Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols [Box set, Import]

Sex Pistols | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 2, 2012)
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Box set, Import
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Universal UK
• ASIN: B0087ZFH9Y
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (516 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,546 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Super deluxe four disc (three CDs + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) edition contains three CDs and a live DVD, including a remastered version of the album from the original master tapes, six demos from the Spunk bootleg album, a demo studio recording of "Belsen Was a Gas." and much more. The box set also includes a 7" replica of the "God Save the Queen" A&M single, posters, stickers and a copy of the original handwritten lyrics to "God Save the Queen." Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the sole album from the Punk legends, unleashed to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the album's original release. The Sex Pistols defined a generation and captured a feeling within the nation that simply no one else could have. The band created a truly distinctive sound and Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols' impact and influence still strongly resonates with musicians, artists and people to this day. This release has used the original master tapes from the 1977 recording sessions thought to be lost for many years. Now thankfully rediscovered, the tapes have been remastered, for the very first time, by Tim Young under direction from original producer Chris Thomas.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

377 of 429 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Grief April 7, 2000

By Stuntweasel

Format:Audio CD

I've never seen so much blatantly false information about a subject in one place before. Some of these people need to find out what the hell they are talking about before they submit reviews. I'm guessing that many of these 1-star ratings are coming from children weened on the Green Day poseurs.

Just to set the record straight, aside from some dross that was released after their demise, Bollocks is the ONLY Pistols album. To say that it is their best album or their worst album is simply a display of ignorance. Cripes, I'm seeing people write reviews of this landmark record who don't even get the names of the band members correct. Leave the critiques to folks who have more than a passing knowledge of the band and the album and the genre, for that matter.

As for all these comparisons, The Clash were very nice indeed, but they never packed the snarling power of 'Anarchy in the UK', nor did they ever produce a signature song like 'God Save the Queen', one of the great hard-rock anthems to ever come down the pike, blowing the doors off of anything by these neo-punk revivalists. And for all this talk of filler, I'll take one 'New York' for 5 songs on London Calling.

If it wasn't for albums like Bullocks breaking the prog-rock and corporate-rock mallaise of the late '70s, we'd all STILL be listening to turgid immitators of Floyd and Zeppelin.

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Rolling Stone Magazine was right March 27, 2007

By Nicholas Papamarcos

Format:Audio CD

In I think 1987 Rolling Stone Mag listed the top 100 lps. I believe this was #1 or #2 right behind Peppers. At a time when music was ruled by such dreck as the Eagles (post blues) Fleetwood Mac etc along came The Sex Pistols. My friends thought I had lost my mind when I said they were the future (No Future?). But,not that I needed the vindication RS showed who knew what. As for the guy who gave it one star and went on to say how the above groups represented the 70's check out his other reviews he has the nerve to give the Carpenters 4 stars and say that we all liked them. Speak for yourself pal. What are you doing listening to real rock and roll let alone reviewing it almost makes me think Lou Reed ( the real 70's) is right in his view on critics

49 of 54 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars put aside the hype, this is a classic March 2, 2006

By R. C. Kopf

Format:Audio CD

first, for those of you who have no understanding of punk, know that the pistols and other early punk bands were about live performance, not recordings. having said that, given that their career as a band was short-lived, try this album to grok what they were about.

the truth is these songs sound almost innocent compared to the headache rock, death & speedmetal, goth and other punk spinoffs that have sprouted since. musically the songs are simple and great rock n roll. lydon was an acidic, brilliant lyricist, as good as punk ever had, and his raw on-edge "singing" is as good as any punk vocalist ever.

34 of 37 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This album is a must have. May 9, 2007

By Norman Cotterill

Format:Audio CD

The people who nit pick about who is "punk", who is more musically adept are missing the point with The Pistol's.

I love all kinds of music, play guitar myself and was never into the punk scene and what went with it.

However, I'll never forget the first time I heard this album and the impact it had on me. It was devastating.

I may have Mozart or Sarah Brightman or The Stones or Coldplay in the CD changer tonight. Maybe Buddy Guy or some Verdi.

Then every so often I will stick in my well worn copy of NMTBITSP and from the moment I hear those marching boots and Steve Jones thunderous Les Paul crashing out the opening chords to Anarchy in the UK ...........I am suddenly 19 years old again with "no feelings..for any body else....except for myself...my beautiful self". Utterly unique and one of rock & roll's brilliant defining moments.

God save the Queen.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The turd flung round the world June 27, 2005

By Chet Fakir

Format:Audio CD

I bought this when this came out in 1977 at an import shop and it was the most liberating album I'd heard in my then 16 years of existence. Quite simply the snottiest, most revolutionary and most importanly ROCKING album at a time when rock wasn't played on the radio at all. Those were the days of boring twaddle like Boston, Foreigner and the musical excrement known as disco. The Pistols brought danger back into the rock and roll equation, and inspired countless thousands of kids to pick up some instruments and play their own music. Along with the Ramones and the Clash, the Sex Pistols are one of the most influential and historically important bands of the seventies. Rock was reborn: punk, new wave, metal, post punk, pop music all either sprang from or were renewed by the big bang that was the Sex Pistols and punk rock. As for the tremendously ignorant reviewer who said something to the effect that the British didn't care about slagging the queen because she's a figurehead. Oh my, God Save The Queen was HUGELY revolutionary and offensive to the British. The Pistols were banned from the BBC and from playing live in England precisely because of the love the British have for the monarchy and tradition. Slagging the Queen is tantamount to an American covering the flag in sh*t and lighting it on fire and then dousing the flames with urine. Yes the Pistols were manufactured by ambitious and then unknown fashion designer Malcolm McLaren, well he agreed to manage them and most importantly found Johnny Rotton. No they weren't the first punk band nor were they the first punk band I'd ever heard. I heard the Ramones first album and the Dammed's first album before the Sex Pistols. But those bands, while very good, didn't have the visceral punch, and f*ck you and everything you stand for attitude.... Never Mind The Bollocks was much rawer, much ruder. It was a nihilistic sound born out of the desperate state of English political and economic reality. It was a time of no future, to quote God Save the Queen: "your future gleam is a shopping scheme." The music was born of the hopelessness of the first British generation to have it (much) worse off than their parents. The empire had died. Society and politics were not to be trusted. So why should the Sex Pistols, as young Brits, attempt to belong to a society that provides no hope? As a political stance the Sex Pistols were nihilists rather than anarchists. Anarchy is a ridiculous political ideology if there ever was one, Crass' magnificence notwithstanding. Hmmm, yeah people will cooperate with one another to everyone's mutual advantage, ha! Grow up. The Pistols were not about making a statement so much as in creating chaos and holding British society up to itself in a mirror. From the beginning manager Malcolm McLaren declared the Pistols were an art project or perhaps a marketing project for his boutique rather than a band and either because of or perhaps in spite of McLaren's vision, ambition and hype, the Sex Pistols music is much more powerful than any of their contemporaries. Malcolm didn't write any of the songs. He brought the band together, but their music was their own.

BTW, for a fantastic history of this band, it's impact and times check out the documentary The Filth And Fury featuring interviews with everyone connected with band including Glen Matlock and Sid Vicious and a lot of live footage. Read more ›