🎵 Sex Pistols - Holidays in the Sun REACTION
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
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This album, as a musician, changed my world. 45 years later, it's still the greatest rock and roll album ever recorded. It came out smack dab in the middle of the Disco craze. The absolute balls of the album, the anger... And all still very catchy.
what made the album great was his stance against the Royal Family and about war.
I would cannot say it better , thank you for your posting
@@kupski1964eh? 🤔
Everyone's entitled to their opinion but greatest ever recorded? Smoke another one clueless joe jackson.
@@joestrummer9507 I got one better: the Sex Pistols were the last rock and roll band. Last of the 50's style, in your face, DIY, true rock and roll bands. Just snottier. Johnny Rotten said so himself in a 1983 interview on WPLJ in NY. Go and tell him he's clueless, you putz.
Much of the meaning of this song is in the context of the 1970s, when this song was written. England's economy was in shambles after World War II, and it took decades to recover. He was saying that now that his economy was once again reasonable enough that he could easily travel, he'd like to visit East Berlin. However, at the time, Berlin was divided into an East communist (Soviet controlled) half and a West democratic half. The two halves were separated by a giant heavily guarded concrete barrier. This was known as the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall didn't come down until 1990, after the Eastern Bloc came crashing down in 1989. This song is basically a protest against the existence of the Berlin Wall.
Nice summary.
Saved many of us time typing, thanks!
Not just that. "I don't understand this bit at all." "It's guys like me who'll be shot". It's more about the Cold War in general and how ordinary people are just fodder who don't understand anything. At least that's how I have always taken it.
Actually all it's about is the first time John saw the Berlin Wall. You should watch the making of Never Mind The Bullocks. They explain what all the songs on that album are about. And just like this song, most of them are just about their experiences.
@@dmac8949 Yes, that's true. But there is an undertone. It's not just "hey we were there and saw a wall." Like Bodies isn't really just about one girl from Birmingham who lived in a tree.
@@user-ub4ud9gy4d Actually Bodies is about a real girl, no she didn't live in a tree, she just showed up on John's doorstep with a plastic bag with a fetus in it one day. Like I said watch the making of Never Mind The Bullocks.
"A cheap holiday in other people's misery" is the beginning and the end of it
Precisely. The sadness of people marketing it, people paying and gloating over the whole thing.
It was great to be a kid when this music was happening all around you. Wonderful.
Never saw the Pistols, but I saw The Damned, Siouxsie, Poly Styrene, The Stranglers. Unique time in music indeed.
@@robinjohnston24 Have you heard the Vicious White Kids?
You said it man - a fantastic period of my life too.
Hard to imagine..these guys made ONE album...;and here we are talking about it almost 50 years later! ❤❤❤
wrong wrong you make me lol
Moor that one
Johnny rotten made one album. There’s a reason the band died the second he left it.
Even harder to imagine John Lydon writing these songs as a teenager ...
I think I still have a couple albums js
This entire album is amazing. The tunes, the lyrics, the production.
Yeh. Exactly. Perfect 10. The Pistols didn't evolve they dropped and subsequently bounced at Exactly the right time. 1977. The look sound and direction of the band was perfect from start to shambolic finish. Right 1st time is an understatement. Also these reaction videos are bullshit ways to cash in on the music. They could care less what is playing. All these punk era warhorses extolling the virtues and relevant history at the time is a waste of effort and this channel don't care. If you are a fan you know. If you don't you don't. Just ask Danny Brown and Tyler. This song and Belsen is testament to the idea if we don't know the past we are doomed to repeat it. I wanna see some history. But yeah you are right 100% inside and out. Perfect one and done. Then, there's Satellite....😉
@@punkisinthedetails1470 Yeah. I think occasionally a song breaks through to the reactors on all these channels but more often than not it’s like reading Shakespeare to your dog.
@@Dreyno Exactly lol. Might try that though. There were a couple of channels this one kid doing GnR tracks. Now there is a whole raft. Play popular albums. React. Turning rebellion into money. Anyway cheers Dave.
Still the best sound around.
Greatest opening track to an album ever!
Every track a masterpiece.
You know Lex wants to pogo
It's the greatest opening line of the greatest opening track of the greatest album. A cheap holiday in other people's misery....
Great choice, guys. I think you would really like the Pistols "Pretty Vacant" which is my favourite song of theirs.
Mine too
Same
gotta agree with everyone here we're oh so pretty......
If they want to be excited, maybe they'll like the live version of "Pretty Vacant" from Bristol Academy 2008.
@@nic0tin355...we're vacant!
The misery was that of the Germans in East-Berlin/the GDR.
"The new Belsen" was in reference to the concentration camp of the same name _(where people were incarcerated and killed by the nazis). As the East-Germans were incarcerated in the GDR._
In West-Berlin you could climb platforms at the wall to look over it into the eastern part of the city, and the border guards on the other side would look back at you _(through their binoculars)._
Edit: but why not simply read what the Pistols themselves had to say about their song:
"The song was inspired by a trip to the Channel Island of Jersey: "We tried our holiday in the sun in the isle of Jersey and that didn't work. They threw us out." That trip was followed by a couple of weeks spent in Berlin. Although they described the city as "raining and depressing", they were relieved to get away from London. Said John Lydon, "Being in London at the time made us feel like we were trapped in a prison camp environment. There was hatred and constant threat of violence. The best thing we could do was to go set up in a prison camp somewhere else. Berlin and its decadence was a good idea. The song came about from that. I loved Berlin. I loved the wall and the insanity of the place. The communists looked in on the circus atmosphere of West Berlin, which never went to sleep, and that would be their impression of the West"
Johnny Lydon's voice was as cutting as his lyrics. He was singing about westerners going to Berlin on vacation and seeing the wall, but looking over at the East German guards and the misery they contained on the other side of that wall. It was a crazy time in the world and it's tough to imagine a nation literally be split by a wall, with one side thriving and modern and the other side suffering under oppression.
Have you seen the movie Christiane F?
Not so difficult to imagine while Putin continues to try to divide and conquer Eastern Europe.
He was on about benidorm and rightfully so
@@TheZumph Isn't Benidorm a city in Spain?
Rubbish the Sex Pistols went to West Germany it was the time that Glen Matlock left or was replaced by Sid Vicious - Malcolm McLaren thought it would be a good bonding exercise - Johnny Rotten wrote the lyrics based on his experience of visiting the Berlin Wall being anti communist and wondering how people could live under such an evil ideology as Communism is
See the following proof of the Pistols being at the Berlin Wall
ruclips.net/video/227m9lw5CcI/видео.html
If you like his voice, try listening to Public Image Ltd (PIL)... The band Johnny Rotten was in after ... they have some good songs, their biggest hit being 'Rise'
Johnny Rotten aka John Lydon, the singer, is smart and totally weird. Today he is still a 66 year old punk rocker. He has also been a movie actor. Yes check some later music like religion, rise, This is not a love song, or The order of death.
Rise great tune
Atrocious song. Terrible.
@@erikahlander3489 In the 2016 US elections I saw an interview with him where he said Trump would be great, because he thought he would be good for England. So yes, totally weird he is. xD
Just about everything on Metal Box is good, especially Death Disco (written about his dying mother). I can't stick Rise, though.
this song is so underrated. One of John's best vocal performances and the backup vocals rock. Lots of punk is angry... sex pistols turned anger into a celebration.
there is nuthing underrated about the sex pistols . you can join the conversation without using such a trite expression
@@podiumguy100 don't talk to me.
This is a difficult one to pin down. They are indeed Brits. Also the Berlin Wall was still up and in use at the time and didn't come down for another 11 years after the release of Never Mind The Bollocks, so it wasn't really an historical landmark yet.
Another great song from them, Pretty Vacant.
That wall was an historical landmark since it was built in 1961......and yes Pretty Vacant is my favorite Sex Pistols song.
It's about trying to escape OVER the Berlin Wall from the East to the West of Germany and the many that failed and we're killed.
The Berlin Wall was hugely significant as it represented the schism in politics, and the Pistols were a political band.
“Cheap holidays in other people’s misery” is from the Situationist International, a late 1960s Art avant-garde. The Pistols would have been introduced to this by their manager, Malcolm McClaren, who attended art school at the time.
Jamie Reed was also influential with the young Lydon.
Many of the first wave of Brit punk bands had art school influences
I’ve always found his voice weirdly soothing. Sex Pistols is a great thing to put on loud when you’re alone (ideally) and scream-sing along with! 😁
When the charts and radio waves were dominated by Disco and easy listening, THIS was SO exciting and fresh!!... and a generation of kids found the Pistols, the Ramones and the Clash and took up guitars to express the emotions of anger, alienation and angst in themselves!!
Well I wouldn't go that far, but I do understand where you're coming from.
@@darren6202 what exactly are you disagreeing with? The Pistols kick started one of the most influential moments in music history, so many genres and bands appeared after punk formed by the young fans of punk.
Remember this is in the Cold War era. When ppl weren't really sure if WW3 was around the corner with chemical warfare and nukes of course. So at this time the east Berliners were coming over the wall to our side, but he is ironically saying that he is going over the wall to their side whence everyone is fleeing. And saying don't wait for me (to return) I guess. - So I think the punk is influenced greatly by the threat of WW3 and nuclear war, because in those days you didn't really know, it might happen soon. - And this is perhaps timely in the light of the recent world events. This paranoia might return, or is it here already.
Trouble is, we got the Cold War panic and paranoia without the kick ass soundtrack
Holy shit!!! Brad is vibing to the actual music!!! This is a first.
You guys should try "Bodies" Now, that's a beautiful little song
Haha! Bodies?! Interesting...
Definitely my favorite
great Pistol's song my favorite
Charming subject matter... Inspired, I gather, by an English lass who attended a Pistols show with her aborted fetus in a bag.
It touches on the hypocrisy of forcing abortions on some, while denying them to others.
Happy International Women's Day.
I remember buying this album when I was 14 and just being totally knocked out by this opener. Thanks!
Me too. I'm glad I had a walkman, because my parents would have thrown the tape right out the window.
@@chriswarner5158 ? was the walkman around then??
yeh I was 12 my brother bought a copy home and I was frozen...pure class
I was a 14 yr old kid when I bought this album in Canada... and let me tell you.. the punk genre music spoke for my angsty self!!!! lol I took a deep dive into the music and lifestyle. Happy .. joyful memories hearing this!!!! lol 😜😂🤣🤩
A brilliant piece of raw, dynamic and blistering rock and roll music! Still as fresh and exciting as when it was first released!
a beautiful track that was so exciting when I was 14 years old in 77 and so bored of endless disco, Bee Gees and all that other crap that was constantly on the radio. This contains one of Johnny Rotten's classically cynical lines "a cheap holiday in other people's misery" that stands true even today. This refers to the fact that usually when westerners discover a new sun-drenched location for their cheap holiday in the sun that the local population are living in misery
You and I are of the same age. I was 14 in 1978. I heard the Pistols for the first time around then, and it changed the trajectory of my young life. Thank God.
His voice is a snarl, a flipped finger or (in the UK) two fingers up to the establishment of the time. I remember first hearing this on the radio on its release. Those stamping/marching feet - my Dad who was in the room couldn't believe how loud this song was. This still sounds great today.
Would like to hear if Placebo cover them
Seeing the children liking the Pistols brings a tear of joy to my eye. Smart/thinking people like punk and who doesn't love Johnny's bratty vocals
I am not a big punk fan, but I always liked this whole album. It's rocks. Thanks, cats!
One of the most influential bands of the 70's, they hailed from a time where prog rock & disco filled the air waves. The UK was crippled by unions striking bringing the work force out. Rotten garbage was 6ft high in the streets with infestations of rats and poverty was rife. Along came the Sex Pistols who promoted picking up an instrument and joining a band irrespective of whether you could play it or not. It was all about having a go and fighting against the system, giving power & government the middle finger. They imploded on tour in the US after being barred from virtually every venue by local authorities. Sid stayed in New York with his girlfriend Nancy Spungen at the Chelsea Hotel, eventually killing her after being introduced to hard drugs by her. Johnny Rotten (Lydon) went onto form Public Image Ltd (PIL), before the Pistols reformed in the early naughties with original bass player Glen Matlock.
The most influential band.
So awesome. 'Anger is an energy'
They changed the world.
Brad’s one of us punks now!
Check out:
Minutemen- This Ain’t No Picnic
Dead Kennedys- Let’s Lynch The Landlord
Vandals- Urban Struggle
88 Fingers Louie- Smart Enough To Run
TSOL- Code Blue
Dead Boys- Ain’t It Fun
Snapcase- Incarnation
They should do the official vid for This Ain't No Picnic and see if they can find and identify the dead ex-president in the video.
Props for calling out one of my favorite bands of all time: The Minutemen. Double Nickels on the Dime, which has the song you mentioned, is an absolute masterpiece double album with 50 songs on it, and ALL of them are good. It's like a secret very few people know about... which makes it even cooler.
I gotta give you guys credit for the punk stream. I'm old enough to know a lot of punk, but I just didn't go that way much. So, I'm learning and listening right along with you. Thanks so much. Music in any form is a gift. ♥️
This is an iconic punk song
All songs are my favorite. This was the late 70"s , early 80's for me . Being a teenager was just awesome at this time. All types of music to choose from.
This was the first punk record I bought and it kick started a whole series of events 😀 My favourite Sex Pistols tune remains Satellite, although it's a great joy to me how Bodies still shocks and offends over 40 years on.
Yay "Satellite" my favourite too AND it's the flipside of this track 👍👍I've always thought it was the missing track from "Bollocks"
Hey Brad & Lex! I love your channel. The Fall, The Stranglers, The Ramones, and X are a few great bands I love.
X - Great band.
Written after the Rotten and Vicious Berlin wall trip in 77.
It would be pretty easy for you two to react to the entire “Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols “ album because it’s their only album.
To really understand the lyrics you’d have to know about life in England in the 70’s, especially for the younger people, and why there was so much rebellion against the system. There are some really great documentaries on the Sex Pistols, as well as the punk rock movement, on RUclips.
The documentary “Sid” about Sid Vicious you can watch for free on RUclips.
Berlin's not in England, lol
The song was inspired by a trip to the Channel Island of Jersey: Lydon (Johnny Rotten) quoted below
"We tried our holiday in the sun in the isle of Jersey and that didn't work. They threw us out." That trip was followed by a couple of weeks spent in Berlin. Although they described the city as "raining and depressing", they were relieved to get away from London. Said John Lydon, "Being in London at the time made us feel like we were trapped in a prison camp environment. There was hatred and constant threat of violence. The best thing we could do was to go set up in a prison camp somewhere else. Berlin and its decadence was a good idea. The song came about from that. I loved Berlin. I loved the wall and the insanity of the place. The communists looked in on the circus atmosphere of West Berlin, which never went to sleep, and that would be their impression of the West."
I was a young 15 year old skinhead when they came to Jersey, we all used to hang out at the bus station when these drunk twats started shouting at us from across the street, well one thing led to another and we started chasing them through the town. Turns out it was The Pistols. They were saved by the local cops who took them back to their hotel for safety. I later turned out to be a huge Pistols fan, sorry guy's really glad we never caught up to you that night
@@xbgo1856 🤣🤣🤣
Check out Pretty Vacant by the Pistols. You'll love it...
That's my pick too. That and Problems.
This was the first album I listened to front to back and immediately replayed.
From the first time I heard this opening song to Never Mind The Bullocks - I kept listening to it over and over. From that opening chord KERRANG crashing through... I was a Steve Jones fan for life. What a powerful track. And Johnny's amazing on it as.well.
Most glorious burst of righteous anger & disaffection still gets me after all these years, one of the greatest opening riffs in music history ATB Jim, Surrey, UK Anarchy!
The members of the group were on a trip to Berlin, from which the song arose. It was during the Cold War that the wall was still intact.
New Rose by the Damned. First ever punk single.
Don’t think so, was into punk in the 70’s
@@armjos1 What are you talking about?
I wanted a holiday to a place of someone else's misery but the Berlin Wall came down before I got to see it. I wanted a brick as a souvenir. Never had the economy to pay for the trip. Now that piece of history is gone forever.
I had a nice half pipe in my back yard that me and my friends “acquired” from new houses being constructed in my neighborhood back in 1985. This and Suidical Tendencies was on heavy rotation on our “boom box”…
What, no Agent Orange bloodstains? What kind of 1985 half pipe were you running?
The opening line was lifted from a 1960's Situationist slogan "Have a cheap holiday in other people's misery with Club Mediteranean". The implication being that tourists go to countries with poor economies, and therefore lower prices, to exploit them for cheap food, alcohol etc. I think the twist here is that Britain, by the mid '70's, was starting to look like one of those countries .
"This is the story of a Johnny Rotten \ It's better to burn out than it is to rust" --Neil Young "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)". Yep, The Sex Pistols came to burn it all down. Also check out "Pretty Vacant", "Submission", "God Save The Queen", "Anarchy in the UK", "Bodies" ....
They've already done "Queen" and "Anarchy"
@@mikethemotormouth I thought so but wasn't sure, so I listed them towards the end.
@@mikecaetano also you forgot EMI
A piece of context which may help offer more meaning to this song is that when the Berlin Wall was still up when this song was written East Germans were not allowed to escape from the country and people could be shot by trying to get past the Berlin Wall from East Germany to West Germany, as they were once called.
So in his lyrics when he keeps saying he wants to go over the Berlin Wall it sounds like he's disrespecting the concept of there being a wall at all. Maybe when he sings about going over it from the West to the East it's a statement about free movement both ways.
Holidays in the sun. One of the absolute great songs.
love this reaction!!! Im a big punk pistols fan...my husband and i danced our first dance at our wedding to Sex Pistols God Save the Queen, just to eff with everyone, and cuz we love it!!! Johnny Rotten was putting the middle finger up to the establishment, the rich, the apathetic, to everyone, but not without a sense of humor. couple that with jonesy's guitar and you have the most iconic punk album of all time. Johnny Rotten also based his stage persona loosely on the classic rendition of the grotesque King Richard III worth trying to find some concert footage. He's one of a kind!
This is my favorite song ever. Still makes my hair stand on end after 35 years.
The grass may be greener on the other side of the Wall.
Punk and Rap came up about the same year, and were youth Do It Yourself productions by the youth, and was pretty much the genre 's of truth.
Punk rock makes ya wanna raise your fist in the air and stomp around in a circle,dance to the beat, slam into your friends, while in your doc martins! Brad and Lex are Punk Rockers!! Yes!🤘🏽🤵🏾♂️👩🏼🎤🤘🏽
I was behind the curve on Punk and similar styles until I started teaching young people to play musical instruments, they were learning Green Day and Foo Fighters and others that sound similar to British Punk
Best album ever
Proper London town punk rock💥
Pure kin' Soho!
This is definitely music specifically made to break stuff to lol
you are in an old school punk groove with the Pistols and Clash, who are the best of the UK punks.... time to bring it back to its American roots and listen to some more Ramones (I remember you did Blitzkrieg Bop), and maybe some Dead Boys... for the Ramones, try a song called "Commando", and for the Dead Boys try a song called "What Love Is"
No Lex, it's like tear down the establishment, break stuff. Thos being a Queens Jubilee year, you should do, God Save The Queen, by them. Also written, to the Queen, in the Jubilee year of 1977. It made no.1 in the chart, despite it being banned on radio and TV.
Been done did ruclips.net/video/X2CUgzm7hxg/видео.html
God Save the Queen was never #1. LOL xD
@@ExpTube1969 wrong. according to sales it was easily. the chart was fixed that week as you and history well know.
The whole album is great.
If you want to break things to punk, then it has to be the Damned, Smash It Up!
Both parts.
When this album came out and this was the first song on “Nevermind the Bollocks”it changed music forever. Such an influential album and what a first album. Wow! No one had heard music like this before and it reflected the hard times in the UK even though there was prosperity and tourism was booming for people visiting the UK but our other industries were falling apart. A divided post war Germany was a dichotomy also. Great song!
I was 12 when this came out. It was SO liberating. The UK was in a mess and the lyrics reflect that.
I drove my poor mother up the wall and wore the grooves off this album.
Satellite, Bodies and Belson was a gas are my favourite Pistols songs, first punk band i got into in 1983
That whole album, classic.
It's one of the first punk songs written from the very subjective perspective of a working class kid in the 1970s UK. It's not supposed to be academic. it was supposed to be spontaneous. Punk rock songs were about discussing themes and perspectives shunned by the mainstream genres of music. It's also worth remembering that even inside Europe it was not so easy to travel back then.
Amazing album, timeless.
In this episode of Brad & Lex, John Lydon's opening statement earns an "ooh" from Lex before displaying an optimistic mid range "frontal bop" without "breaking stuff". Brad's moderate "sway" is......well........Brad's moderate "sway". The couple innocently give Mr. Lydon's vocal tone and cadence a Disney character's name but enjoy the Pistols like a couple of rootin, tootin, shootin cowboys.
Johnny’s diction, enunciation and snarl is second to none..!!
Definitely reactions to pretty vacant no feelings by the sexpistols great reaction guys love ur channel hi from England by the way
One of my favourite stories is where Sid was in a cowboy diner in the states and a cowboy asked Sid if he thought he was tough. Apparently Sid kicked the cowboy out of his chair, cut his own arm, bled all over the cowboy's meal and smiled at the guy as he ate it. Gotta love Sid.
If you really want the Sex Pistols punk experience you need to do their song BODIES.
Definitely my favorite
I would argue that you’ve covered two of the three most important and biggest punk bands out of the UK-The Clash, The Sex Pistols, & Crass. *If it were the three UK punk bands I like the best I’d swap out The Sex Pistols for The Damned and maybe Sham 69 or X-Ray Specs, though Crass is a fine band.
As much as I don’t care for Johnny Rotten, y’all should check out Public Image, Ltd (PIL)
Forgot Subhumans
And I thought the sour cream was rad Brad. The Pistols? ANARCHY!!
I've always taken it as Berlin wall protest song - taunting that he's gonna go over/under the wall.
i am 60 on the 10th of April
and
when i was a Teen This uk band started a movement that spread world wide !!!
THE kings of PUNK ROCK 4 ever ....what genius
and legends of this gene
Great reaction...you two ask great questions. Thanks! Lex is a punk rocker at heart... ;)
Pistols are awesome. I remember super pissing off my parents playing all this loud on my bedroom stereo.
PIL were also pretty good.
Johnny rotten/lydon comes across as bizarre but underneath is a genuine compassionate human being. I recently watched an interview with him where he spoke about Sid Vicious’s tragic life (they were friends from childhood). It was fascinating.
My favourites are Pretty Vacant and God Save the Queen. But if I put on my old vinyls of theirs I’m sure I’d remember many more I loved.
By the way, the crossover with punk and metal is Motörhead (rip Lemmy). Try the Ace of Spades.
This is the first Punk song I ever heard. 8-track cassette is worth about $695 now. I got it for free. I stole it from the Zellers back in 1978 or 79. That and an Elvis Costello tape.
It is important to remember that at the time this song was written, East Germany and West Germany were separate countries, divided in Berlin by the Berlin Wall.
My one regret is not seeing these guys live whether I’d survive a sex pistols gig a different matter lol 😂
This was a fantastic time to be alive, and a great movement to be part of….
We kicked the arse of establishment, fashion, stale music business dinosaurs and boring tv entertainment - it was all up for grabs
Fantastic
"Sit on My Face Stevie Nicks" by the Rotters !! Iconic punk song!
As far as I remember, the background was that they wanted to travel to East Berlin, but they came no further than to the Wall because someone forgot his passport. So they saw the Berlin Wall but couldn't get over the Wall. I can't recall the story exactly, but it was something like that.
Jump and sweat and break stuff to is my new operative mantra.
Thanks, Lex! You rock.
I had a friend, a photographer, who was in Berlin during the period of the Berlin Wall. He took an amazing photo showing the Western side and the Eastern side in the same shot. The West Berlin side was covered in the most colorful graffiti, and on the Eastern Side, everything was just a grey gloom. It was such an exciting day when the people tore it down.
YES!! My favorite Sex Pistols song!! Way waaaay catchy!
Excellent tune! You should check out The Stranglers, Walk on by🙏🖖
Nice. I recommend Golden Brown. Tell me another pop song with Harpsichord.
Nah, for a punk sound you want "Hanging Around" or "Sometimes".
For an absolute journey, you want "Down in the Sewer".
Ahh The Stranglers. Seen them live about 20 times over the years.
It was heartbreaking watching Jet Black being taken off stage in an oxygen mask, unable to play a full gig toward the end (To huge standing ovation).
Phenomenal band.
I like The Sex Pistols. This is about how oppressive the East German government was to its people ("...other people's misery"). I subscribe last night because I do like most punk bands. I was disappointed when you passed up "Los Angeles" by X which seemed to get a lot of requests. I guess money talks and the rest of us squawk.
punk.
X is such a great band. Might be my 2nd favorite punk band after The Clash. Saw them a few years ago, and they still kill it live. Billy Zoom is one of the best guitar players I've ever seen, and DJ is a very impressive drummer (that's coming from a guy who's seen Neil Peart and Ginger Baker live).
I'd normally agree with you on reactors ignoring non-paying viewers but these two are actually really good at listening to general chat compared to other channels, with the song options for the polls usually being made up almost entirely of suggestions from the live chat, who then vote and choose the winning song themselves.
When this album came out in the seventies majority of people hated their music. Besides a minority of bands no one sounded like this and it scared people just like Black Sabbath scared people in the late sixties. It wasn’t until the mid to late eighties that people started discovering the Sex Pistols because of all the punk influence bands in that era. The SP, along with The Ramones, The Damned and Iggy Pop paved the way for the punk, alternative and Grunge of the 80’s and 90’s
Loved watching Lex just vibing away to this and with the most amazing smile I've seen in a very long time.
The song was also a protest about opening New Belsen to tourists as it was a Nazi Concentration and Death Camp during WW2. They did a song called Bodies that still shocks people to this day!
You guys are awesome and you pick great songs to react to! Keep up the great work!
their best track.. but every track is awesome.. album is genuine masterpiece
I was about 10, and got the Album a few years later. The Pistols are inimitable
This is just them fooling around on Berlin Wall on a holiday.
When it comes to punk try the original and the Best . The Saints (Aussie band started in 1973) performing Stranded. This is what Aussie music was like in the mid 70s. Australian punk didn't get the memo that you were supposed to dress a certain way. Malcolm McLaren used this album for inspiration for the Sex Pistol sound. Also I can't find a single reaction to this . You could be first.
Public Image Limited, one of the best bands ever! John is amazing, no matter what he does.
Love the punk reaction vids the most. Love your appreciation. It’s good to still see my genre being appreciated. Gives me hope enough people will still want to listen to this