Sex Pistols
Live In the UK 1976
(Cult Legends / The Media Champ)
It's appropriate that they rendered only a single 1970s studio album. It exemplified the volatile moment, one that blew all to hell conventions both musical and social.
Whereas the Ramones had Sergeant Johnny to enforce performance discipline - and those outsider CBGBs moptops buzzsawed into deserved eternal imprint - the Pistols raged for but a twinkling. (At least, in their virginal phase.)
But their sometimes-shambolic cacophony suited the days at-hand (a vulgar trait they shared with Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers). Their rip-and-stitch dash echoes in successive bands' works.
Of course, the brash spirit that typified the seventies Punk ethos had precedent; identical nervy countenance had been characteristic of Elvis and Mick - rebellious upstarts in their own green seasons.
1976 called for stagnant, self-indulgent Rock'n'Roll to suffer a swift boot-kick. 2025, too, seems such an occasion.
Recommended: "Anarchy In the UK," "Wanna Be Me," "Don't Give Me No Lip, Child," "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone," "Liar," "Substitute," "No Feelings," "No Fun," "Problems"
Videos: "Anarchy In the UK" (live, 1976) "Wanna Be Me" (live, 1976)
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