Sex Pistols- Pretty Vacant REACTION & REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Song Link: • Pretty Vacant
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Glen Matlock is the unsung hero of the Pistols. He was the original bassist (before the photogenic musical mannequin Sid Vicious) and he wrote or co-wrote the majority of the songs on Never "Mind The Bollocks". It was personality conflicts that saw him replaced by a camera- friendly junkie who couldn't really play.
I think you're overegging Matlocks part in the writing. He certainly came up with the majority of the melodies, although these were greatly beefed up and expanded on by Jones. Lyrically, only this one,which was his song originally ( athough Lydon rewrote most of it),was his. I think he takes claim musically for Anarchy, and of course Pretty Vacant he claims was based on Abba's 'SOS'.
@@normandavidtidiman9918 name a song they wrote after Matlock left.
@@thedok6419 Three actually;
Holidays In The Sun
Bodies
Belsen Was A Gas
Completely agree.
But boy the camera did love Sid. Did you know that Vivienne Westwood recommended "John from the store" aka John Beverly/Sid Vicious audition as the Sex Pistols' singer. But they got the wrong John. Thank god they did. Because if they hadn't we would not have the scathing wit of the esteemed Mr. Lydon. He had the words. The message. The anger. And for the last 20 years, he's been caring for his wife who had Alzheimer's. Not all that bad of a guy.
Their biggest mistake was firing Glen Matlock, a very good songwriter and musician, and replacing him with an idiot who couldn't even play an instrument.
He couldn't half sneer though!😁
@@Owlstretchingtime78Precisely. Your offhand wit speaks volumes of truth.
You got to admit he had the look though. Glen looked like a beatles fanboy
It was just a boy band for Malcom Mclaren anyway. The joke was on us though- they were great.
Can’t describe the shift in British music this caused when it was released.
Guess you had to be there………………..and I was. 😎
Yeh i was there but didnt get to see the Pistols.had a ticket to see them in Torquay but the gig was cancelled the last minute....cant think why !!!
I was there - and I was usually "out to lunch"😉😉
Ditto my friend 👍🏴
Same here we need the OG punk to come back with the same attitude to step on the fucking world and stop all the BULLSHIT RIP SID
@@child_of_gaia1836 Sorry mate I have to get this off my chest , Sid was a good looking but talentless and vulnerable lost soul that Malcolm McLaren wrung the pips out of then abandoned him to his fate . He murdered his girlfriend with a knife .. please don’t forget that when saying RIP and getting all misty eyed . He only had 1 job , to look cool playing the bass and he couldn’t even do that . Nuff said 🎤drop
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Story has it that Lydon sung the “cant” in “vacant” in a very particular way, so that he could get the most vulgar possible word on the radio.
never noticed that, the smart bugger.
Undoubtedly!
yes, it was intentional! the ladies 🚺 female rude part! 🤣
As someone from England that's just how 'vacant' is pronounced ?
@@thesoundlikechameleons2082 That's also not primarily what that word means in this context.
Great track great analysis. Punk was exactly what rock needed in 77, a damned good kick in the nuts! I was a Zep, Sabbath, Purple etc fan at the the time, but this was breath of fresh air and boy did it cause a storm, brill
although all those other band have kept going until this week and the Pistols had one album, but this is certainly Malcolm McLaren's version of history lol
Not exactly fresh to be honest, but return to the basic in your face rock, with calculated amount of spit and bad behaviour ensuring the headlines.
Great reaction, thank you.
This is also one of my favourite songs by The Sex Pistols, along with 'Holidays in The Sun', I feel that these two are the most musical of their tracks.
I briefly chatted with the original bassist Glen Matlock in January 2021, I asked him if he would sign my 7" vinyl sleeve of Pretty Vacant for me, he obliged and I sent it to him via post 📫 and it returned signed! nice bloke, easy to talk to, I asked him does he miss the Sex Pistols? to which he replied, I miss a caring government!
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Rotten,s voice is meant to be grating and un- rock star-like.
That was one of the aims of punk rock. Raw, primal, but with a purpose.
I love EVERY song on this album…
This album is pretty much flawless.
it isn't flawless.
Sneer, aggression, attitude, neatly sums up teenage years.
Everyone who picked up a guitar in 1977 and onwards who loved punk and the sex pistols learnt the guitar riff to “Pretty Vacant”
One of the few I DID tbh
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Totally agree. My favorite track ever from the Pistols. Such a great riff and JR's snarl is in perfect force. Funny lyrics, too.
Written mainly by Glen Matlock (the guitar riff is a speeded-up rip-off from ABBA's SOS!) Given that the Pistols first two singles were banned from pretty much all TV and radio this was many people in the UK's first exposure to the band via Radio 1 and Top of the Pops (they wouldn't have them in the studio after what happened the last time they appeared on TV but they played Julian Temple's video). In that regard, it's probably the most important of their singles since this, directly, spawned a thousand imitators.
I was never Punk, but I did, and still do, love this album. It’s just raw and nasty. Poking a finger in the eye of the establishment. Waking people up with a slap to the face. My favorite part is when he says ‘And we don’t care!’
‘Bodies’ is my favorite track.
The only time they ever played Top of the Pops was this song. They were never allowed back when Rotten changed the lyrics slightly singing 'Vayyy-c*nt' (* insert letter of choice). Never got why someone thought this was a good idea given the possibility of it happening
Doesn't matter what genres you like, that's a great intro to any song. Musically, the Sex Pistols tend to be underrated and nearly all the tracks on NMtB have something to recommend though Bodies might be their finest moment.
and Sid Vicious played bass on THAT particular track! 🤣
@@thesoundlikechameleons2082 Yeah, legend has it that, if you get the original master tapes, isolate the bass tracks, mute the Steve Jones overdubs and turn the remaining knobs to 11, there's definitely a buzzy low D string around the 1.27 mark that Sid might have plucked. Masterful. (Still a great track despite Matlock's non-participation) 😁
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@@kenl2091😅 excellent 👌
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This and Submission could have been radio hits if the radio had been allowed to play them lol. This CD permanently resides in my truck. If I have to be somewhere and I have to drive fast, this always gets popped in.
I mean, it got to number 6!
@@evilmorwen Not here in America it didn't. Sorry, should have specified.
Well, it's not about America.@@chazblitz
@@chazblitz Even The Ramones got nowhere in the US charts. British punk though, didn't cause a major impact in the USA, but it was a very different story in the UK.
I remember the moral panic in England when they swore on early evening TV. There was an attempt to ban the album because of the word bollocks so Richard Branson got a university professor to testify that the word was 14th century slang for a priest! The whole punk thing was really a cynical marketing thing. If it was intended to take music back to the streets it finally failed. Its main legacy is pretentious music journalism. As Peter Gabriel sang in 1974, If you think that it's pretentious you've been taken for a ride..." In 1977 there were plenty of posh kids who liked punk. All my working class friends were going to Yes and Genesis gigs which were routinely broadcast live on the BBC.
I see the Sex Pistols as culturally important. But to argue their music is important or ground-breaking is a stretch. In my opinion. That said, this is my favourite track by them.
Slightly off topic, but I spent my formative years listening to this era of punk, plus ska and reggae (much as the punks, two-tone kids and the Rastas did in the UK at the time). I saw your little notebook screen in the background and it was giving the weather forecast. It said one day’s max would be 96 degrees.
I implore you to listen to the song 96 Degrees in the Shade by Third World.
That one album made more impact than supergroups making 10 albums in their whole career
The pistols really were the bollocks.!!! They were more than a punk band.....they were a great rock band....Steve Jones is one of the most underrated guitarists around.....check out his Fire and Gasoline solo album....its 🔥....forget all the "New Wave" and pop punk that followed these guys.....these were the real deal.
"We're out to lunch - and I like lunch!" and I recall thinking, "yeah that's me". Brilliant album, and that's all there was.
They played this at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony
For all of the revolutionary rhetoric surrounding the Pistols, they were musically fairly traditional rock. Rotten/Lydon supplied almost everything that differentiated them from what had gone before, in terms of lyrics and vocal delivery.
Now, yes. In 1976/7 this was out of nowhere when all you had was Prog bands doing self indulgent albums that took you 3 days to get through the opening track
@@btj-oo8xcI hear you. 😁
IMO songs like this are basically an updated version of The Who's "My Generation". Also, as for the raw rock energy, The Who had already been there as well. Just check out Live at Leeds. But it seems every generation needs their own version of this (hence grunge). In fact, I'm waiting for the next incarnation to come along, and boy is it needed.
Great track and a great album but to me the outstanding track tho most would say ' Bodies' is 'New York' it just has something different that gives me goosebumps 😁👍
Hi JP. DP from UK. You're The Voice! Not a fan of punk (mainly because most of the successful bands had merely jumped on the media bandwagon) but I've always liked the Pistols. Bought the Bollocks album, and this is one of the strongest tracks - another top ten single in the UK. Love the hard rock riffing and John's sneering vocals. As for the lyrics, I remember London in the mid 70s; we all felt like snarling and sneering.
P.S. my song ref You're the Voice is by another John - Farnham. The comparisons end there!
I bought this single, much to my mother's horror lol
You’re probably going to do ‘Bodies’ one of these days and after the initial shock, will have so many questions. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Hi from England 🏴 😊. Got the album. Had it since 1979
Speaking of Richard Hell, you should maybe listen to "Blank Generation". His band, Television, were extremely instrumental in getting the punk scene going at CBGB in NYC. He then went on to form The Heartbreakers with Johnny Thinders and Jerry Nolan of the New York Dolls, another band that you MUST check out. He then formed his band The Voidoids (with Robert Quine on guitar. RIP). Their song "Blank Generation" is a seminal punk song that stands up to this day.
“Blank Generation” by Richard Hell and The avoid kids as mentioned in the wikipedia article would be a great reaction as well.
Or "Love Comes In Spurts". 😆
Try World Destruction by Time zone , it’s John Lydon and Afrikaa Bambata (sp) it’s brilliant as are a ton of PIL songs
Still the best sound around. Jonesy killed it on every track
One of the best intro ever
SLIGHT sneer?? *LOL* yeah, I've learned to enjoy the Sex Pistols too, especially Johnny Rotten. To this day he's still original, sincere, and offensive as he can possibly be, to anybody who volunteers to be offended. Great stuff, timeless. And oddly, a damn good rock and roll band.
Kudos to engineer Bill Price for sculpting their sound with great experience and talent. First Clash record as well.
Was a teen when this song came out. The core of the song is a sneer at the stuffed shirts and authority figures who think they're in power
One of the best and most important albums of all time. Changed the face of music, especially in the UK for ever.
I loved Abba plus Jean Michelle Jarre plus The Stranglers plus The Sex Pistols plus Queen. The mid-70s were fantastic for teenagers who wanted to find music that meant something to them.
Speaking honestly, the Sex Pistols have failed to thrill me… John Lydon’s next band Public Image Ltd. is definitely where it’s at. Post-Punk/Art Rock has always captivated my attention more
This is very near to the beginning of punk and def one of the first I seen on Top of the pops the UK’s main music charts show . Epic rock song
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Please , please do , new york , next 🙏 love the channel , love the pistols .
Yup, this song; Devo's "Beautiful World", and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" all fit in a nice pocket for me.
Superb track, such energy.
A brilliant critique of pop culture, and this was 1977, mind you.
I was mostly into prog and art rock at the time the Sex Pistols and punk rock 'landed', but I didn't see why I had to pick a side. I loved Pretty Vacant (and still do).
I’m not big on punk but Never Mind was pure lightning in a bottle.
It’s impossible to convey the excitement for my 15 yo self and the moral panic the non punk public felt about This album , this single and this band and this movement generated at this time in blah, bland, beige Britain in 1977… it honestly felt like a musical AND political revolution was starting !!!…. Of course that never happened to the degree kids like myself wanted tbh …. Sad face . I’m just glad and proud I had THIS moment in time .
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One album that influenced thousands of bands.
Don’t feel bad, Johnny’s caustic style is difficult to get used to. I hated the Sex Pistols until I heard Bodies. Fair warning, you’re probably not going to want to listen to that song on this family oriented channel. I would recommend a private listen on that one.
As an olde 80's scooter skin/punk, don't know why, but the intro reminds me of some kind of " call to arms" 🙅♂️lol
I remember when this was played on Top Of The Pops. The UK music press immediately announced that punk was dead.
they are clueless
The Rutles.
Piggy In The Middle.
What's with The Rutles theme?
There was so much crap written about this band, it's virtually impossible to know what was really going on. At the end of the day, they bequeathed us one classic album, some excellent singles, the bass player died from a heroin overdose, and they themselves came to an infamous end at San Francisco's Winterland with Rotten's scathing and apt "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated" kiss off. Well never see their like again, in a world where it's needed more than ever!
For some reason Malcolm McLaren's version of the story, where he was a visionary music and marketing genius pulling the strings, is widely believed in the USA - to the extent that many believe they were effectively just a 'boy band'. It's absolutely nonsense, of course, but stubbornly persistent.
I always liked John Lydon because he sang in the same accent as me.
Them live is great they gave a show that like 👍 pil the song song about mother father sex pistol is about social in injustice
Glen Matlock apparently borrowed the riff from ABBA.... SOS
If you listen to Lydon's singing as more like a chant at a political protest you might get the vibe better.
I'm with you - I can't help but hear it as ragging on a certain segment of youth, likely sometimes seen at their concerts and around town. Matlock's comment seems a little deflective, and more concerned with his memory of misunderstanding Blank Generation than actually explaining this song.
I was no great lover of punk at the time, though today it is almost classic rock compared to much of the garbage being churned out. I liked The Damned but this album by the Sex Pistols is a true classic. Unfortunately, I suspect Glen Matlock was considered too good a bass player and was replaced by the psychotic Sid Vicious who didn't even know how to play with himself. "Never Mind..." is a great album with some amazing tracks. Such a pity they didn't give us a few more gems.
Interesting to hear this after many years. Punchy dynamic rebellion - just what I didn't need. I had more enjoyment from the Radio Stars who were more facetious than rebellious.
Following on from the Sex Pistols, take a look at Public Image Limited. The song of the same name is great.
Crucially Essential. Such sonic Sustenance!
The remastered edition of the album rocks
For me it's still their best song.
Matlock also claimed that the chorus is ripped off from ABBA's "SOS", and it's hard to unhear once you know it. You can sing along:
"We're so pretty, oh so pretty... Va-c*nt!"
"So when you're near me, darling won't you hear me, SOS"
He's trippin'. It's a completely different cadence
@@annother3350 I'd say it's a very simplified version of the cadence. Take out the minor chords and consider that Glen is no Rutger Gunnarsson (even if he was the best musician of the Pistols by far) and I wouldn't call it *completely* different. (It was apparently close enough for Gunnarsson, who put Matlock on his Christmas card list after hearing this.)
Just a great rock song
For all you Pistols fans. Bet most of you have never heard this early demo of PV. Vocals edited out and Glen on bass. Glorious, isn't it? You can thank me later with a box of chocolates. ruclips.net/video/NylTwfJYV74/видео.html
You must try Paul hardcastles 19 ,12" mix
And then play his mixes of 2 D Train singles Music and You're The One 4Me. Crucial. On the same video.!Let's Funk JP Completely outta the Discotheque! Absolutely Crucial. 😁
Why ? Why tf would he do that cack ? And what tf is this comment doing here in a pistols comment section … you struggle with attention issues ? At school did you shout out a lot during the lesson ?… me me me … look at me… 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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my fave by them
Pogo heaven
Oh god yessss.
This song sums up the attitude of The Blank Generation... No Future!! 🤬
Definitely my favourite Pistols.
The lyrics are so timely, too. It's like about Instagram models.
Out to brunch!
Looking at the rolling text machine thingy over your left shoulder is so distracting for me with the Cat facts. I presume you have an affection for Felines then?
This is the poppy side of Sex Pistols....influenced by ABBA of all things.
My favourite Pistols track too. My favourite of his is Public Image by P.I.L. ruclips.net/video/rIAZ8unRm2c/видео.html
If you want to expose yourself to something new have a listen to MORPHINE. Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave or Thursday would be a good start.
I think this is arguably the Pistols' weakest track. But considering that Never Mind the Bollocks is a glorious masterpiece with no weak tracks on it,
that's not saying much. As for John Lydon's voice? I like it. To me, he sounds like a furious Bob Dylan, and I've always loved Dylan's "Sprechegesang".
I'm far less impressed by John's support for Donald Trump, but let's not go there...
The weakest track ?…. 😅 You’d better close that window before the last dregs of your credibility disappears for ever … 🐓
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Feel a strong connection to this track, do you, troll? I can see why you'd relate to the title.
@@SpaceCattttt awwwwww… my reply got deleted … probably because of the profanity I copiously used on you . Awww that’s really a shame as it wasn’t just profanity it was actually quite thoughtful sarcasm and top level trolling too .. sad face 😞
Oh well teppo , your just gonna have to take my word for it , my reply was not only vicious and condescending but also quality humorous trolling too … that’s a shame , anyway , gotta go and buy a thesaurus for alternative non banning swear words for future replies … ta ta … for now 👀
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Or you could just get a life. If you are as clever as you think you are, you could be a great success if you didn't waste your time online.
I've seen the sex pistols and p.i.l Johnny annoys me narcissistic little gnome
I never found the Pistols particularly exciting, whose mid-tempo rock always struck me as a mix between AC/DC and the Stones. Also I find Rotten's voice unbearable, so not for me.
Then I’m almost certain you weren’t 15-18yo in 1977 if your honest ? 😮
My first triggered thought when I seen your comment was to try and find an emoji of a cockerel to represent how I felt about you … but on 2nd reading and reflection on your comment , it’s Ballsy and honest and if I’m being fair about it that’s fair enough and good luck to you sir 😅
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering I was 12 in 1977 and I didn't discover the Pistols and the rest of the punk scene until three years later at 15 when the movement had long since ended but if I had been 15 in '77 I think I would have had the same negative impression about the Pistols, even though I immediately appreciated The Clash, The Damned, The Stranglers, Generation X, Ruts, etc....
Musically the sound of the Sex Pistols doesn't appeal to me and the voice of Rotten/Lydon puts me off. I never liked PIL for the same reasons.
@@a.k.1740 like I said , that’s fair enough , your loss imho … but it would be a dreary old world if we all agreed . Good good day to you sir 🎩
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering 👍Yeah, there's something for everyone and that's great as it is. Everything is subjective and uniformity is boring anyway. Greetings from France !
@@a.k.1740 Allez Les Bleu mon ami 😀
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