Album Rating: 5.0

John Lydon having moved from a Victorian tenement grew up on a hackney council estate where he contracted an illness which made him lose his memory.

From there he flushed his mothers miscarriage down the bog, was despised, stabbed and beaten but always stood tall as being an individual.

He sat in his kitchen as a teenager with beans on toast and wrote the lyrics of God Save the Queen.



Crass he says.

Album Rating: 5.0

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN



THE FASCIST REGIME



THEY MADE YOU A MOOOROOOOOON

Album Rating: 5.0

potential h-bomb.

Album Rating: 5.0

Body I'm not an animal, mummy, I'm not an abortion!

Album Rating: 5.0

Fuck it all to fuck, ya fucking brat.



Timeless.

I read Lydon's book a while back, the shit he went through in his youth was about as hardscrabble and working-class as it gets. He might be a bit of a frumpy reactionary these days but anyone who doesn't think the Pistols' anger came from a genuine place, or that they managed any kind of substantive social critique, is absolutely talking out of their ass.

Album Rating: 5.0

"I read Lydon's book a while back, the shit he went through in his youth was about as hardscrabble and working-class as it gets. He might be a bit of a frumpy reactionary these days but anyone who doesn't think the Pistols' anger came from a genuine place, or that they managed any kind of substantive social critique, is absolutely talking out of their ass."



Agreed. Anyone saying this album is wannabe punk are only kidding themselves.

Album Rating: 5.0

Exactly.



People ridicule it but don’t seem to understand it’s what it spawned that is to be ridiculed.

This is the definition of youthful anger channelled by the real deal and unfortunately manipulated by ‘the man’ which ultimately derailed it.

It was always set to self-combust no matter what though. Too much real energy.

It's a testament to the system's ability to recuperate anything that poses even the slightest threat to it, strip it of its message and meaning, and regurgitate it as unchallenging pablum dressed in rebellion's colors.

Album Rating: 5.0

✊🏼

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Sorry zak I'd rather be a brat than a dumbass rush fan m/



bless ya

Album Rating: 2.5

I never said this was wannabe Punk or that their anger didnt come from a genuine place.



I just said that I feel other Punk bands expressed a lot of the things that the Pistols were expressing much better to me.

If you just plain don't like it that's obviously fine, we all have different tastes. Plenty of people, however, have tried to justify their dislike of it by cherry-picking through the history books to make the Pistols seem like some sort of gimmicky boy-band, and that's all I take issue with.

Personally idk how you can be into punk and not enjoy this at least a little, but clearly you feel differently.

Album Rating: 5.0

"I just said that I feel other Punk bands expressed a lot of the things that the Pistols were expressing much better to me."



I get that completely man, sorry if I misunderstood your comment

Album Rating: 3.0

the anger was def. genuine, any reading on the 60's 70's from around London and you know that is was a shit pile of unemployment, bad working conditions, greedy gov't, just absolute poverty for millions but,,,,,,,,



many others expressed that in a much more artistic, cool, memorable way

Look up zakalwe on google

Album Rating: 2.5

Gave this another shot after a long time. Its better than I remembered, theres a few songs that actually have some cool stuff going on (Holidays in the Sun, Bodies, New York, and Anarchy in the UK are actually pretty solid bangers) but it gets way too boring in some spots and feels pretty inconsistent.

Album Rating: 5.0

lol

Album Rating: 2.5

ok.

boom.