Flogging a Dead Horse

Flogging a Dead Horse

Infobox Album | Name = Flogging a Dead Horse
Type = compilation
Artist = Sex Pistols


Released = 8 February 1980
Recorded = 1976 - 1978
Genre = Punk rock
Length = 48:02
Label = Virgin Records
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:vsjm7i8jg71r~T1 link] | Last album =
(1979)
This album = "Flogging a Dead Horse"
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"Flogging a Dead Horse" is a compilation album of singles by the Sex Pistols, released after their break-up, and includes the four songs that were issued as singles A-sides from "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" with three of their B-sides, as well as the six A-sides that were issued off the "Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" and one B-side, "My Way".

By the time the record was released, the group was finished as a musical unit; "The Sex Pistols" consisted only of manager Malcolm McLaren and designer Jamie Reid. Their relationship with Virgin records was difficult, and Reid's tacky sleeve design was intended to warn people against another cash-in; it was largely interpreted as a hip joke, and seems to have hurt sales very little.

Reid's first sleeve design consisted of the title hastily scrawled across his designs for the "Never Mind the Bollocks" (front cover) and "Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" albums (back cover). It was printed, and copies exist, but was rejected by Virgin and never made it to record stores. For its replacement, Reid used a photo of a model from the cheapest agency he could find, along with dull letraset lettering, making the record look like a cheap easy listening album.

Track listing

#"Anarchy in the U.K." (Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Paul Cook) – 3:33
#"I Wanna Be Me" (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook) – 3:06
#"God Save the Queen" (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook) – 3:21
#"Did You No Wrong" (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook, Wally Nightingale) – 3:14
#"Pretty Vacant" (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook) – 3:18
#"No Fun" (Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, David Alexander) – 6:26
#"Holidays in the Sun" (Rotten, Jones, Sid Vicious, Cook) – 3:21
#"No One Is Innocent" (Jones, Cook, Ronnie Biggs) – 3:03
#"My Way" (Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux) – 4:05
#"Something Else" (Eddie Cochran, Sharon Sheeley) – 2:12
#"Silly Thing" (Jones, Cook) – 2:53
#"C'mon Everybody" (Cochran, Jerry Capehart) – 1:57
#"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) – 3:09
#"Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle" (Jones, Cook, Julien Temple) – 4:24

Tracks 1 through 7 plus 13 are sung by Johnny "Rotten" Lydon, 8 features train robber Ronnie Biggs, 9, 10 and 12 are sung by Sid Vicious and are his complete studio recordings (not counting his brief solo stint), 11 is sung by drummer Paul Cook (although the version that was released as a single in the UK was sung by Steve Jones), and 14 is sung by several hopefuls auditioning to be the Sex Pistols' new lead singer - the winner was Edward Tudor-Pole. The album sleeve features no individual credits.


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