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Never Mind Bollocks (Mlps) | 
| Artist: Sex Pistols
Label: Virgin Japan
Category: Music
List Price: $41.98
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Seller: Sent2u_by_HTS-Scotland
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 497891
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.2 x 0.2
EAN: 4988006858428
ASIN: B000VZE1TA
Release Date: January 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Holidays in the Sun | | • | Bodies | | • | No Feelings | | • | Liar | | • | Problems | | • | God Save the Queen | | • | Seventeen | | • | Anarchy in the U.K. | | • | Submission | | • | Pretty Vacant | | • | New York | | • | E.M.I. |
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Album Description
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.
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| Customer Reviews:
Greatest Hits EP December 13, 2009
Murphy (Northern California)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For years, my reaction to anyone who claimed this was their favorite punk album was to assume they'd never heard it. Maybe they had a Sid Vicious t-shirt and a Green Day CD. Why? I was 14 when I first heard Anarchy - Radio Luxembourg had an interview with the band right after the Bill Grudy TV show. They played Anarchy three or four times and I Wanna Be Me twice. Visceral, blistering and exciting. I wanted to tell everyone I knew about this band, these songs. When God Save The Queen was released, the local record store had one copy and I stood there for hours hoping they'd play it a second time. Oh, and that b-side! No Fun....Pretty Vacant made Top of the Pops, but the initial thrill was gone.
Then Bollocks came out. Cajoled a tape from a friend's older brother. Rush home. Oh Dear. Far and away the best moments were the singles I'd already heard. Apart from Submission, nothing else was as good as No Fun or I Wanna Be Me. Much, much worse. Dull. Being 15, I loved Bodies. He was angry! He was cussing! He was venomous. Apart from that, I was deeply disappointed. Stomach ache disappointed. Listen-to-it-again-hoping-it's-better disappointing. And that was that. Until I was 17 and outgrew the shock value of Bodies. Poor Johnny Rotten wasn't yet ready to deal with the personal. Oh, and around this time they sang a song called "Belsen Was a Gas". Yeah, after Glen Matlock they were nothing. Complete and utterly worthless. Irrelevant.
25 years go by and I listened to Bollocks again. Blown Away by the singles, Submission now my favorite, Seventeen moving up the list. Even Holidays sounds better. Steve Jones impresses throughout; Lydon's petulant, angry, paranoid squaling raises the hair on my neck (oh, how I wish Bodies had a point of view...); the drummer appears competent. It's best thought of as a Greatest Hits package. The short, sharp, shock of the first three singles no longer overwhelms the album. Worth buying, worth listening to. If you missed the singles as they came out, and this was the first time you heard them, it's a terrific album, despite some clunkers like EMI and New York.
Oh, and revolution aside. It's now available everywhere even in an Eco-Friendly Package.
John Lydon would move on to create one of the all time best albums with PIL Metal Box/Second Edition. Finally he got the personal and broader politics right.Perfectly right. Challenging and brilliant. Justified belief inhis warped intellect. Tragically, that was it. Was he replaced by a less intelligent twin? Who knows.
 A reproduction not a remaster November 25, 2008
Allen McFarland (Norman, OK USA)
This is a very interesting item in that Rhino chose to release a painfully accurate reproduction of the original package that puts things back as they were instead adding things that were never there. It seems that over the years each pressing of this record (legitimate and otherwise) has taken a little more of the original away. This package brings it all back home on a fine quality of wax.
A review of the contents of the music is pretty much pointless. We all know what it sounds like. It is loud and hard. We know the songs and thought we knew the order. One of the fixes this makes is that it puts the songs back in the order they first came in. In the end most people are buying this as a piece of history so they will never hear a minor difference like that.
Frankly I would be happy if this closed the lid on this piece of musical history. It would be a fitting end to the means. I still think this album in any form holds its own in any format.
The one downside to this release is that some sellers will almost certainly try to pass it off as the original hoping that some sucker wont notice the Rhino logo. Other than that it is a nice addition to the endless stories in the history of the one and only studio album the Sex Pistols recorded and everybody else releases.
LP never sounded betta November 17, 2008
attentive listener (Joysey)
The previous review for this should be stricken from the record, it does not refer to this specific edition of this punk masterpiece. This is the heavy duty 2008 vinyl edition and it has never sounded better, although it never really sounded all that bad in any of its previous incarnations. Having said that, if you're in the market for an upgrade, you can do no better than some fresh 180 gram vinyl.
 A Work of Art! Important Album! Poor Sound Quality! February 3, 2008
Frederick Baptist (Singapore)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Sex Pistols and this album are very important in the whole history of rock and roll because of its influence on countless other bands and musicians to come such as Nirvana, The Clash, Green Day and other punk bands not to mention Heavy and Thrash Metal bands. Although they by no means were the first and only to start the punk movement as many others could lay claim to this honour e.g. The Ramones, The Velvet Underground and even Blondie but the Sex Pistols did have talent but they just chose to play in a certain discordant style to put their message across but that doesn't mean the album isn't good or that they're not good musicians. I thought the guitar solo on "God Save the Queen" was pretty good and I think this track is their best ever.
You have to listen to the album for what it is and what it stands for and as an early representative of the punk rock genre, this is actually very good. I'm just disappointed that after waiting for years for a remastered version ala what Iggy Pop did with his brilliant "Raw Power" album, this is what they came up with with any benefit from alleged remastering barely recognisable from the original cd I bought many, many years ago. The Stooges' remastering of "Raw Power" added extra life to what was a dated album and it now sounds like it could have been released today and this was what the Pistols could have done with this album but alas they let the chance slip away. If you already have this album, I wonder why you would want to spend so much more for pretty much the same disc albeit with an mlps packaging. The mlps design is made from thin, flimsy cardboard and is nothing to shout about given the many better mlps designs that I've seen out there although an insert with all the lyrics in both English and Japanese is included together with a fold out colour poster which is quite cool.
My recommendation: a must have for any serious music hobbist's collection but bear in mind that this version's sound quality isn't a material improvement over the version you already have and so you may end up paying a great deal more for what amounts to very expensive cardboard and a poster.
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