Sex Pistols Boxed Set

Sex Pistols
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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Allmusic [1]

Sex Pistols is a box set anthology of the career of the punk rock band The Sex Pistols with singer Johnny Rotten. It was released on 3 June 2002. The set comprises three themed CDs and an 80-page booklet[2].

The first disc features Never Mind the Bollocks, the band's only studio album, in its entirety, as well as four B-sides and the band's first demo session.

The second disc has demos and studio outtakes, from July 1976 to January 1977 and from the Never Mind the Bollocks sessions. This, together with the first disc, includes most of the material recorded by the band while Johnny Rotten was the singer.

The third disc, composed of previously unreleased live tracks, is almost completely made up with an August 31, 1976 gig at Islington Screen on the Green Cinema. Live bonus tracks include songs never recorded in the studio, "Understanding", "Flowers of Romance" and the legendary live performance of "Belsen Was a Gas".

Contents

Completeness

The box set includes almost the entire known recorded output of the band while Johnny Rotten was in the band. There are eight demos and two outtakes not included, of which the eight demos can be found on the bootleg album Spunk and the 1996 extended release of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols which comes with Spunk/This Is Crap. Of the two outtakes, one--of "Submission"--can be found on Spunk/This Is Crap as well as a "Pretty Vacant" single from 1992, and the other--an alternate take of "Bodies"--has not been officially released, although it can be found on the relatively widespread bootleg Party Till You Puke. None of the post-Johnny Rotten material is included, most of which can be found on The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle soundtrack. It might be worth noting Sid Vicious, while commonly referred to as the bass player for the Sex Pistols, only plays on one track out of sixty-four on this box set.

Track listing

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
    • Includes the hidden track "Anarchy in the UK" (instrumental)

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)
    • Includes the hidden track "God Save the Queen" (instrumental)

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)

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ "Box Set sleeve notes". http://www.philjens.plus.com/pistols/pistols/pistols_album_information.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-17. 
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