Another controversial band, from the US, The Plasmatics!! A response to Butcher Baby (live) would be priceless!! Mistress of Taboo and Bump & Grind also rock!!
Literal meaning of punk - a corrupted, rotted piece of wood. Hence it's use as a term of abuse. EDIT: New York Dolls were the originals. Years before the Pistols.
When this song was released in England it was the queens Jubilee celebration. They got a boat set up their instruments and played it in the thames and that is the footage of them getting arrested when They got off the boat in real life 😂😜🤘🇨🇦❤️
They were banned from playing anywhere in the country so they hired a boat and sailed up the Thames, claiming that being on the water circumvented the ban, the Met. Police disagreed!
@@thelwulfeoforlic6482 It wasn't a national ban, it was being done at the local level. I think the Thames arrests were for public order offences, but possibly politically motivated.
This was groundbreaking in its day. The "No future" line resonated with a whole generation of alienated British youth. Still one of the most powerful and uncompromising songs ever written and performed.
Important to point out the reasons of said alienation: Britain was still very much a classist society (frankly is to this day, but it was much worse back then). Social(ist) movements intended to better the lot of the majority of the working class were kicked down left and right. This turmoil gave nurture to the rise of punk, which, while certainly invented in the US via garage rock and The Ramones, could certainly not have exploded like it did outside of the UK. The kids were sick of it and not gonna take it anymore. This only got worse when crypto fascist Margaret Thatcher took office a few years later. Bears mentioning that, while The Sex Pistols were a cast together "boy band" of their day, all four original members were quite consumate artists,with the exception of bass player Sid Vicious, who was mainly added to add "shock value".
I was 16 years old: It was a total buzz when I heard The Pistols. They were banned pretty much everywhere. The adult population hated them. Many people my age loved them.
@I’m The Biblical guy YEAH I know my phone is really in need of spelling lessons i was so excited to comment i didnt double check it. .... stupid phone.
@@veevamm3642 it was really only genius in the political context of that time, the last late70's-early80's in the UK. Think about the failing car industry, the coal miner strikes and the insane political power of the workers unions. Musically punk was pure garbage. Even back then. You didn't have have many musical skills are talent. A few chords and you could be in a punk band. It was all about the shock value of the controversial lyrics. The real musical revolution of that era came when the synthesizer was adopted by artists and the record labels. The synth stuck and revolutionised music. Punk? It just fizzled out into oblivion.
It was banned from airplay , yes. Still went to No. 1 on the NME charts in the United Kingdom, and made it to No. 2 on the official UK Singles Chart . It was the ultimate punk rebellion song in the UK, shook up the music industry as much as the establishment.
It stuck on No. 2 because if they would have admitted that it was No. 1, they would have been forced to invite them to the Top of the Pos show and had to play it on the radio.
The song WAS the number 1 in the week of the silver jubilee by a LOOONNG way. The BBC (British Bullshit Corporation) as an establishment organisation simply refused to acknowledge the record's status. An entirely political decision.
It was out selling rod Stewart 4 to 1 in jubilee week but the BBC couldn't allow them to be number 1 it would prove the kids were really on to something the BBC tried to stifle them by not playing it on the radio or TV but they failed miserably the pistols topped the charts 3 times and the album charts not bad for a band barred all-over the UK and having next to no air play
If you were around in the late 70s 80s in the UK and Ireland you would understand the significance of this song. The Sex pistols and punk were anti establishment. 🎶
@@Kinch1965 He might be now, but wasn't then. People shouldn't be worshipped though. Everyone is human/flawed/capable of ups and downs. Punk is about thinking for yourself and carving your own path anyway.
Was 17 in 1977, living in a tower block on a council estate in East London this was our anthem. We genuinely believed we had " no future". Now me and my mate's are 60 and the future is a lot shorter then the past. Recommend listening to some early stuff from the Jam.
I was a very young South London boy when this came out but I knew instantly that they were saying what millions of people dared not say. There was an immense amount of distrust, revolt, and outright hatred for the British establishment. Quite predictably, the BBC (national tv/radio company) banned this song, but unsurprisingly it went to #1 any way. That says it all right there. My parents had enough. We packed our suitcases and left Britain. 100s of thousands of Brits did the same.
Imagine how this was 44 years ago. The indignant establishment didn't like this at all. They banned it from radio and television and didn't even acknowledge it's place in the charts.
I remember growing up and had Abba in one Bedroom and Floyd in another I was bored then I started playing this .oh yes the complaints started my ABBA fan sister Hated it .lol
There was a lot of unrest, a lot of unemployment, union strikes, power cut, I can remember sitting with candles burning at night, because the electric was off.
Heard this my senior year in high school and that line, 'no future for you', blew my mind. My first thought was 'FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY someone's telling the truth!' This was the music of my generation, still love it.
The whole album is a masterpiece. No feelings, pretty vacant, bodies, holidays in the sun and god save the queen are my favourites 🤘. I was 5 in 1976, but I got to see their reunion tour in Toronto 😁
I have to be honest, as a thirteen year old living in Ireland it both amused me and scared the s**t out of me, initially. The press really hyped up the anarchy angle and even scared their record company so that they signed a deal, were paid millions and then dropped and then signed a new deal and had a massively successful album and were very rich, very quickly. I ended up buying the album and loving it, it has a lot of energy, I could barely make out the lyrics, let alone sympathize with the sentiment 😜
I'm really happy that you are checking out a wide spectrum of musical genres, and very happy that you are enjoying them. When you start getting into the new wave you have to check out Gary Numan. He is the most sampled artist in the history of music. Everyone from Grandmaster Flash to Basement Jaxx and so many more have sampled his music, because he has always been ahead of his time. He's been making music since the mid seventies, but I didn't get into him until '78. The first single from his newest album was released Jan 11/21, so he has had an extensive career, and has been a major influence on other musicians like Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and many others. He even did an album a few years ago with his daughter, and it is really good. He's not some old guy that is hanging on, he is still leading the way after 46 years of making music.
I'm ancient enough to have been a VERY small child when this came out. This was the Queen's silver jubilee year, and this was No.2.... to this day, there's still accusations that the charts were rigged to prevent it being No.1. Just imagine being the establishment, and hearing these guys singing "no future". Great stuff.
So being a silver jubilee baby (on the exact day) I found out about this song a few years later and found it still relevant and hey presto became a punk rock fan and rock fan in general
I still lived in Europe back then and I wasn't quite a teen yet, but my own country was still in turmoil at that time, between almost daily car bombings, kidnappings, shortages and unemployment, and I totally understood how they felt in the UK. We didn't have a queen, but my countrymen felt the same way towards our government.
@@electricpants8194 Where in the East though? Possibly the Caucasus, but, that was still the USSR in the '70s. Can't see it being East Germany, Poland or other Warsaw Pact countries & it was well before Yugoslavia went tits up. Another thought - Italy, specifically Sicily or Naples - Mafia?
When this came out we were young and angry at the establishment but our futures were still far brighter than for the kids today. The kids today should be screaming at the government for destroying their future.
Idk people shouldn't always complain at the government, if you want a good future take it for yourself and don't expect the government to give it to you
Hi Jayvee.Ye i was 12 years old when that record came out.They were in the newspapers for being so disgusting and offensive for making a song called God Save The Queen in the Queens actual Jubilee year.Paul Cook the drummer got beaten up after the song came out.Johnny Rotten the singer got stabbed with a stilleto blade and a bottle smashed into the side of his head.He dragged himself to hospital where they called the police when they recognised him , and he got arrested on suspicion of "causing an affray".The song itself was bannned from radio airplay , but it still went to number 1 in the charts.The chart positon of Number 1 just held a blank space----The title and band name were not even printed.Thats the first and only time in British history that a number 1 record was not printed up---there WAS no Number 1 pmsl lololol
I think the BBC banned this song and wouldn't play it but it still reached No 2, making people suspicious that it was deliberately held at the No2 position so the BBC's incredibly popular music TV show" Top of The Pops" didn't have to show it because they'd always finished that show with the No1 song.
over the years they have refused to play at least 50 records either from the bods at the top or individual d.j.s *mike read springs to mind because they think they are the moral police bunch of sanctimonious c---s there time is nearly up
The English national anthem is God Save the Queen/King. This just turned that on its head. The song came out in time for the Queen's 25th anniversary on the throne. The song was HUGE that summer. It should have been on Top of the Pops as the number one song for the week of the Jubilee. But the Government had BBC Radio cook the books so the song lost out from reaching #1.
In Britain in the late 70s the younger generation fed up with disco music and prog Rock created their own sound which started off as punk rock and developed into new wave. some of the great groups and singers of that era include the Sex Pistols, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, sham 69, Gary Numan, The Buzzcocks, the Damned, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Stranglers, The Jam, The Police, Hazel O'Connor, the vapors and Toyah Willcox.
This was their alternative Jubilee tribute to Her Majesty in 1977 on a barge on the river Thames in London. The police weren't best pleased and tried to halt the performance
A healthy position. I’m not British (Irish, so I don’t spend much time thinking about them) but I find monarchy absolutely abhorrent. But I have nothing against the royal family themselves.
I’d be pissed having my tax dollars going to the Royal Family just for being descendants of people who had actual power. What’s the point of the monarchy now? It seems to just be for public relations and a tourist attraction these days. The Royals seem to be miserable anyway. They are born into guided cages. No freedom. I’m sure the money is nice but the British people act like they own them, and they pretty much do.
@Noctis ym They can abdicate. They’re not stuck. They choose to stay in that inherited position of wealth and privilege. If they think it’s not right, abdicate, leave the royal residences and lobby to have it abolished.
@Noctis ym People make tough decisions every day. To leave their job, leave their partner, sell their home, emigrate. They don’t leave because it’s a great lifestyle paid for by others.
This band scared people. That doesn't happen anymore. They exploded the English and US music scenes with a visibility that the originators of punk in the US could not achieve. The only genre that created the same level of fear and revulsion in mainstream American society was Rap.
I was 19 when this was released and I absolutely loved it. It got banned from the radio and TV - oh, they meant it. It was the ultimate kick back at the establishment. Still one of my favourites of theirs. Nirvana's first album was named in honour of the Pistols first album, "Never Mind the Bollocks." Nirvana's album was just called "Nevermind."
This song came out in 1977, the same year as Queen Elizabeth's silver jubilee celebration. It was a primal shout against the state of affairs in the UK at the time, which were in an increasingly bad economic and political situation... and to the leadership of the country, with the Queen as it's titular head of state. (The UK was nearly in another economic depression and the the IRA in Northern Ireland had stepped up their bombing campaign throughout England.) And to top it off, this video... which was filmed on a boat in the Thames river... had them play God Save the Queen right in front of Palace of Westminster, the seat of British government. And they did it just two days before the Queen was set to visit (via boat as well). Those police you see in the video aren't actors, they're the real police really pulling them off the boat and really stopping their performance.
The country was a bit tops y Turvey but when I left school in 1978 a comprehensive in a big city every one of us boys 15 of us had jobs lined up I can't speak for the girls back then only about 10 percent went to university and you had to get very good grades to get in we also had polytechnics were people got practical skills also there were a lot of apprenticeships but they were dying out the next year Margaret Thatcher got in thousand said she was good for the country thousands said she was bad I lived it and can say one thing it was a more equal society than today I'm not saying it was better or more comfortable there was more parity sorry for going on the record bought good memories back
Seen "Public Image Ltd" many times over the past 35 yerars , Johnny got slated a few years ago for doing an advert for butter, but he was doing it for the money to take PIL on tour again
Although this album came out in England in 1976, in suburban Pennsylvania I didn't hear it until 1979. This album changed everything. We were listening to Styx, Kansas, Rush, Aerosmith...and then we dropped the needle on this?!?!? It was as if everything we had ever heard before was total bullshit.
Meh... not so much on the "bullshit"... There were tons of songs that were anti establishment before this. It's just that the other music was actually melodic.
Dude apart from being angsty and rebellios there is not much else to them. Band like the ones you mentioned before were way more musical, which is why they stood the test of time. If the music is still being studied and listened to and admired after 40-50 years, i wouldn't quite call it 'bullshit'.
@@floreamihai3852 , you kinda had to be there to understand what it felt like to hear the roar of the Sex Pistols in 1979. Although all those bands that I mentioned are good bands and I still like them, they kinda represent the corporatization of the music industry. See the movie "Almost Famous" for that discussion. The Ramones and the Sex Pistols reminded everyone that rock was originally about fun wrapped up in three screaming chords. It wasn't about "monetization". Listening to the Sex Pistols made me and my friends understand what rock and roll was all about. It made pseudo-intellectual art rock seem as pretentious as it was. And it's hard to understand just how hard it was to acquire certain albums at that time. You couldn't just go online and listen to some group. You had to go to specific record stores that had imported records, that had hard-to-find bands. You had to spend money just to hear an album. That made the whole experience of listening to an album for the first time a completely different experience than what you have today.
@@floreamihai3852 The Sex Pistols are also still "studied and listened and admired" after 44 years with just ONE album released : that says a lot about their relevance in music...!!! Edit : And fyi punk rock pulverized ALL those fake pompous "more musical bands" you mentioned : imagine that...!
Hey Javaughan, you are ALL over the place with the style/type of selections today....Ms Jackson TO Miss Jackson TO Mr Rotten & Vicious...I'm gettin' whiplash
I was 15 years old and I discovered the Pistols. 1995,freshman year. The next day I dropped my group of jock friends and moved to the stoner lunch table where a very diverse group of individuals sat. Pistols, Ramones, Buzzcocks, the Furs... I was in 100%.
Please check out: (It's A Beautiful World by Devo). (The Music Video). Don't let this one fool you. Most of this song is about how wonderful the world is, a "sweet romantic place with beautiful people everywhere." But at the end, it turns around with the line, "But not for me." "They wanted to get everybody into a mood where people thought Devo was saying the world was really nice and saying the world was beautiful, then it turns out to be one man's opinion, which is mine, which is, while the world could be beautiful, it's not for me because of what I'm seeing."
Many people misunderstood Devo; thinking they were a "pop" band. I will never forget one of them saying in an interview, "We are the anti-McDonalds McDonalds. Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!
When this song were released in the Queen's Silver Jubilee year 1977 it changed everything. Difficult to put into words the impact this song and the band had as a whole on literally everything but yeah, you had to be there to see it unfold. Incredible times and all for the common good.
Another punk band you need to check out is The Damned, they had a single out before the Pistols but didn't get quite the same kind of notoriety! New Rose, Smash it up, and in their later more gothic/new romantic kind of years Grimly Fiendish - loads of classics from them... Worth a listen!
Yes I can remember the reaction here in 1977 . We'd seen absolutely nothing like them before , older people hated them , many younger people didn't get them as well . I think they're genius .
I really like some of Johnny's music with his later band Public Image Limited (PIL). Check out "(This is not a) Love Song" or "Seattle" or "Rise" or "The Body" or "Disappointed"
I’m an old lady now. You wouldn’t guess this was my music. I was initiated by a boyfriend who loved classic rock, punk, and blues. This was a scream. I loved the energy. I got knocked down in a mosh pit once which wasn’t fun. My first husband married me because I had this in my record collection. There’s a movie called Sid & Nancy which shows what this era was like,
This was stopped from being no1 by the establishment. Had to have been there to realise the impact this band and their punk contemporaries had. Check out The Jam, The Damned, The Buzzcocks
The song was banned but went to Number 1 in the charts.Big record shops left no. 1 blank. In Ireland we loved it and every shop you passed was blasting it out all summer. In the U.K. they spent a fortune on celebrating the Queen’s Silver Jubilee while there was huge unemployment. The lead singer was called Johnny Rotten- his parents were Irish. The energy was awesome.
London Punk from the 70's here!I was 15 when this was released. It was the Queens 25th Jubilee. It was utterly amazing rebellion for us at the time. I still love this to this day!
The song was banned but still hit #1 on the British charts, but when the charts were printed the #1 position was left blank though everyone knew what was supposed to be there.
It was pretty amazing.....I mean there was 'punk music' but this was new. It all quickly became New Wave. Iggy and The Stooges and The Dictators and The Ramones.....set the stage.
The single cover for this was banned as it had a picture of the queen with a safety pin through her nose, and the printers refused to print it anyway, especially as it was the jubilee year (the 25 celebration Of the anniversary of her ascending to the throne).
Released in 1977 - the Queen's silver jubilee year. You can imagine how the establishment reacted, the song was banned but still reached No.1. Fun fact - most people think the Sex Pistols made the first punk single but it was actually The Damned with 'New Rose'.
Fun fact about this song. The queen was having a historical anniversary at the time this song came out and no record store would sell it at some radio stations refused to play it as it climbed the charts. One one store would sell it -virgin records snd Richard Branson.
Should try "Rise" or "This Is Not A Love Song" by Public Image Limited, they were Johnny Rotten's (lead singer/songwriter for the pistols) next band and I'd say I prefer them
I was in my teens when this song came out (the same year as the Queen's 25th anniversary on the throne). I can't say I was ever into The Sex Pistols or punk in general (I preferred Boston, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, etc.). But growing up in Canada where the Royal Family and the Queen were on our money and technically the head of state (leftovers of the British Empire), I actually quite liked this song because I was sick (and still am) of another country's royals being so dominant in our way of life - not to mention a drain on the British economy, where the class system was still dominant (probably still is).
I was quite young when this was released, but they scared the shit out of me. All the newspapers, politicians and adults I knew hated them. They really had an edge to them that I've never seen before.
Thanks for this, it took me back a few years! I saw them play and I can assure you I have never forgot it. I was a teenage punk rocker and they were our idols.
Saw them in their pomp in '76 and again at the reunion at brixton in '07 and it brought back so many memories of being in London at that time with all the strikes and power cuts,music was our way out. The Pistols,with that one album,blew all the cobwebs away.
Such a brilliant song. I was so excited when I first heard this back in the mid seventies. I'm now 71 years old and obviously a child of the sixties and a huge Beatles fan. However, there wasn't as much amazing music as there had been in the sixties and disco music became hugely popular. I hated disco and then I heard the Sex Pistols for the first time. It was just so fabulous to hear a new kind of music with so much energy. Just love it. Believe me there aren't many people my age who love the Sex Pistols. Pity they only ever made one album.
I REALLY laughed my ass down after seeing your reaction, i saw Sex pistols live,back in 1996 as a kid. It s cool seeing younger generation reacting so good on older music .
The inventors of Punk rock . I was 16 when these hit the British music scene ..... anarchists, tipped the world upside down. Bands like Nirvana etc wouldn't have happened without these 😍😍😍
@@simpleiowan3123 I have heard of them I will listen later are they a moder version of sabbath ? to me the first really metal band though I could be wrong
@@simpleiowan3123 Well, Sex Pistols represent the British lower social class a lot more than Pantera or Metal Church represents the American one. Sex Pistols didn't had so "hardcore" lyrics comparing to other heavy metal/punk rock bands but was conformed by "street" boys and, in its last times, had pretty much "street" fans, that's why the band were considered like that. That's why they caused much more scandal than any heavy metal band, that in mot part ended being a cliche in a few years trying to be brutal but having pretty "soft" fans in comparison. American heavy metal fans, except a minority, weren't from the worst neighborhoods of their cities, while British punk rock fans were, that's the difference. In United States, that place in big cities was occupied by funk and later rap and, in smaller urban areas/rural areas, by country or blues and then by rock and roll (mostly by Elvis Presley or Chuck Berry and then by some heavy metal bands like Pantera or Metallica).
It was the first Punk song my sister played for me! I was 9 years old! I got it instantly. Thank you for reacting to this and all the other songs that some other reaction channels won’t!!
You nailed the sentiment of that song! To clear up some of the muddier lyrics... “When there’s no future, how can there be sin? We’re the flowers in the dustbin. We’re the poison in the human machine. We’re the future... Your future!” ... Took me forever to figure that out without benefit of lyric sheet or internet.
In June '77 I turned 16, left school, it was the Queen's Silver Jubilee (25 years on the throne) and this song was number 1 on every hit parade. Every hit parade, that is, except on the state broadcaster, the BBC. You ask how it felt? It felt like all the old stuff, musically, socially, politically, even clothing, was being re set. Of course, it wasn't quite the revolution we felt it was but still, it felt fucking brilliant!
The boats you see on the video in front of Parliament was them. They actually played this song live on the riverboat in front of Parliament on the Queen's Jubilee. As soon as they docked the boat they were immediately arrested. When it said "they arrested Malcolm" they are talking about their manager that got arrested with them that night. Great reaction!👍
My mum wouldn't let me play this record at home. It was considered so disrespectful at the time and she flipped out when I came home with 'Never Mind the Bollocks'. I loved their music and they were making a statement about the times. People were living in such poverty back then with so much employment etc. Looking back as an adult, I understand what they were saying. I still love it. My daughter hates it their music as much as my mum!
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Another controversial band, from the US, The Plasmatics!! A response to Butcher Baby (live) would be priceless!! Mistress of Taboo and Bump & Grind also rock!!
Literal meaning of punk - a corrupted, rotted piece of wood. Hence it's use as a term of abuse.
EDIT: New York Dolls were the originals. Years before the Pistols.
They wasn't allowed around my area caerphilly they all protested them it's in the sex pistols film the great rock n roll swindle
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Thats like 40 years later !!
Anthrax and Motley Crue do good covers.
When this song was released in England it was the queens Jubilee celebration. They got a boat set up their instruments and played it in the thames and that is the footage of them getting arrested when They got off the boat in real life 😂😜🤘🇨🇦❤️
They were banned from playing anywhere in the country so they hired a boat and sailed up the Thames, claiming that being on the water circumvented the ban, the Met. Police disagreed!
Not just england......it was her jubilee in the rest of UK at the same time..... like it says in the lyrics, it certainly made you a moron
I was 19 then. Great song when drunk. Pogo time!
@@thelwulfeoforlic6482 It wasn't a national ban, it was being done at the local level. I think the Thames arrests were for public order offences, but possibly politically motivated.
@@gggggggg3542 It's was the jubilee though out the commonwealth. eg. Australia, Not just the UK
This was groundbreaking in its day. The "No future" line resonated with a whole generation of alienated British youth. Still one of the most powerful and uncompromising songs ever written and performed.
Still resonates with this 18 year old Brit
This. Then and now.
@@ala0284 have a listen to "sleaford mods" pal. if you have not already, I am sure it will resonate. Job seeker top track!
"No future" was the original title of the song.
Important to point out the reasons of said alienation: Britain was still very much a classist society (frankly is to this day, but it was much worse back then). Social(ist) movements intended to better the lot of the majority of the working class were kicked down left and right. This turmoil gave nurture to the rise of punk, which, while certainly invented in the US via garage rock and The Ramones, could certainly not have exploded like it did outside of the UK. The kids were sick of it and not gonna take it anymore. This only got worse when crypto fascist Margaret Thatcher took office a few years later.
Bears mentioning that, while The Sex Pistols were a cast together "boy band" of their day, all four original members were quite consumate artists,with the exception of bass player Sid Vicious, who was mainly added to add "shock value".
"No future for you" was something Johnny Rotten was told as a child in school.
Well whoever said that was very wrong he was one of the creators of British punk
Shows what they know!
I was 16 years old: It was a total buzz when I heard The Pistols. They were banned pretty much everywhere. The adult population hated them. Many people my age loved them.
they played gigs under the name of "the SPOTS" ... Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly.
This was 77 right? I was 13 and vaguely remember all the hubbub.
Classic record there! Nevermind the Bullocks is a genius record! True poetry of the time.....
@I’m The Biblical guy YEAH I know my phone is really in need of spelling lessons i was so excited to comment i didnt double check it. .... stupid phone.
@@veevamm3642 it was really only genius in the political context of that time, the last late70's-early80's in the UK.
Think about the failing car industry, the coal miner strikes and the insane political power of the workers unions.
Musically punk was pure garbage. Even back then. You didn't have have many musical skills are talent. A few chords and you could be in a punk band. It was all about the shock value of the controversial lyrics.
The real musical revolution of that era came when the synthesizer was adopted by artists and the record labels. The synth stuck and revolutionised music.
Punk? It just fizzled out into oblivion.
It was banned from airplay , yes. Still went to No. 1 on the NME charts in the United Kingdom, and made it to No. 2 on the official UK Singles Chart . It was the ultimate punk rebellion song in the UK, shook up the music industry as much as the establishment.
It stuck on No. 2 because if they would have admitted that it was No. 1, they would have been forced to invite them to the Top of the Pos show and had to play it on the radio.
The song WAS the number 1 in the week of the silver jubilee by a LOOONNG way. The BBC (British Bullshit Corporation) as an establishment organisation simply refused to acknowledge the record's status. An entirely political decision.
It was only number 2 because it was not allowed to be placed at number 1. No number 1 at the chart then.
@David H I think it was The first cut is the deepest from Rod Stewart.
It was out selling rod Stewart 4 to 1 in jubilee week but the BBC couldn't allow them to be number 1 it would prove the kids were really on to something the BBC tried to stifle them by not playing it on the radio or TV but they failed miserably the pistols topped the charts 3 times and the album charts not bad for a band barred all-over the UK and having next to no air play
If you were around in the late 70s 80s in the UK and Ireland you would understand the significance of this song. The Sex pistols and punk were anti establishment. 🎶
Absolutely
Johnny Rotten is a Trump supporter. Anti establishment through and through.
Some of us Aussie loved it too. Like The Clash "White Riot"!
@@Kinch1965 He might be now, but wasn't then. People shouldn't be worshipped though. Everyone is human/flawed/capable of ups and downs. Punk is about thinking for yourself and carving your own path anyway.
@@publicjohn8046 MAGA baby!
Was 17 in 1977, living in a tower block on a council estate in East London this was our anthem. We genuinely believed we had " no future". Now me and my mate's are 60 and the future is a lot shorter then the past. Recommend listening to some early stuff from the Jam.
When your young springs to mind
Greetings from the Philippines, punks not dead!
Feed the ducks in the park and wish that you were far away. :)
This hit the UK and the music world like an atom bomb. I was 17 and living in London, no song has ever had that impact since.
I was a very young South London boy when this came out but I knew instantly that they were saying what millions of people dared not say. There was an immense amount of distrust, revolt, and outright hatred for the British establishment. Quite predictably, the BBC (national tv/radio company) banned this song, but unsurprisingly it went to #1 any way. That says it all right there. My parents had enough. We packed our suitcases and left Britain. 100s of thousands of Brits did the same.
@david edbrooke-coffin yeah.. lucky.. cough cough !!
Imagine how this was 44 years ago. The indignant establishment didn't like this at all. They banned it from radio and television and didn't even acknowledge it's place in the charts.
and still the same Queen...
I remember growing up and had Abba in one Bedroom and Floyd in another I was bored then I started playing this .oh yes the complaints started my ABBA fan sister Hated it .lol
There was a lot of unrest, a lot of unemployment, union strikes, power cut, I can remember sitting with candles burning at night, because the electric was off.
Heard this my senior year in high school and that line, 'no future for you', blew my mind. My first thought was 'FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY someone's telling the truth!' This was the music of my generation, still love it.
The whole album is a masterpiece. No feelings, pretty vacant, bodies, holidays in the sun and god save the queen are my favourites 🤘. I was 5 in 1976, but I got to see their reunion tour in Toronto 😁
That would have been good. I'm jealous
Yes, a true masterpiece!
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Sex Pistols b-sides 'I Wanna Be Me' and 'Satellite' are classics and should have been on NMTB.
Saw them at Ontario Place twice, the Filthy Lucre tour (fat and forty, as Johnny said) and ten years later. Bought Never Mind in 1977
The pistols made punk a household word around the world in a couple of days.🤘🇨🇦
After they saw The Ramones.
@@FIDIOT-cringe 💜💜💜
@Sick Muse They were influenced by other bands, not Ramones.
Love the Pistols!!! 😀
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I have to be honest, as a thirteen year old living in Ireland it both amused me and scared the s**t out of me, initially. The press really hyped up the anarchy angle and even scared their record company so that they signed a deal, were paid millions and then dropped and then signed a new deal and had a massively successful album and were very rich, very quickly. I ended up buying the album and loving it, it has a lot of energy, I could barely make out the lyrics, let alone sympathize with the sentiment 😜
Totally with whoever recommended The Jam. Paul Weller is still a legend. Town called Malice,Going Underground, Start xx
Yes Going Underground!
Down in the tube station at midnight
@@teddyalison1215 any song 'ill do.
That's Entertainment.
Not to mention the style council 😊
I'm really happy that you are checking out a wide spectrum of musical genres, and very happy that you are enjoying them. When you start getting into the new wave you have to check out Gary Numan. He is the most sampled artist in the history of music. Everyone from Grandmaster Flash to Basement Jaxx and so many more have sampled his music, because he has always been ahead of his time. He's been making music since the mid seventies, but I didn't get into him until '78. The first single from his newest album was released Jan 11/21, so he has had an extensive career, and has been a major influence on other musicians like Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and many others. He even did an album a few years ago with his daughter, and it is really good. He's not some old guy that is hanging on, he is still leading the way after 46 years of making music.
I'm ancient enough to have been a VERY small child when this came out. This was the Queen's silver jubilee year, and this was No.2.... to this day, there's still accusations that the charts were rigged to prevent it being No.1. Just imagine being the establishment, and hearing these guys singing "no future". Great stuff.
I was born on the Queens Silver Jubilee day 7th June 77 and have always loved this song hahaha love the Pistols it's timeless in lots of ways
So being a silver jubilee baby (on the exact day) I found out about this song a few years later and found it still relevant and hey presto became a punk rock fan and rock fan in general
I was 16 and this shocked the oldies to their core.
No "accusations" of rigging the chart that week, it is a stone cold FACT established for over 40 years.
@@paulsmith2516 Do you have a source?
I still lived in Europe back then and I wasn't quite a teen yet, but my own country was still in turmoil at that time, between almost daily car bombings, kidnappings, shortages and unemployment, and I totally understood how they felt in the UK. We didn't have a queen, but my countrymen felt the same way towards our government.
Mind me asking which country are you from? Northern Ireland?
@@CrociatoAzzurro As Northern Ireland is part of the UK, I doubt it - at a guess Spain - ETA (Basque Separatists)
@@jinxvrs nah i'd guess in the east
@@jinxvrs
UK, yes. But the song says 'England'. I wasn't sure if the bombings referred to 'The Troubles'.
@@electricpants8194 Where in the East though? Possibly the Caucasus, but, that was still the USSR in the '70s. Can't see it being East Germany, Poland or other Warsaw Pact countries & it was well before Yugoslavia went tits up. Another thought - Italy, specifically Sicily or Naples - Mafia?
When this came out we were young and angry at the establishment but our futures were still far brighter than for the kids today. The kids today should be screaming at the government for destroying their future.
You got that right. Globalist shills are creating a generation of Russian serfs who will never own anything while they own everything.
Idk people shouldn't always complain at the government, if you want a good future take it for yourself and don't expect the government to give it to you
Hi Jayvee.Ye i was 12 years old when that record came out.They were in the newspapers for being so disgusting and offensive for making a song called God Save The Queen in the Queens actual Jubilee year.Paul Cook the drummer got beaten up after the song came out.Johnny Rotten the singer got stabbed with a stilleto blade and a bottle smashed into the side of his head.He dragged himself to hospital where they called the police when they recognised him , and he got arrested on suspicion of "causing an affray".The song itself was bannned from radio airplay , but it still went to number 1 in the charts.The chart positon of Number 1 just held a blank space----The title and band name were not even printed.Thats the first and only time in British history that a number 1 record was not printed up---there WAS no Number 1 pmsl lololol
I think the BBC banned this song and wouldn't play it but it still reached No 2, making people suspicious that it was deliberately held at the No2 position so the BBC's incredibly popular music TV show" Top of The Pops" didn't have to show it because they'd always finished that show with the No1 song.
auntie beeb trying to control us and telling us what to do f--k em they are a spent force
over the years they have refused to play at least 50 records either from the bods at the top or individual d.j.s *mike read springs to mind because they think they are the moral police bunch of sanctimonious c---s there time is nearly up
It was No1 without doubt. Total stitch up, but we knew!
Oh the days of pirate radio :)
The English national anthem is God Save the Queen/King. This just turned that on its head. The song came out in time for the Queen's 25th anniversary on the throne.
The song was HUGE that summer. It should have been on Top of the Pops as the number one song for the week of the Jubilee. But the Government had BBC Radio cook the books so the song lost out from reaching #1.
In Britain in the late 70s the younger generation fed up with disco music and prog Rock created their own sound which started off as punk rock and developed into new wave. some of the great groups and singers of that era include the Sex Pistols, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, sham 69, Gary Numan, The Buzzcocks, the Damned, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Stranglers, The Jam, The Police, Hazel O'Connor, the vapors and Toyah Willcox.
There were so many great punk bands that you should pick a day in the week and make it punk rock day.
Sex Pistols didn't last very long, but were legendary. Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious. Sex Pistols were all about anarchy.
Amen , for real. 😊
Oh yeah
They never were anarchist really.
Sid Vicious was a murderer no biggie, right?
@@Ainzleeriddell no he wasn't...he did however murder songs as he had no talent.
This song hit the establishment to the core they were banned from everything and created the world wide cult of PUNK ROCK
You might wanna learn your music a little better. The Sex Pistols didn’t create anything just like Nirvana didn’t create “grunge” as they call it.
@@Wrangzilla Is it Neil Young who is the grandfather of grunge?
Sorry but they did't CREATE it. Ramones and Iggy Pop did it before them.
@@goldiekildea2924 Neil is the god of grunge for sure! ;)
Got to disagree respectfully none of that lot made the impact that the pistols did I was around then so I know my history
Pretty Vacant was their anthem. It’s worth a look
Hi Jay, when they were saying 'they've arrested Malcolm' they were talking about their manager and promoter Malcolm McLaren
This was their alternative Jubilee tribute to Her Majesty in 1977 on a barge on the river Thames in London. The police weren't best pleased and tried to halt the performance
Ironically, Johnny "Rotten" Lydon was and still is quite fond of Elizabeth the person. It's the idea of the monarchy that he diesn't like.
A healthy position. I’m not British (Irish, so I don’t spend much time thinking about them) but I find monarchy absolutely abhorrent. But I have nothing against the royal family themselves.
I’d be pissed having my tax dollars going to the Royal Family just for being descendants of people who had actual power. What’s the point of the monarchy now? It seems to just be for public relations and a tourist attraction these days.
The Royals seem to be miserable anyway. They are born into guided cages. No freedom. I’m sure the money is nice but the British people act like they own them, and they pretty much do.
@Noctis ym They can abdicate. They’re not stuck. They choose to stay in that inherited position of wealth and privilege. If they think it’s not right, abdicate, leave the royal residences and lobby to have it abolished.
@Noctis ym People make tough decisions every day. To leave their job, leave their partner, sell their home, emigrate. They don’t leave because it’s a great lifestyle paid for by others.
@Noctis ym If I am to be told that another person is my better, merely by being born in the right family, I can judge that as harshly as I like.
This band scared people. That doesn't happen anymore. They exploded the English and US music scenes with a visibility that the originators of punk in the US could not achieve. The only genre that created the same level of fear and revulsion in mainstream American society was Rap.
I think you're forgetting the impact Marilyn Manson had during their first world tour in 1997. They created a moral panic.
I was 19 when this was released and I absolutely loved it. It got banned from the radio and TV - oh, they meant it. It was the ultimate kick back at the establishment. Still one of my favourites of theirs. Nirvana's first album was named in honour of the Pistols first album, "Never Mind the Bollocks." Nirvana's album was just called "Nevermind."
Another originator were “Iggy & the Stooges” they have classics, like Search & Destroy” and “I wanna be your Dog”
yes! and don't forget No Fun, that's also good
"Down in the Street" and "1969" too!
Iggy Pop was way before this.
Has he heard any "Dead Kennedys"?
My favorite Stooges song is "Loose."
This song came out in 1977, the same year as Queen Elizabeth's silver jubilee celebration. It was a primal shout against the state of affairs in the UK at the time, which were in an increasingly bad economic and political situation... and to the leadership of the country, with the Queen as it's titular head of state. (The UK was nearly in another economic depression and the the IRA in Northern Ireland had stepped up their bombing campaign throughout England.)
And to top it off, this video... which was filmed on a boat in the Thames river... had them play God Save the Queen right in front of Palace of Westminster, the seat of British government. And they did it just two days before the Queen was set to visit (via boat as well). Those police you see in the video aren't actors, they're the real police really pulling them off the boat and really stopping their performance.
Yeah, they left this part out in the Crown retelling of events lol.
@@katemccrea6963 The creators of the crown were forced to rewrite an episode as Johnny Rotten didn’t give permission
@@elouisegoodchild8077 Damn. That would've been fun to see Olivia Coleman's reaction to the song
The country was a bit tops y Turvey but when I left school in 1978 a comprehensive in a big city every one of us boys 15 of us had jobs lined up I can't speak for the girls back then only about 10 percent went to university and you had to get very good grades to get in we also had polytechnics were people got practical skills also there were a lot of apprenticeships but they were dying out the next year Margaret Thatcher got in thousand said she was good for the country thousands said she was bad I lived it and can say one thing it was a more equal society than today I'm not saying it was better or more comfortable there was more parity sorry for going on the record bought good memories back
I think this song was re-released 25 years later to "celebrate" Queen Elizabeth's 50th anniversary.
You should check out PiL, Johnny Rotten’s band after the Pistols. Careering is a wicked tune!
Try John Lydon's other band: 'Public Image Limited - Rise'
defo
Seen "Public Image Ltd" many times over the past 35 yerars , Johnny got slated a few years ago for doing an advert for butter, but he was doing it for the money to take PIL on tour again
fond of their self titled song public image
Burn Hollywood burn
Or Four Enclosed Walls
God save the Queen, she's no human beeing.... had to think of all the memes about her beeing immortal 😂🤣😂
reptilian
David Icke was right 😂
Although this album came out in England in 1976, in suburban Pennsylvania I didn't hear it until 1979. This album changed everything. We were listening to Styx, Kansas, Rush, Aerosmith...and then we dropped the needle on this?!?!? It was as if everything we had ever heard before was total bullshit.
Meh... not so much on the "bullshit"... There were tons of songs that were anti establishment before this. It's just that the other music was actually melodic.
'Never Mind the Bollocks' was released late 1977
Dude apart from being angsty and rebellios there is not much else to them. Band like the ones you mentioned before were way more musical, which is why they stood the test of time. If the music is still being studied and listened to and admired after 40-50 years, i wouldn't quite call it 'bullshit'.
@@floreamihai3852 , you kinda had to be there to understand what it felt like to hear the roar of the Sex Pistols in 1979. Although all those bands that I mentioned are good bands and I still like them, they kinda represent the corporatization of the music industry. See the movie "Almost Famous" for that discussion. The Ramones and the Sex Pistols reminded everyone that rock was originally about fun wrapped up in three screaming chords. It wasn't about "monetization". Listening to the Sex Pistols made me and my friends understand what rock and roll was all about. It made pseudo-intellectual art rock seem as pretentious as it was. And it's hard to understand just how hard it was to acquire certain albums at that time. You couldn't just go online and listen to some group. You had to go to specific record stores that had imported records, that had hard-to-find bands. You had to spend money just to hear an album. That made the whole experience of listening to an album for the first time a completely different experience than what you have today.
@@floreamihai3852 The Sex Pistols are also still "studied and listened and admired" after 44 years with just ONE album released : that says a lot about their relevance in music...!!!
Edit : And fyi punk rock pulverized ALL those fake pompous "more musical bands" you mentioned : imagine that...!
The song must be working. So far God has saved her. She seemingly lives forever
adrenochrome?
The Damned - "New Rose"
first ever Punk single in the UK.
The fall
Still waiting on The Jam!
Bodies should be your next pistols song BTW
Love, love, love The Jam
Especially 'That's Entertainment'
ha I know bodies every lyric she was a girl from bi I will leave it there
THE JAM!!!! To ease you in I’d try town called malice
@@rippog1 a town called Alice springs
Hey Javaughan, you are ALL over the place with the style/type of selections today....Ms Jackson TO Miss Jackson TO Mr Rotten & Vicious...I'm gettin' whiplash
I was 15 years old and I discovered the Pistols. 1995,freshman year. The next day I dropped my group of jock friends and moved to the stoner lunch table where a very diverse group of individuals sat. Pistols, Ramones, Buzzcocks, the Furs... I was in 100%.
Number one selling record in the U.K. and banned from the tv and radio ... those were the days
Pretty Vacant is my favourite Sex Pistols song
Please check out: (It's A Beautiful World by Devo). (The Music Video).
Don't let this one fool you. Most of this song is about how wonderful the world is, a "sweet romantic place with beautiful people everywhere." But at the end, it turns around with the line, "But not for me." "They wanted to get everybody into a mood where people thought Devo was saying the world was really nice and saying the world was beautiful, then it turns out to be one man's opinion, which is mine, which is, while the world could be beautiful, it's not for me because of what I'm seeing."
Many people misunderstood Devo; thinking they were a "pop" band.
I will never forget one of them saying in an interview, "We are the anti-McDonalds McDonalds.
Are We Not Men?
We Are Devo!
Oh good lord I'm old AF!!
Same lmao
Same here! lol
Never mind the bollocks is a classic album from start to finish.
When this song were released in the Queen's Silver Jubilee year 1977 it changed everything. Difficult to put into words the impact this song and the band had as a whole on literally everything but yeah, you had to be there to see it unfold. Incredible times and all for the common good.
Another punk band you need to check out is The Damned, they had a single out before the Pistols but didn't get quite the same kind of notoriety! New Rose, Smash it up, and in their later more gothic/new romantic kind of years Grimly Fiendish - loads of classics from them... Worth a listen!
Talking about the Specials, it would be so great if you reacted to their early hit "A Message to you, Rudi"
Stop your messing around! 🙂
@@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 ah-ah-ah
Can’t believe you’re in America and you haven’t heard the Ramones! You’re in for a treat, they’re legends. Love your work brother!
Yes I can remember the reaction here in 1977 . We'd seen absolutely nothing like them before , older people hated them , many younger people didn't get them as well . I think they're genius .
I really like some of Johnny's music with his later band Public Image Limited (PIL). Check out "(This is not a) Love Song" or "Seattle" or "Rise" or "The Body" or "Disappointed"
Check out the Dead Kennedy’s! Holiday in Cambodia 🤘🇨🇦❤️
To Drunk to Fuck & Kill The Poor - lmao
When this song came out I was 16, I loved it! This and Anarchy shook the establishment to the core, the outrage, the filth, the fury, it was awesome.
I’m an old lady now. You wouldn’t guess this was my music. I was initiated by a boyfriend who loved classic rock, punk, and blues. This was a scream. I loved the energy. I got knocked down in a mosh pit once which wasn’t fun. My first husband married me because I had this in my record collection. There’s a movie called Sid & Nancy which shows what this era was like,
The song could as well be called “F* The Queen”, gotta love the Pistols
This was stopped from being no1 by the establishment. Had to have been there to realise the impact this band and their punk contemporaries had. Check out The Jam, The Damned, The Buzzcocks
The song was banned but went to Number 1 in the charts.Big record shops left no. 1 blank.
In Ireland we loved it and every shop you passed was blasting it out all summer.
In the U.K. they spent a fortune on celebrating the Queen’s Silver Jubilee while there was huge unemployment.
The lead singer was called Johnny Rotten- his parents were Irish.
The energy was awesome.
London Punk from the 70's here!I was 15 when this was released. It was the Queens 25th Jubilee. It was utterly amazing rebellion for us at the time. I still love this to this day!
The song was banned but still hit #1 on the British charts, but when the charts were printed the #1 position was left blank though everyone knew what was supposed to be there.
Listen to more of them!
You might also like The Clash.
The Clash "How Soon is Now"!!!
@@GanjaGirlSF That is The Smiths, not The Clash.
cshubs OH, THAT'S RIGHT!😂
That's my favorite Smiths song.
Must be Covid brain. I meant to say
"Should I Stay or Should I Go". 😊
Jay already reacted to some Clash
The first Sex Pistol's song I ever heard was, "Pretty Vacant".
I remember being in London as a kid and seeing punks everywhere, with the Mohawks. I love the Never Mind the Bollocks album.
You gotta check out The Ramones now!
Unfortunately, reactions to the Ramones get blocked quite often.
The ramones..what a joke lol
Thay had nowt to say
It was pretty amazing.....I mean there was 'punk music' but this was new. It all quickly became New Wave. Iggy and The Stooges and The Dictators and The Ramones.....set the stage.
Don't forget MC5 and New York Dolls - the Dolls directly influenced the Ramones
And the Dead Boys
I just love your facial expression when you realized the song wasn't what you think it was Hahahaha
The single cover for this was banned as it had a picture of the queen with a safety pin through her nose, and the printers refused to print it anyway, especially as it was the jubilee year (the 25 celebration Of the anniversary of her ascending to the throne).
You should give "Bodies" and "Submission" a listen
Released in 1977 - the Queen's silver jubilee year. You can imagine how the establishment reacted, the song was banned but still reached No.1.
Fun fact - most people think the Sex Pistols made the first punk single but it was actually The Damned with 'New Rose'.
Fun fact about this song. The queen was having a historical anniversary at the time this song came out and no record store would sell it at some radio stations refused to play it as it climbed the charts. One one store would sell it -virgin records snd Richard Branson.
Should try "Rise" or "This Is Not A Love Song" by Public Image Limited, they were Johnny Rotten's (lead singer/songwriter for the pistols) next band and I'd say I prefer them
“Bad Life” 💜💜💜
I was in my teens when this song came out (the same year as the Queen's 25th anniversary on the throne). I can't say I was ever into The Sex Pistols or punk in general (I preferred Boston, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, etc.). But growing up in Canada where the Royal Family and the Queen were on our money and technically the head of state (leftovers of the British Empire), I actually quite liked this song because I was sick (and still am) of another country's royals being so dominant in our way of life - not to mention a drain on the British economy, where the class system was still dominant (probably still is).
I was quite young when this was released, but they scared the shit out of me. All the newspapers, politicians and adults I knew hated them. They really had an edge to them that I've never seen before.
Thanks for this, it took me back a few years! I saw them play and I can assure you I have never forgot it. I was a teenage punk rocker and they were our idols.
Pretty vacant!
Yup you’re early lol
@@JayveeTV nah that's another Pistols song lol and a good one!
@@JayveeTV Funny
yes, the only way they could get the word 'cunt' into the charts lol :-D
The pistols best track IMHO.
The intro is legendary.
Holiday in the sun or Pretty Vacant are good ones.
Hearing this song in the 70s really blew my mind..LOVED IT!!! You had to be there...
Saw them in their pomp in '76 and again at the reunion at brixton in '07 and it brought back so many memories of being in London at that time with all the strikes and power cuts,music was our way out.
The Pistols,with that one album,blew all the cobwebs away.
He says god save the queen because that is our national anthem(very different than this song)
Hahaha, just slightly different, yes! :D
Ramones: I Wanna Be Sedated, Beat On The Brat, and Blitzkrieg Bop.
The Ramones are a pop band
Such a brilliant song. I was so excited when I first heard this back in the mid seventies. I'm now 71 years old and obviously a child of the sixties and a huge Beatles fan. However, there wasn't as much amazing music as there had been in the sixties and disco music became hugely popular. I hated disco and then I heard the Sex Pistols for the first time. It was just so fabulous to hear a new kind of music with so much energy. Just love it. Believe me there aren't many people my age who love the Sex Pistols. Pity they only ever made one album.
I REALLY laughed my ass down after seeing your reaction, i saw Sex pistols live,back in 1996 as a kid. It s cool seeing younger generation reacting so good on older music .
Johnny rotten legend did you no he was supposed to be on the flight that was bombed over Lockerbie but his wife overslept so they didn’t go
You should play his other group PIL you will like it play the song when he was American band stand
The inventors of Punk rock . I was 16 when these hit the British music scene ..... anarchists, tipped the world upside down. Bands like Nirvana etc wouldn't have happened without these 😍😍😍
The BBC was terrified that this was going to be number 1 during the Queen's Jubilee week in 1977.
'God Save The Queen' is the English national anthem.
So the Sex Pistols version is somewhat of a parody
And THIS was considered “hard core” back in the day. How far we’ve come, huh? 😄
or how far we haven't come k pop and auto tune come to mind
@@anthonymitchell8893 True, true! I was thinking of Pantera and Metal Church - real “parental nightmare” stuff 😆
@@simpleiowan3123 I have heard of them I will listen later are they a moder version of sabbath ? to me the first really metal band though I could be wrong
@@simpleiowan3123 Well, Sex Pistols represent the British lower social class a lot more than Pantera or Metal Church represents the American one. Sex Pistols didn't had so "hardcore" lyrics comparing to other heavy metal/punk rock bands but was conformed by "street" boys and, in its last times, had pretty much "street" fans, that's why the band were considered like that. That's why they caused much more scandal than any heavy metal band, that in mot part ended being a cliche in a few years trying to be brutal but having pretty "soft" fans in comparison. American heavy metal fans, except a minority, weren't from the worst neighborhoods of their cities, while British punk rock fans were, that's the difference. In United States, that place in big cities was occupied by funk and later rap and, in smaller urban areas/rural areas, by country or blues and then by rock and roll (mostly by Elvis Presley or Chuck Berry and then by some heavy metal bands like Pantera or Metallica).
@@giacosarojo Lyrics not hardcore? Try Friggin in the Rigging
i was 16 when this came out, punk rock changed the whole way i looked at everything, its hard to imagine now what a revolution it was
It was the first Punk song my sister played for me! I was 9 years old! I got it instantly. Thank you for reacting to this and all the other songs that some other reaction channels won’t!!
They banned it after a week.. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Punk Rockers of this time like were about being anarchists, fighting against the government. Yeah eye opening.. they didn’t like the Queen
You nailed the sentiment of that song! To clear up some of the muddier lyrics... “When there’s no future, how can there be sin? We’re the flowers in the dustbin. We’re the poison in the human machine. We’re the future... Your future!” ... Took me forever to figure that out without benefit of lyric sheet or internet.
In June '77 I turned 16, left school, it was the Queen's Silver Jubilee (25 years on the throne) and this song was number 1 on every hit parade. Every hit parade, that is, except on the state broadcaster, the BBC.
You ask how it felt? It felt like all the old stuff, musically, socially, politically, even clothing, was being re set. Of course, it wasn't quite the revolution we felt it was but still, it felt fucking brilliant!
Yeah, John Lydon was such an anarchist. Ended up being a middle class butter salesman. Destroy indeed.
He grew up. Most of us do.
To be fair, I think he did it to finance a PIL album. And weren't the Sex Pistols as manufactured as any boy band?
@@Chatta-Ortega you never grow out of a punk attitude!!!!
Play pretty vacant.. 🇬🇧
The boats you see on the video in front of Parliament was them. They actually played this song live on the riverboat in front of Parliament on the Queen's Jubilee. As soon as they docked the boat they were immediately arrested. When it said "they arrested Malcolm" they are talking about their manager that got arrested with them that night. Great reaction!👍
My mum wouldn't let me play this record at home. It was considered so disrespectful at the time and she flipped out when I came home with 'Never Mind the Bollocks'. I loved their music and they were making a statement about the times. People were living in such poverty back then with so much employment etc. Looking back as an adult, I understand what they were saying. I still love it. My daughter hates it their music as much as my mum!