SEX PISTOLS SPUNK NO FUTURE ORIGINAL VINYL

	£		33
	$		44

Original pressing of the legendary first Pistols album of Ultra-rare demos, circa 1977. 

This album comes without cover  as they had ran out of covers and many were sold without it.

These are the last few we have and are the real original McCoy, Not bootleg bootlegs.

 We have had these vinyl album since we took over the Psychotronic Video store in 1991 in the basement of 3a Buck Street Camden Town, London, beneath the Vinyl Experience Record Store, the Basement was divided into 3 with me, Mick and John from Out on the Floor, and Barmy Bernard (RIP),  by a customer Derek (who knew I was a Pistols fan), who may or may not have been responsible (along with Nick from Compendium Books) for getting Spunk onto the streets. They certainly got raided a couple of times in the 70's and only narrowly escaped arrest due to a search warrent having tomorrows date on it! To the best of knowledge this is an original 1977 press of the very rare and sought after first Sex Pistols album. It is in unplayed Near Mint to Mint condition. I have scanned as best I could but if you require more information, Matrix no's / photos etc please contact me and I will be happy to oblige. Apologies the dust and marks on the photos are from my scanner and not on the vinyl it is immaculate.

Condition; Unplayed, no sleeve cover.  RECORD IS GRADED NEAR MINT.

The alternative debut album

Several parties, including some journalists in the British music press, immediately suspected that the band's manager, Malcolm McLaren, was responsible for the original Spunk bootleg. This would have been in breach of the band's record contract with Virgin, which was readying the release of Never Mind the Bollocks when Spunk appeared. An October 1977 Sounds article by Chas de Whalley discussed Spunk and made reference to this conveniently coincidental timing. In the Sounds article, Chas de Whalley makes reference to buying a copy in a record store on the Portobello Road. It was in fact a tiny little record store (ACME Records) in the back of the now famous ACME Attractions. The shop assistant who dealt with de Whalley, identified in his article simply as "The Punk," was Doug McArthur, bassist for Killerhertz and Kid Rogers and the Henchmen. McArthur maintained the bootleg was a better quality record and claims to have sold many copies through that little record store.

The evidence for McLaren's involvement is speculative, although it can be noted that his company, Glitterbest, retained the rights to the demo recordings as well as the master tapes – and the demos appearing on Spunk were presented in excellent quality. Also, as evidenced by the original album's "LYN-" matrix number prefix, the record had clearly been pressed in the UK by Lyntone, a legitimate independent pressing plant that would presumably not handle anything that appeared to be a bootleg, and would certainly allow the bootlegger in question to be traced if enquiries had ever been made by the genuine copyright owner. McLaren always publicly denied responsibility for Spunk, but said that he preferred it to Never Mind the Bollocks.

Some Sex Pistols fans concur with McLaren – and producer Goodman – that the raw versions of the songs on Spunk are superior to the officially released ones, particularly since Spunk approximates a faithful reproduction of the original Sex Pistols line-up's live sound. The album also features the bass-lines of Glen Matlock, which were not reproduced when guitarist Steve Jones took over bass duties for the recording of Never Mind the Bollocks.

Spunk is therefore often cited as the Sex Pistols' de facto alternative debut album. Certainly a tape of part or all of Spunk had been played to Tony Parsons as early as March 1977, and became the subject of his NME article, "Blank Nuggets in the UK", which described the recordings as if they represented an imminent debut album release.
Reissues

The original Spunk was itself copied and bootlegged immediately upon release. The tracks have since been re-bootlegged countless times in many different formats, including a widespread variant called No Future UK?, which added three extra tracks, and many releases by Dave Goodman, which often feature evidence of remixing.

Spunk has also been the subject of several official releases.

Virgin Records released the whole of Spunk, without the talking between tracks, along with several other early Sex Pistols demos as part of a limited edition double-CD reissue of Never Mind the Bollocks in 1996 called Spunk/This Is Crap.

Spunk was released on 17 July 2006 by Sanctuary Records in its original vinyl format (CMQLP1395, limited to 1,000 copies). The CD version (CMRCD1376) included the three bonus tracks from the original No Future UK? bootleg.

A Venezuelan bootleg album, "Smilin' Ears", features the same tracks, except additional track of intro to "No Future" at the beginning of album. It is unnamed, consisting of "Nookie" backing speech of band members. The words spoken are:"I don't have any heroes, they're all useless. I don't need a Rolls Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need a villa in the south of France. I'm happy as I am an' I'm gonna carry on..."
Track listing

All songs written by the Sex Pistols, all songs on the original bootleg album were simply credited to "Spunk". Several songs were presented with incorrect titles (actual titles noted in parentheses below).

Side one

"Lazy Sod" ("Seventeen") – 2:08
"Satellite" – 4:10
"Feelings" ("No Feelings") – 2:51
"Just Me" ("I Wanna Be Me") – 3:11
"Submission" – 4:17
"Nookie" ("Anarchy in the U.K.") – 4:07

Side two

"No Future" ("God Save the Queen") – 3:37
"Problems" – 4:19
"Lots of Fun" ("Pretty Vacant") – 3:09
"Liar" – 2:44
"Who Was It" ("EMI") – 3:15
"New York (Looking for a Kiss)" ("New York") – 3:08

Bonus tracks on the original No Future UK? bootleg and official Sanctuary Spunk CD

"Anarchy in the UK" (Denmark Street/Riverside/Decibel, July 1976)
"Pretty Vacant" (Denmark Street/Riverside/Decibel, July 1976)
"No Fun" (Lansdowne/Wessex Studios, October 1976)

Personnel

Johnny Rotten – lead vocals
Steve Jones – guitar, backing vocals
Glen Matlock – bass, backing vocals
Paul Cook – drums, backing vocals
Dave Goodman – producer

Notes

Tracks 1–5 recorded at the band's Denmark Street rehearsal room (mixed & overdubbed at Riverside/Decibel Studios), London, 13–30 July 1976.
Track 6 recorded at Lansdowne/Wessex Studios, London, 10–12 October 1976.
All of side two recorded at Gooseberry/Eden Studios, London, 17–28 January 1977.

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