The Sex Pistols

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Brads67

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3,199 posts

97 months

Thursday 24th November 2016
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Views ?

I love em. Think they changed the world of music for the better and are as valid today as ever.

Konan

1,817 posts

145 months

Thursday 24th November 2016
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There's obviously the legendary gig of 1976, in which I think 800,000 people squeezed into a small venue in Manchester wink

Beyond that, I don't find their music as interesting as many of their peers and, perhaps wrongly, their legacy feels a little like they were carefully managed anti-pop-pop rather than a real shake-up. But I very much wasn't there.

Brads67

Original Poster:

3,199 posts

97 months

Thursday 24th November 2016
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Yup, that 76 gig was mobbed smile

I didn`t really see the managed image thing, I was young and only saw the complete destruction of what peopled viewed as music.

popeyewhite

19,618 posts

119 months

Thursday 24th November 2016
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Bona fide game-changers. Saw them live and later saw PIL at Bellevue.

Speaking of game-changers I also saw Motorhead at the Free Trade Hall in the 70s. Only 200 there and all Hell's Angels. Or at least they looked that way to two 14 year old boys!

heebeegeetee

28,590 posts

247 months

Friday 25th November 2016
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I still say that bks album was and still is a great sound. They did well.

davidd

6,443 posts

283 months

Friday 25th November 2016
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Talentless, contrived made up boy band.

Quite liked The bks though.

selym

9,539 posts

170 months

Friday 25th November 2016
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davidd said:
Talentless, contrived made up boy band.

Quite liked The bks though.
Not talentless by any stretch of the imagination....that's what they wanted you to believe.

davidd

6,443 posts

283 months

Friday 25th November 2016
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selym said:
davidd said:
Talentless, contrived made up boy band.

Quite liked The bks though.
Not talentless by any stretch of the imagination....that's what they wanted you to believe.
Fair enough, of the original line up Matlock, Jones and Cook were ok but hardly noteworthy. Rotten and Vicious however really were ste, musically at any rate. There is no doubt that Rotten has talent as an entertainer/frontman.

So to correct myself.

Mildly talented, contrived made up boy band. wink

Honk

1,985 posts

202 months

Friday 25th November 2016
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fking ace.

selym

9,539 posts

170 months

Saturday 26th November 2016
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davidd said:
Fair enough, of the original line up Matlock, Jones and Cook were ok but hardly noteworthy. Rotten and Vicious however really were ste, musically at any rate. There is no doubt that Rotten has talent as an entertainer/frontman.

So to correct myself.

Mildly talented, contrived made up boy band. wink
The Vicious debacle was laughable.

blueg33

35,563 posts

223 months

Saturday 26th November 2016
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I think they helped bring exciting and more raw music to the mainstream, principally through clever marketing.

I always liked them and I am currently enjoying PIL's latest album.

dickymint

24,088 posts

257 months

Saturday 26th November 2016
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Was at their last but one UK gig at the Stowaway Club in Newport bow

Antony Moxey

8,014 posts

218 months

Saturday 26th November 2016
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I always laughed at the notion - mainly spread by Malcolm McLaren to anyone who'd listen - that they couldn't play. Utter tosh - give me a bunch of instruments and I'll show you what someone who can't play sounds like. Although I always preferred The Clash I still regularly play 'Never Mind' even today.

Patch1875

4,893 posts

131 months

Saturday 26th November 2016
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Lydon's book is a great read.

Johnny Raydome

1,427 posts

104 months

Saturday 26th November 2016
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NMTB is probably the only album ever owned where I love every single track.
A rare thing in itself.

Wish I had seen them live.




TwigtheWonderkid

43,244 posts

149 months

Sunday 27th November 2016
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Matlock is a very talented tunesmith and Lydon was a great lyricist. Pretty Vacant still has a great intro even when listened to now and Holiday In The Sun still sounds fresh today, although the lyrics are dated. EMI is a great track too.

And God Save the Queen.."and there's no future in England's dreaming" is just a perfect line.

A far better band than they were ever given credit for.

Baron Greenback

6,961 posts

149 months

Sunday 27th November 2016
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Dont mind the odd song!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38120496

"Joe Corre, the son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, burnt 5mil worth of items on the 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols debut single.

The 48-year-old told the crowd that "punk was never meant to be nostalgic"."

Antony Moxey

8,014 posts

218 months

Sunday 27th November 2016
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Baron Greenback said:
Dont mind the odd song!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38120496

"Joe Corre, the son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, burnt 5mil worth of items on the 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols debut single.

The 48-year-old told the crowd that "punk was never meant to be nostalgic"."
How would he know? Punk is whatever you want it to be, the whole point was to do your own thing, not be told what to do or think by someone else.

Brads67

Original Poster:

3,199 posts

97 months

Sunday 27th November 2016
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Mans an ahole.

"Punk was never, never meant to be nostalgic" Says the man with a Glen Matlock hankie on his head.

Prick.

Busterbulldog

670 posts

130 months

Sunday 27th November 2016
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It's a swindle.