An all punk issue of the Word?
Or maybe one article?

not as easy as you'd think.....

Cue Venn diagrams....

I listen to once every three or four years because each time it gives me the same thrill when listening. Released when I was one it's the only way to come near to the original idea I guess.
I love it, no matter how manufactured, blah, blah, blah.

one of the best and most powerful productions ever, the guitar sound is ferocious! It hasn't dated a bit either, and I too still get a massive thrill whenever I play it and hear those crunching marching feet in the intro to "Holidays In The Sun".

Everything about it, from the cover to the songs to the sound of it - it's just one of the most complete albums ever released.

I recently picked up a cheap cassette of 'Sladest' greatest hits and one or two of the songs sounded just like the Sex Pistols. They were only three years apart and I'm sure must have been an influnce on Messrs Cook et al

There was never another album like it before and there certainly hasn't been one since. The Classic Rock Albums documentary about it is worth seeing. The band put a lot of effort into recording the songs properly even thought a lot of them had been part of their live repertoire for about a year beforehand. I read Jon Savage's seminal work about the Pistols and punk "England's Dreaming" recently and the whole shenanigans in the music industry trying to keep "God Save The Queen" from the No 1 spot during 1977 Jubilee week was quite amazing by today's standards. My two favourite tracks are "No Feelings" and "EMI". Here's the second.

I was 12 when NMTB came out, and I well remember the furore it caused. The Establishment found it genuinely terrifying. Capital Radio could not bring themselves to mention the title of the album!!! It was referred to as "Never Mind The". The tabloids took a virulent anti-punk stance, and although they had nowhere near as much influence as today, successed in stirring it up with regular shock-horror must-we-fling-this-filth-at-our-pop-kids stories about the Punk Threat. My folks certainly seemed to believe it all! I had to smuggle my copy of NMTB, bought with pocket money, into the house, hehe.

Revisiting NMTB now it's quite apparent that here is a great album, a one off and rightly a classic. It has strong songs, a good pop sensibility and lots of hooks, and it's evidently recorded very well. It's way superior to most of the other English punk stuff of the time IMO.

and say that I find the Sex Pistols fragrance (currently down to £7.99 from £30.00 at selected boutiques et Parfumeries) is an enchanting, yet masculine scent?
Ta!