Product Description

'Never Mind The Bollocks..' was the first and only studio album by the Sex Pistols. It is regarded by critics as the most important album of the punk era. The singles 'Anarchy In The UK', 'Pretty Vacant' and 'God Save The Queen' are included.

Track Listing

1. Holidays In The Sun
2. Bodies
3. No Feelings
4. Liar
5. God Save The Queen
6. Problems
7. Seventeen
8. Anarchy In The UK
9. Submission
10. Pretty Vacant
11. New York
12. EMI

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #972 in Music
• Released on: 1993-05-10
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Sex Pistols' only proper album has become one of those records that is far more talked and written about than listened to. Only a handful of rock & roll bands can genuinely claim to have changed the world, and only one of those can claim to have done it with such a tiny discography (though any number of retrospective albums have been issued since the band met their messy end, this was the only one released while they were still a going concern).

It is impossible that any serious fan of modern music is not familiar with at least the singles collected here ("Pretty Vacant", "Anarchy In The UK", "God Save The Queen"). Jamie Reid's lurid yellow-and-pink sleeve artwork is also an enduringly influential cultural artefact. Mostly, though, what should never be forgotten about Never Mind. . . is that when all the mischief and mayhem it inspired or caused has been stripped away, it is a truly great rock & roll album: guitars as angry and adrenalised as any ever recorded, killer tunes, and Johnny Rotten's inimitable voice--the definitive articulation of disgust. Altogether perfect. Every era, and every home, should have one. --Andrew Mueller

Customer Reviews

Should be 10 stars
Forget all the hype & rubbish that surrounded the Sex Pistols & remember that this album changed music. The reason is that it simply is a truly great album.

I have owned it for nearly 30 years & it is still an album that is exciting to play.

Inspired - buy it !

Shockingly Brilliant
This really was punk - instead of signing to an indie label like "true punks" lets go with a major & take them for all their worth TWICE OVER -nice one SP!
Socially & musically this album cannot be underestimated. It is without doubt one of the most important & influential albums ever recorded.
Every track is a punk gem, as fresh now as it was then, a powerhouse of multi-layered guitars and scowling vocals with astute and witty lyrics,
Anachy & Pretty Vacant in particular, contain two of the greatest intros of all time.
For all these modern bands who pretend to be punk, Oasis, Artic Mondays & a multitude of American bands spring to mind, this is the real deal.
Most importantly of all, it is the album that finally killed off disco & progressive rock and for that we should all be eternally grateful

A Holiday in Other People's Misery!
Ah, punk rock. One of the only pure forms of music to come along in the past forty years, and one of the most misunderstood. Today's Generation Y (I'm one of 'em) look-up to bands like Greenday as being punk, and that's why today's Generation Y will be the laughing stock of all generations to come. Green Day are part of the bollocks.

Never mind the bollocks.

I bought this record on a whim, on a hint. Someone, somewhere had told me the Sex Pistols were good, I was in need of pure British rock and I picked this one because the title made me laugh. And thank God, thank God I did.

I won't get into the track-listing and explain each one. I won't explain how "God Save the Queen" has more punk, snarl, anger in it than most punk bands' discography today (punk being the corporate idea of what punk is, anyways). I'll stick to the opening "Holidays in the Sun." No, you know what? The opening LYRIC: "I want a cheap holiday in other people's misery!"

A snarl, a shiver, a rotten, purely rotten voice. Punk. Pure punk.

Just think about that opening lyric. Yeah.

The entire record - sadly the ONLY Sex Pistols record - is filled with songs that range from topics like abortion to the famous anarchy, and is downright pumped with guitar hooks. Very catchy, very luring, and very good.

The only reason that I won't give this five stars, instead of four, is that ... well, watch the young Johnny and the new Johnny. If you compare them - kinda feels like the new Johnny is just trying so hard to be punk, but he hasn't got any outrageousness left in him. Kinda kills the glamour. Oh well. Otherwise, high praise.