Professionals

Professionals | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 10, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Caroline
• ASIN: B000024RFC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,055 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Little Boys In Blue

2. Mad House

3. Just Another Dream

4. Kamikaze

5. 1-2-3

6. Crescendo

7. Mods, Skins, Punks

8. Join The Professionals

9. Has Anybody Got In Alibi

10. All The Way With You

11. Kick Down The Doors

Editorial Reviews

1980 debut album for post Sex Pistols act featuring Steve Jones & Paul Cook. 11 tracks. Virgin Records.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Professionals' first album., May 28, 2005

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Joseph P. Ulibas "Captain Couth" (Florin, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professionals (Audio CD)

The Professionals (1980) was supposed to released but a dispute with the original bass player (Andy Allen) kept this from being released in 1980. So Cook and Jones had to find some new bandmates and re-record most of these tracks for the official release I Didn't See it Coming. The songs were called demos and not professionally produced. I say hogwash. The songs are raw and filled with energy. It's more of a punk album than the official release. Fifteen years later the legal issues were settled and it was finally released by Virgin records on CD.

If you like the Sex Pistols then you should get this album. Don't listen to John Lydon and others who have slagged this disc. It rocks hard and has that distinct Sex Pistols sound and guitar crunch. Better than "I Didn't See it Coming".
Steve Jones (Vocals, Guitar) Paul Cook (Drums, Vocals)
Andy Allen (Bass).

Highly recommended.

Factoid: Andy Allen was an unofficial member of the Sex Pistols, he played on bass on several studio tracks (Black Leather, Here We Go, My Way).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The better album, October 16, 2005

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Brewzerr "Brewzerr" (On the fault line, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Professionals (Audio CD)

Just as the last reviewer stated, this was never officially released as the first album, but better late than never. I agree that these recordings are superior to those on "I Didn't See It Coming"... which is a fine album itself. The Professionals' career lasted about the same amount of time as the Sex Pistols, but was far less chronicled or heralded. It's a shame too... because the music stands right up there with that of the Pistols and is a great continuation of that "big" sound. It's undeniable that Jones and Cook had chemistry. Steve Jones' guitars sound huge, yet raw enough (on this album) to retain that magic they had on "Bollocks"... and Paul Cook has perfected his style of meat-and-potatoes drumming on these recordings. The result is a perfect example of big, raw, anthemic mid-tempo Punk rock at it's finest. The "alternate" versions of the songs that appeared on "I Didn't See It Coming" get a more proper treatment here, with more spirited execution and a more appropriate raw production.

If you've never heard the Professionals before then I would recommend starting with this album first.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Timing is Everything with all Professionals, April 6, 2009

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Bicycle Day - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professionals (Audio CD)

The back story to this album from guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook was a music industry nightmare as they attempted to leave the drama and implosion of the Sex Pistols behind.

Slated for release in 1980 - a record company promotional "sampler" album actually showed this cover in anticipation of it soon reaching the marketplace - it was shoved back into the vault due to a dispute with bassist Andy Allen.

The band's debut - I Didn't See It Coming - was issued in 1981, but The Professionals gathered dust until 1990, when it was released on a small label and in this "official" form in 1997. Both have different track listings than what was slated for the original album.

With punk rock still flowing through the arrangements, Jones plays fast and hard on Little Boys in Blue; 1-2-3; Mods, Skins, Punks and Kick Down the Doors. Paul Myers (b) and Ray McVeigh (g) appear on Join the Professionals and Has Anyone Got an Alibi.

Timing is everything and the delay found The Professionals in a post-punk landscape where performance art shoved aside the pounding three-chord electric guitar. A debut in 1980 would have given Jones and Cook a fighting chance for the band, which ultimately disbanded in 1982.