SEX PISTOLS NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS SPOTS 001

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	$		287

            HERE IS A COPY OF NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS

                                      HEARS THE SEX PISTOLS

            This, is their 1st studio album, in 1977 with no track list 7" & poster and stiker spots 001 !!!!

       This outstanding example is a UK 1st pressing dating from 1977 release on the virgin label: v 2086

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?                                                                                       NO PAYPAL ON THIS ALBUM

                                 Matrix numbers: v2086 A-3 & v2086 B-1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!                            

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IN THE RECORD COLLECTOR BOOK 2010 ITS PRICED AT £600 SO A £99 START BID IS A GOOD START

Disc weight: 152g

The disc is housed within a matt cover with no track list on rear

Complete with its original plain 'Patent No..' white inner-sleeve.

CONDITION

Disc's

sticker 1 cut

were she tryed to take it off when she was yunger i no before you start she was a nummty for doing it

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Labels: MINT

A perfect pair with no spindle marks around either immaculate centre hole.

Visual: NEAR MINT

Pristine deep-gloss playing surfaces which are MINT & totally unmarked in strong daylight and reveal just a few barely visible wispy paper hairlines directly beneath my unforgiving halogen desk lamp.

Play: NEAR MINT

This superb sounding copy has received just a few careful plays on high-end equipment and my single careful play-check at volume could find no trace of any groove/play wear to any track or any other . In fact, apart from a few faint, dull pops at the beginning of the 1st track on side 1 due to a tiny pin-head sized bump in the vinyl itself, there is nothing to fault on either side of this great sounding copy.

Cover: EXCELLENT-

An extremely respectable example of this fragile and easily worn cover. It remains clean and white overall with just some minor storagewear & discolouration to the spine, front fold and a little to the edges.

Inner-sleeve: EXCELLENT +

Clean & flat with just the inevitable light disc impression but no writing, seam splits or tears.

IT WILL BE CLEENED ON A VPI RECORD CLEENER !!!!!!!! AND ZERO STATED WITH A ZEROSTAT 3 MILTY GUN !!!!!!!!!!! BEFOR ITS SENT OUT AND PUT IN A NEW ANTI STATIC RECORD SLEAVE SEE PICK !!!!!!!!!!!!! The anti static reduces friction between the record and the inner sleeve and attracts less dust.

i am selling this for a friend she is haveing a baby and she need some cash she sed i have had this from when i was 14 years old and my mum and dad took it off me and when i was cleening the loft i found it in a box . i sed it was a nice find very rare to see copy with the sticker 7" and poster

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Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (or simply Never Mind the Bollocks) is the only studio album by the English punk rock band The Sex Pistols, a highly influential and controversial English punk rock band. Fans and critics alike generally regard the album as an extremely important album in the history of rock music, citing the lasting influence it has had on subsequent punk rock musicians and other musical genres that were influenced by such punk rock artists. In 2003, Rolling Stone named it the forty-first greatest album of all time on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

The album was released on 27 October 1977 through Virgin RecordsHYPERLINK \l "cite_note-1"[2] amid controversy arising from the use of the coarse slang word (in British English) "bollocks" in its title.

Older versions of most of the album's songs also appeared on a bootleg album called Spunk, which consists of demo recordings the band had made during 1976 and January 1977, and which was released shortly before Never Mind the Bollocks.

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Never Mind the Bollocks is the only official album released by the Sex Pistols while vocalist Johnny Rotten was a member of the group, although the same songs have subsequently appeared on many compilation albums (the group had effectively disbanded less than three months after the album's release). All four of the band's previously issued singles, minus their B-sides, were included on the album. Many of the songs were featured in different versions in the film, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, a "mockumentary" loosely based on the Sex Pistols, but more about their manager (and the film's "mastermind"), Malcolm McLaren.

Never Mind the Bollocks was met by a hail of controversy in the UK upon its release. The first documented legal problems involved the allegedly 'obscene' name of the album, and the prosecution (under Section 28 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847, since replaced by the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981) of the manager of the Nottingham Virgin record shop (and label owner Richard Branson) for having displayed it in a window. However, at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on 24 November 1977, defending Queen's Counsel John Mortimer produced expert witnesses who were able to successfully demonstrate that the word "bollocks" was not obscene, and was actually a legitimate Old English term originally used to refer to a priest, and which, in the context of the title, meant "nonsense". The chairman of the hearing was forced to conclude:

Much as my colleagues and I wholeheartedly deplore the vulgar exploitation of the worst instincts of human nature for the purchases of commercial profits by both you and your company, we must reluctantly find you not guilty of each of the four charges.

Far more intense outrage was sparked by the lyrics of the songs "God Save the Queen" and "Anarchy in the UK", as well as Jamie Reid's cover art for the single of "God Save The Queen".[3] Both were perceived as outrageous and depraved musical assaults on the monarchy, British civil society, its institutions, the social order, general morality and common decency. In particular, "God Save The Queen" was viewed as a direct personal attack on Queen Elizabeth II. Guitarist Steve Jones, and singer Johnny Rotten, have both insisted that it was not the Queen that the band directed their animus towards,[citation needed] but other members of the royal house and the British government in general. In either case, the notoriety did little to harm the record's sales in the UK.

Rotten's bitten, over-articulated, angry vocals and his intentional avoidance of "good" singing were startlingly original in style, at that time, and his use of profanity and deliberately inflammatory language seemed downright shocking. He alternately screams and whines about corporate control, intellectual vacuity, and political hypocrisy, while guitarist Jones' multi-layered guitar tracks create a "wall of noise" to counter him.

Producer Chris Thomas took a different approach to recording Never Mind the Bollocks that was to become the norm on most later punk rock albums. Instead of capturing a "raw" or "live" sound, Thomas achieved a very clear, broad, and layered sonic palette via multiple guitar overdubs, and extremely tight musicianship.[citation needed] He said, "Anarchy has something like a dozen guitars on it; I sort of orchestrated it, double-tracking some bits and separating the parts and adding them, et cetera ... It was quite laboured. The vocals were laboured, as well." The album's anger and energy are considered to have been trailblazing precedents for the then-nascent punk rock movement.

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TRACK LIST

The original UK album (Virgin V2086) contained only eleven tracks, before the group changed their mind and decided to include "Submission".

However, Virgin had already pre-emptively produced stampers for the eleven-track version, and by early October 1977 had already pressed 1,000 copies. Rather than scrap these, Virgin released them anyway, initially as promos, then commercially, as an attempt to counteract a sudden flood of imports from France, where a twelve-track version of the album (including "Submission") had been released in mid-October by Barclay Records.

In response to this, Virgin also brought forward the album's intended UK release date by a week, and instead of waiting for the twelve-track album to be mastered, issued further copies of the eleven-track album (reportedly 50,000 copies, although some collectors now dispute these official figures as on the high side). Most of these copies included a poster and "Submission" as a freebie single.

Some of the initial 11 track copies saw a private import to Sweden and were sold for a few weeks at a record shop in Stockholm. The poster and "Submission" were not included at this stage. An article in a local paper warned people not to buy this "faulty" issue and advised them to wait for the 12 track issue that was about to be pressed. The article also had a quote from Virgin in London where they say all production and sale have been stopped, but some copies unfortunately leaked out through their export company. This issue had blank back cover and matrix numbers A-3 and B-1. The twelve-track UK version began appearing in early November 1977.

As a result of the track listing confusion, several variants of the UK back sleeve exist, completely blank, omitting "Submission", including "Submission", and a misprint including "Belsen Was a Gas" and omitting several other tracks, based on artwork for an earlier rejected track listing.

All songs written by Steve Jones/Glen Matlock/Paul Cook/Johnny Rotten, except * by Jones/Cook/Rotten/Sid Vicious. All lyrics by Rotten (original "Seventeen" lyrics by Jones, original "Pretty Vacant" lyrics by Matlock).