1977Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
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The Sex Pistols
Unabashedly crude, intensely emotional, and calculated to exhilarate and offend, the Sex Pistols' music and stance were in direct opposition to the star trappings and complacency that, by the mid-Seventies, had rendered much of rock & roll stagnant. Over the course of their short, turbulent existence, the group released a single studio album that changed the course of popular music. While the Sex Pistols were not the first punk rockers (that distinction probably goes to the Stooges), they were the most widely identified with the genre — and, to appearances, the most threatening.
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Selected Discography
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Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
January 01, 1977
star ratingThe Sex Pistols made far more headlines than songs, but they were punk pioneers nonetheless, four skinny British guys who helped invent the genre's angry, tradition-smashing sound. They fired a shot heard 'round the world, shocking polite society.
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1979The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
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1996Filthy Lucre Live
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2002Sex Pistols
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2005Burton-on-Trent (live)
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