Sex Pistols Box Set

Infobox Album | Name = Sex Pistols
Type = box
Artist = Sex Pistols

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Released = 3 June 2002
Recorded = 1976-1978
Genre = Punk rock
Length = 220:10
Label = Virgin Records
Producer = Various
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"Sex Pistols" is a box set anthology of the career of the punk rock band Sex Pistols. It was released in June 2002. The set comprises three themed CDs and an 80-page booklet [cite web|url=http://www.philjens.plus.com/pistols/pistols/pistols_album_information.htm|title=Box Set sleeve notes|accessdate=2008-08-17] .

The first disc features complete album "Never Mind the Bollocks", four B-sides, and the band's first demo session.

The second disc has demos and studio outtakes, from July 1976 to January 1977 and from the Never Mind the Bollocks sessions. Most, but not nearly all, known reject Sex Pistols material is featured here.

The third disc, composed of previously unreleased live tracks, is almost completely made up with an August 31, 1976 gig at Islington Screen on the Green Cinema. Live bonus tracks feature the unrecorded "Understanding" and "Flowers of Romance", and also the legendary live performance of "Belsen Was A Gas".

Completeness

The box set includes almost the entire recorded output of the band; missing are ten additional demos and two Cook–Jones songs whose attribution to Sex Pistols is debatable.

Eight of the ten missing demos can be found on the bootleg "Spunk". All 10 tracks are featured on official and expanded release of the bootleg Spunk / This is Crap, released in 1996 by Virgin Records.

Also missing are the two Cook/Jones single tracks "Black Leather" and "Here We Go Again", recorded for "The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle" soundtrack album but not appearing on it, while two other tracks from the same Cook/Jones sessions, "Lonely Boy" and "Silly Thing", were included on the soundtrack album. These tracks, while generally not considered Sex Pistols tracks, have occasionally been released on other Sex Pistols compilations, most notably on the Japanese 1979 Nippon Columbia Records release "The Very Best Of Sex Pistols, And We Don't Care" [cite web|url=http://www.cookandjones.co.uk/swindle_part2.htm|title=Cook and Jones official website|accessdate=2007-10-10] and as part of the 1980 Virgin Records singles compilation "Pistols Pack" [cite web|url=http://www.murodelrock.com/il_muro_del_rock/enciclopedia_rock/elenco_artisti/s/sex_pistols/discografia/discografia_sex_pistols.htm|title=Pistols Pack info page|accessdate=2008-08-17] , a six-pocketed release consisting of six 7-inch 45 RPM vinyl singles.

Track listing

Disc 1: Studio Tracks & Early Demos

#"Holidays in the Sun" – 3:22
#"Bodies" – 3:02
#"No Feelings" – 2:51
#"Liar" – 2:41
#"God Save the Queen" – 3:20
#"Problems" – 4:11
#"Seventeen" – 2:02
#"Anarchy in the U.K." – 3:31
#"Submission" – 4:12
#"Pretty Vacant" – 3:18
#"New York" – 3:06
#"EMI (Unlimited Edition)" – 3:13
#"I Wanna Be Me" – 3:06
#"No Feeling (Bonus B-side)" – 2:47
#"Did You No Wrong" – 3:09
#"No Fun (Unedited)" – 6:56
#"Satellite" – 4:01
#"Problems" – 3:41
#"Pretty Vacant" – 2:44
#"No Feelings" – 6:53

*Tracks 1-12 are comprised by "Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols".
*Tracks 13-20 are demos recorded at the Majestic Studios demo session in May 1976.

The final track is followed by silence, then an instrumental version of "Anarchy In The UK".

Disc 2: Demos & Rarities

# Pretty Vacant
# Submission
# Anarchy in the U.K.
# Substitute
# (Don't Give Me) No Lip
# (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone
# Johnny B Goode
# Road Runner
# Watcha Gonna Do About It?
# Through My Eyes
# Anarchy in the U.K.
# No Feelings (Instrumental)
# No Future
# Liar
# Problems
# New York
# God Save the Queen
# Satellite
# EMI
# Seventeen
# No Feelings
# Submission (Version #1)

*Tracks 1-2 are demos from the Denmark Street session in July 1976.
*Track 3 is the Wessex Studio session recording from October 1976.
*Tracks 4-10 are taken from rehearsal sessions in Wessex Studio, in October 1976.
*Track 11 is the rejected version of the Anarchy in The UK 7" single.
*Tracks 12-15 are demo sessions from the Manchester Square session in December, 1976.
*Tracks 16-17 are recordings from Gooseberry Studios from January 1977
*Tracks 18-22 are outtakes from "Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols".

After the final track, there is silence, followed by an instrumental version of "God Save The Queen".

Disc 3: Live at Screen on the Green ‘76, plus live rarities

# Anarchy in the U.K.
# I Wanna Be Me
# Seventeen
# New York
# (Don't Give Me) No Lip
# (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone
# Satellite
# Submission
# Liar
# No Feelings
# Substitute
# Pretty Vacant
# Problems
# Did You No Wrong
# No Fun
# Understanding (Live Bonus Track)
# Flowers Of Romance #1 (Live Bonus Track)
# Flowers Of Romance #2 (Live Bonus Track)
# Belsen Was A Gas (Live Bonus Track)

Recorded August 29, 1976 - Screen On The Green Cinema, Islington, UK

except:
* Track 16: April 3, 1976 - Nashville Rooms, London, UK
* Track 17: June 29, 1976 - 100 Club, London, UK
* Track 18: August 14, 1976 - Barbarellas, Birmingham, UK
* Track 19: January 10, 1978 - Longhorns Ballroom, Dallas, US

After the final track, there is silence, followed by an instrumental version of "Pretty Vacant".

Personnel

* Johnny Rotten - Vocals
* Steve Jones - Guitar, Bass guitar
* Glen Matlock - Bass guitar
* Paul Cook - Drums
* Sid Vicious - Bass guitar on track 19 on disc 3

References