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Key Information
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| Artist: |
The Sex Pistols |
| Record Label: |
Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Punk Rock |
| Release Date: |
October 25, 1990 |
| Album Duration: |
38m:54s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Holidays in the Sun 2. Bodies 3. No Feelings 4. Liar 5. Problems 6. God Save the Queen 7. Seventeen 8. Anarchy in the U.K. 9. Sub-Mission 10. Pretty Vacant 11. New York 12. EMI |
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The Sex Pistols: Johnny Rotten (vocals); Steve Jones (guitar); Sid Vicious, Glen Matlock (bass); Paul Cook (drums). Put this alongside BLONDE ON BLONDE and REVOLVER as an album that changed the face of rock forever. Along with the Clash and the Damned, the Sex Pistols were one of the first bands to channel the anger of dole-queue '70s Britain through a fierce musical amalgam of pub rock, the Stooges and the New York Dolls. Despite their influences, Johnny Rotten and company created something utterly unlike what had come before. Their anarchist/nihilist attitude, reflected in tunes like "Anarchy in the U.K." and "No Feelings" spoke to a new generation of kids, more profoundly disaffected than any other in the 20th century. Rotten's snarling, distinctly British delivery of his agitational lyrics made Dylan sound like Mario Lanza, and the pile-driver guitars of Glen Matlock and Steve Jones move the songs along like a well-oiled but ornery machine. For all their iconoclasm, though, the Pistols were far more ... |
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