Thursday, March 21, 2013

Sex Pistols "Never Mind the Bollocks" [1977]

Undoubtedly the most celebrated assholes of all time. Apparently, all one had to do back in 1977 was flip off a photograph of the queen in order to be considered edgy. But the Pistols went much farther than this: chiding women for getting abortions, berating cross-dressers for existing and ridiculing the youth for having the least shred of hope about their future. You basically could show the Sex Pistols' lyric sheet to random liberals who consider "Never Mind the Bollocks" one of the greatest albums of all time (thanks, Rolling Stone, you dicks) and substitute Toby Keith's name instead; without exception they'd consider it one of the most reprehensibly un-PC collections ever recorded. Comes down to this: though they were limo-riding drug addicts themselves, the Pistols had the unmitigated audacity to call out everyone else for their hypocrisy. I guess there's nothing like stolen Mott the Hoople riffs and Richard Hell fashion statements to project your own inferiorities onto others. What a bunch of "faggots."

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