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The whole of their 'Never Mind The Bollocks...' album is a flawless masterpiece. The definitive punk album.
^^THAT^^
Ramones disagree.
thirty some minutes of raw punk anger and blistering guitar from Steve Jones
with Ramones debut , best punk rock albums
Give me Zen Arcade by Husker Du over Never Mind the Bollocks all day, every day.
I was 13 when this album came out and remember the sheer amount of panic it created in the UK establishment / government . It came out in the same year as Queen Elizabeth's silver jubilee so to see titles such as Anarchy in The UK and God Save The Queen ( another track on the album ) had a lot of people worried . Many record shops refused to sell the album because of the so called "obscenity" of the title . It was banned on some radio stations and the shops that did sell it in some cases had to cover up the album sleeve from public view . Virgin record shops were raided by the police with threats of indecency Court actions so they covered up the album title . One Virgin shop manager refused to and was arrested. Richard Branson covered his legal costs when the case was tried in Crown Court . Needless to say all of this helped the sales greatly . It is worth remembering in the UK at the time of release was suffering from industrial decline in many working class areas with many industrial strike actions across the country . The air in the country was very tense so the explosion of punk was viewed as a big threat to society by the powers that be .
A bit like today's world , bring back punk.
A friend of mine bought me this album. It came out around the time we graduated from high school and entered college. I wouldn't have listened to it otherwise, but in retrospect (considering the Sex Pistols' influence), I'm glad I had the opportunity to know their music.
Most memorable lines from "God Save the Queen":
God Save the Queen
She ain't no human being
The world of popular music/radio absolutely needed this in 1977. Music was ruled by disco and what I call American Corporate Clone Rock. At that time, I hated both of those and desperately wanted something (anything) to happen and bring back the energy of garage rock and the British Invasion. It's not that there was no good music being made, but I sure didn't have access to it in my little Southern hometown. Thankfully, punk and post-punk happened and gave new life to rock-n-roll.
Today it's hard to hear just how great this is because so much music flowed from what the Sex Pistols and Ramones did, but in '77 this was an explosion of three-minute energy that kicked down the doors and blew off the roof. And the Clash were even better.
Never mind the bollocks. Indeed.
shaunbyme9037,, very interesting! Didn't know about the Virgin record shop raids! The Sex Pistols shot across lots of previous boundaries, "God save the Queen, the fascist regime"...One can well imagine that punk songs like this were considered as a threat to society in the UK. In the US, I believe this album was taken as mostly satire, while we were enjoying a new sound. We liked the idea of "Anarchy in the UK", because we knew it was just a suggestion, something that wouldn't happen. We identified more with a song like "Pretty Vacant", eh?
Really, it was rock and roll. Punk was fashion not a musical statement.
RIP Vivienne Westwood who passed away last week. She and Malcolm McLaren were pivotal in the birth of the punk movement in London. Especially the Sex Pistols.
true. Johnny didn't dig her
@@luvlgs1 johnny didn't or doesn't dig anyone
@@phillipclark6463 Johnny wasn't fashion, she was.
And Malcolm was a spineless culture vulture..both of them fashionistas.
pretentious shit just like Velvet Underground + Warhol. no wonder Johnny hated it.
“Holidays In The Sun” should be next! One of the greatest punk songs of all time.
This!
Yes. Yes. Yes.
One day, they may be ready for "Bodies"...
Holidays In The Sun is their greatest song IMHO both musically and lyrically. Got this from the internet, and I think it encapsulates the lyrics perfectly:
“At the time this was written a stupid woman from the left wing had an article in the news saying she didn’t want a ‘holiday in the sun’ but wanted something with more meaning. She then wrote that she wanted to visit the Bergen Belsen or similar death camp. She meant the type of historical museum. John Lyndon wrote these lyrics after reading this. It was extreme Satire at the type of political idiot who wants to holiday in someone else’s ‘misery’ and is his expression of pure human disgust at the idea of a horrific death camp becoming a holiday destination. I think the same is true of the reference to the Berlin Wall, that he thought that people could only holiday to the wall from the western side as if you did from the eastern side you would be machine gunned.
The satire is very deep dark stuff. I believe it is john’s horror at such dreadful places becoming like part of the entertainment industry.”
Oh, and also, the song is an absolute banger as well.
@@silgen Bodies, probably the most underrated song I've ever heard, an absolute masterpiece and maybe even more offender than God save the queen
Steve Jones deserves a medal for his studio work on this album. Flawless. And the production kicks ass.
One of the best Rhythm guitarists, does not get enough credit
Still the best sound around.
And he also played the bass parts on every song, because "poseur" Vicious was in hospital at the time of the recordings.
@@ricktellon3755 Not on this one.
This was Glenn Matlock, their original bass player, who left early in the recording of the album.... because his feet were too clean .
Chris Thomas was the genius behind the recording
So in the UK it seemed like almost overnight we went from Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd and ELP to the Pistols, the Clash and the Damned a true revolution in music.
I loved the 70s variety we had in music but some elements definitely needed a kick up the arse and punk did that alright. It was also a time, in the UK, of a very unpopular government and punk definitely reflected that. I was 16 when this came out and remember my rather cool parents' jaws dropping when SP came on t.v!! Great reaction, makes me want to go and pogo my brains out. NO spitting though! Eww.
*Devolution
If by revolution, you mean music that went from awesome, beautiful and brilliantly complex to obnoxious people who could barely play their instruments, then yeah, very revolutionary. Woohoo.
@@GorgonTheHybrid The outcome of any revolution is always going to be viewed differently by those on both sides. Not all but many ‘punk’ and then ‘new wave’ bands could play their instruments perfectly well but chose to do so in a different and simpler style. That in itself is not a bad thing. Complication is not always good and, speaking as a lover of progressive rock, some of the music of the second half of the 70s was getting complicated for complicated sake. Out of the simplification came a whole host of brilliant new bands who built back upon the ground zero approach of the first punk bands and music became more varied and inclusive in the process, I will never regret that, only that some of the prog bands of the mid seventies tried to change to react to it. Those that did seldom achieved their earlier brilliance and should IMHO have stuck to their guns. When prog ‘reimerged’ in the mid to late 90s it was welcomed again by old and new fans alike as another facet of the musical multiverse.
@@scifimonkey3 Dumbed down obnoxiously aggressive attitude rock does not equal any kind of music I have any interest in. Music doesn't have to be exceedingly complex to be good, but it has to have intelligence and substance. A bad attitude and being reactionary and rebellious isn't enough. You have to have actual talent. Even early punk bands like the MC5 and The Stooges also sucked. The Velvet Underground and Captain Beefheart did NOT suck. All the 70's/early 80's punk bands were godawful, save from the occasional Ramones or Clash song that were catchy enough to transcend the genre. And I have no interest in post 70's prog - sounds like a different genre and doesn't have the magic of the vintage 70's stuff.
One of the most culturally significant albums of all time in rock&roll. Thank you for your poignant review. There are many documentaries on the subject but perhaps the best is "The Filth and the Fury."
It’s a shame England is now losing its culture altogether and probably forever. Check out the youtube channel Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, especially the video they just put out.
My comment about this song was deleted because while I like this song, the Sex Pistols and punk as a genre, I pointed out what is going on in England
Ah, here we go some real punk rock. God Save the Queen is their masterpiece.
I mean it man, we love our Queen
God save the Queen is just brilliant .It just explains Britain at the time .Punk was a force that blew music apart because it allowed anybody to produce music especially at the pub and small venue level .
It's actually hard to imagine that it's taken two music lovers this long to get round to hearing this stuff. What cave are you hiding in. I bought this album when I was 12 years old for Pete's sake. It's brilliant as is the entire album. Nothing today will ever have the same impact or contain the sheer visceral power. On that register it's unsurpassed. They only made one album but it was all in it.
I feel amazed they haven't heard 90% of the songs they've reviewed.
You're right mate.
Right on mate
You guys should do the whole ‘Bollocks’ album. I was 15 when this came out. The Pistols were game changing .
You can't overstate the importance of this record when it came out. They were amazing for that one album. They changed the industry itself.
You can't imagine the impact this had on the traditional pop world in the UK in the seventies! As a 17 yr old at the time, it was such a breath of fresh air, just an incredible time!
John Peel BBC end of year countdown had Anarchy in the UK at number one for three years .
@@kelbatt7729 The beloved Mr Peel was my guide for so many years.
Strange time, being that age for the Sex Pistols. They were dangerous, I knew that much. I knew the names Johnny Rotten and Sid Viscous. Sure you had the Clash and The Ramones, but The Sex Pistols?....That was punk rock, everybody knew it. They had the sound, fury, the look, the leader, the rebel, the guitar hero. They had it all. They came and went before my 17 year old self was even aware.
The '70s was THE most truely diverse decade musically. No other time period would have The Sex Pistols and Debbie Boone playing on the radio.....and every other genre in between. Amazing period to be alive and witness new genres being created.
This was one band that actually scared people when they toured the US They were much more hated than loved but that debut Sex Pistols album “ Never Mind the Bollocks…” is absolute fire! Anarchy is just one of many bangers on it. “ holidays in the sun” “ god save the Queen “ “ pretty vacant”. It’s an S - tier album for sure
"Pop songs that are also punk songs," and vice versa, is 100% the formula Kurt Cobain would perfect a decade later. This song / record opened the imaginations of SO many kids who would go on to be the alt rock kings and queens of the late 80s and early 90s.
That also describes the Ramones
Worth noting that Nirvana was one of the few grunge bands who actually played punk. So many others were metal with flannel shirts, all trying to ride the Nirvana bandwagon.
@@davidteller7681 ramones where greasers playing rock n roll, this is punk
I was in Athens, GA in the late 70s/early 80s and very early R.E.M. was very punk influenced. Most of what they did then was fast and sloppy (and extremely energetic).
@@rbraxley Totally true. Funny enough, Michael was one of Kurt's best friends, godfather to Frances Bean, and the man who inducted Nirvana into the Rock Hall in 2014.
The Eagles were singing about the 'Hotel California' whilst bands like the Buzzcocks played cheap guitars and sang 'nothing ever happens to us, except we miss the bus'. At fifteen, I could relate to one of these situations, and it wasn't the Eagles. This music changed my life.
i hate the fuckin' Eagles, man
Buzzcocks were awesome
I love this whole album but Pretty Vacant and Submission are my two favs!
Ditto
Pretty vacant is actually their best song musically for me but Anarchy was such a banger.
we're pretty, pretty va - cunt , and we dont care. The Sex Pistols- greatest anti-band of all time, didn't care about success at all.
14 in 1977 and sick of ELO / Supertramp / Leo Sayer etc. this hit like a 10 ton truck. Just the jolt the music industry needed. Holidays in the Sun and Pretty Vacant are punk masterpieces as of course is God Save the Queen.
Love "Pretty Va-c-nt!"
Queen, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Ted Nugent, Iggy Pop, The Clash, Pink Floyd and many others were still making new albums in 1977...you just needed to change radio stations.
@@jtf2dan In the UK it wasn’t possible to just switch the radio station. It was a constant diet of overproduced pop crap until punk came along. The Clash debut album was released in 1977 btw.
@@simonspeak9288 I was 17 in 1977 and I totally agree with you! At the time I was sick of listening to 12 minute tracks and it was so refreshing to hear a 3 minute song played at 100mph! Mind you, now at 62, I still do enjoy those 12 minute album tracks like I did pre-1977. That's the beauty of music, isn't it? :)
@@jtf2dan There wernt that many radio stations in England in '76/77 Which was part of what UK punk was about
1977 had some great debut albums by Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Cheap Trick, & The Clash to name a few
The Jam and Wire.
don't forget about Peters and Lee.
I'll never forget the first time I heard these guys. I saw them on TV and my 8 year old head exploded 🤯! To my Mother's (RIP) credit, she got me this record because she knew what music meant to me. Great review guys! Happy New Year to you all🎉
This truly was one of you guys best reactions yet, God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols has to be your next pistols song. I am mostly a Prog rocker, I get in the mood for some head bashing straight anarchy from time to time though!
They keep mislabelling anarchy for chaos...... anarchy is merely an organised system with no strict leader. Silly punkies
This album landed at exactly the right time. An brilliant, refreshingly different take on rock from what was around at the time. The Sex Pistols turned the whole world of music on it's head with this album. Play the full album and it still shocks today. S tier all the way
The Sex Pistols are the purest distillation of punk the extended universe has ever known. I had to buy this album twice because someone stole my first one. I couldn't even get mad. Seemed appropriate.
Sorry, but you forgot the Stooges. The original punks...
@@chuckmeyers1153 didn't forget. First doesn't mean purest. The Sex Pistols came, they rocked, and they flamed out while being pure punk every second of the way.
Brilliant!
Don't forget Australia's The Saints....pre dated the Sex Pistols by 2 years. Do 'I'm Stranded'.
@@stevemurrell6167 again first doesn't mean purest.
This album was one of my favorites when I was a teen. It was raucous and angsty, loved it. Sometimes when you become solid middle aged and listen to your youth anthems… it’s embarrassing. Not this one, still love it 😍
The album’s producer took great pains to make this flawless. He recorded multiple takes of Johnny Rotten’s vocal and put together a master vocal, sometimes taking just one line from a take. A final mix of the song was done about 3:00 a.m. and it was just Rotten, the producer, and the engineer left in the studio. The producer cranked it up and played it for Rotten. When it was over Rotten just smiled and said “That’s our anthem.” And he was right.
The Pistols only had 6 US tour dates ever. My 15 yr old self was at the Great SouthEast Music Hall on Jan 5th 1978.
Beer bottles were thrown, chairs were thrown, fights broke out and slam dancing was everywhere.
Still one of my best memories, ever.
They were the loudest band I have ever heard. Saw them in Tulsa, OK in mid 70s. We put wetted toilet paper in our ears & they were still so loud we eventually had to leave the concert.
Damn, color me extremely jealous.
And Cain's Ballroom still stands today...the only place the Sex Pistols played that still exists
Really ?
If you ever get a chance, since they're touring again, see Flipper. Saw them mid-'80s, and if you came within 5 yards of the stage/speakers, you lost your equilibrium. (So, of course, we kept creeping into that zone, then falling out, and repeating ad nauseum.)
Until a few years ago, when i lived in Maida Vale, my next door neighbour was Glen Matlock from the Sex Pistols - he drove a Volvo & had really nice flowers in his window-boxes - we all grow up & mellow !
That's exactly the sort of thing that got him kicked out of the band in the first place.
@@gregsager2062 Since no-one agrees whether he left or was kicked out (even the band themselves all have different stories & McLaren made stories up as he went along) I’m not sure how you’re such an expert when they were there & you weren’t. Yet he wrote/co-wrote most of their songs & they never wrote anything decent again after he left….. an amazing coincidence. Now Matlock is playing with Blondie & Lydon does reality TV & TV commercials
I remember my big brother, who was 17 at the time, bringing this album home and my parents were like "You're not playing that in this house!" 😂 He did though being the angry teen he was 🤣 Great vid guys and Happy New Year!
For many of us this was the first Punk record we had!
This is most definitely S-tier, the whole damned album is a brilliant sonic slap in the face 😁I think the song "Pretty Vacant" is kinda the quintessential punk song, you can hear with the bass and drums the foundation of a lot of punk songs to come. So glad you finally gave them a spin! PS.... HAPPY FRIGGIN NEW YEAR GUYS!!! You are one of my favorite channels and I appreciate all you do for us music lovers and geeks 💜
I like Pretty Vacant as well for the reasons you state. For historical reasons the album is a MUST. What do you think of Joan Jett's cover of PRETTY VACANT?
@@notedrockhistorian4382 I've always liked Joan Jett, TBH I think her version is a little overproduced but still a good tune. Sid's vocals were spot on in the original cut, and it's less guitar centric.✌
@@cherinoelke I think the point of punk was to be under-produced, stripped down, raw, unpolished. The ANTI-JOURNEY, if you will. When Joan does a cover she infuses it with her own rock spirit, which I feel is just, you know, three chords, 1-4-5, right? But you hear her "rock attitude" in every song.
@@notedrockhistorian4382 That is precisely why I like the original of that song better. There’s the way Sid annunciates “vacant” it sounds like “vacUNT”, I just dig the raw energy much more on the original. As I said, I have always liked Joan Jett for her style and what she’s contributed to rock. Starting her own label when nobody would touch her and signing non mainstream acts way back then was a boss thing to do!
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The first time I heard it... it hit me like a ton of bricks. It cut through all the bloated self indulgence of what the rock industry had become enmeshed in. It's simplicity and demands couldn't be denied. Me, at the time, a longhaired rocker heeding its call...cut my hair and jump into the moshpit of the zeitgeist that THEY had helped to create. Definitely The Sex Pistols were the ones who brought the sound of Punk to the world.
BTW, Dame Vivienne Westwood passed away last week. She was behind a lot of the fashion, or anti-fashion, of punk rock and her King's Road boutique Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die (later renamed SEX), which she operated with Malcolm McLaren, the Sex Pistols' manager and punk rock impresario, was a main hangout for London's Chelsea punks in the early 1970s.
4th of July 1976 in London, members of the Clash, Sex Pistols and others watch The Ramones tear it up. Punk was born on that date.
Sex Pistols had already been gigging for 8 months, and Chris Spedding had recorded the band in the studio in May '76.
Awesome job, guys! A couple quick takes. Andy: you nailed it that the band came onto the scene at just the right time. Classic rock was dying and radio was drowing in a sea of diluted disco and squishy soft rock. The Pistols literally saved rock and roll. Alex on your description of the vocals: Johnny Lydon (Johnny Rotten) brought the perfect mix of anger and "distanced irony" to all their songs. Casual listners don't notice that amid the energy, filth and fury of their performances that their songs are extremely witty and satirical (except for "Bodies"). Throw away lines like "You know what I mean?" in "Anarchy" or "We mean it, man!" in "God Save the Queen" are awesomely funny.
If you're looking at punk, you might consider the Dead Kennedys. Holiday in Cambodia is great.
The way in which you young men read into the significance of this song for its time won me over as a fan of yours forever. Well done!
Never guessed Alex would go s tier. But this, to me, is the epitomy of punk
All time classic
OK, now imagine first hearing this at 17!! It's music like this that shaped my whole approach to the world in the 80's. Not always positively!
I was 15. A friend brought the UK import single of "Anarchy in the U.K."/"I Wanna Be Me" to a post-church gathering. We played it on the stereo there over and over again. When the LP arrived in the U.S., bought it the first day. Don't think it left my turntable for 6 months.
I was 9 yrs olds i shared the same bedroom with a 15 yr old sibling!
-Then there were their Iconic Poster's too
I was 16 when this came out, I'm 63 now, this is still a wonderful song. Glad to see young people discovering it.
My favorite line in all of Rock n' Roll. "Don't know what I want but I know how to get it ". Top 10 most important album in Rock imo. "God save the Queen" next.
The most important British rock song of the decade.
One of my fave Sex Pistol songs. God Save the Queen is another hit you should check out.
Forgot to mention, Punk is a genre of the late 70s. People often lose sight of that.
I absolutely LOVE the Sex Pistols
When their song 'God Save The Queen' was the number ONE song on the British charts, that space was left BLANK on the chart listings. The (British) music industry refused to acknowledge them
True story!
Finally , well done, was worried you wouldn't get it ! please take a look at The Jam singing Going Underground. R.I.P Terry Hall of The Specials who died a couple of days ago, maybe look at some TwoTone
Gutted about Terry Hall 😢
Definite second for Going Underground!
The sound of my miss spent youth! I love the way Andy said “it came at the right time in the 70’s.” You are so right, I remember where I was when I first heard this, I was so ready for it. 💕💕💕
such good analysis. i wish you guys would dive into the "new york dolls" catalog if you haven't already. that gritty new york glam scene vibe is just so unique. cbgb brought out the best in rock n roll, it was like the grace land for that late 70's gritty rock.
I’m so glad you guys finally got to listen to some Sex Pistols and even more so that you guys loved it. I hope more punk is introduced to this channel like Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, and Bad Brains.
Bad Brains!!!
DOA
In the beginning, punk rock was pop music with ripping guitars, speed, and energy. The Ramones played melodic pop songs and then all the punk bands who were influenced by them, including Sex Pistols, followed that lead.
Eventually punk became almost completely associated with the sound of hardcore and thrash, and, ironically, punks became militant about conforming to that style or you weren't considered a true punk. But as you learned with London Calling, that initial punk wave could be just about any style of music you wanted to play. As Patti Smith said, punk rock in the mid- to late-70s was defined by one word: freedom.
Sorry but the Ramones are a pop band. You just heard a Punk band above.
This is a tired Argument.
Anarchy was the real birth of Punk. Period…
@@TheAsiavol if it's a tired argument, then why the f*** are you still arguing? What part of this statement is too complicated for you to understand: "The Ramones played melodic pop songs...?"
@@TheAsiavol Nonsense. "Pop" is shorthand for "popular", and there was nothing popular at all about the Ramones, in any sense of the word. Sure, Joey Ramone always wanted to be a Beach Boy, but the Beach Boys were not the least bit popular among teenagers and college kids in the mid-'70s -- and, besides, the Ramones left out the key ingredient that had once made the Beach Boys popular, their rich harmonies.
They sang songs about carnival freaks, sniffing glue, monster movies, lobotomies, and rent boys turning tricks in midtown Manhattan. They played simple three-chord songs, and they played them as fast as possible, often getting in the entire song within two minutes. They had Moe Howard haircuts and looked and acted as though they had spent their entire youth in special ed classes. They were outsiders who didn't give a damn about becoming insiders, and they never took themselves too seriously.
They were *not* a pop band.
The Ramones were the archetypal punk band.
(Besides, "Anarchy in the UK" wasn't even the first British punk single. "New Rose" by the Damned was released a month earlier.)
@@gregsager2062 TheAsiavol was right about one thing at least: it is tiresome to argue about genre, at least I find it tiresome, and it is especially tiresome to argue about what is and isn't punk because the militants seem to think they have the intellectual authority to define punk for everyone else. However, if I were to make the case for what constitutes punk rock, I'd want to make the case you just made. I doubt I could have made the argument as well as you did, so I'm glad you did. Well done.
Hell Yes!
Been waiting for this reaction for 3 years.
Tell the truth! This is one of the best bangers of all time. Raw, Punk, Loud and Awesome!
My favorite A&A reaction is the one where Alex says "Okay" kind of quizzically right after the music starts.
Glad you got to this one!
Sex Pistols X-Mas 1977 is an awesome documentary (you can find on UA-cam) about the Sex Pistols performing a charity Christmas concert for children of fire fighters who are on strike. It's a must see. It shows a lot of what was going on in Britain that pushed punk rock to the forefront.
Alex nailed it "S" tier! The whole album 'Never Mind The Bollocks" is a classic, keystone album. You guys need to do a full album listen. Great from begining to end. One of Punks most important albums.
Happy New Year Gentlemen! Thanks for finally reacting to this song! It is punk song that started it all. November 26, 1976! The Silver (25 year) Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth. The Bicentennial (200 year) celebration in America.
What a year for the birth of punk!
Every punk band that came in the years after had this as their bar to ascend to.
Thanks Gents. S Tier all the way!
I remember seeing an interview with Noel Gallagher of Oasis where he held up a copy of Never Mind the Bollocks and said something along the lines of, I've had x number of hit singles, x number of hit albums, made x number of million pounds and would give it all up in a heartbeat to have written that. I don't believe him but you get the point.
Time to check out The Stooges - Search and Destroy - it is a proto punk, almost speed metal. Killer lyrics and attitude.
Oh, yeah, baby! Violence and irreverence.
Thanks for allowing the song to play out without stopping it for some observation or comment or constantly talking over it. Give a masterpiece its due. Let it play. And then comment.
This is how these reaction videos should be done.
I recall one special line from one of the songs "they made you a moron", so accurate, it has been downhill culturally since 1977.....
Excellent. His voice is like what happens when you sing a sneer. Now do some Dead Kennedys! And I remember my sister getting a 45 of Sid VIcious' version of "My Way" (the frank sinatra song) for christmas one year and how appalled my (sinatra-loving) parents were by the whole thing. (Still bought it for her, though, ha.)
One of if not the greatest album ever made. Johnny Rotten is 19/20 doing those vocals. Insane!!
100/100
Johnny didn't "work" @ any other level!
@@andybricks576 Age 19 or 20
Finally. Thank you. Early Punk is full of great tracks. Great voices. Great ideas. Life changing sounds. Hit The Damned, Clash (before London Calling), X-Ray Spex, The Adverts, Buzzcocks, Wire...Let's go!
You cant deny the sheer Riffs on this album. It sounds incredible for a mid 70s album. Still sounds fresh and dynamic
As you guys were saying, yes, shocking for '77. Remember what they were reacting to. I was only in 3rd grade when this came out, didn't know about it until Middle/High School when I got into The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Jam, etc. As incredibly excellent as this is just on its own - remember the context. What was popular at the time? All that prog rock - now, I'm not a huge fan of Prog, but I'm not going to knock it, but do imagine being 18 or so years old in '77 in the UK with rolling blackouts and an economy in the toilet....and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Pink Floyd, Yes, etc. Paul Weller of The Jam (who are not Punk, but Mod Revival) said something like, "Do you know who sold out Wembely in nineteen seventy-seven? Fleetwood Mac! Fleetwood Mac!" The whole notion of what Rock and Roll had become was anathema to guys like The Pistols, The Clash, The Jam. Led Zeppelin with their own airplane - Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" - again, I'm not trying to knock all of that other music, but the Pistols were something that very much arose as a reaction to what was around them and a desire to return to earlier, simpler, rock music. I'd suggest watching the Danny Boyle miniseries on The Sex Pistols on HULU - it's great.
Hi Guys. This doesn’t have anything to do with anything, but how about a reaction to Badfinger’s Baby Blue? It’s always been a favorite of mine. And Vince Gilligan’s of Breaking Bad fame too. You just know he held this song in his back pocket all those years saving it for the last scene in the last episode of the series. Just brilliant. Rick Beato does a great breakdown of the song on his channel too that I really enjoyed. I know this is a random post. Just throwing it out there.
You have to remember this came out the same year as Eagles Hotel California and Fleetwood Mac Rumours. It was a wake up call, a rallying cry and a slap in the face.
Sometimes an album drops and it changes everything. Nirvana's "Nevermind" was another one that dropped 14 years later and had the same effect. Hmm. I just noticed: Sex Pistols "NEVER MIND the Bollocks ..." and Nirvana's "NEVER MIND". I wonder if that was an intentional homage. 🤔
999 was a great British punk band. Check out their song, "homicide" it's fantastic. 👍
Love 999 - great suggestion!
@@sj6546 great, isn't it.
I've never seen anyone react to it. The video barely has views on UA-cam, which is surprising as imho it's one of the best punk songs ever written.
@@TheRetroManRandySavage I guess its one of the more obscure bands if you’re not really into punk. So many great bands from that time don’t get heard.
Indeed.
Excellent reaction. There was actually a lot of good stuff happening at that time, but the anger of the punks was well understood by those of us who were there. They did what they had to do. They did what needed to be done.
The vocals in this are the winner......the spit of resentment ......fantastic...never ever matched cheers
A created boy band at the time fashioned after the Punk scene in NYC/USA - they flamed out as they should have as Punk Gods.
Ok now’s the perfect time to hit The Jam. In The City from their 1977 album of the same name.
YES! The riff for Holidays in the Sun (on Never Mind the Bollocks) was stolen from In the City.
Hey Alex, I bet you listen to this song a dozen times during the next few days. This song rocks so hard! No Pop. No Fluff. Anger, Rebellion, made by punk kids who when not stealing guitars and growling at the fans, didn’t give a shit what authority thought or said!
And Steve Jones is a Bloody Brilliant guitarist!!!
Keep the ball rolling. React to their Album “Never Mind the Bollocks”!!!
EMI! Never Never Ever……
I was working at a record store in spring of '78. We put this album on as a joke. After three songs I was like, 'Holy Shit! I like this!'
The song 'Bodies' was shocking. As intended. Just groundbreaking music for the time. Then they broke up.
The Sex Pistols changed many peoples lives. Including mine. I'm glad you young guys get it. The infamous Johnny Rotten on vocals. Steve Jones on guitar. Paul Cook on drums. Glen Matlock was the original bass player.. He was replaced by Sid Vicious. (Bad move) Steve ended up playing most of the bass tracks on the album.
Inducted into the RnR HOF, they refused to attend. This with only one album to their name. Legends.
I saw these guys in San Antonio at Randy's Rodeo. A little honky tonk on the outskirts of town. As good as they sound on this LP, they sounded even better live! The sneer in Johnny's voice is punk perfection. Best $4.00 I ever spent on live music!!!
Thanks for doing this. You might also like to try more of the Clash and Ramones.
yup
The entire album is amazing (Holiday in the Sun being my favorite)
You should also read up or check out a documentary about Sid Viscous. Whole life and death was a train wreck.
You’ve no idea how happy it makes me to see that you’ve done this! I love John. 💜💜💜
I was at school when this came out and remember battering cassette tapes of it (Also their great rock and roll swindle). 1976 ish.onwards there was a few years of pink before it drifted into post.punk and new wave into the 80's. Classic,classic years. Thank you from the UK!
The whole "Never Mind the Bollocks" album is fire. Pure fire. Every song is a banger.
The singer also had the most punk rock stage name ever, Johnny Rotten.
For punk stage names, I always preferred the Damned's drummer's choice of Rat Scabies, myself. Both are classics!
@@RobtBlond Yeah, that's a great one too!
I started listening to music at a young age in the 50's. The 60's my tastes had grown with the English invasion. Then with the early 70's rock was peaking. By the late 70's stadium rock was ruling the airwaves and for the first time I found the formula stadium rock that was ruling the airwaves as boring and I was desperately looking and finding very little that gave me those same feelings of something new and exciting. Then the Ramones happened. Within a very short time punk blew through my ears. The Clash were the only band that mattered and music was once again evolving. New wave swept the shores and paved the way for grunge. Thanks for posting.
Now that is 100% pure punk rock! This should be required listening for music majors!!
You guys should listen to “Going Underground” by the Jam and compare it to this song.
It’s a perfect album. How often does one band change the face of music and create a movement and genre with ONE album?!?!??
It's only happened once and this was it.
John Lydon is a sweetheart ! I always loved his cheeky grin . His bark was worse than his bite . He did nature programs for TV ,appeared on 'I'm a celebrity ' and got pecked by ostriches , and is now nursing his long standing wife who has dementia.
He also helped care for his wife, Nora's, teenage grandchildren when her daughter, Ari Up, appeared unable to care for them anymore.
I was 16 when the Pistols burst on the scene.....it was an amazing time,a real revolution in musical terms. I used to go into London every night to see great bands like these,the Clash,Buzzcocks,the Police.....it really was a great place to be. The Pistols were NOT a punk band ......inmho they were a great ROCK band. Steve Jones is a vastly underrated guitarist. Great reaction guys. Check out Holidays in the Sun next.
Impossible to stress how much of a game changer this album was both musically and culturally.
You guys "GET IT"!! made my day. All tunes on that Bollocks album are bangers. Do "Bodies" or "Holiday In The Sun" next. Also check their movie D.O.A: A rite of passage.
You had to be there. Thatcher’s Britain was a nightmare for the youth of that era.
This cut through like a razor amongst the over produced, sweet sickly tones of bands like The Eagles, Rod Stewart etc.
They set fire to the millionaire dinosaurs that had paralysed the music industry, with their non-threatening clichéd love songs.
“You can’t play” shouted someone at one of their gigs……..Johnny Rotten snarled back, ”so fukn what?”
They changed everything…..for a year or two. And then punk was consumed by the music industry, who marketed it most successfully in the US.
OTHER great Pistols' songs: PRETTY VACANT and GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. You need to hit The BUZZCOCKS ("Everybody's Happy Nowadays," & "Ever Fallen In Love"), THE JAM ("Eton Rifles," "That's Entertainment," "To Be Someone," "Going Underground," "Down In The Tube Station At Midnight" "Private Hell" & "Man In The Corner Shop" among a ton of other great songs from THE JAM!) and STIFF LITTLE FINGERS ("Alternative Ulster" and "Suspect Device") and THE SKIDS ("Into The Valley," "The Saints Are Coming")
Great stuff, as usual, boys!
I recommend 'In the city' by The Jam for another great British punk track
Yes! It was also the basis for the riff from Holidays in the Sun. Weller even punched Sid Vicious when he saw him for stealing the riff.
Sorry to correct you guy's, but in the UK it came out in late 1976. . As, has been said before, the whole Album is a masterpiece. I have it on Vinyl, cassette, CD & 8 track ( didn't have a car, to play an 8track on, but bought it all the same, for when i did. Then they stopped putting 8 track player's into car's) . Deffo in my ever shifting top ten of all time Albums.
Not the case. It was released in late 77. The silver Jubilee year. My dad worked for Virgin at that time and remember it clearly.
Sorry to correct you also, but your Dad is wrong. The release date was the 26th Novenber 1976, on the E.M.I. label. Your Dad maybe getting mixed up with the release date of the Nevemind the Bollocks Album which came out in 1977 on the Virgin label. hope this puts it to bed.
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Nice surprise! Also appreciated that the Alex bobble head was in sync with the Alex bobble head 😂.
I'm very high and the dude on the right said, " What in tarnation?". I'm dying!! 😂😂😂😂😂👌
The whole album is S tier.
I don't know what I want, but I know how to get it. Greatest punk rock line ever.