Kiss This [Import]

Sex Pistols | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 5, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B0000073PQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,092 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Anarchy In The UK

2. God Save The Queen

3. Pretty Vacant

4. Holidays In The Sun

5. I Wanna Be Me

6. Did You No Wrong

7. No Fun

8. Satellite

9. Don't Give Me No Lip, Child

10. (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone

11. Bodies

12. No Feelings

13. Liar

14. Problems

15. Seventeen

16. Submission

17. New York

18. EMI (Unlimited Edition)

19. My Way - Sid Vicious

20. Silly Thing

Editorial Reviews

Import only reissue of 1992 compilation includes all the tracks off their classic 1977 debut Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols. 20 tracks split into three phases, 'Early Songs And Other People's Material', 'Let Rip, Volatile, Full Fledged Songwriting On our Own' and 'Final group Of Songs Written Close Together. More Musical. No Longer Confused About Where We Stood.' Includes all the obvious hits and well known tracks. EMI.

Customer Reviews

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66 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Never Mind 'Never Mind' Here's KISS THIS!, September 4, 2000

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William Errickson Jr. (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kiss This (Audio CD)

The "Kiss This" 2-CD set, is, without a doubt, the best Sex Pistols product on the market. It's even a better purchase than "Never Mind the Bollocks..." How can that be? you ask.

The first CD is a nearly complete chronicle of everything the Pistols recorded. It has every track that is on "Bollocks," (same mix, same version, same everything. I mention that b/c it was a question I had before I bought it) as well as each of the four B-sides to their original singles. Those are:

1)I Wanna Be Me (B-side of "Anarchy") 2)"Did You No Wrong" (B-side of "God Save...") 3)"No Fun" (B-side of "Vacant"--awesome!!!) 4)"Satellite" (B-side of their last single, "Holidays...")

This last song deserves mention because it is, as author Jon Savage put it, "the great lost Sex Pistols recording." It's available on other bootlegs, but not this version. "Satellite" has some of the best Rotten lyrics, a fantastic Steve Jones riff, and wouldn't have sounded--well, I was going to say it wouldn't have sounded out of place on "Bollocks" but the truth is it would have; it's that good. Really. I mean it. If you're a Pistols' fan, you have to listen to this song.

"Kiss This" also contains several covers from their earliest days: "Don't Give Me No Lip, Child" and "Stepping Stone." "Did You No Wrong" was one of their first original tunes, and is here; it's a Mod-ish, tough little love song, the likes of which they'd never do again. Following these songs the rest of the "Bollocks" catalog. Always a pleasure to hear this stuff again (and again and again!)

The final two songs are a great bonus: Sid Vicious' version of "My Way," a brilliant/stupid, trashing/celebration of the Sinatra/Presley egotistical classic. Is this Sid's finest moment? It's a phenomenal piece of work, really. The last song is "Silly Thing," sung by Steve Jones after Rotten had left the band. There's a different version of this on the "Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle" soundtrack, but this one is good as well. Is it about Johnny Rotten?

This first CD has a great fold-out collage on one side of the insert, and a detailed commentary about each song by John Lydon, Paul Cook, Steve Jones, and Glen Matlock. An unexpected treat!

Disc 2 is "Live in Trondheim, 21 July 1977," a pretty good recording of a decent performance with Sid on bass. It only has 8 songs, but is a nice extra for the price.

As a long-time, die-hard Pistols fan, I was extrememly happy with this purchase. I was also happy to that it's not a bootleg; it's a fully authorized release from Virgin Records. The sound quality is excellent--maybe even better than the current CD of "Bollocks" from Warner Brothers.

"Kiss This" is an absolutely essential purchase for any fan of the Sex Pistols, well worth the $28. Buy it today, keep the Swindle alive!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars KNOW THIS: THIS VERSION IS NOT THE 2 CD ONE!, November 14, 2000

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Brent Chapman (Aptos, CA. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kiss This (Audio CD)

While this is absolutly one of the best CDs I have spent money on in quite some time, the second disc (live recordings) mentioned in the first review is not included. Imagine my dissapointment.

Aside from that, the Sex Pistols remain the greatest punk band of all time and this disc has just about everything they ever did. There are liner notes for every single song (which actually come straight out of John Rotten's 1995 book, "Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs", which is a fabulous auto-biographical recount of the whole mid-seventies maddness. Go read it.)

And if you don't have a Sex Pistols collection, this is it. Learn them, know them, adore and remember them.

Now piss off.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Forget "Never Mind The Bollocks", July 16, 2003

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M2 (Perth, Western Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kiss This (Audio CD)

This is a great collection, in fact although there are loads of collections of their work these are the ONLY songs you will ever need by the Sex Pistols, save for some live cuts. The olny reason not to get this would be iy you just want the prestige of having Never Mind The Bollocks because of its greatness, in which case theres convincing you but this ones got ALL of those songs plus the decent post-Rotten tracks and Sid's My Way which alone is worth the extra. Plus, I just wanted to say that I got mine in Australia with the bonus live disc (this one doesn't have it) and i gave the album 4 stars because I'd feel ripped off if i didn't (which you won't.)