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Neben den beiden bereits veröffentlichten Singles Anarchy in the UK und God Save the Queen enthielt das Album nur wenige Stücke mit gesellschaftlichem Bezug oder provokativen Aussagen. Der Aufmacher Holidays in the Sun kokettiert mit der Nennung des Konzentrationslagers Bergen-Belsen, E.M.I. ist eine musikalische Abrechnung mit dem vorherigen Labelpartner und Pretty Vacant eine Art Lobgesang auf die Null-Bock-Generation. Die restlichen Titel bieten textlich eher diffus Emotionales. Da es sich bei den Titeln des Albums überwiegend um das bestehende Live-Repertoire der Band handelte, gab es musikalisch keine Überraschungen: rauer, aggressiver Rock mit dem charakteristischen Anti-Gesang von John Lydon. Was heute trivial klingen mag, war damals ein radikaler Bruch mit dem zuvor vorherrschenden Progressive Rock und seinen ausufernden Soli und Arrangements. Die Sex Pistols bedienten mit ihrem Album die aufkeimende Punk- und New-Wave-Bewegung und boten von Schwulst befreite, aggressive, einfache und nicht kopflastige Stücke. Bass und Gitarre wurden auf dem Album überwiegend von Steve Jones eingespielt, da nach dem Ausstieg von Glen Matlock die musikalischen Fähigkeiten des neuen Bassisten Sid Vicious für Albumaufnahmen nicht ausreichten.
Große Beachtung wurde dem Album aufgrund seiner optischen Erscheinung zuteil. Der von Jamie Reid gestaltete Titelzug prangt im Stil eines Erpresserbriefes in schwarz-weiß auf grellrosa und grellgelbem Hintergrund, analog dazu die Titelliste auf der Albumrückseite. Reid hatte auch schon das Cover der Single God Save the Queen in ähnlicher Manier gestaltet. Der anzügliche Albumtitel erhöhte die Aufmerksamkeit von Presse und Publikum; „bollocks“ ist ein englischer Slangbegriff für Hoden. Der Titel ist am ehesten mit „Schluss mit dem Scheiß, hier sind die Sex Pistols“ zu übersetzen und unterstreicht den ohnehin provokanten Bandnamen. Eine andere Übersetzung lautet: "Scheiß auf die Klöten, hier sind die Sex-Pistolen!" Das Album wurde ein großer kommerzieller Erfolg, auch zwei weitere ausgekoppelte Singles schafften es in die UK-Charts: Pretty Vacant (auf Platz 5) und Holidays in the Sun (auf Platz 6).
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History plays funny tricks, but for anyone who was around in the Summer of ’77 it seemed like this album was always there. In fact Never Mind The Bollocks…was released in October of that year due to label wrangles that had seen the band jump from A&M to EMI and thence Virgin, as manager, Malcolm McLaren wheedled yet larger amounts of cash from the fiasco. However a large proportion of the band’s fans had heard the charmingly entitled Spunk bootleg featuring demos for the album. With just about every track in place it showed that what was to come was every bit as good as we’d been led to believe.
This was Iggy and The Stooges’ Raw Power fed through a glam filter and served up with panache. It was a stroke of genius to use producer Chris Thomas, who had helped shape one of glam’s masterpieces: For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music. To be fair, the Pistols’ aesthetic reeked more of Gary Glitter than any art school pretentiousness. After all they were staunchly anti-pose in any sense of the word. But the album has a rich, deep sound that makes it far more enduring than contemporaneous releases like the Clash’s or the Jam’s debuts.
While the most middle class member of the band, bassist Glen Matlock, had been ejected by this point, his replacement, Sid Vicious was proving to be nothing more than a figurehead for the generations of cartoon punkdom to come. He couldn’t play. So Matlock was redrafted for the sessions. Rumour has it that session guru, Chris Spedding, was also recruited to fill out the sound, though Steve Jones has to take a vast amount of credit for the creative process here. His arpeggiated chords and muscular riffing defined their sound and remains distinctively recognisable to this day.
The one thing that was entirely new was, of course, the singer. John ‘Johnny Rotten’ Lydon had been spotted by Jones for all the right reasons. The ‘I Hate Pink Floyd’ t-shirt; the green hair and the sneering, almost Dickensian persona were ideal to cement the reputation of the band as the tabloid reader’s betes noires. What’s more he was cleverer than people realised, and musically knowledgeable too. His love of prime krautrock (Neu!, Can etc.) and the distinctly un-cool (for the times) Peter Hammill of Van Der Graaf Generator, made the band’s situationism even more potent.
The lyrics are iconoclastic and yet resonate with relevance even today. “Holidays In The Sun” with its Nazi rally opening contains a huge amount of sobering truth just in its first line: ‘A cheap holiday in other people’s misery’. Lydon’s Catholic upbringing was also brought to the fore in “Bodies”, a scouring attack on abortion. Far more than just an anti-everything diatribe, Bollocks is full of with and bile. No one is spared, especially not the band’s previous label (“EMI”) or their pre-punk heroes, the New York Dolls (“New York”).
Along with Nirvana’s masterpiece, Nevermind, thirty years later, Never Mind The Bollocks stands as one of the great ranting tracts against middle class mediocrity. Every child should have a copy.


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