SEX PISTOLS - Bollocks 11 track LP + Submission 7"

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 Sex Pistols-Never Mind The Bollocks here's the Sex Pistols 11 track album with free 1 sided Submission 7" (Virgin V 2086).
Sleeve is in excellent condition with minor edgewear.
Both vinyls are in excellent+ condition with just light traces of the record been removed from the inner sleeve.Amazing condition for a 32 year old record..VERY clean copy indeed.
 Matrix etchings state V-2086-A-3 (Side 1) and V-2086-B-1(Side 2). As you can,see the rear of sleeve correctly misses out Submission .All song credits on labels are correctly listed: ie Jones,Cook,Rotten,Vicious are only credited with Holidays in the Sun and Bodies,all other titles correctly state Jones,Matlock,Cook,Rotten.Contrary to reports,not all included the poster and this is one of them.This is how the record came when bought in F.L Moore Records in Dunstable back in the Autumn of 1977.The only "fault" I can find with this item is the labels have a very small 11 written on them as clearly shown in the scan(this was because my brother had the standard 12 tracker and I didn't want him to do a "swap"). I don't hide anything as reflected in my 100% positive feedback.Thanks very much for looking.I must state that any payments from outside the UK must be via PayPal.No exceptions so please don't ask to the contrary.Also,I will not end this auction early for the "right price" so please don't email for me to do so. The entire package will be sent out very well packed indeed with stiffeners & with plastic sleeves for album AND Submission 7".I too hate people that skimp on their packaging. I treat my customers how I expect to be treated.Thank you for looking,it's greatly appreciated.GOOD LUCK!If you have any questions then please feel free to ask,it's not a hassle.

History plays funny tricks, but for anyone who was around in the Summer of ’77 it seemed like this album was always there. In fact Never Mind The Bollocks…was released in October of that year due to label wrangles that had seen the band jump from A&M to EMI and thence Virgin, as manager, Malcolm McLaren wheedled yet larger amounts of cash from the fiasco. However a large proportion of the band’s fans had heard the charmingly entitled Spunk bootleg featuring demos for the album. With just about every track in place it showed that what was to come was every bit as good as we’d been led to believe.

This was Iggy and The Stooges’ Raw Power fed through a glam filter and served up with panache. It was a stroke of genius to use producer Chris Thomas, who had helped shape one of glam’s masterpieces: For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music. To be fair, the Pistols’ aesthetic reeked more of Gary Glitter than any art school pretentiousness. After all they were staunchly anti-pose in any sense of the word. But the album has a rich, deep sound that makes it far more enduring than contemporaneous releases like the Clash’s or the Jam’s debuts.

While the most middle class member of the band, bassist Glen Matlock, had been ejected by this point, his replacement, Sid Vicious was proving to be nothing more than a figurehead for the generations of cartoon punkdom to come. He couldn’t play. So Matlock was redrafted for the sessions. Rumour has it that session guru, Chris Spedding, was also recruited to fill out the sound, though Steve Jones has to take a vast amount of credit for the creative process here. His arpeggiated chords and muscular riffing defined their sound and remains distinctively recognisable to this day.

The one thing that was entirely new was, of course, the singer. John ‘Johnny Rotten’ Lydon had been spotted by Jones for all the right reasons. The ‘I Hate Pink Floyd’ t-shirt; the green hair and the sneering, almost Dickensian persona were ideal to cement the reputation of the band as the tabloid reader’s betes noires. What’s more he was cleverer than people realised, and musically knowledgeable too. His love of prime krautrock (Neu!, Can etc.) and the distinctly un-cool (for the times) Peter Hammill of Van Der Graaf Generator, made the band’s situationism even more potent.

The lyrics are iconoclastic and yet resonate with relevance even today. “Holidays In The Sun” with its Nazi rally opening contains a huge amount of sobering truth just in its first line: ‘A cheap holiday in other people’s misery’. Lydon’s Catholic upbringing was also brought to the fore in “Bodies”, a scouring attack on abortion. Far more than just an anti-everything diatribe, Bollocks is full of with and bile. No one is spared, especially not the band’s previous label (“EMI”) or their pre-punk heroes, the New York Dolls (“New York”).