History Music / NeverMindTheBollocksHeresTheSexPistols

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Don't be told what you want! / Don't be told what you need! / There's no future, no future, no future for you!"'']]

Don't know what I want but I know how to get it\\

''Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols'' is the debut studio album by The Music/SexPistols, released in 1977 through Creator/VirginRecords in the UK and Creator/WarnerBrosRecords in the US. Discounting the soundtrack ''The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle'' as well as their live albums, it is also [[OneBookAuthor their only album]].[[note]]Though a lot of compilations have followed, mostly with singles and/or live recordings which didn't appear on this album.[[/note]]

Infamous, controversial and very influential, it's seen as one of the greatest, most influential and most important rock albums in music history. It's also considered a bridge in rock history between the psychedelic and art rock era of the late 1960s and the back-to-basics simple rock sound of late 1970s punk and new wave.

The record collects four of the group's hit singles: "Anarchy in the UK", "God Save the Queen", "Holidays in the Sun" and "Pretty Vacant" and adds a handful of other songs. Guitarist Steve Jones played bass for the vast majority of the album, and the infamously incompetent Music/SidVicious "plays" bass on only one song ("Bodies"). Former bassist Glen Matlock appears on "Anarchy in the UK".

* {{Anarchy}}: "Anarchy in the U.K.", but also a theme on the entire album.

--> ''I kick you in the brains when you get down to kneel''
--> ''And pray, pray to your god.''

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''Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols'' is the debut studio album by The Music/SexPistols, released in 1977. Discounting the soundtrack ''The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle'' as well as their live albums, it is also [[OneBookAuthor their only album]].[[note]]Though a lot of compilations have followed, mostly with singles and/or live recordings which didn't appear on this album.[[/note]]

Infamous, controversial and very influential, it's seen as one of the greatest, most influential and most important rock albums in music history. It's also considered a bridge in rock history between the psychedelic and art rock sound of the late 1960s and the back-to-basics simple rock sound of the punk and new wave of the late 1970s.

''Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols'' is the debut studio album by The Music/SexPistols, released in 1977. Discounting the soundtrack ''The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle'' as well as their live albums, it is also [[OneBookAuthor their only album]].[[note]]Though a lot of compilations have followed, mostly with singles and/or live recordings which didn't appear on this album[[/note]] Infamous, controversial and very influential, it's seen as a landmark album between the psychedelic and art rock era of the late 1960's and the back to basics simple rock sound of the punk and new wave era of the late 1970's. Today it's widely regarded as one of the best, most influential and most important rock/punk albums in music history.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'' album. The name was a ShoutOut to them and managed to have the same enormous and influential impact on the musical scene.