For those unaware, for the first time in over 20 years, 20 of the Sex Pistol’s recordings from 1976 to 1978 are collected together to tell the story of one of the world’s most influential and extraordinary bands.

Sex Pistols: The Original Recordings (UMe) covers a historic period when the band were rarely out of the news or the charts and will be available on double vinyl, CD and limited edition double transparent green vinyl.

The Sex Pistols left the British Establishment shaking when they exploded onto the music scene, kick-starting what later became known as punk - a term the band were never comfortable with. Young people ripped up not just their musical forebears but their social ones too and Sex Pistols were the snarling, ferocious figurehead of the revolution.

They made one perfect, 40-minute album for the ages in 1977’s Never Mind The Bollocks and from its artwork to the individual players, the attitude and music - every bit of it influenced the world we live in today.

The record is frequently listed as one of the most influential albums of all time with musicians from Joy Division / New Order to Kurt Cobain, Noel Gallagher, Green Day, to YUNGBLUD all citing them as key inspiration.

And this was not just musically, punk showed that anyone could create and many took the hint across fashion, art and design and more.

Side A:
1. Pretty Vacant
2. God Save The Queen
3. Bodies
4. No Feelings
5. I Wanna Be Me

Side B:
6. Anarchy In The UK
7. Submission
8. No Fun
9. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
10. Holidays In The Sun

Side C:
11. New York
12. Problems
13. Lonely Boy
14. Silly Thing
15. Something Else

Side D:
16. C’Mon Everybody
17. Satellite
18. Did You No Wrong
19. Substitute
20. My Way

This still brilliantly vivacious, and highly-charged vinyl collection from the Sex Pistols - that not only charts their successful chart period along with other key singles, also includes essential tracks from Never Mind The Bollocks, further originals and covers from The Great Rock & Roll Swindle soundtrack album, and even some essential B- sides - opens with a riff so simple, so evocative and yet which still stands the test of musical time, Pretty Vacant, and then comes their anthemic song that had so much power and relevance for those times, God Save the Queen.

Released as a benefit track to the Fireman who were out on strike at that time in 1977 - and with a cake-filled video that has to be seen to be believed - Bodies was a song about the British working class being persecuted and oppressed beyond toleration and that is backed by the heavily-laden, wicked humor, satire and sarcasm within No Feelings, the first side of this double vinyl set rounding out on I Wanna Be Me (where Jones’s guitar sound was surely showcased as being the heaviest of the early punk bands).

The second side opens with the thunderous track that sums up the anger of a generation perfectly at that time (and maybe even still does today) Anarchy In The UK and then we get the rhythmically melodic Submission, the immense raw energy of the Stooges’ No Fun, the ferociously exuberant (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone (a cover of The Monkees track that shattered the expectations of a listening journalistic world), and then this side rounds out on the cataclysmic birth of rock and roll within Holidays In The Sun.

The third side of this wondrous double vinyl opens on the New York Dolls referenced, and criminally underrated and seldom heard monster New York and that is followed by the true punk sounds within Problems, the soon-to-be emo-influencing, Jones-sung track Lonely Boy, and then we get a lovely gem in Silly Things (written by drummer Paul Cook and guitarist Steve Jones, recorded after Rotten had left the band, and sung by Jones), the side rounding out on the Sid Vicious-sung rock and roll beauty, Something Else (from the album Sid Sings).

The fourth and final side opens on the beautiful middle finger raised up at the world that constantly moved toward the average, bland and mediocre, Vicious’ cover of Eddie Cochran’s C’Mon Everybody and that is backed seamlessly by the massively underrated Pistols classic, Satellite, a track less punk and more mainstream ’70s hard rock, Did You No Wrong, and then we get their fiercely beautiful cover of The Who’s Substitute, the entire collection coming to a close on a stirringly-unnerving cover of Frank Sinatra’s My Way (which showcased the fact that, perhaps, Vicious was surprisingly a better singer than bass player!)

Their 1977 single “God Save the Queen” was banned by the BBC and reached Number 1 on the U.K.’s NME chart, but appeared at Number 2 on the Official U.K. Singles chart, leading to accusations that the song was purposely kept off the top spot. For the only time in chart history, the track was listed as a blank, to avoid offense to the establishment.

The collection soundtracks the period and features key singles “Anarchy In The UK,” “God Save The Queen,” “Pretty Vacant” and “Holidays In The Sun,” essential tracks from Never Mind The Bollocks, further originals and covers from The Great Rock & Roll Swindle soundtrack album and some essential B- sides in “I Wanna Be Me” (the flip side of “Anarchy…”), “Satellite” (the b-side of “Holidays In The Sun”) and “Did You No Wrong” (from “God Save The Queen”).

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