Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 80/500!
The Sex Pistols' only studio album, 1977's Never Mind the Bollocks..., was called, "just about the most exciting rock & roll record of the Seventies" in Rolling Stones' original review. A quarter-century later, with none of the album's scathing fury and massive influence diminished, the magazine ranked it #41 on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and rightly deemed it, "the Sermon on the Mount of English punk."
"If the sessions had gone the way I wanted, it would have been unlistenable for most people," Johnny Rotten said. "I guess it's the very nature of music; if you want people to listen, you're going to have to compromise." But few heard it that way at the time. Packed with disgust, nihilism and raw guitar, the Pistols' only studio album sounds like a rejection of everything rock & roll, and the world itself, had to offer. True, the music was less shocking than Rotten himself, who sang about abortions, anarchy and hatred in general on "Bodies" and "Anarchy in the U.K." But Never Mind . . . is the Sermon on the Mount of English punk and the echoes are everywhere." - www.rollingstone.com
On Rhino's new 180g Virgin Vinyl reissue, 33RPM has never sounded so revolutionary.
Features:
180g Virgin Vinyl
Selections:
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 UK
9. Sub-Mission
10. Pretty Vacant
11. New York
12. EMI
The Sex Pistols' only studio album, 1977's Never Mind the Bollocks..., was called, "just about the most exciting rock & roll record of the Seventies" in Rolling Stones' original review. A quarter-century later, with none of the album's scathing fury and massive influence diminished, the magazine ranked it #41 on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and rightly deemed it, "the Sermon on the Mount of English punk."
"If the sessions had gone the way I wanted, it would have been unlistenable for most people," Johnny Rotten said. "I guess it's the very nature of music; if you want people to listen, you're going to have to compromise." But few heard it that way at the time. Packed with disgust, nihilism and raw guitar, the Pistols' only studio album sounds like a rejection of everything rock & roll, and the world itself, had to offer. True, the music was less shocking than Rotten himself, who sang about abortions, anarchy and hatred in general on "Bodies" and "Anarchy in the U.K." But Never Mind . . . is the Sermon on the Mount of English punk and the echoes are everywhere." - www.rollingstone.com
On Rhino's new 180g Virgin Vinyl reissue, 33RPM has never sounded so revolutionary.
Features:
180g Virgin Vinyl
Selections:
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 UK
9. Sub-Mission
10. Pretty Vacant
11. New York
12. EMI
