Sex Pistols "Never Mind The Bollocks" German Virgin 25 593 XOT red/green 1978
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Sex Pistols ? "Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols" Virgin ?– 25 593 XOT Vinyl, LP manufactured in Western Germany and released in 1978.
The vinyl appears to have been lightly played and is in great condition. The sleeve shows more signs of distress with some wear to the spine and the opening. The sleeve also has the original promo sticker. This is a 12 track album including "Submission", which is not stated on rear sleeve but is track B3. Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped): 25593 A-2/77S Made in Germany Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped): 25593 B-2/77S Made in Germany
"Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" is the Sex Pistols' only studio album, originally released on 28 October 1977 by Virgin Records.
At the time of its release, the band was already extremely controversial, having sworn on live TV, been fired from two record labels and been banned from playing live in most parts of England. The album's title added to that controversy, with some people finding the word "bollocks" offensive. Many record stores refused to carry the album and some record charts refused to list the album, showing just a blank space instead.
In 1985, NME writers voted Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols the thirteenth greatest album of all time. In 1993, NME writers voted the album the third greatest of all time.
In 1987, Rolling Stone magazine named it the second best album of the previous 20 years, behind only The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The same magazine named it 41st on their list of the five-hundred greatest albums ever in 2003. In an interview during 2002, Rolling Stone journalist Charles M. Young stated:
"Never Mind the Bollocks changed everything. There had never been anything like it before and really there's never been anything quite like it since. The closest was probably Nirvana, a band very heavily influenced by the Sex Pistols."
Kurt Cobain from Nirvana listed the album on his Top 50 favourite albums.
In his 1995 book, The Alternative Music Almanac, Alan Cross placed the album in the number 6 spot on his 10 Classic Alternative Albums list. In 1997, "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" was named the 24th greatest album of all time in a Music of the Millennium poll conducted in the United Kingdom by HMV Group, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM.
In 2005, the album was ranked No. 276 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time. In 2006, it was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest albums ever,and in the same year NME voted the album the fourth greatest British album.
Noel Gallagher was interviewed for a television program called When Albums Ruled the World for the BBC, aired in early 2013. He said, of the album's opening with "Holidays in the Sun", "That is extremely provocative, what we can only assume is jackboots", which he followed by saying, "As soon at that starts, everything that has gone on before is now deemed fucking irrelevant, as soon as he (John Lydon) starts anti singing." He then said of "Pretty Vacant", "One of the 1st things you learn when you pick up the electric guitar is that riff." He then further commented, "I made 10 albums and in my mind they don't match up to that, and I'm an arrogant bastard. I'd give them all up to have written that, I truly would."
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