Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
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Released | 28 October 1977 | |||
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Studio | Wessex Sound, London | |||
Genre | Punk rock | |||
Length | 38:44 | |||
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Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols is the only studio album by English
By the time of its release, the Sex Pistols were already controversial, having spoken profanity on live TV, been fired from two record labels, and been banned from playing live in some parts of Britain. The album title added to that controversy, with some people finding the word "
The album has influenced many bands and musicians, and the industry in general. In particular, the album's raw energy, and
Production
Writing
John Lydon, Steve Jones and Paul Cook wrote the album's 12 tracks between August of 1975 and June of 1976, with Glen Matlock acting as a co-writer on most of the tracks, written before his departure in February of 1977, and Sid Vicious co-writing the two written after his entry into the group.
The first track written by the group was 'Pretty Vacant,'
Recording
On 8 October 1976, EMI signed the group into a two-year contract.[13] For EMI, they recorded 'Anarchy In the U.K' and began sessions for the newly written 'God Save The Queen' that month. On 26 November 1976, the group's first single was released to great commercial success. But due to the nature of the material and the band's image, they caused heavy controversy, and were dropped from the label on 6 January 1977.
In February of 1977, founding member and original bassist Glen Matlock quit, [14] reportedly over the lyrics to God Save The Queen.[15] Matlock had co-written a majority of the album's tracks and was replaced by Sid Vicious.
Close to completing a deal with A&M Records, in March 1977 the Sex Pistols entered Wessex Sound Studios to record with producer Chris Thomas and engineer Bill Price. New bassist Sid Vicious played on the tracks "Bodies" and "God Save the Queen",[16][17] but his performing skills were not considered fit to record the full album, so the band asked manager Malcolm McLaren to convince previous bassist Glen Matlock to perform the instrument for the sessions.[18] Matlock agreed on the condition that he was paid beforehand. When payment was not received, he declined to attend. As a result, Thomas asked guitarist Steve Jones to play bass so work could begin on the basic tracks. Jones' playing was so satisfactory that Thomas had him play the bass tracks for all the remaining songs recorded during the sessions.[19]
Four tracks—writer
Despite being dropped by A&M, McLaren instructed the Sex Pistols to continue work on the album. While McLaren pondered whether or not to sign the offer presented by
Meanwhile, the Sex Pistols had been rejected by labels including CBS, Decca, Pye and Polydor, leaving only Virgin's offer. McLaren still hoped to sign with a major label, and posited issuing a one-off single with Virgin to increase the band's appeal to the larger record companies. Virgin owner Richard Branson refused, so on 18 May the Sex Pistols finally signed with Virgin. Two weeks later, the label rush-released "God Save the Queen" as a single.[24] During promotion of the single, Rotten stated that work on the album was ongoing, and, obscuring Jones's assumption of bass duties, insisted that the bass performances on the in-progress album were split between Matlock "on the Chris Thomas tracks" and Vicious.[25]
The band returned to the studio with Thomas and Price on 18 June to record "Holidays in the Sun", the first song they had written without Matlock. That night after visiting a nearby pub, Rotten, Thomas and Price were attacked by a group of men, and the incident made newspaper headlines the following Tuesday.[26] That month an eleven-track preview of the album began circulating, first reviewed in the fanzine 48 Thrills. At this point, Rotten maintained that the forthcoming album would include no cover songs, and none of the Sex Pistols' previously released singles bar "Anarchy in the U.K.", which was out of print. With "Pretty Vacant"'s release as a single, it was due to be replaced on the track list.[27] The Sex Pistols returned to Wessex once more that August to record a new song, "Bodies", that had Vicious on bass.[28][29] "Bodies" contained a second bass track played by Steve Jones, with the final version of the song "leaving Sid's down low".[16]
The time spent in the studio recording the album was, for Steve Jones, the "best part of being in the Pistols".[30] Jones spent many hours doing guitar overdubs with producer Chris Thomas and—repudiating punk's occasional embrace of musical sloppiness—has stated that both he and drummer Paul Cook "weren't just having a laugh" and were "really dedicated in the studio".
During this time period, bassist
Release
With the completion of "Bodies", the time came to finalise the album's track list. Though
The Sex Pistols' contract with Virgin stated that its music would be distributed by Virgin in the United States provided Branson matched any competing offers McLaren received. However, McLaren wanted to negotiate separate deals in every territory, regardless of what the contract stipulated, which angered Branson, as the clause for American distribution was an important one he had fought for. Branson knew he had been outmanoeuvred by McLaren, for he could not sue to enforce the contract or else be perceived as acting like EMI or A&M. Competition for the band in the United States narrowed down to Warner Bros., Arista, Columbia and Casablanca Records, with Warner Bros. signing the band on 10 October for £22,000.[35]
Before Virgin could release Never Mind the Bollocks, Branson discovered that two other Sex Pistols albums were competing with his label's.
Even with the availability of Spunk, the release of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols was eagerly awaited in the United Kingdom. With advance orders of 125,000 copies, Never Mind the Bollocks debuted at number one on the
Title, packaging and obscenity case
The album was originally going to be titled God Save Sex Pistols. Jamie Reid's cover concept refrained from including a picture of the group and instead was dayglo red and yellow in colour with cutout lettering and a finish resembling crude screen-prints while the US version was pink with a green Sex Pistols logo. The album's title changed in mid-1977, based on a phrase supplied by Steve Jones.[34] Jones said he picked up the phrase "Never mind the bollocks" from two fans who would always say it to one another. Johnny Rotten explained its meaning as a working-class expression to "stop talking rubbish".[16]
In the United Kingdom, the album was subject to what Heylin described as "blatant acts of censorship exercised by media and retail outlets alike". London police visited the city's Virgin record store branches and told them they faced prosecution for indecency as stipulated by the 1899 Indecent Advertisements Act if they continued to display posters of the album cover in their windows. The displays were either toned down or removed. However, on 9 November 1977 (just two days before the album was released in the US), the
The obscenity case was heard at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on 24 November.[42] Mortimer presented the case as a matter of police discrimination. During his cross-examination of the arresting officer, he asked why the newspapers The Guardian and Evening Standard (which had referred to the album's name) had not been charged under the same act. When the overseeing magistrate inquired about his line of questioning, Mortimer stated that a double standard was apparently at play, and that "bollocks" was only considered obscene when it appeared on the cover of a Sex Pistols album. The prosecutor conducted his cross-examination "as if the album itself, and not its lurid visage, was on trial for indecency", according to Heylin.[43] Mortimer produced an expert witness, Professor James Kinsley,[44] Head of the School of English at the University of Nottingham, who argued that the word "bollocks" was not obscene, and was actually a legitimate Old English term formerly used to refer to a priest,[45] and which, in the context of the title, meant "nonsense". Lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, who appeared with Mortimer, recalled the professor saying that early English translations of the Bible used "bollocks" to refer to testicles, this being replaced by the word "stones" in the King James Version of the Bible, at which point Rotten handed Robertson a note saying, "Don't worry. If we lose the case, we'll retitle the album Never Mind the Stones, Here's the Sex Pistols".[46] The chairman of the hearing concluded:
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.[47]
Legacy
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [51] |
The Guardian | [52] |
Mojo | [53] |
Q | [54] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [55] |
Spin Alternative Record Guide | 10/10[56] |
Uncut | 8/10[57] |
In Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies, Village Voice critic Robert Christgau reviewed Never Mind the Bollocks:
"Get this straight: no matter what the chicmongers want to believe, to call this band dangerous is more than a suave existentialist compliment. They mean no good. It won't do to pass off Rotten's hatred and disgust as role-playing—the gusto of the performance is too convincing. Which is why this is such an impressive record. The forbidden ideas from which Rotten makes songs take on undeniable truth value, whether one is sympathetic ('Holidays in the Sun' is a hysterically frightening vision of
anti-abortion, anti-woman, and anti-sex). These ideas must be dealt with, and can be expected to affect the way fans think and behave. The chief limitation on their power is the music, which can get heavy occasionally, but the only real question is how many American kids might feel the way Rotten does, and where he and they will go next. I wonder—but I also worry."[49]
In 1983, the Bollock Brothers released a track-by track-cover version of the album, called Never Mind the Bollocks 1983.[58][59][60]
In 1985, NME writers voted Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols the thirteenth greatest album of all time.[61] In 1993, NME writers voted the album the third greatest of all time.[62] 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,[63] maintaining the position in its updated 2012 list, but dropped to number 73 in a 2020 revision.[64] 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.[65]
Kurt Cobain from Nirvana listed the album on his Top 50 favourite albums,[66] and the title of Nirvana's second album, Nevermind, was inspired by the Sex Pistols' album, which angered Rotten at the time.[67]
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
In 2000 it was voted number 29 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.[69]
In 2005, the album was ranked number 276 in Rock Hard magazine's book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.[70] In 2006, it was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest albums ever,[71] and in the same year NME voted the album the fourth greatest British album.[72]
Noel Gallagher was interviewed for a television programme 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 as 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."[73] In 2015, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[74]
Reissues
In 1996, Virgin reissued Never Mind the Bollocks as a double CD with the original '
On 29 October 2007, Virgin released a special 30th-anniversary edition of the album in 180-gram vinyl LP format. The set included a 7-inch insert of "Submission" and poster, as originally released on 28 October 1977. Virgin also reissued the group's four singles, "Anarchy in the U.K.", "God Save the Queen", "Pretty Vacant" and "Holidays in the Sun", on 7-inch vinyl, before the album reissue.
In the US and Canada, these re-releases were handled by Warner Bros., which originally released the album in North America and (as of 2017) still owns the regional copyright to the album.
A four-disc boxed set reissue occurred on 24 September 2012. The set includes the original album, which for the first time was digitally remastered from the original master tapes, on disc one. The sound quality of this remaster is thus a significant improvement over all other reissues. The remastering process was overseen by original producer Chris Thomas. The second disc comprises all but one of the band's officially released B-sides (omitting "I Wanna Be Me"), which were also remastered. This disc also includes outtakes and demos from the recording sessions for 'NMTB', most notably the studio demo of "
In 2015, as part of Record Store Day, the album was re-issued as a picture disc, reaching number 7 in the UK'S Top 40 Vinyl Album Chart.[77]
Track listing
11-track version (UK edition)
All tracks are written by
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Holidays in the Sun" | Cook, Jones, Rotten, Sid Vicious | 3:22 |
2. | "Liar" | 2:41 | |
3. | "No Feelings" | 2:53 | |
4. | "God Save the Queen" | 3:20 | |
5. | "Problems" | 4:11 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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6. | "Seventeen" | 2:02 | |
7. | "Anarchy in the U.K." | 3:32 | |
8. | "Bodies" | Cook, Jones, Rotten, Vicious | 3:03 |
9. | "Pretty Vacant" | 3:18 | |
10. | "New York" | 3:07 | |
11. | "E.M.I." | 3:10 | |
Total length: | 38:44 |
- Note: According to a news item in Melody Maker prior to the album's release: "The first few thousand copies of the album will contain 'Submission' as a one-sided single, but for the rest of the 200,000 pressings the song will be included on the album."
12-track version (UK edition)
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Holidays in the Sun" | Cook, Jones, Rotten, Vicious | 3:22 |
2. | "Bodies" | Cook, Jones, Rotten, Vicious | 3:03 |
3. | "No Feelings" | 2:53 | |
4. | "Liar" | 2:41 | |
5. | "God Save the Queen" | 3:20 | |
6. | "Problems" | 4:11 |
No. | Title | Length |
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7. | "Seventeen" | 2:02 |
8. | "Anarchy in the U.K." | 3:32 |
9. | "Submission" | 4:12 |
10. | "Pretty Vacant" | 3:18 |
11. | "New York" | 3:07 |
12. | "E.M.I." | 3:10 |
12-track version (US edition)
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Holidays in the Sun" | Cook, Jones, Rotten, Vicious | 3:22 |
2. | "Bodies" | Cook, Jones, Rotten, Vicious | 3:03 |
3. | "No Feelings" | 2:53 | |
4. | "Liar" | 2:41 | |
5. | "Problems" | 4:11 | |
6. | "God Save the Queen" | 3:20 |
No. | Title | Length |
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7. | "Seventeen" | 2:02 |
8. | "Anarchy in the U.K." | 3:32 |
9. | "Submission" | 4:12 |
10. | "Pretty Vacant" | 3:18 |
11. | "New York" | 3:07 |
12. | "E.M.I." | 3:10 |
2012 remastered edition (Japan release)
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Holidays in the Sun" | Cook, Jones, Rotten, Vicious | 3:22 |
2. | "Bodies" | Cook, Jones, Rotten, Vicious | 3:03 |
3. | "No Feelings" | 2:53 | |
4. | "Liar" | 2:41 | |
5. | "God Save the Queen" | 3:20 | |
6. | "Problems" | 4:11 | |
7. | "Seventeen" | 2:02 | |
8. | "Anarchy in the U.K." | 3:32 | |
9. | "Submission" | 4:12 | |
10. | "Pretty Vacant" | 3:18 | |
11. | "New York" | 3:07 | |
12. | "E.M.I." | 3:10 | |
13. | "No Feelings" (B-Side of A&M God Save the Queen) | 2:46 | |
14. | "Did You No Wrong" (B-Side of Virgin God Save the Queen) | 3:11 | |
15. | "No Fun" (B-Side of Pretty Vacant) | The Stooges | 6:25 |
16. | "Satellite" (B-Side of Holidays in the Sun) | 4:00 | |
Total length: | 51:17 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Anarchy in the U.K." | 3:51 | |
2. | "I Wanna Be Me" | 3:05 | |
3. | "Seventeen" | 2:21 | |
4. | "New York" | 3:24 | |
5. | "E.M.I." | 3:26 | |
6. | "Submission" | 4:05 | |
7. | "No Feelings" | 3:05 | |
8. | "Problems" | 4:34 | |
9. | "God Save the Queen" | 4:31 | |
10. | "Pretty Vacant" | 4:14 | |
11. | "No Fun" | The Stooges | 5:29 |
12. | "Problems" | 3:41 | |
13. | "No Fun" | The Stooges | 5:32 |
14. | "Anarchy in the U.K." | 3:33 | |
Total length: | 51:22 |
Notes
- Tracks 1–11 live at Happy House, Stockholm, Sweden, 28 July 28, 1977
- Tracks 12–14 live at Penzance, Winter Gardens, Cornwall, 1 September 1, 1977
Personnel
Sex Pistols
- Johnny Rotten – lead vocals
- Steve Jones – guitar, bass on all tracks except for "Anarchy in the UK", backing vocals
- Paul Cook – drums
- Glen Matlock – bass and backing vocals on "Anarchy in the UK"
- Sid Vicious – partial bass on "Bodies" and "God Save the Queen"
Production
- Chris Thomas – producer
- Bill Price – engineering, co-production
- Jon Walls – AIR Studios second engineer
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Belgium (BEA)[93] | Gold | 25,000* |
Italy (FIMI)[94] | Gold | 25,000‡ |
Netherlands (NVPI)[95] | Gold | 50,000^ |
Sweden (GLF)[96] | Gold | 50,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[97] | 2× Platinum | 600,000* |
United States (RIAA)[98] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
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References
- Heylin, Clinton (1998). Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. ISBN 0028647262.
- Savage, Jon (2001). England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock (Revised ed.). ISBN 0571207448.
- Jones, Steve (17 January 2017). Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol. ISBN 9780306824821.
- Classic Albums: Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (Documentary). Isis Productions. 2002.
External links
- Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols at Discogs (list of releases)