Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols[Vinyl LP]

Sex Pistols | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl (October 28, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B001FBJUKE
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,169 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #18 in Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative > British Punk

Track Listings

1. Holidays in the Sun

2. Bodies

3. No Feelings

4. Liar

5. Problems

6. God Save the Queen

7. Seventeen

8. Anarchy in the U.K.

9. Submission

10. Pretty Vacant

11. New York

12. E.M.I.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars A reproduction not a remaster, November 25, 2008

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Allen McFarland "empallin" (Norman, OK USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols[Vinyl LP] (Vinyl)

This is a very interesting item in that Rhino chose to release a painfully accurate reproduction of the original package that puts things back as they were instead adding things that were never there. It seems that over the years each pressing of this record (legitimate and otherwise) has taken a little more of the original away. This package brings it all back home on a fine quality of wax.

A review of the contents of the music is pretty much pointless. We all know what it sounds like. It is loud and hard. We know the songs and thought we knew the order. One of the fixes this makes is that it puts the songs back in the order they first came in. In the end most people are buying this as a piece of history so they will never hear a minor difference like that.

Frankly I would be happy if this closed the lid on this piece of musical history. It would be a fitting end to the means. I still think this album in any form holds its own in any format.

The one downside to this release is that some sellers will almost certainly try to pass it off as the original hoping that some sucker wont notice the Rhino logo. Other than that it is a nice addition to the endless stories in the history of the one and only studio album the Sex Pistols recorded and everybody else releases.

5.0 out of 5 stars LP never sounded betta, November 16, 2008

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Scott McWade "dubs" (NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols[Vinyl LP] (Vinyl)

The previous review for this should be stricken from the record, it does not refer to this specific edition of this punk masterpiece. This is the heavy duty 2008 vinyl edition and it has never sounded better, although it never really sounded all that bad in any of its previous incarnations. Having said that, if you're in the market for an upgrade, you can do no better than some fresh 180 gram vinyl.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Work of Art! Important Album! Poor Sound Quality!, February 3, 2008

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Frederick Baptist (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Never Mind Bollocks (Mlps) (Audio CD)

The Sex Pistols and this album are very important in the whole history of rock and roll because of its influence on countless other bands and musicians to come such as Nirvana, The Clash, Green Day and other punk bands not to mention Heavy and Thrash Metal bands. Although they by no means were the first and only to start the punk movement as many others could lay claim to this honour e.g. The Ramones, The Velvet Underground and even Blondie but the Sex Pistols did have talent but they just chose to play in a certain discordant style to put their message across but that doesn't mean the album isn't good or that they're not good musicians. I thought the guitar solo on "God Save the Queen" was pretty good and I think this track is their best ever.

You have to listen to the album for what it is and what it stands for and as an early representative of the punk rock genre, this is actually very good. I'm just disappointed that after waiting for years for a remastered version ala what Iggy Pop did with his brilliant "Raw Power" album, this is what they came up with with any benefit from alleged remastering barely recognisable from the original cd I bought many, many years ago. The Stooges' remastering of "Raw Power" added extra life to what was a dated album and it now sounds like it could have been released today and this was what the Pistols could have done with this album but alas they let the chance slip away. If you already have this album, I wonder why you would want to spend so much more for pretty much the same disc albeit with an mlps packaging. The mlps design is made from thin, flimsy cardboard and is nothing to shout about given the many better mlps designs that I've seen out there although an insert with all the lyrics in both English and Japanese is included together with a fold out colour poster which is quite cool.

My recommendation: a must have for any serious music hobbist's collection but bear in mind that this version's sound quality isn't a material improvement over the version you already have and so you may end up paying a great deal more for what amounts to very expensive cardboard and a poster.