What Are You Listening To?

[doc_loliday]

It ain't just the screaming, and its not their message either. Sonically, its just a grating experience.

Want an album with screaming and political anger? Rage Against the Machine's first album. There's a masterpiece.

[Montegriffo]

The Pistols were a rubbish band, they couldn't play live and only made one decent album. That one decent album is a seminal moment in popular music though. Has to be in any serious music lovers collection along with dark side of the moon or Led Zep IV.

Anarchy in the UK
Pretty Vacant
God save the Queen
.....all classic songs

Not a single dud song on Never mind the bollocks.

I have listened to the album in its entirety a few times. They are more into peddling attitude than listenable music. Comparing Never Mind the Bollocks to Dark Side of the Moon is the one of the most outlandish things I've heard.

For it's place in music history not for any musical equivalence.

NMTB is about raw energy, defiance and a new musical order.
Punk came along just in time. We had tired old prog rock and glam rock in their death throes and disco.
NMTB blew all that shit away and brought back young men playing loud and angry guitar music.
That album changed my life...

[Speaker to Animals]

Sex Pistols were meh. I don't really get into gay punk so much. If you are going to listen to British gay bands, you might as well go with Pet Shop Boys.

You're so in the closet...

Nothing gay about the male form, bro.




I really feel badly for millennials sometimes. They have no idea what it was like before women lost their damned minds. They might as well go gay. At least they won't be with crazy.

[doc_loliday]

NMTB is about raw energy, defiance and a new musical order.
Punk came along just in time. We had tired old prog rock and glam rock in their death throes and disco.
NMTB blew all that shit away and brought back young men playing loud and angry guitar music.
That album changed my life...

See, thats my point. It was pushing angst to angsty kids. If you have no interest in overthrowing some musical regime, then all you have is the music to go off of. Go back and listen to it. Its terrible.

[Montegriffo]

NMTB is about raw energy, defiance and a new musical order.
Punk came along just in time. We had tired old prog rock and glam rock in their death throes and disco.
NMTB blew all that shit away and brought back young men playing loud and angry guitar music.
That album changed my life...

See, thats my point. It was pushing angst to angsty kids. If you have no interest in overthrowing some musical regime, then all you have is the music to go off of. Go back and listen to it. Its terrible.

I still like it. Jones, Cook and Matlock were all decent musicians and Lydon has the perfect voice for it.
If you can listen to NMTB turned up to 11 and feel nothing you have no soul.

Same with this album..

[doc_loliday]

NMTB is about raw energy, defiance and a new musical order.
Punk came along just in time. We had tired old prog rock and glam rock in their death throes and disco.
NMTB blew all that shit away and brought back young men playing loud and angry guitar music.
That album changed my life...

See, thats my point. It was pushing angst to angsty kids. If you have no interest in overthrowing some musical regime, then all you have is the music to go off of. Go back and listen to it. Its terrible.

I still like it. Jones, Cook and Matlock were all decent musicians and Lydon has the perfect voice for it.
If you can listen to NMTB turned up to 11 and feel nothing you have no soul.

Same with this album..

All attitude, no musical talent. Unlistenable.

[Montegriffo]

All attitude, no musical talent. Unlistenable.

Oh well. Maybe you just had to be there. I bought that album aged 13 about a year after it was released. A year later I was at my first ever gig watching the Stranglers.
Along with Ian Dury's New boots and panties, Never Mind the Bollocks was the soundtrack to my teens.

[Hastur]

[Fife]

The summer of 1990 remains fuzzy in many ways, but I remember the day that Stevie Ray died like it was yesterday. :salute:

[SuburbanFarmer]

The summer of 1990 remains fuzzy in many ways, but I remember the day that Stevie Ray died like it was yesterday. :salute:

Same. My dad cried.