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Sex Pistols;'Never Mind The Bollocks'

I probably last listened to this some 20 years ago. Listening to it now - it just sounds, I dunno - funny. The words 'Pinky' and 'Perky' spring to mind (I have no idea why).

Maybe it's because I've listened to so many other albums from this period that are still revolutionary (Suicide's debut, 'Ha!-Ha!-Ha!, The Scream) this just doesn't seem that revolutionary now.

Finally got around to listening to Electrofear
3 or 4 of those songs have cropped up elsewhere but I still like it.

Soft Cell - The Bedsit Tapes : some strange electronic based goings on there in post-punk Leeds, although musically quite interesting - wouldn't have minded and instrumental version.

Beneath Another Sky by Bjorn Lynne.

Originally posted by RadioBeach:


Sex Pistols;'Never Mind The Bollocks'
I probably last listened to this some 20 years ago.

Me also. Last year this was featured in Mojo (Thirty years on) and compared with Sgt. Pepper (Forty years on) in the same issue. One is considerably more revolutionary than the other...
Inspired by said feature, I purchased a copy of "Bollocks" on CD and was spectacularly unimpressed when I played it.
Reminded me why I hadn't heard it for 20 years...

I've actually been thinking about this one myself. I came to the conclusion that "Bollocks" was revolutionary in it's own time. But the sound it had became rhe standard format for all brickwall guitar rock song with a football hooligan quire on the chorus. I certainly found it chockingly fresh when it came out now i've heard versions of it, from Def Leppard to Velvet Revolver to Good Charlotte. Bieng inovative might be the death of your own invention. I'm glad that Mr. Foxx who can be quite obvious with his his musical heritage still don't plagiaries it'smore like his sending messiges to his musicalfriends.That is like qouting the inovative in an inovative way...
I'might be on to something here or maybe I really need to sleep,

Bosse

Originally posted by Bosse:
Being inovative might be the death of your own invention.


I think you might be onto something
It's not uncommon for something to end up becoming the antithesis of what it set out to be.
Punk rapidly became 'the norm', which of course is precisely what it set out to destroy in the first place.

well ... when u reflect it in the light of its very own "no future !" slogan , punk indeed had no future ... only a whole lot of more or less good imitators until present day ! ;-o

back to the core now ... playing "kick out the jams" by mc5 from 1969 ! ;-)

"French Record Kate and Anna* McGarrigle. Sublime . Deffo in my top 5 of all time (excluding Mr Foxx's work )

*Rufus Wainright's arl girl (I suppose you knew that anyway)

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