The Best Sex Pistols Post, ever

"Proper" historical documentation of the Pistols is kind of hard to get a feel for.....for a band who released only one "proper" album ("Bollocks"), there are tons and tons of recorded material out there, due to the fact that the Pistols were far more than a sum of their parts. A lot of the live material from the US 1978 tour is unlistenable, there are tons of alternate versions of most every track they ever laid down.....Die-hard Pistols fans may eat up some of the stuff in this post, more noncahlant fans might yawn and invoke the title "Beating a Dead Horse".....

I didn't wish to include a proper copy of "Bollocks", but when I discovered the Virgin Box Set, which contains it in its entirety and is on nice clean CD rather than scratchy old vinyl, I decided to go ahead and put up the box set......the album can be heard, as intended, along with more live and alternate versions than ANYONE would ever wish to hear.

"The Filth and the Fury" is a vinyl bootleg that I don't beleive I've ever seen either online or as a CD before...good quality versions of the songs that were "Bollocks"....(How great WERE these songs? Well, subject to taste, but the album DOES contain "Holidays in the Sun", "Bodies", "Pretty Vacant", "Anarchy in the UK", and "God Save the Queen", all five of which I think we could agree were pretty much "classics" of the genre...I suppose I coulod have also included "New York" in which they "Faggot"-bait the New York Dolls, but I think Johnny Thunders paid that one back with interest with the classic "London Boys", wherein the Heartbreakers refer to the Pistols, as, well "faggots"). So all in all, 5 or 6 good, lasting tracks on a debut album is not too bad a track record.....also some of the non-LP singles are decent material as well, the Pistols were not ENTIRELY style over substance.

I think I have all of the shows from their only US tour, as I said before most are fairly unlistenable....I'm mgoing to put up two of them, Atlanta 1/5/78 and Winterland 1978 (Winterland might have been their final show, I'd have to look but I don't care enough to)....I could post a few more of them if there were demand for them but I can see the redundnacy with repeatedly posting "different" versions of the same 12 or 13 songs........

Next is my favorite "curiosity", "Some Product".....be advised this album has next to NO actual music on it, it is a collection of radio interviews and such with the Pistols.....it is, in my opinion, rolling-on-the-floor hilarious, don't miss the "Big Tits Across America" segment, a call-in from a Kiss fan (of all people) (Pistols: "They can KISS my ass!") Hilarious stuff here.....and why not complete the freak show by adding Sid Viscious' "Too Fast To Live", as why not document the legacy of a pathetic character, literally to stupid to keep himself alive? I offer this album up as train-wreck material only, It is not likely to become one of your favorites.

Leave a comment, should you have something to say.....the links are in the comments section. I'll start the uploads this afternoon, hopefully the links will be totally up by tonight, if not, please check tomorrow!

VIRGIN BOX SET DISC 1-01 Holidays in the Sun/02 Bodies/03 No Feelings/04 Liar/05 God Save The Queen/06 Problems/07 Seventeen/08 Anarchy in the UK/09 Submission/10Pretty Vacant/11 New York/12 EMI/13 I Wanna Be Me/14 No Feelings (Bonus B Side)/15 Did You no Wrong/16 No Fun (unedited)/17 Satelitte/18 Problems (alt. Version)/19 Pretty Vacant (alt Version)/20 No Feelings (Alt Version)

VIRGIN BOX SET DISC 2-01 Pretty Vacant (Denmark Street Studio)/02 Submission (Denmark Street Studio)/03 Anarchy in the UK (Wessex Studio)/04 Substitute (Wessex Studio)/05 Don't Give Me No Lip CHild (Wesex Studio)/06 Steppin Stone (Wessex Studio)/07 Johnny B Goode (Wessex Studio)/08 Road RUnner (Wessex Studio)/09 Whatcha Gonna Do About it (Wessex Studio)/10 THrough my Eyes (Wessex Studios)/11 Anarchy in the UK (Wessex Studios)/12 No Feelings (Instrumental Manchester Square Session)/13 No Future (Manchester Squar Session)/14 Liar (Manchester Square Studio)/15 Problem (Manchester Square Session)/New York (GOoseberry Studio)/17 God Save the Queen (Gooseberry Studio)/18 Satelitte (Wessex Studio)/19EMI (Wessex Studio)/20 Seventeen (Wessex Studio)/21 No Feelings (Wessex Studio) 22 Submission (Wessex Studio)

VIRGIN BOX SET DISC 3-01 Anarchy in hte UK/02 I Wanna Be Me/03 Seventeen/04 New York/05 Don't Give Me No Lip CHild/06 Steppin Stone/07 Satelitte/08 Submission/09 Liar/10 No Feelings/11Substitute/12 Pretty Vacant/13 Problems/14 Did You no Wrong/15 No Fun/16 Understanding (live)/17 Flowers of Romance/18 Flowers/19 Belsen Was a Gas (Live)

THE FILTH AND THE FURY VINYL BOOTLEG-01 Satellite/02 Seventeen/03 Feelings/04 Just Me/05 Sub Mission/06 Nookie/07 No Future/08 Problems/09 Lots a Fun/10 Liar/11 Who Was It?/12 New York

ATLANTA 1/5/78-01 God Save the Queen/02 Just Me/03 Seventeen/04 New York/05 Bodies/06 Submission/07Holidays In the Sun/08 EMI/09 No Feelings/10 Problem/11 Pretty Vacant/12 Anarchy in the UK/13 No Fun/14 Liar

WINTERLAND 1978-01 God save the Queen/02 I Wanna Be Me/03 Seventeen/04 New York/05 EMI/06 Blesen Was a Gas/07 Bodies/08 Holiday in the Sun/09 Liar/10 No Feelings/11 Problems/12 Pretty Vacant/13 Anarchy in the UK/14 No Fun

SOME PRODUCT-01 The Very Name "Sex Pistols"/02 From Beyond the Grave/03 Big Tits Across America/04 The COmplex WOrld of Johnny Rotten/05 Sex Pistols Will Play/06 Is the Queen a Moron?/07 The Fucking Rotter

SID-TOO FAST TO LIVE-01 Something Else/02 C'mon Everybody/03 My Way/04 Born to Lose/05 I Wanna Be Your Dog/06 Take a Chance on Me/07 Stepping Stone/08 My Way/09 Belsen/10 Something Else/11 Chatterbox/12 Search and Destroy/13 Chinese Rocks/14 I Killed the Cat/15 My Way (Take 3)/16 From Beyond the Grave/17 Something Else (First Mix)