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Elvis Costello, Paul Weller, Ian drury never sold out. Johnny 'Rotten' sold out before he was out of his teens. Talentless tosser.
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Icy Gull
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1971 was THE year for albums. Not sure The Sex Pistols come anywhere close to matching these albums but as I said I am an old git and thought they were Shit
https://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1971
Pretty pink fairy
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1971 was THE year for albums. Not sure The Sex Pistols come anywhere close to matching these albums but as I said I am an old git and thought they were Shit
https://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1971
Yeah Rick Wakeman and all the long haired hippys were the way forward
regards
DR
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Crispy Ambulance
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Love The Clash to bits but Buzzcocks first album was even better! They were fantastic & life changing times!
I'm sure I haven't actually listened to the Buzzcocks album, heard plenty of their singles.
Mellor 3 Ward 4
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Amazing to think there's only 10 years between those two records.
larus
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Of course they won't appeal to everyone, but there's one thing that cannot be disputed and that's the impact they had on the music scene. Yes, other bands may have been more popular, talented and produced more records, but the notoriety of the pistols cannot be underestimated.
So yes, a one album band, but, IMO, a great album.
So yes, a one album band, but, IMO, a great album.
Crispy Ambulance
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Bloody good weren't they?
They were good but I preferred The Clash and The Damned.
Your Mum
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- Dec 22, 2016
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...your mum
40 years ago today.
It hit a chord with me then and it still does today.
It gave me an outlet for my teenage aggression.
Like the Sex pistols or not , they made a difference and gave us something different.
To this day i still find them an obsession.
And i still drive the van that carried Johnny's fish & chips
I thought I'd repaste the OP message since the thread has been hijacked ('bought the album' etc). Yes, I agree that this SINGLE had massive impact. Yes, the Damned and Clash already had their albums out by Spring 77, but The Charts were a measure of the national pulse back then, and GSTQ had massive impact. I recall record shops in Brighton not showing the name of the song or band in their chart list. Can you imagine that level of petty censorship today? Not because of the words but because of Fear, and Hatred of the new.
I had been listening to the new music, being an obsessive Peel follower (I was in my first year of uni - in London - Chelsea College) at the time. A few weeks before GSTQ was released I decided to take the plunge. I had already swapped my flares for strait leg Levis months earlier. So I cut off my long hair one evening, with abig pair of scissors. Amazing feeling. (I hut my own hair after that - for the following 15 years, albeit the styles changed).
There was one other person at my college into punk - we had one of those recognition moments one day - we immediately decided to share a flat the following year. Well, by virtue of being students we were automatically middle class (although my background was far from that), but it did not matter in fact (many of the people we encountered over the next 2 years were art school types and even trustafarians, although mixed in with regular downtrodden kids - with a massive amount of bottle). We felt part of a rebellion. Contrary to what some might say, we had no leaders, did not fawn over Lydon etc, but we always smiled at the antagonism.
So this single was exhilarating. I was 9 stone of piss and wind when I was 18, and yet people would shrink away from me when I strolled down the King's Road (both the London and Brighton versoion), with my newfound swagger, just because the Sun and Mirror said 'we' were subversive. Every gig was an event. I spent the summer of 77 back in Brighton, 3-5 gigs a week (Wrist Action, Dandies, Piranhas, Molesters, etc etc). Yes, 40 years ago. Fantastic times for me. Thanks for reminding
Saw them play The Albert Hall here in Manchester last year. They were magnificent. Steve Diggle still looks classy (but as a former mod that's to be expected), sadly Pete Shelley has put on plenty of lard and now looks like a cross between Tom Jones and Jabba The Hut.
studio150
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1971 was THE year for albums. Not sure The Sex Pistols come anywhere close to matching these albums but as I said I am an old git and thought they were Shit
https://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1971
What a great site think I will now lose myself for several days looking at all the years.
I have and play 9 of the top 10 and 20 of the 30 maybe you're right with 1971
pearl
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excuse me, but corrected
Garage_Doors
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I thought I'd repaste the OP message since the thread has been hijacked ('bought the album' etc). Yes, I agree that this SINGLE had massive impact. Yes, the Damned and Clash already had their albums out by Spring 77, but The Charts were a measure of the national pulse back then, and GSTQ had massive impact. I recall record shops in Brighton not showing the name of the song or band in their chart list. Can you imagine that level of petty censorship today? Not because of the words but because of Fear, and Hatred of the new.
I had been listening to the new music, being an obsessive Peel follower (I was in my first year of uni - in London - Chelsea College) at the time. A few weeks before GSTQ was released I decided to take the plunge. I had already swapped my flares for strait leg Levis months earlier. So I cut off my long hair one evening, with abig pair of scissors. Amazing feeling. (I hut my own hair after that - for the following 15 years, albeit the styles changed).
There was one other person at my college into punk - we had one of those recognition moments one day - we immediately decided to share a flat the following year. Well, by virtue of being students we were automatically middle class (although my background was far from that), but it did not matter in fact (many of the people we encountered over the next 2 years were art school types and even trustafarians, although mixed in with regular downtrodden kids - with a massive amount of bottle). We felt part of a rebellion. Contrary to what some might say, we had no leaders, did not fawn over Lydon etc, but we always smiled at the antagonism.
So this single was exhilarating. I was 9 stone of piss and wind when I was 18, and yet people would shrink away from me when I strolled down the King's Road (both the London and Brighton versoion), with my newfound swagger, just because the Sun and Mirror said 'we' were subversive. Every gig was an event. I spent the summer of 77 back in Brighton, 3-5 gigs a week (Wrist Action, Dandies, Piranhas, Molesters, etc etc). Yes, 40 years ago. Fantastic times for me. Thanks for reminding
What a great read. thanks for that
London Calling even better.
London Calling is a great album, the first album is better in my opinion.