Never Trust A Hippy - Sex Pistols

Advantages: raucous, rebellious, irreverant and OFFENSIVE
Disadvantages: raucous, rebellious, irreverant and OFFENSIVE

...who are peddling a pathetically corrupted version of the music to the present-day single-buying public, who tend to be under 14, and interested in what sweets they're going to buy after school and what colour is in fashion and is Burberry still cool. For this reason, NMTB is an essential album for those are really are interested in where music has come from, why we listen to the music we do. Even the anarcho-punk bands like Crass and Conflict acknowledge that the Sex Pistols, and this album in particular, gave them confidence to pick up an instrument and have a go themselves, and there must have been thousands of others who have had something they really wanted to say, but never would have been able to in those far-off distant days when you had to be PROFICIENT on your instrument to get anywhere. It is also a blindingly good album... Read review

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Advantages: good vocals/guitar cords/bass cords/drum beat
Disadvantages: none

...this is one of the greatest albums ever. its in your face full on punk look at life. johnny rotten(vocals) , sid vicious(bass) glen matlock(bass) , paul cook(drums) and steve jones(guitar) were the sex pistols this 1977 album is still listend too by many people but most people frown upon it because of the profanity on the cover. it has 12 awesomely uniqe songs on it rangeing from god save the queen too holiday in the sun. i found listening too it an enjoy ment and would recomend it to anyone. it was one of the pistols first albums and is a really good album if ya just wanna chill out or if ya gettin ready too go out on a night on the town... Read review

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Advantages: A proper punk record
Disadvantages: Punk doesn't sound like this anyomre

...will doubtless testify to the greatness of The Clash, The Jam and other punk, or punk-leaning outfits. However, the Pistols were the first and in that sense ONLY true British punk outfit. There was never supposed to be the tidal wave of imitators that followed – instead the idea was to change the way people thought about music. The Buzzcocks and The Undertones picked up the pop element of punk and ran with it successfully. The Jam and The Police picked up the abrasiveness of punk and added it to more mainstream orientated rock dynamics. The Sex Pistols only released one album but they influenced as many, if not more, bands in the late 70s than Nirvana did in the early-to-mid 90s. “Nevermind The Bollocks” contains all the vital ingredients of proper punk rock. Velocity, loudness, abrasive guitar sounds and aggression. The attitude, anarchistic... Read review

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