Anarchy is a great album - full of singles.

They just reminded people what rock n roll is about. Lots of attitude, noise, tight rythmn section and a charasmatic lead singer who doesn't always enounciate clearly. oh and not forgetting great catchy songs and riffs. And a good wall of sound producer, GSTQ has guitar overlays /dubs of 18 tracks from memory.

Francis,

if the 1977 album is a paradigm for for a wide network of mass art listners, then what was the musical direction in rock suggested by the Sex Pistols?

Even though punk positoned itself against all that rock had come to represent, the short sharp songs work within the tradition of the Small Faces, the Kinks and the Who but with far more fury and raw passion.

Never Minds The Bollocks was more than just a blistering rock n roll record. It was revolutionary and is probably the most important album to come out of England. Musically The Sex Pistols were fairly conservative but Lydon's lyrics were anything but----- decontructing the rather lame, backward looking, shabby and class ridden society that Britain had become.

You have to understand the social political context of that record. It was being played in school playgrounds and it was more than just about growing your hair long. Lydon was genuinely feared by the esablishment due to the range of subverse content of NMTB.