Discography - Part 1

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It would appear that the less material there is a by a band the more material is created to satisfy demand. Its no different with the Pistols. Below and in Part 2 is really all you need. In short 5 singles, 2 albums and one bootleg. Any compilation should do you. Kiss This is particularly  recommended. Beware. There is a lot of crap out there.

For a band so keen on publicity none of their singles or albums include one photo of the band instead relying on the strong artwork of Jamie Reid.  Never mind about journalists going on about how the album/singles are overproduced or they were better before (yawn ). Hear them for yourselves.

Anarchy In The UK / I Wanna Be Me November 1976. Chart position  No38

All hail the Pistols. A kind of lumbering beast of malicious intent. I prefer the version off the Swindle where Rotten's vocals are malevolently raw. Described By Captain Sensible as "third rate Bad Company riff" and it perhaps sounds a trite sluggish against New Rose.

God Save The Queen / Did You No Wrong  
May 1977. Chart position  No 2 

I don't care what anyone says. THE greatest punktune ever. Where astute, sneering, lyrics meet a piledriver riff to create punk's and The Sex Pistols' greatest moment. Anger, youth and rebellion. Its all here in spades. On the flip is Did You No Wrong that to my ears still rocks tho a trite rocky..."a bog is no place to imagine your face" indeed. GSTQ was wrongly denied its place at #1 in the charts. 

   

"Oh where there's no future how can there be sin / We're the flowers in the dustbin / We're the poison in the human machine / We're the future ..you're future / God save the queen / We mean it man / We love our queen / God saves."

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Click picture above for enlarged view of Boot's
policy regarding GSTQ.

*see bottom of page.

W.H Smith's Chart. Look at #2. Its GSTQ.

Pretty Vacant / No Fun    
July 1977. Chart position  No6

Allegedly based on Abba's SOS! Classic intro of mounting tension between, guitar, drums and bass before Rotten comes crashing to dispense his version of the blank generation 'We're Va-cunt'. Superb version of No Fun with a classy  "Little bit of fuckology...no fun" spoken intro at start . First Pistols song to appear on Top Of The Pops with a promo video. 

Holidays In The Sun / Satellite    
October 1977. Chart position  No8

Riff stolen off The Jam 'In The City' blah blah blah. Who gives a toss. From the jackboot stomps at the start to the skull crushing riff and production this epic tale of paranoia in East Germany mirrors events at home with the boys unable to play or record through bans or even step out side without fears for their personal safety. Rotten's "Looking over the wall and they're looking at me". On the flip the excellent Satellite supposedly about Shanne Bradley. Chunky riffs all round and then its goodnight Vienna for the band..

*Boots memo from Stephen as outlined below:

Paul
This might amuse you.
Back in the mid 70s I had a Saturday and school holiday job at Boots in Blackpool. I started off on Photographic but a year or so later I was moved to the Record Department. As you might imagine this was right up my street. It gave me the chance to have a listen to all sorts of stuff before deciding to spend my hard earned cash. I reckon I could be the only person ever to play Captain Beefheart in a branch of Boots. Around the height of the Pistols' notoriety we received a memo from Head Office warning us about the dangers of God Save the Queen. This was too good to miss so I slipped it in my pocket and took it home, the idea being that in my old age I could prove to my grand children that I was there when the UK Music Industry got a good kicking. The attachment is a scan of that memo dated 3rd June 1977, glory days
 
Regards
 
Stephen Yarwood

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