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

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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.
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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

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X-Ray Spex did it better

[Jameth]

This album is bollocks. Two thumbs way down.
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[DommeDamian]

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.
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[babyBlueSedan]

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.
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[Skinny]

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.
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[LedZep]

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.
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[RoundTheBend]

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.