed the yard birds
how many things are you going to be wrong about in this vid
Page was notoriously sloppy during his time with zeppelin. Even he called his playing “loosely tight”.
If something is described as, “the bollocks” it’s the best. So Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols means - never mind the best, here’s the Sex Pistols. Better than the best. Obversely, ‘a load of bollocks’ means fucking awful. The dogs bollocks means it is excellent. You can’t lick the dog’s bollocks. We’ll you could, would you want to, would the dog let you.
The bass player was Glen Matlock for the early singles and allbum, Sid could not play!
Nope
@@derekdykeman9160 And?
Musical connoisseurs drinking "Tim Horton's" coffee criticizing something they don't quite understand. "Jimmy Page is messy" - lol.
Punk Rock/The Sex Pistols ..wasn't so much the music it was more an attitude which combined music,clothing,hair,make up,art,politics..it was a very small upmarket movement..that exploded after an appearance on a primetime tv show..when they swore on live tv..John Lydon (Rotten ) was only 17/18 at this time.
Rotten was 20 in 1976 not 17 or 18
Wonder if they gave up on this site, I hope not, but it’s shocking how few subscribers there are. I guess people really hate Gen Z
What would know, really there more to it rock on Lydon
Punk Started along with rock and roll got its catigory with mc5 in detroit name came from what they called them in mid to late 60s
The guitarist, and primary song writer, Steve Jones played bass on the album, so you're putting your preconceived ideas into your reaction.
Muppets
Bollocks is a reference to people talking nonesense with regards to this album . Bollocks are also the male genitals 😑
Ya balls
Guy in the Guess shirt has no idea 😉
London in the 70s was great!
Gen Z metalheads.Good to remember there were plenty that preferred Jethro Tull and Iron Maiden to the Punk thing.
First song is Seventeen..
It means stop talking shit. Advice indeed.
STONES THAN PISTOLS
bollocks means many things including testicles, bad things and lies. also you're missing the point by analysing the production
They were forbidden tho have a hit single by replacing Sex Pistols with no name
Bollocks is an old british for testicles, the meaning of "Never mind the bollocks" means don't care about the other shit, here is the Sex Pistols. The americans don't use this term, its typical british. Nice greetings from Germany
Sex Pistols first, then the Clash.
If you buy fashion house shirts, you are far too square to understand. Punk was everything that you are not!
I thought the Disney series did a good job visualizing shit. You need the visuals for this movement, it wasn't just the music
So, to these guys, it's about the riffs?? LOL. Clueless. 😅
Gucci doesnt look impressed
I'm a huge fan meet glen and John, muffled no way sorry I disagree amazing band with energy and allways sounded great looked amazing and could play very well, ok sid was not great but listen to him on belsen demo he sounds decent, bur anyway great band and era seen them 7 times on reunion tours,and they were amazing met glen,and John.
Pleasee do Public Image Limited in the early years
I am not sure you know anything about what you are talking about.
They're not getting the punk vibe. Who gives an eff about the mixing. You had to be there when punk exploded on to the scene
This was recorded in 1976-77, feck me, youve grown up with digital drivel
So glad I grew up in 70s and 80s instead of now and ending up like these woke wasters who think they know everything but actually know nothing about anything
No clue.
These guys have missed the point,missed the boat,....missed out.
Their Pretty Vacant.
Just found your channel and I know this video is a month old but please show these kids some Bad Religion and/or NoFX… if you choose to do more punk
Just don't get it! Should have done their research.
I wear t shirts held together with safety pins that are older than these guys. never known a time bad enough to make them get the fight or flight choice. not fit to listen to the pistols.
except for the great rock n roll swindle
React to eater no brains, live video