Artist: SEX PISTOLS
Album: NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS HERE’S THE SEX PISTOLES (CD)

Release date: 1977/ 1985
Media type: CD

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols is the first and only album recorded by the Sex Pistols, a highly influential and controversial English punk band. Fans and critics alike generally regard the album as an extremely important record in the history of rock music, citing the lasting influence it has had on subsequent punk musicians.

The album was released on October 28, 1977 on the Virgin Records label, amid controversy arising from the use of the obscenity (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.


Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols reached #1 on the Official UK Albums Chart, but in the USA peaked at #106 upon initial release on the Billboard albums chart. Although the album's sales were initially slim outside Europe, it would ultimately gain a substantial reputation worldwide, achieving Gold status with the RIAA in 1987 (denoting 500,000 sales) and Platinum status (1,000,000 sales) just four years later.

Likewise, influential critics consider Never Mind the Bollocks to have been a central formative influence on punk rock and subsequent forms of popular music.

In 1985, NME writers voted Never Mind the Bollocks the 13th greatest album of all time. In 1993, NME writers voted the album the 3rd greatest of all time.

In 1987, Rolling Stone magazine named it the second-most important album of the previous 20 years, behind only The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The same magazine named it the 41st greatest album of all time on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 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.

In his 1995 book, The Alternative Music Almanac, Alan Cross placed the album in the #6 spot on the list of '10 Classic Alternative Albums'.

In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Never Mind the Bollocks the 30th greatest album of all time, and in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 10 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

The VH1 network named Never Mind the Bollocks as the 17th greatest album of all time in 2001. The album also placed number one in a "Fifty Greatest Punk Albums Ever" readers' poll in Kerrang! magazine.

In 2006, it was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best albums of all time, and in the same year NME voted the album the 4th greatest British album of all time.


TRACKLIST:

"Holidays in the Sun" – 3:22 *
"Bodies" – 3:03 *
"No Feelings" – 2:51
"Liar" – 2:41
"God Save the Queen" – 3:20
"Problems" – 4:11

"Seventeen" – 2:02
"Anarchy in the U.K." – 3:32
"Submission" – 4:12
"Pretty Vacant" – 3:18
"New York" – 3:07
"E.M.I." – 3:10

LINE-UP:

Johnny Rotten - lead vocals
Steve Jones - guitar, bass, backing vocals
Paul Cook - drums

Glen Matlock - bass guitar and backing vocals ("Anarchy in the U.K.")
Sid Vicious - bass guitar ("Bodies")