Sex Pistols Box Set

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Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols cover
Box set by Sex Pistols
Released 3 June 2002
Recorded 1976-1978
Genre Punk rock
Length 220:10
Label Virgin Records
Producer Various
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Sex Pistols is a box set anthology of the career of the punk rock band Sex Pistols. It was released in June 2002. The set comprises three themed CDs and a 80 page booklet.

First disc features complete album Never Mind the Bollocks, four B-sides, and the band's first demo session.

Second disc has demos and studio outtakes, from July 1976 to January 1977 and from the Never Mind the Bollocks sessions. Most (but not all) known reject Sex Pistols material is featured here.

Third disc, composed of previously unreleased live tracks, is almost completely made up with August 31, 1976 gig at Islington Screen on the Green Cinema. Live bonus tracks feature the unrecorded "Understanding" and "Flowers of Romance", and also the legendary live performance of "Belsen Was A Gas".

Contents

[edit] Completeness

The box sets includes almost the entire recorded output of the band, missing are ten additional demos and two Cook/Jones songs whose attribution to Sex Pistols is debatable.

Eight of the ten missing demos can be found on the famous bootleg Spunk. All 10 tracks are featured on official and expanded release of the bootleg: Spunk / This is Crap, released in 1996 by Virgin Records.

Also missing are the two Cook/Jones single tracks "Black Leather" and "Here We Go Again", recorded for The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle soundtrack album but not appearing on it (two other tracks from the Cook/Jones sessions, "Lonely Boy" and "Silly Thing", were included on the soundtrack album). These tracks, while generally not considered Sex Pistols tracks, were occasionally released on other Sex Pistols compilations, most notably on the Japanese release The Very Best Of Sex Pistols, And We Don't Care and as part of the 1980 Virgin Records singles compilation Pistols Pack, a six-pocketed release consisting of six 7-inch 45RPM singles.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc 1: Studio Tracks & Early Demos

  1. "Holidays in the Sun" – 3:22
  2. "Bodies" – 3:02
  3. "No Feelings" – 2:51
  4. "Liar" – 2:41
  5. "God Save the Queen" – 3:20
  6. "Problems" – 4:11
  7. "Seventeen" – 2:02
  8. "Anarchy in the U.K." – 3:31
  9. "Submission" – 4:12
  10. "Pretty Vacant" – 3:18
  11. "New York" – 3:06
  12. "EMI (Unlimited Edition)" – 3:13
  13. "I Wanna Be Me" – 3:06
  14. "No Feeling (Bonus B-side)" – 2:47
  15. "Did You No Wrong" – 3:09
  16. "No Fun (Unedited)" – 6:56
  17. "Satellite" – 4:01
  18. "Problems" – 3:41
  19. "Pretty Vacant" – 2:44
  20. "No Feelings" – 6:53

The final track is followed by silence, then an instrumental version of Anarchy In The UK

[edit] Disc 2: Demos & Rarities

  1. Pretty Vacant
  2. Submission
  3. Anarchy in the U.K.
  4. Substitute
  5. (Don't Give Me) No Lip
  6. (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone
  7. Johnny B Goode
  8. Road Runner
  9. Watcha Gonna Do About It?
  10. Through My Eyes
  11. Anarchy in the U.K.
  12. No Feelings (Instrumental)
  13. No Future
  14. Liar
  15. Problems
  16. New York
  17. God Save the Queen
  18. Satellite
  19. EMI
  20. Seventeen
  21. No Feelings
  22. Submission (Version #1)
  • Tracks 1-2 are demos from the Denmark Street session in July 1976.
  • Track 3 is the Wessex Studio session recording from October 1976.
  • Tracks 4-10 are taken from rehearsal sessions in Wessex Studio, in October 1976.
  • Track 11 is the rejected version of the Anarchy in The UK 7" single.
  • Tracks 12-15 are demo sessions from the Manchester Square session in December, 1976.
  • Tracks 16-17 are recordings from Gooseberry Studios from January 1977
  • Tracks 18-22 are outtakes from Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols.

After the final track, there is silence, followed by an instrumental version of God Save The Queen.

[edit] Disc 3: Live at Screen on the Green ‘76, plus live rarities

  1. Anarchy in the U.K.
  2. I Wanna Be Me
  3. Seventeen
  4. New York
  5. (Don't Give Me) No Lip
  6. (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone
  7. Satellite
  8. Submission
  9. Liar
  10. No Feelings
  11. Substitute
  12. Pretty Vacant
  13. Problems
  14. Did You No Wrong
  15. No Fun
  16. Understanding (Live Bonus Track)
  17. Flowers Of Romance #1 (Live Bonus Track)
  18. Flowers Of Romance #2 (Live Bonus Track)
  19. Belsen Was A Gas (Live Bonus Track)

Recorded August 29, 1976 - Screen On The Green Cinema, Islington, UK

except:

After the final track, there is silence, followed by an instrumental version of Pretty Vacant.

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Sex Pistols
Johnny Rotten • Steve Jones • Paul Cook • Sid Vicious • Glen Matlock
Malcolm McLaren • Wally Nightingale
Studio album
Compilations and soundtracks
Spunk • The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle • Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols • Flogging a Dead Horse • Kiss This • Jubilee • Sex Pistols Box Set • We Have Cum For Your Children • Greatest • Never Trust A Hippy • Pirates Of Destiny • Back & There Again • Anarchy In The USA • Anarchy In The UK • Mini Album • There Is No Future • Pretty Vacant: The Best of '76 • Agents Of Anarchy • Indecent Exposure • Aural Sex • No Future UK? • Silver Jubilee • The Legends Collection: The Sex Pistols Collection • Archive • Early Daze
Live albums
Filthy Lucre Live • Raw • Anarchy in the UK: Live at the 76 Club • Live at Winterland 1978 • Live at Chelmsford Top Security Prison • Submission • Extended Versions • Alive • The Original Pistols Live • Better Live Than Dead • Pistol Whipped Live •
Singles
"Anarchy in the U.K." • "God Save the Queen" • "Pretty Vacant" • "Holidays in the Sun" • "No One Is Innocent" • "Something Else" • "Silly Thing" • "C'mon Everybody" • "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" • "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" • "Pretty Vacant (live)" • "God Save the Queen (2002 remix)"
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