Pay what little it costs to buy this, play it loud, and enjoy. If it doesn't make you feel charged and asking yourself what you've been missing, there might be something wrong with your stereo. If you fall asleep, have someone check your vital signs, you might actually be dead. Pete Townshend, an original punk, dedicated his album Empty Glass (1980) to his daughters and the Sex Pistols. Had the Sex Pistols stayed together, they may have opened for the Who when they toured in '82 instead of the Clash. This music is more defiant than any display (clothing, haircut, accesory) considered punk, and is the yard stick by which all of that genres music is to be measured. The Pistols never branched out musically, changed their outfits, etc. They were so punk that they disbanded after having played thier biggest show (Winterland, San Francisco), just a couple years after forming, and like real punk, burned out instead of rusting. Every song on this is a gas. Holidays in the Sun, God Save the Queen, Bodies, Anarchy in the U.K., EMI, No Feelings, Problems, and New York are pure brilliance. What the Pistols did, and when they did it, showed more balls than someone burning an inverted crucifix on stage, or burning a flag or a picture of the pope. God SAve the Queen, in response to the silver jubilee couldn't have been more unpopular a statement at the time, and is a good reminder for anyone jumping on a band wagon for something so pointless. Beat on the brat that thinks this is overrated, cuz they got rocks in their head. The only thing the Pistols did wrong was not fire Malcom McLaren after he brougt Sid Vicious on board, instead of someone not a junkie that could play their instrument, and maybe they'd have made another record, although not likely as good as this. This is the best punk record ever made, as an original of something generally is. Good punk is not deep, like the Clash (and I've worn out their first 3 records) and not monotonous (like the Ramones). God bless the Ramones, but the Gabba Gabba hey and holes in the jeans got old, and Johnny Ramone is an ultra republican (not very punk that)While your ordering this, see if you can get "the great rock and roll swindle" on dvd or whatever format available. You'll see there was a sense of humor to all this as well.
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