The Great Rock & Roll Swindle [Soundtrack]

Sex Pistols | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 24, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002MGM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,290 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. God Save the Queen (Symphony)

2. Johnny B. Goode/Road Runner

3. Anarchy in the U.K./God Save the Queen/Pretty Vacant/No One is Innocen

4. Anarchy in the U.K.

5. Substitute

6. Don't Give Me No Lip Child

7. (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone

8. L ' Anarchie pour le U.K.

9. Belsen Was a Gas [Live]

10. Einmal War Belsen Wirflich Bortrefflich (Belsen Vos a Gassa)

11. Silly Thing

12. My Way

13. I Wanna Be Me

14. Something Else

15. Rock Around the Clock

16. Lonely Boy

17. No One Is Innocent

18. C'mon Everybody

19. EMI (Orch.)

20. The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A crazy album, but...entertaining, March 15, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Great Rock & Roll Swindle (Audio CD)

This album is weird but is still a great album. The song's humour get old fast but so does any humour really. There are still a few good solid songs though like "Belson was a gas" and "I'm not your stepping stone". I really enjoyed "my way" sung by Sid Vicious, when I hear the line I lived a full life, I get coked up inside. I would have like more rotten though. All in all a great album but for anyone who doesn't already love the sex pistols but for anyone else get never mind the bollocks.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Get the joke or get on with it..., May 11, 2000

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Greekfreak (Pusan Korea (South)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Great Rock & Roll Swindle (Audio CD)

I can't say this is an unmitigated punk classic. I CAN, however, claim to love several funny/brilliant tracks that are far more chaotic (and thereby closer to the spirit of punk) than any of the other Sex Pistols residual recordings. "A Punk Prayer" with Ronnie Biggs is a lot more fun than an entire Damned Box Set, "C'mon Everybody" has Sidney going at it with a spot-on Joey Ramone impression, "Belsen Was a Gas" tore us all up back in grade nine (no accounting for taste), and for good measure they've included Sid's "My Way," a shambolic masterpiece of style over substance.

My only complaint comes from the symphonic bits, and the lack of inclusion of "No Fun", one of the more brilliant Pistols covers, only found on other import junk like "Flogging a Dead Horse."

Buy it especially for these odds 'n' sods, particularly the title track. Lots of fun for the whole family.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cash from chaos? Perhaps... but the music's good!, January 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Great Rock & Roll Swindle (Audio CD)

Just one question: how could any self-respecting Pistols fan NOT enjoy this album? After hearing their awesome version of "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone", along with songs such as "Don't Give Me No Lip Child" and "Substitute", this album went down as one of my favorites. Sure, "Friggin' In The Riggin'" and Sid's infamous rendition of "My Way" (which, may I add, can't be fully appreciated until you see the movie) are a bit on the silly side, but hey, music isn't always about being serious. My only complaint? Tenpole Tudor should've never been handed a microphone! Yikes.