Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (first time album reaction)
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- My first time listening to Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols! I'll see you soon for another video with more heavy metal, hard rock and prog metal reactions.
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🎸 TIMESTAMPS 🎸
00:00 intro
01:28 Holidays In The Sun
03:10 Bodies
04:25 No Feelings
05:30 Liar
06:47 (thoughts i)
07:57 God Save The Queen
09:31 Problems
11:25 Seventeen
12:25 Anarchy In The UK
14:00 (thoughts ii)
15:30 Submission
17:37 Pretty Vacant
19:04 New York
20:15 EMI
21:50 (review)
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i try to post everything as a FULL CUT now to youtube if i can, but the original video got blocked unfortunately. posted it up on my patreon instead - www.patreon.com/kirawasareactor thanks for understanding:)
here's a SHOCK
Listen to PINK FLOYD - The Nile Song 1969 (so even before Black Sabbath) and tell me if it sounds like Punk / Metal was actually a Pink Floyd experiment they left for others to work on😂
People can say whatever they want. This is one of the greatest albums ever.
Along with a few other albums that basically had the same songs 🙄....love the Pistols👍
It's hard to overstate how different this album sounded to my suburban, American ears in 1979. At the time, my brothers and I were listening to Bad Company, Ted Nugent, Styx. This album cut through all that and sounded like REAL ROCK AND ROLL. This album changed everything.
Absolutely couldn't agree with you more. So many bands after hearing that album changed my life that year!!
EMI were a record company that gave the pistols a 1 million pound contract then terminated it in a few weeks when they found out how controversial they were.
wasnt a million..it was less than 100 grand
@@davehoward22 75k iirc ? still a whopping amount back then
Ramones are my all-time fav band - but there isn't a person in the world who can tell me that this isn't the ultimate punk rock album. Everything about it is perfect, and every person I've ever talked to who was THERE says the same thing: the 70s went from black-and-white to technicolor with the release of this record.
Revisionist try-hards will try to downplay the Pistols importance. Those people don't know what they're talking about.
An incredible rock'n'roll album that sounded like nothing else at the time. The Ramones from America, The Saints from Australia and Sex Pistols from the U.K changed everything. Period.
Here here!
As a crusty old fart who was there, I can say you hit the nail on the head. The Ramones gave us the sound, The Pistols brought the attitude and it felt like a whole new world.
I was so happy to discover the Pistols, the Stooges, the Ramones, the Runaways, X-Ray Spex, et al. back in the day. Everyone in my high school was into Kansas and Styx (nothing wrong with those bands) but these bands really spoke to me.
@@Thomas-rw9nt X Ray Spex! What a great band too!
Funny you should mention going from black-and-white to technicolor. I think that's the same they said about Sgt Pepper ten years earlier.
New York is about the New York Dolls, and E.M.I is about a record label
You're hippy tarts hero 'cos you put on bad shows 😂
The start of Holidays is marching feet
goosestepping.
I will always agree with John Lydon about Holidays in the Sun when he said "it was our crowning glory"
Remember the first time I heard this LP probably in 78. My sister and her mate got hold of a copy. Well when Bodies came on, I remember thinking "good job our mam and dad are out" One of th best LP's of all time - No Feelings being my favourite track.
Lol,same mate,I'm a Submission
You need to do Stiff Little Fingers LP Inflammable Material.
Or your Punk education will be incomplete! 🙂
I'm glad someone else mentioned it. Brilliant album.
classic
Funny you mention that. Thinking the same thing?
My older sister’s friend played this for me when I was 10 in 1980. Changed me forever.
Heard this album for the first time in 1986. I was like 13-14. It was life changing. I still listen to it all the time
Changed my life when I was 14 as well in 1979
That’s funny - I was also 14 when I first heard this, but it was 1982. 13-14 must be a really great entry age for this record!
Thanks for the excellent video and reaction. I am 60 now and still love the album, glad that you enjoyed it.
Ditto to all that. Almost 61 - nearly an old bugger....... 🤣
At a mere 59 I'm only a kid!!! I used to play this to death. 💓
…..and I’m only 58 , so I’m the ”youngling” here !! My favourite album. My three sons took me to a tattoo parlor at my 40th birthday and got it inked in on my arm. ”You’re always blasting that album , dad. Now youll always have it with you”.
@@raggeragnar your a bit young to be playing that type of content! 😜
@@BORDERSALAN : Hahahaha !!!!
Great album. Pretty Vacant is my favorite song.
Always been mine too, and I don't care.
I used to listen to these and the Angelic Upstarts, another great punk band
Shields lad ?
This album was and is still a classic.You had to be there when it first came out in the 70s when it came out to really appreciate the impact. Love your reaction,you get it!
47 years later, and Bollocks is still my favourite (yes, with a 'u') album. Pity l'm not still 16 years old. Bollocks!
Still one of the best profanities ever invented. It covers a myriad of subjects. Hence the saying - What a load of old bollocks 😂. I use it EVERY day if I can. Album's a bit of alright as well. 🤘
The court case established that bollocks was not a profanity,after they tried to ban the album over the name....your welcome
@@scottgalloway345 You're!!! And thank you.
As a child of the 70's (born in '69). my introduction to the "pistols" was from Megadeth with their cover of "Anarchy in the UK" on the album "So Far , So Good, So What". Loved it. You should check that out at some point.
The year, the politics and the context in general is everything to just how seismic this album was? But so glad it can still resonate, not to the same degree maybe, today. Thanks for listening. 😍
Great music will ALWAYS be great music. 😉
E.M.I. signed Sex Pistols and cancelled the contract (having to pay them $50,000) after pulling, "Anarchy in U.K.", the only single they released. EMI is the label of The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Queen.
You should react to Public Image - first issue by Public Image Limited (PiL). Singer John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten founded this band after leaving the Sex Pistols. The album released one year after this, its a post-punk gem !
That is certainly worth listening to. Brilliant album
They made one album! And what an album it was 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Some kid’s parents were playing them lullabies as babies.
Mine played this.
Thanks, you crazy bastards.
Saw you laughing at the beginning of "Seventeen" when he starts the song with, "You're only twenty-nine"! This album is so full of humor.
classic. every track a banger
No. It's not a banger. Stop it.
@@snuffcore9686 i know. it was TWELVE BANGERS.
show yourself out. 🤡
Got John Lydon's autograph the other day! He signed my vinyl sleeve of Public Image.
~ C July 2024
"EMI" is the band dissing their former record label. Label-dissing songs are a nice little genre. Graham Parker's "Mercury Poisoning" is a classic of the genre. The Clash's "Complete Control" is another.
'Rough Trade' by Stiff Little Fingers,also. Although the song is about Island records not Rough Trade records
EMI, Mercury Poisoning, Complete Control and Rough Trade sound like the start of a great mix tape to me!
@@danhickey5707
Mixtape? Showing your age there mate 😄
@@londonlion5179 Ha ha ha! Indeed I am, indeed I am!
Yes! 💥💥💥
Not a punk guy, but this album is a perfect 10.
Lots of ear worms, groove and the mix is perfect, everything is so loud and clear.
Sex Pistols are the only Punk band that mattered to these ears.
Amazing production.
I would agree this album that hit all the rights buttons and was a seminal and influential (for better or worse) moment in punk and music. I bought it on vinyl when it first came and own and still listen to the cd today. Sadly, it was all an ACCIDENT of brilliance by a band that couldn't play its instruments, couldn't sing, was put together as a marketing prop (product) by Malcolm McLaren the way similar, later svengalis assembled boy bands, and it disintigrated almost immediatley because there was no substance or talent there to begin, only chaos. Once you've shocked the world once with outragous looks and blasphemous lyrics it's harder to offend or get people's attention a second or third time. They've already heard it, and without real musical talent there is nothing else left after the initial shock-and-offend factor has worn off or been diluted.
As a punk guy this hasn't held up so well. That being said I still occasionally listen to it.
Steve Jones’s guitar tone is fantastic (probably cuz it was overdubbed multiple times). Be sure to find ‘Did You No Wrong’ which was the b-side of ‘God Save the Queen.’ IMHO, along with their cover of ‘Substitute.’ Their best stuff.
@@MarkMay-cr6bv I agree, this album shouldn't exist, but is ironically now considered a classic rock album, and rightly so, IMHO.
The Spice Girls of their day
I used to lsten to thse guys and the misfits with Danzig back in the early 80s tland throughout that decade, they never get old to me
Loving your enthusiasm!! ❤😊 Totally rocked out. Love from 🇬🇧
The Pistol's manager told the band to write a song that would advertise his punk boutique shop called Submission. So the band, with their anti- tendencies, wrote the song about being under water. Not sure if the manager was happy with the song.
When you start singing along halfway through the song you know it's an earworm.
Bollocks is effectively a singles/hits collection Anarchy, God Save, Vacunt, Holidays were all singles with older songs and Bodies, EMI, Holidays being few songs which were written around the album recording.
New York as song critiqued the New York Dolls (like Stooges) proto punk band which had become more renowned for their drug lifestyle than their great musical influence.
EMI is about the record label that released Anarchy but fired the band like A&M mentioned in song who fired the pistols with out releasing anything!
Sub - Mission was written in response to band manager/miss-manager MacLaren idea to write a song to have a BDSM theme so Rotten and Matlock decided to take piss out of this idea by producing a twisted love song about not about Submission but a Submarine Mission. Anarchy was their first recording and as you say sticks out from rest of album.
Great that you enjoyed this album I would love you to react listen to X-ray Spex album Germ Free Adolescents you will get so much from it.
Amazing album.
An amazing album. I still have the 12” picture disc from the 70s. Great review
You were thinking of the Kinks
"All Day, and all of the night"
Oh i remember that i have bought that yellow album long time ago when it was released, i still have this vinyl, a precious one!
The Velvet Underground & Nico, the start of the whole Punk/Alternative Universe. Not only one of the best debut albums of all time, but also the most influential on so many other musicians. In the beginning it only sold a meagre 30 000 copies, " but everybody who bought a copy started a band!" (Brian Eno).
It was Lou Reed's streetwise and nihilistic lyrics combined with John Cale's sinister and menacing soundscapes that would change Rock music forever, paving the path for so many things to come.
A must listen if you wan't to be taken seriously as somebody who is skilled in the knowledge of Rock music and it's history.
Best album to kickstart a dull party with.
You need to listen to the first Public Image Ltd album now, same singer but a different bunch of musicians. I think it'll be a wild experience for you, but in the best way.
more punk albums you need to hear: Black Flag - My War, Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist, Ramones - Self Titled, Misfits - Walk Among Us
All fantastic suggestions! I'd also recommend Agent Orange - Living In Darkness.
XRay Spex - germ free adolescents
Subhumans - the day the country died
Stiff little fingers - inflammable material
Bought this when it came out , still sounds amazing and still packs a punch. Great finale with EMI
I was 19 when this album was released, now in my mid 60s, it is still a guilty pleasure to play this (and the Stranglers) loud in the car away from my wife's disapproval!
The cramps are a band around the same time frame. They are awesome, start with the psychedelic jungle album.
The Cramps are Freakin' Awesome!
Sadly I only got to see 'em once, but..., ... OH GOD! What an AMAZING ONCE!
Watching the gorgeous Ivy throwing an empty Bourbon bottle at Lux, after he swapped HIS empty, for her Half-Full one, which he then smashed on the edge of a monitor (after finishing it, of course) and proceeded to use to slice his pants off (cutting his legs several times), while Singing, Dancing, Bleeding & Writhing around the stage, during a truly epic 15 minute version of 'Surfin' Bird'.
So, How good was the show? ... ...
... Well... It was so fantastically brilliant, that I didn't even care, when I found out that my car had been 'booted' and I'd gotten a £120 Release Fee/Parking Ticket, while I was at the gig. 😂🤪🤣🤣🤣 🎶💀🧛🏼♂🎤🎵👩🏼🦰🎸🎶 😎
I remember when I was 18 yo when I bought this LP. It was 47 years ago and it changed my life.
Thank you for reminding me how awesome this album is. The sex pistols and Ramones were my first proper introduction to punk and it changed my whole life
A bit of alright????That album is quite literally the BOLLOCKS 😂
This album was so awesome, when it came out…wow! Personal faves, not necessarily in order: Bodies, Pretty Vacant, God Save The Queen, Holidays In The Sun.
I don't know how you do it but every one of my favorite songs I love you're always unsure if you like them or not. Lol!
You've jus listened to my early teenage year's there, it was a great time to follow this band back then different times in the UK in the 70s, if you can watch the filth and the fury it may give you a greater understanding of the times
Brings back so many memories. I was 12 years old when this was released and remember stuffing this LP up my school jumper to sneak it into the house. Previously tried to buy it with a record token that I got for my birthday, but my mum was having none of it
Emi was sex pistols record company who funked them off
Since I haven’t seen you on “the diver”I’ll have to settle for this😮😊
Chatted to Glen Matlock in 2021... he signed my vinyl sleeve of Pretty Vacant.
Not bad for a band that has influenced so many, and they did it with only one album and four singles over a period of 3 years. Pretty damn impressive if you ask me.
That isn't clapping, its marching jackboots.
Saw them live in the mid 1990s at a festival in the UK. They were electric!
When this album came out (of nowhere for U.S. audiences) most 60's classic rock bands where gone or withering on the vine, 70's rock bands where becoming over-produced product (except perhaps for Zeppelin, Heart, asnd Springsteen) and radio airplay was drowning in third-rate disco atrocities and mind-numbing soft rock (I'm looking at you "Seasons In The Sun"!). The Sex Pistols saved rock and roll in every way possible: ripping away MOR convention, opening up new and stripped down musical possibilities, and most importantly, showing that rock music could still be dangerous, as well as funny and insightful. All the great and influential bands and genres that were just breaking through, or followed in the late 70's (including future influencers like Joy Division, Talking Heads and The Clash), owed their existence to the Pistols. I'll say it again, the Pistols and Never Mind The Bollocks saved music for an entire generation. And it also just rocks!
the clap you heard at the start are actually Jackboots marching! xD
Iconic
This album is the change in direction of UK music from release mid 70's, it changed everything, you can hear the influence even today ...
You was lucky the album was ever released.To this day im still amazed how they did it amongst the label sackings and BOLLOCKS emblazoned on it.The nost iconic and amazing album ever made
You were spot on with the Kinks and the Doors.
The Doors had to pay tne Kinks money because of how similar it is to All Day....
I think a good album from that era for you to check is Pink Flag by Wire.
New York is part of a triology of songs. The first was New York Dolls - "Looking for a kiss" which Sex Pistols - "New York" is about. The last one is Johnny Thunders - "London Boys" which is an answer to the Sex Pistols-track. Johnny Thunders was a New York Doll (guitar). Also on the last track ("London Boys") Steve Jones and Paul Cook (from Sex Pistols) are doing guitars and drums.
These were exciting times , the kids today have nothing like this.
I'm almost 60 and this is the first record I ever bought. I turned metalhead in the 80's, but my first love is and always will be punk rock!
I think they had a holiday in the UK when the Pistols finally learned their 4th chord, lol. I love this album!
My very first ever punk album was 1978's Tell us the Truth from Sham 69 at the tender age of 11 (so it hold a very special place in my heart) but I followed it up with this one and I have been a punk ever since. Oi!
My copy has a Pink cover
Classic album, can only go so long without playing it from beginning to end
Great reaction! Other classic 70s UK punk albums to consider (I see you have already done The Damned and The Clash):
The Adverts - Crossing The Red Sea With
The Ruts -The Crack
X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents
The Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine
Penetration - Moving Targets
The Outsiders - Close Up
Crass - Stations Of the Crass
The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
Alternative TV - The Image Has Cracked
The Vibrators - Pure Mania
The Undertones - Self-titled
The Jam - In the City
I bought this record when it first came out in 1977, I was 21 and in university. Even though I was in Canada, I had heard about the controversies around the band (how they kept getting dropped by record labels) & the controversy around God Save the Queen (during her Silver Jubilee) so I bought it on impulse, out of curiosity. I took it back to my university residence room and played it immediately, shocking all the my neighbours who were stuck in only listening to prog rock, some of which had become very stale. Some of them said "Is THAT the Sex Pistols?!" I loved this album, it has so much energy and was a breath of fresh air. The chorus of God Save the Queen with the "no future, no future, no future for you" gave my goosebumps. To freak out my neighbours, I'd play songs from this album interspersed with Italian opera.
There was a Canadian all female band called The Organ, they only released one full lenght album called 'Grab That Gun', and it turned out to be one of the greatest records in the history of post punk, with no filler on it !
Landmark album from the Golden era of pubk!
This is pretty much the quintessential punk album. It set the tone for all that was to come and there's really great songs on there. Steve Jones is definitely the hero of the album with that killer guitar tone and playing that drives the music.
I highly recommend trying out Stiff Little Fingers as your next punk band.
Submission is my favourite, you feel underwater!
Johnny Thunders’ response to that “New York” track is called “London Boys”. It’s awesome. Like a diss track battle
Watch the sex pistols Doco 'The Filth and The Fury' its excellent I love Problems as well - When The song God Save The Queen and the album got to no 1 in the UK in 1977 The Queens Jubilee 25 year anniversary - The name was left blank -just the number was listed EMI are the record company that ended their record contract because of controversey Virgin ended up bringing out the Album
I love how Problems grew on you...
RAMONES- first album- where punk started ( NYC)
The origins of punk started way before the Ramones.
@paulrollings6573
Oh I know - stooges, mc5, velvet underground, early/mid sixties garage , rockabilly etc.- sometimes I joke that " when the caveman smashed two rocks together, that's when punk was invented- I'm just talking about this more "solidified" version of "punk"
Come on GUY ; ]
Wore this record out several times as a Kid. Sick of it now, but still cool
Anarchy In The UK was a clarion call when it came out, do not underestimate it. Seventeen was always their most throwaway track and one of the first they wrote.
The sound at the beginning of “Holiday in the Sun” I believe is the sound of jackboots.
My son performed "Holiday in the sun" solo in his grade 7 end of year show, one of the proudest moments of my life 😊
4:04 Nice save. I know it's RUclips but I wish you had kept that part maybe with bleeping, best part of the song.
'Bodies' all the way for me, but what an album.
Crank it up! 😃 "Holidays in the Sun", "Pretty Vacant", "Submission", yep! PS: "EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London."
My 'dad-band' performed this entire album live at a local Detroit rock show, and it was quite the thrill.......Give Amyl and the Sniffers a listen to see how far this sound has evolved......
Pleased you enjoyed this record. I have lost count how many times Ive played this
Anarchy in the UK is my favourite 😊
If you want a quick (1:41) sample of the punk side of *Cardiacs* from the rehearsals video for their later years concert of songs from when they were little babies, all pink, and full of vomit and poopie, then try *An Ant* (and if Jim makes you embarrassed, just avert your eyes when he appears - although you have to admit he's properly in character for a set of baby songs). ruclips.net/video/V0yTGM4D1io/видео.html
It's a somewhat unusual punk, I think you'll find. (Oh and at the end Tim is just saying "Babba Leith" - that being the drummer's name.)
Sex pistols Band punk de Inglaterra forever
The greatest album ever recorded.
EMI is a record company they got kicked out of. 😉
Bodies has an interesting story behind it.
Yeah it does. And few know about it.
*cool*
GRAN ALBUM kira