RECOMMENDED. “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.”

Music/vinyl. “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.” Released 1977, the only studio album by English punk rock band the Sex Pistols. The album has influenced many bands and musicians to go extreme on no-limits defiance, juvenile crassness, and badness fun. As expected, the industry in general lapped it up. Basically sell that celebratory mischief. Definitive, game-changing, revolutionary. And consumer market gold. 

       Johnny Rotten is the understatement of his assumed last name. Sid Vicious basically rewrote rock `n roll burnout. Plus Steve Jones, Paul, and original bassist Glen Matlock, these guys didn’t know how to play music but that wasn’t their agenda, either. Or it seems. From that point, we point at manager Malcolm McLaren, could be the prototype of “influencing” or “rebranding” that went all-out in 21st century to date. 

       Due in most part to its notoriety, and in spite of many sales bans at major retailers, the album debuted at #1 on the UK Album Charts. In 1987, Rolling Stone magazine named the album the second best of the previous 20 years, behind only the Beatles' “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Can you dig that? Just to own the vinyl version of this record could probably win you a date, LOL! 

       For additional fun, check out Hulu’s “Pistol.” Anson Boon “out-rotten” Johnny Rotten himself! And 1986’s “Sid and Nancy.” Could be Gary Oldman’s best performance, I think. 🎼🎹🎼