Sid Sings
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| Live album by Sid Vicious | ||
| Released | 1979 | |
| Recorded | 1978 | |
| Genre | Punk Rock | |
| Label | Virgin | |
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Sid Sings is the title of punk rocker Sid Vicious's solo album. It was released on December 15, 1979 and peaked at number 30 on the British album charts.
The album features the two hit singles, "My Way", and "Something Else". These songs also appeared in the film and album The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle along with "C'mon Everybody", which did not appear this album.
The album is thin on liner notes; there are no musicians' credits or recording info, and the production credit goes to "The Engineer" (i. e. John "Boogie" Tiberi).
The bulk of the album comes from low-fi recordings of performances at Max's Kansas City in New York City, on September 28-29, 1978. These recordings are somewhat marred by an enthusiastic fan standing slightly too near the cassette player shouting "yeah, yeah, yeah". The Johnny Thunders song "Born to Lose" comes from a Sex Pistols concert at Huddersfield, on December 25, 1977. Despite having an audio fidelity not much better than the rest of the album, "My Way" comes from a studio session in Paris with French session musicians. The remixed version that was released as a single and on The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle features a different vocal take, an overdubbed guitar solo from Steve Jones and strings, arranged by Simon Jeffes.
Mick Jones from The Clash was long rumoured to play on the album. His two sets with Vicious have never been officially released, however.
The album was not designed by Jamie Reid, the Sex Pistols' art designer, but he created the guitar swastika that appeared on the labels of the original UK pressings (though the German pressing had a blank spot instead due to the swastika's illegality in that country).
[edit] Track listing
All tracks are live, with the exception of "My Way".
- "Born to Lose"
- Performed by The Sex Pistols. Cover of The Heartbreakers
- "I Wanna Be Your Dog"
- Cover of The Stooges
- "Take a Chance on Me"
- Another cover of The Heartbreakers
- "Steppin' Stone"
- Monkees cover. Not to be confused with the cover version of the same song by The Sex Pistols.
- "My Way"
- Paul Anka cover. Not the studio single version commonly heard. Very different vocals. No strings are present.
- "Belsen Was a Gas"
- Cover of his own song written for The Sex Pistols. Listed simply as "Belsen" on the album.
- "Something Else"
- Eddie Cochran cover. Live version. Not the studio single version.
- "Chatterbox"
- Johnny Thunders cover.
- "Search and Destroy"
- Another Stooges cover.
- "Chinese Rocks"
- Heartbreakers / Ramones Cover, although it's safe to assume that Sid had the Heartbreaker's version in mind, as he sings their version of the lyrics. Sid introduces this song as "Chinese Cocks" and dedicates it to "all you faggots out there..."
- "I Killed The Cat"
- Abbreviated version of "My Way". Sid introduces this song as "I Killed The Cat"
[edit] Personnel
- Sid Vicious - vocals, bass (track 1)
- Paul Cook - drums (track 1)
- Steve Jones - guitar (track 1)
- Arthur Kane - bass
- Steve Dior - guitar
- Jerry Nolan - drums
- Claude Engel - guitar (track 5)
- Sauveur Mallia - bass (track 5)
- Pierre-Alain Dahan - drums (track 5)
[edit] External links
- http://www.sex-pistols.net/main.html Features extensive research on the album and on the studio recording of My Way.
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