Sex Pistols “10th Anniversary Album”

Published On: January 5, 2021Tags: , , , , ,

Sex Pistols “10th Anniversary Album” 1986. Unofficial release, MBC Records. A collection of raw demos and live performances with titles that obscure the actual songs, i.e. “U.K. Disorder” is really “Anarchy in the UK” (my guess is the title changes were a bootleg copyright work-around). Not surprisingly, the release is kind of a perfect hot punk mess: no polish, shitty recording, bad production, basically the real deal before professional productions engineers got their hands on the tracks. Besides “U.K. Disorder” aka “Anarchy in the UK,” the tracks include “Sigue Sigue Sex Pistols (sputnik)” which has a lot in common with “Bodies,” “This is Brainwash” = “I Wanna Be Me,” the cover of The Stooges “No Fun” is reworked as “It’s Not Funny” and two obvious ones: “Oh So Pretty” = “Pretty Vacant” and “Underwater Secrets” is “Submission.”