Best Ever Albums

Re: Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

mrmcrook — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 23:23:15 GMT

Author: mrmcrook

Posted: 10/14/2020 03:23

Loved it from the first time I heard it. Still love it every time I hear it now. It's so basic it's brilliant. Just like how a hideous looking person can be so ugly they're beautiful.

Re: Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

Spyglass — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:12:08 GMT

Author: Spyglass

Posted: 10/13/2020 19:12

I must have heard 1000 punk albums (excluding post-punk) and this still makes top 30.

Re: Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

CharlieBarley — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:05:45 GMT

Author: CharlieBarley

Posted: 10/13/2020 19:05

I love the Sex Pistols and I think their music is good. It's like a thousand volts of electricity.
Them being controversial and offensive was all part of the package.
And Johnny Rotten was a rude, crude genius.
This album never fails to make me feel alive.
Ok you wouldn't play it in the same room as your Mother but that's half the appeal for me.

Re: Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

911Turbo — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:59:05 GMT

Author: 911Turbo

Posted: 10/12/2020 21:59

for a couple of weeks in 1978, this british punk band made a huge dent in the american music landscape with its
origins of scornful songs, rebelliousness, rudeness, etc....

It is raw, and corrosive- which i thoroughly enjoy. the pistols created a legacy with this album.

what i didn't enjoy was the thousands of lousy imitators which dulled the edge of punk rock.

original and brilliant.

Re: Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

RoundTheBend — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:39:00 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 10/12/2020 21:39

An album more about attitude than music. Perhaps why people love it or hate it? dunno.

Punk rock was so important to music/art, even if a decent amount of it wasn't good music, often purposely so.

Re: Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

LedZep — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:42:25 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 10/12/2020 20:42

Honestly every song here is solid. I used to love this one when I was like 13 lol, but it's definitely one of those albums that gets shit on for no particular reason except that people hating it think they're cool. So what if they were famous and Malcolm McLaren tried to profit off of them? You can hate a good chunk of 90s, 00s and 10s punk bands for not being "true punk" and it'd make just as much sense.

Re: Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

Skinny — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:23:41 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 10/12/2020 16:23

My first band used to cover 'Submission'.

I can honestly take or leave this as a listening experience decades after the fact, but I still recognise its supreme importance and influence, not just musically but also in terms of its place in helping to shift societal attitudes in Britain and especially in its encouragement - deliberate or not, and in spite of its major label backing - of that whole 'do it yourself' ethos that led to much of the best rock and pop music of the late 1970s and early 1980s. People heard this and believed that they too could make music, helping to kickstart a period of working class experimentation that genuinely democratised large parts of a previously closed-off industry and paved the way for many of the most exciting indie labels and movements ever seen. The fact that it's largely made up of a load of distorted, beefed-up Chuck Berry riffs and masculine posturing is basically secondary.

Public Image were far more interesting musically.

Re: Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

babyBlueSedan — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:07:55 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 10/12/2020 16:07

Is it possible to say this album is both overrated and over hated? There are some undeniably great songs here, Anarchy in the UK chief among them. But the lesser songs often just feel like weaker versions of the best songs. I've always struggled with a lot of punk because of its loud / fast / repetitive style and while this is no doubt influential that doesn't necessarily mean it's good. During my last listen I was struck by how tiring this is as it's one loud bratty track after the other. It's an important album that isn't terrible but I'm not sure I ever want to hear the full thing again.

Lyrically I can somewhat appreciate its unrefined nihilism but a lot of it just sounds like button pushing. Bodies isn't a song that takes a stance on abortion, for example, it's a song that's about abortion because the band knew that would be controversial. I'll take something like Dead Kennedys, which attempts to dig deeper into political and social content, over this any day. But I think it's fair to wonder whether Dead Kennedys sound the way they did without this album.

Re: Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 11:27:13 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/12/2020 15:27

Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

"Styrene was inspired to form a band by seeing the Sex Pistols in Hastings"

Yes, after seeing the band, she was reported saying I could do that better. Granted she just watched them do a shitty cover set on a pier, but still, it was a reference. Anyway being motivated by hate is inspiration but it's probably not the kind that would make you think back fondly.

Re: Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

DommeDamian — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 02:40:41 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 10/12/2020 06:40

Used to not really care for this album. I wrote my project/exam in high school about punk and the Sex Pistols, and the research of history gave me a whole new appreciation for this album. Anarchy In The UK is still the best song on here hands-down, and musically maaaybe the album could be a few minutes shorter, but I'm glad it exists honestly.

Re: Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

Tha1ChiefRocka — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 23:18:27 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 10/12/2020 03:18

NewsFromHome wrote:

X-Ray Spex did it better

"Styrene was inspired to form a band by seeing the Sex Pistols in Hastings"

Jameth wrote:

This album is bollocks. Two thumbs way down.

I feel like it's become cool to shit on this ablum recently, which happens to a lot of widely consumed albums, but no one can deny the importance and cultural impact of The Sex Pistols.

Re: Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

Jameth — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 21:49:06 GMT

Author: Jameth

Posted: 10/12/2020 01:49

This album is bollocks. Two thumbs way down.

Re: Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 16:41:03 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/11/2020 20:41

X-Ray Spex did it better

Album of the day (#3585): Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's

BestEverAlbums — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 16:00:17 GMT

Author: BestEverAlbums

Posted: 10/11/2020 20:00

Today's album of the day

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols by Sex Pistols (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1977.
Country:
Overall rank: 112
Average rating: 80/100 (from 1653 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Holidays In The Sun
2. Bodies
3. No Feelings
4. Liar
5. God Save The Queen
6. Problems
7. Seventeen
8. Anarchy In The U.K.
9. Submission
10. Pretty Vacant
11. New York
12. EMI

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.