Andrew Hertford
Chocolate Jesus
And another vote for 'Bodies'. It's just so dark, one of the few songs to have shocked me on first hearing.
What's the best Sex Pistols tune?
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damnhippie
shark sandwich
EMI surely
stereotypical
hospitality king
No feelings
stereotypical
hospitality king
I know yeah, if i was a kid then (I was born in 79) Im 100% sure I would of gone completely off the rails (much more so than I did during my teen years) largely made possible by these two tunes.
These two tunes are just so fucking rebellious its hard not to like them.
Yeah for me, they're the most played tunes, and so too 'obvious', but at the time, they must have been dead exciting..
Still, we got Nirvana instead, who were just as exciting, only they had tunes. So you could piss off your neighbours and hum along to them at the same time.
How many other bands is that true of? Only a very few...
How many other bands is that true of? Only a very few...
stereotypical
hospitality king
Rare breed isnt it.
What the hell do kids have like that now?? Some shit emo band or something, I genuinely dont know.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
I remember an interview sometime ago with Captain Sensible who was recalling when they first heard Anarchy in the UK - he said something like 'it was so disappointing,it sounded like Bad Company with old man Steptoe singing!'
Yes, it's hard to think of a band which has broken so majorly mainstream from this decade which packs the punch that Nirvana had.
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
I remember an interview sometime ago with Captain Sensible who was recalling when they first heard Anarchy in the UK - he said something like 'it was so disappointing,it sounded like Bad Company with old man Steptoe singing!'
'Bodies' is really the only one that lives up to the myth of what the Pistols were supposed to be isn't it? the one that really sounds vile and scabrous and angry rather than Bad Company with old man steptoe
The Damned were, indeed, brilliant but crap at the same time
Bodies.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
actually, in all honesty i remember being rather disappointed when I heard those two songs, which would have been in 1978 some time. they just sounded a bit staid and 'by numbers' after holidays and bodies (remember that then you never really heard the Pistols on the radio so the first, and only time you would hear them was if you had the singles or when bollocks came out)
before then I remember the first punk record I ever heard being the first clash LP which i nicked a cassette of from the local woolworths. Remember we all huddled round my mate's tape recorder that day after school ... it was like seeing your first ever scud mag...the excitement palpable, but must say i found what came out most underwhelming. apart from the line "when i get fucked up - I get violent" which always sticks in my mind and i used to write up everywhere.
one of the things that hit me strongest about punk was the disparity between the way punks looked back then (walking about in bin bags, safety pins etc - basically like they had beamed down from outer space) and what, to a large extent, was the speeded up chuck berry riffs that passed for a lot of the music.
it wasn't until Crass 'feeding of the 5000' came out that i actually heard a record that sounded like i THOUGHT punk SHOULD sound. nasty, offensive and not in any way whatsoever like Slade,Bowie, Bay City Rollers or any of the sort of stuff you'd hear being blasted from your mates big sister's rooms when you went round to visit.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
'Bodies' is really the only one that lives up to the myth of what the Pistols were supposed to be isn't it? the one that really sounds vile and scabrous and angry rather than Bad Company with old man steptoe
yup.
Bodies and Belsen (live version on the swindle)
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
Another vote for Bodies although i do like Silly Thing as well.
Just got the poll.
Silly Thing's probably my favourite too. BTW, am I the only person who prefers Megadeth's version of "Anarchy" to the Pistols'? (Steve Jones played on both IIRC)?
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
As much as I was excited and interested in Nirvana at the time, I really don't think much of them at all now.
I do.
I suspect they will. I was at Reading in 2001 and half the teens there were wearing Nirvana t-shirts. They can't have been born that long after 1989.
Anyway, the Pistols were a comedy band, Nirvana sounded angry AND had good tunes...
Anyway, the Pistols were a comedy band, Nirvana sounded angry AND had good tunes...
I knew you'd say that 
Yes it did
2001 is 33 years after 1989, is it?
It's halfway
Andy the Don
Wise men say only fools..
Pretty Vacant
Belsen was a Gas - for its pure shock value "God save Martin Bormann and Nazis on the run, they wasn’t being wicked God, it was their idea of fun."
Holidays in the Sun
Belsen was a Gas - for its pure shock value "God save Martin Bormann and Nazis on the run, they wasn’t being wicked God, it was their idea of fun."
Holidays in the Sun
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Andy the Don
Wise men say only fools..
That was No One Is Innocent.
Ooopps <<shame faced smilie>>
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