It's about time this one got upgraded.....hope it's worth it.

Can't imagine there's any material left in the vaults that has been released on numerous previous reissues and compilations, including the box set.

Most of it was released in desperate cash grabs like "Flogging a Dead Horse", way back in 78 or 79. The box set is pretty all-inclusive, and I'm happy with it. The only way I'll pick this up (it would, I believe, be my SEVENTH purchase of Bollocks) is if the remastering sound quality is simply impossible to pass up. Given the equipment they were using at the time they recorded it, I can't see that happening.

Sad part about this is I doubt this will be done well. I don't think the masters of the LP have ever been used for a CD era release. Only the first pressing of the UK vinyl sounds really good. The band has possession of all of the multis and out take mixes(oddly enough stored in Los Angeles) and these have never been touched.

I missed out on the box set...and it's OOP going for $75 used, so I'll probably be in for this.

The album was a game-changer, so I've never had any interest in hearing any demos, alternate tracks, or the like.
I thought the sound was perfect. This is one of those albums that defined a particular time and place for me, and I don't want to mess with that.
Also, I don't want to give any more of my money to them greedy bastards.

They were used for the Kiss This compilation. They've supposedly gone missing after that.



I think the Dave Goodman demos (aka "Spunk") are better than the actual album. Recorded live in the studio rather than through piles of overdubs... and they actually feature a real bassist!

So does Bollocks, if you count Steve Jones. Sid played on one or two songs, because he was such a fuckup, and Steve filled in the rest.

Steve is great, but he's not a bass player. The songs are much better with Glenn's playing. IIRC Sid doesn't play anything on the album. There's rumors of outtakes with his playing, but nothing has ever surfaced yet.

Matlock is, of course, much better, yes; I just wanted to be sure nobody thought Sid played anything at all. Steve Jones said that Sid played on (maybe) God Save the Queen, and that was about it.

I think it's actually "Bodies" that Sid is supposed to have played on, according to Jones. Jones says Sid played on the original track and then he (Jones) went back and overdubbed a new bass part. It's unclear whether Sid's playing was erased or just buried in the mix, but I don't think it's audible either way.

Could have been Bodies. I did a thesis on the Sex Pistols (for real!), and I used to know pretty much everything there was to know about them...but it was over 20 years ago. The important thing is that Sid couldn't play, and contributed nothing but his self-destructive personality to the Punk scene. No small thing, that, of course...but it wasn't much of a talent.

Doesn't Matlock say (in his book) that he was called back to play bass on a few tracks, too?

I haven't read his book (it came out in the late 90s IIRC), but I doubt that would have happened at the time, given their extremely strained relationship. As in, the others really, really, hated him. Even if he says in his book that he did, I'd have to hear it confirmed by Steve Jones or Paul to believe it myself.

I went to a concert years ago ( Ben Harper ) and they played Never Mind The Bollocks in full before the show, the crowd and myself were so into that music that Ben Harper was not the highlight of the night, I still have vivid memories of that, one great track after another. Rock as it should be.

Lydon says (in his book) that Matlock was hired as a session man to play bass on the album. He mocks Matlock for being willing to swallow his pride and do that after leaving/being drummed out of the band. However, Matlock clarifies (in his own book) that although McLaren asked him to play bass on the album (and even paid him up front for doing it) he decided not to show up for the sessions and didn't play anything. The reason Lydon was unaware of this is that Jones and Cook recorded the instrumental tracks first and then Lydon came in and overdubbed his vocals onto them, so Lydon was not aware of who was playing bass. The only Matlock bass on the album is on Anarchy, which of course was recorded a couple months before the rest of the album sessions, when Matlock was still in the band.

Release date-Sept. 24 (Sept. 25 US)

Detailed track-listing below:

NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS HERE’S THE SEX PISTOLS

Limited Edition Super Deluxe Box Set

CD1 – Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols*
1. Holidays In The Sun
2. Bodies
3. No Feelings
4. Liar
5. God Save The Queen
6. Problems
7. Seventeen
8. Anarchy In The UK
9. Submission
10. Pretty Vacant
11. New York
12. EMI

CD2 – 1977 Studio Rarities & B-Sides

The single b-sides remastered.
1. No Feeling
2. Did You No Wrong
3. No Fun
4. Satellite

Dave Goodman Demos (from original master tapes):
5. New York (Demo Version)
6. Unlimited Edition (Demo Version of ‘EMI’)
7. Liar (Demo Version)
8. Pretty Vacant (Demo Version)
9. Problems (Demo Version)
10. No Future (Demo Version of ‘God Save The Queen’)

Chris Thomas Demos and Outtakes (from original master tapes):
11. Did You No Wrong (Alternative Vocal)
12. Seventeen (Alternative Vocal)
13. Satellite (Rough Mix)
14. Submission (Rough Mix)
15. Holidays In The Sun (Rough Mix)
16. EMI (Rough Mix)
17. Seventeen (Rough Mix)
18. Holidays In The Sun (Alternative Mix)
19. Body (Demo Version of ‘Bodies’)
20. Submission (Alternate Mix)
21. Belsen Was A Gas (Demo)

CD3 – 1977 Live

Ssamfundet Club, Trondheim, Norway – 21st July
1. Anarchy In The U.K.
2. I Wanna Be Me
3. 17
4. New York
5. EMI
6. No Fun
7. No Feelings
8. Problems
9. God Save The Queen

Happy House, Stockholm, Sweden – 28th July***
10. Anarchy In The UK
11. I Wanna Be Me
12. 17
13. New York
14. EMI
15. Submission
16. No Feelings
17. Problems
18. God Save The Queen
19. Pretty Vacant
20. No Fun

DVD – 1977

Riverboat Party, The River Thames, London – 7th July
1. Pretty Vacant
2. Anarchy In The UK
3. Problems

Happy House, Stockholm, Sweden – 28th July***
4. Anarchy In The UK
5. I Wanna Be Me
6. Seventeen
7. New York
8. Problems
9. No Fun

S.P.O.T.S. Tour – Winter Gardens, Penzance, Cornwall – 1st September***
10. Problems
11. No Fun
12. Anarchy In The UK

DVD EXTRAS
1. God Save The Queen video
2. Pretty Vacant video
3. Holidays In The Sun video

4. The HeyDay Interviews. Interviews by Judy and Fred Vermorel recorded in August 1977 with:
a. Steve Jones
b. Paul Cook
c. John Lydon
d. Sid Vicious
e. Glen Matlock

5. BBC, Radio 1, Rock On, December 12th 1977 – John Tobler interview with John and Sid (previously unheard full uncensored version)

OTHER CONTENT
1977 (The Bollocks Diaries)

100 page full-colour hardback diary detailing every significant band event in this explosive year. Written by former Mojo editor Pat Gilbert, the book includes multiple quotes from key figures, previously unseen photos, recording details, memorabilia and much more.
+ replica A&M GSTQ/No Feeling 7” single.
+ 3FT by 4.5FT Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols replica promo poster.
+ copy of original handwritten lyrics to God Save The Queen.
+ Replica Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols promo stickers.
+ 4 postcards

* = remastered from the recently found original album master tapes by Tim Young under the guidance of original producer Chris Thomas.

** = these 6 demo’s would make up the legendary ‘Spunk’ album but are heard here for the very first time in their original, untouched form following the very recent discovery of the original master tapes.

*** = All tracks previously unreleased except Submission (track ) which unlike in 2003 when it first appeared is now mastered from the original tapes.

**** = This is the legendary original demo featuring John Lydon on vocals and is taken from the recently recovered original master tapes.

Damn it, looks like they're going to get me to buy this for that seventh time. Some nice live stuff there that I don't have. I'm going to assume they're pretty good soundboards and not some crap audio.

I want this... but geez... £94.99 from Amazon UK or $216.09 as an import from Amazon USA...

Somewhere Malcolm McLaren is smiling.