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Pirates of Destiny

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I am a huge Sex Pistols fan, myself, and I am sad to say that this is one of the worst complications I`ve ever heard with them , except for the awful Live-Albums... The sound-quality is so poor, that I don`t know how you can ever mix this sound into a Long-Play-CD... For new listeners; Keep away from this... And the "Karaoke-Track" is not an original thing: They have just cut off Johnny Rotten`s voice! This is Swindle For All The Money!!! (And from what Bootleg is the Sweden-Tour taken from???)

The 22 tracks (45+ minutes) are a very uneven assortment of outtakes, interviews, some live material, etc. The Australian TV advertisement and some of the interviews can best be classified as throwaways. Most of the tracks are familiar with only one or two obscure tracks: Schools are Prisons; Watcha Gonna Do About It. For you karaoke fans, track eight is the backing track (no vocals) for Pretty Vacant. The packaging is low budget as well, with scant liner notes. To sum it up, the warning on the back says it all: Caveat Emptor - Let the Buyer Beware! Recording quality is suspect.Castle Communications could have done a much better job with this one. With a little more effort they could have ensured that whoever bought this CD doesn't immediately feel as if they have been fleeced. The Swindle continues.

And that is the song "Schools Are Prisons," which disproves once and for all one of rock's biggest myths: That the Sex Pistols couldn't play their instruments (In truth, they just didn't try to). There's something (very) vaguely Stooges about this song, and you can clearly see Public Image Ltd. in it as well. The rest is pretty horrible. If you REALLY want demos, live performnaces, etc. wait for the Boxset to come out in... uh... June, is it? Too bad it doesn't have "Schools..."

The album is strictly for sex pistols fans. It contains an advertisement from the australian t.v., several words from lyndon and mclaren , which are very bad quality. It has a speech give by the GLC British Couselor on punk rock and the sex pistols ( as seen in the film " the great rock and roll swindle"), "No feelings" and "Problems" comes from the spunk sessions, and arent EXCELLENT quality, but rather good. The outstanding track is "Schools are Prisions", which is only found in this record. "Woodstock Baby" is actually an intro for an early version of "Anarchy in the U.K.". The tracks " I wanna be me" and "Lazy Sod" are live in sweden, July 28, 1977. "Through my Eyes" is an old demo, a cover from the Small Faces. The last track is "Lazy Sod" live in the secret tour around England, late 1977. Just for real fans.

I'm not going to do an actual review of the album, however I am going to make something quite clear. The reason why you can only find 'schools are prisons' on this album is becuase 'schools are prisons' is NOT a sex pistols song. In fact, half of the album is NOT sex pistols. (...)

The track was recorded during the recording session for the Sexless Pistols - Deny LP

The band comprized of people like Matlock, Goodman and McIntosh..

However do note that most of the songs on the ablum are the sex pistols. It's just that that song and perhaps one or two others are not.

Just wanted to make that clear.