Great to hear about the album and song from a British perspective, Mitchell, even though I don't think you were born until the following decade! As likely the only of your readers/subscribers to have seen them live onstage, may I invite them to peruse the FRONT ROW & BACKSTAGE archives to find my account of seeing their San Antonio, TX show (one of only 7 US shows) in January '78?
I hesitate leaving a link on your page (don't want to distract from your work), but interested parties (and readers, too!) can click on my link just above. BTW, I had both the Virgin/UK issue and the Warner Bros./US album at the time, plus I bought all the import (to state-siders!) singles, as well! Anyway, thanks again, Mitchell!
You are more than welcome to put a link in, Brad, lots of my readers, are your readers and vice versa, anyway!
Interestingly, the brief firework that was The Sex Pistols comes around in the discourse. We have the Disney+ series this year; before that, Rotten appeared on reality TV in the UK; before that, we've had reunions and 25th anniversaries and the Golden Jubilee / Olympics that got people talking about them again. No danger that, from my perspective in the UK, we'd be allowed to forget about them!
Agree, this is a great closing song and, when you look down the track listing, NMTBs is really a stronger album than I remember at the time. As you point out, never has a man managed to get more menace into a single drawn out I.
I seemed to make a habit of missing the SPs, first they never played Cambridge, so were the only big punk band I missed seeing live, and then I vividly remember turning over our TV just in time to see the 'broadcaster's apology' for the Grundy incident, having missed the interview by minutes.
Great to hear about the album and song from a British perspective, Mitchell, even though I don't think you were born until the following decade! As likely the only of your readers/subscribers to have seen them live onstage, may I invite them to peruse the FRONT ROW & BACKSTAGE archives to find my account of seeing their San Antonio, TX show (one of only 7 US shows) in January '78?
I hesitate leaving a link on your page (don't want to distract from your work), but interested parties (and readers, too!) can click on my link just above. BTW, I had both the Virgin/UK issue and the Warner Bros./US album at the time, plus I bought all the import (to state-siders!) singles, as well! Anyway, thanks again, Mitchell!
You are more than welcome to put a link in, Brad, lots of my readers, are your readers and vice versa, anyway!
Interestingly, the brief firework that was The Sex Pistols comes around in the discourse. We have the Disney+ series this year; before that, Rotten appeared on reality TV in the UK; before that, we've had reunions and 25th anniversaries and the Golden Jubilee / Olympics that got people talking about them again. No danger that, from my perspective in the UK, we'd be allowed to forget about them!
Agree, this is a great closing song and, when you look down the track listing, NMTBs is really a stronger album than I remember at the time. As you point out, never has a man managed to get more menace into a single drawn out I.
I seemed to make a habit of missing the SPs, first they never played Cambridge, so were the only big punk band I missed seeing live, and then I vividly remember turning over our TV just in time to see the 'broadcaster's apology' for the Grundy incident, having missed the interview by minutes.
It stopped you from putting your foot through the TV, as the apocryphal story goes!
My favourite track on NMTB