Great Rock 'N Roll Swindle (Limited Edition) [Import]
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Album Description
Aussie version of the classic release at a nice price! Unavailable in the US. Features their campy version of 'My Way'. Digitally remastered. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Great Rock 'N Roll Swindle (Limited Edition), Music, Sex Pistols, Pop, Rock, Rock/Pop
Average customer rating:
- Double edged parody not definitive Pistols...
- The most complete version of the LP available on CD
- Malcolm Says
- practically a novelty album
- Pistols Punk At Its Best
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
The Sex Pistols
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
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- Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
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- Flogging a Dead Horse
ASIN: B000025IQA
Release Date: 1999-07-15 |
Tracks:
- God Save The Queen (Symphony)
- Rock Around The Clock - Tenpole Tudor
- Johnny B Goode
- Road Runner
- Black Arabs - BLACK ARABS
- Anarchy In The UK
- Watcha Gonna Do About It
- Who Killed Bambi? - Tenpole Tudor
- Silly Thing
- Substitute
- Don't Gimme No Lip Child
- I'm Not Your Stepping Stone
- Lonely Boy
- Something Else - Sid Vicious
- L'Anarchie Pour Le UK - JERZIMY
- Einmal War Belsen Bortrefflich
- Einmal War Belsen Wirflich Bortrefflich
- No One Is Innocent
- My Way - Sid Vicious
- C'Mon Everybody
- EMI (Orchestral)
- The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle
- You Need Hands
- Friggin' In The Riggin'
Album Description
Aussie version of the classic release at a nice price! Unavailable in the US. Features their campy version of 'My Way'. Digitally remastered.
Album Details
Remastered featuring a Different Track Listing Than the Us Version. Bonus Tracks Include 'road Runner', 'watcha Gonna Do About It' and 'einmal War Belsen Bortrefflich'.
Customer Reviews:
Double edged parody not definitive Pistols..........2007-06-01
I read a review of this cd at this site and it said that this was an essential Sex Pistols cd. As far as I am concerned, if you want a definitive Sex Pistols cd, go for "Kiss this" [I'll put up a review of that cd soon, as soon as I confirm that the version I have is more definitive that some cds being sold here...I mean having more songs].
When I bought this cd, I listened to the start of the first track "God save the queen" and, expecting the classic Pistols song, I was really disappointed to hear something else...a spoken word 'song' by Pistols 'manager' Malcolm McLaren. Unusually, I now find myself listening to this song often, as I find it really sensual...it's basically a symphonic piece, with some 'war' sound effects, and McLaren delivering a creation myth story about how he invented the band and the genre of music they play. I'm sure that this would be news to Australian band The Saints, who were the first punk band to get a record deal anywhere in the world, or amongst the first, along with an American band...The Velvet Underground, I THINK. Apart from McLaren's self serving Genesis story, the track is a mellow pleasure to listen to. I'm sure if McLaren talked about how he created punk fashion, he would have got less kudos than for claiming to invent punk rock.
In the title to this review, I note that there is much parody in this cd. Here's the bit about double edged parody: the Pistols do covers of "Rock around the clock" and "Road runner" [at least I think the pistols do covers of both...my cd doesn't give attribution for songs on this cd, apart from writing credits-i.e. if different bands play different songs, you won't know it looking at the credits]. The parody part is due to the band not giving a stuff about learning the lyrics to the songs they cover and thus doing a bad cover. One might find this amusing, if you are into 'out takes' humour etc.
The double edged parody part is that punk itself is parodied in that Sex Pistols classic songs are covered in a high brow way...whether through classical instruments or being sung in French by a middle of the road type crooner. These are also amusing, if you are into type of thing.
"Black Arabs" is a "Stars on '45'" type song-punk songs mashed into a single song.
*** One potentially troubling aspect of this cd is that it, at least superficially, seems to have anti-Semitic or Nazi sentiments. On the sleeve of the cd too is a cartoon of Pistol Sid Vicious wearing a top with the swastika on it. The songs in question are tracks 16 to 18, inclusive [starting from the "Belsen" songs]. If these songs are ironic or something, I apologise for mentioning them, but superficially at least, they seem to have nasty Nazi sentiments. If that is true, then this bollocks shouldn't have been included, on moral grounds. It's ironic that 'anarchists' like the Pistols would have pro Nazi sentiments like the British royal family have had in the past. The Australian musical comedy trio "The Dough Anthony All-Stars" had a song called "I want to spill the bloody of a hippie" but it was understood that they were an ironic band, not to be taken seriously. I did hear though that skin-heads in the UK latched onto this band and totally missed the irony. I'm not sure how ironic the Pistols are in these songs.
Anyway, other songs of interest are the catchy song "Silly thing" which is a real singalong kind of song. The sound is real polished and smooth-so, I'm not sure if it is the Pistols doing it.
"Friggin' in the riggin'" is a catchy, singalong Broadway type of song, based on a traditional verse, I think. It is bawdy though.
Lastly, Sid Vicious has some singing duties on this cd-covering Sinatra's classic "My way" and the '50's rock'n'roll song "C'mon everybody". Vicious sings the first really badly, both intentionally and unintentionally, I think [I mean, how well can he sing anyway?]. I haven't heard singing that bad since the last 5 seconds of a song in a Sinatra compilation [read my review of a Sinatra cd for further details on this]. "C'mon everybody" is Vicious at his singing best-well, better than for "My way" in any case.
Well, I'm only giving this compilation 3 stars because it lacks one of the all time great songs, The Sex Pistols version of "God save the queen". That song is a notable exclusion from this cd. But, having the Pistols' "Anarchy in the UK" is good, because that too is one of the all time great songs-with Johnny Rotten at his maniacal and playful best...all snarls and mocking attitude.
N.B. you may be interested in the followind cds I've reviewed, related to punk:
The Saints: Know your product [punk pioneer from Australia]
The Ramones: Anthology [punk pioneer from the U.S.]
Billy Idol: Greatest Hits [part of the early U.K punk movement]
Patti Smith: Horses [not a punk album but she came from that movement]
Megadeth: [don't have album details with me, but they do a pretty good cover of "Anarchy in the UK" featuring The Sex Pistols' Steve Jones]
For socially and politically conscious pop/rock music, check out the numerous reviews I've put of Australian legends Midnight Oil [esp: "10-1" and "Diesel and dust"].
The most complete version of the LP available on CD.......2006-11-01
This is the import "Remastered" CD and it sounds great. It even includes "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" which got left off some CDs (I think the US one left it off,too). But, like the original LP which had multiple vinyl versions, this one is not fully complete and it's a shame because they had so much they could have included to make it *complete* (hence, my 4 stars). This has the single version of "Anarchy..." instead of the enhanced demo version (only on the old vinyl LP). Also, some LPs and one of the singles had a fully instrumental (no voiceover) of the "God Save the Queen (Symphony)" that could have been included. Another b-side was "Pistols Propaganda" which featured the films' trailer voiceover narration. But, these are quibbles - this is a fun, ridiculous, music-hall cartoon of the Sex Pistols meant to be an iconoclastic "f-you" to the punks that took the whole thing way too seriously. Honestly, would the Clash ever have had the guts to ridicule themselves like this? No - they were too busy being earnest and 'serious.' The Pistols rule.
Malcolm Says.......2006-09-08
In the original packaging of the double-album set, a photograph of a bloodied dead doe shot through the throat with an arrow, with the question, "Who Killed Bambi?," says everything about this soundtrack to a movie of the same name. It was a bloody mess.
Marketed as a Sex Pistols album, it only features vocalist John Lydon and original bassist Glen Matlock in audio from archival footage, but has guitarist Steve Jones and "The Great Train Robber" Ronnie Biggs fronting the "new" Pistols - minus Lydon - and tracks from other artists.
I strongly feel the album was Malcolm McLaren's rib on fans who actually took the "punk revolution" seriously and his hope the brand name could survive with anyone in the studio. There is McLaren - in his best "Voice of Christmas" - bragging about creating punk rock, a disco medley of four Pistols' songs and French street musicians playing Anarchy in the UK.
The best track is a remix of My Way - performed by Sid Vicious, which initially appeared on Sid Sings - that was released as a single in the UK.
Punk rock was never owned by any person or band. But McLaren made sure that he was poised to push the movement over a cliff. Too much too soon, indeed.
practically a novelty album.......2006-08-25
"Never mind the bollocks" has 4 awesome songs with the remainder being fair to good. Overall, it deserves to be a classic rock album. Historically, its just a stripped down, raw, hard rock album... which is good!
This has outtakes, which are inferior to "Bollocks", some Sid Vicious songs (he had no talent) and some bizzaro foreign language, symphonic versions of Pistols songs. It may have been very appropriate as a soundtrack to the movie, but as a pure musical work... its goofy.
The exception is Roadrunner and Stepping Stone, pure gems.
Pistols Punk At Its Best.......2006-07-12
This is an album thats totaly ridiculous,but somehow they produced some excellent songs.
Silly Thing,Lonely Boy,Something Else,Come On Everybody,and you cant forget Sid Vicious's My Way.Its hard to understand the words in some of the songs,due to their heavy English and somewhat lazy accents,namely My Way and Friggen In The Riggen.
Alot of the songs appear in the movie of the same title.There is some songs that....hmmm ....well im sure they could of done better.But somehow it all fits in well.
There is no way i could close this review without mentioning the Sex Pistols versions of Road Runner and Johnny Be Good.Johnny Rotten didnt know the words of these to songs which are played like a medly.Its hillarious to hear him stumble over the words as he tries to remember them.But that music in the background of it was spot on sensational.
They said this band couldnt play,but with Steve Jones taking the bulk of the guitars it sounded good on their 2 album releases.Every one keeps saying they only released one album,they keep forgetting this.
But it also contains some other artist singing and playing on it.Its a definite Swindle,but some great songs do exist on this CD.
Average customer rating:
- Double edged parody not definitive Pistols...
- The most complete version of the LP available on CD
- Malcolm Says
- practically a novelty album
- Pistols Punk At Its Best
|
Great Rock 'N Roll Swindle (Limited Edition)
The Sex Pistols
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
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- Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
- Sex Pistols - The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
- Kiss This: The Best of the Sex Pistols
- Filthy Lucre Live
- Flogging a Dead Horse
ASIN: B00000JCV5
Release Date: 1999-03-23 |
Tracks:
- God Save the Queen (Symphony)
- Johnny B. Goode/Road Runner
- Black Arabs
- Anarchy in the U.K.
- Substitute
- Don't Give Me No Lip Child
- (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
- Anarchie Pour le U.K.
- Belsen Was a Gas [Live]
- Einmal War Belsen Wirflich Bortrefflich (Belsen Vos a Gassa)
- Silly Thing
- My Way
- I Wanna Be Me
- Something Else
- Rock Around the Clock
- Lonely Boy
- No One Is Innocent
- C'mon Everybody
- EMI (Orch.)
- Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle
- Friggin' in the Riggin'
- You Need Hands
- Who Killed Bambi?
Album Description
Aussie version of the classic release at a nice price! Unavailable in the US. Features their campy version of 'My Way'. Digitally remastered.
Album Details
Japanese Version featuring a LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing.
Customer Reviews:
Double edged parody not definitive Pistols..........2007-06-01
I read a review of this cd at this site and it said that this was an essential Sex Pistols cd. As far as I am concerned, if you want a definitive Sex Pistols cd, go for "Kiss this" [I'll put up a review of that cd soon, as soon as I confirm that the version I have is more definitive that some cds being sold here...I mean having more songs].
When I bought this cd, I listened to the start of the first track "God save the queen" and, expecting the classic Pistols song, I was really disappointed to hear something else...a spoken word 'song' by Pistols 'manager' Malcolm McLaren. Unusually, I now find myself listening to this song often, as I find it really sensual...it's basically a symphonic piece, with some 'war' sound effects, and McLaren delivering a creation myth story about how he invented the band and the genre of music they play. I'm sure that this would be news to Australian band The Saints, who were the first punk band to get a record deal anywhere in the world, or amongst the first, along with an American band...The Velvet Underground, I THINK. Apart from McLaren's self serving Genesis story, the track is a mellow pleasure to listen to. I'm sure if McLaren talked about how he created punk fashion, he would have got less kudos than for claiming to invent punk rock.
In the title to this review, I note that there is much parody in this cd. Here's the bit about double edged parody: the Pistols do covers of "Rock around the clock" and "Road runner" [at least I think the pistols do covers of both...my cd doesn't give attribution for songs on this cd, apart from writing credits-i.e. if different bands play different songs, you won't know it looking at the credits]. The parody part is due to the band not giving a stuff about learning the lyrics to the songs they cover and thus doing a bad cover. One might find this amusing, if you are into 'out takes' humour etc.
The double edged parody part is that punk itself is parodied in that Sex Pistols classic songs are covered in a high brow way...whether through classical instruments or being sung in French by a middle of the road type crooner. These are also amusing, if you are into type of thing.
"Black Arabs" is a "Stars on '45'" type song-punk songs mashed into a single song.
*** One potentially troubling aspect of this cd is that it, at least superficially, seems to have anti-Semitic or Nazi sentiments. On the sleeve of the cd too is a cartoon of Pistol Sid Vicious wearing a top with the swastika on it. The songs in question are tracks 16 to 18, inclusive [starting from the "Belsen" songs]. If these songs are ironic or something, I apologise for mentioning them, but superficially at least, they seem to have nasty Nazi sentiments. If that is true, then this bollocks shouldn't have been included, on moral grounds. It's ironic that 'anarchists' like the Pistols would have pro Nazi sentiments like the British royal family have had in the past. The Australian musical comedy trio "The Dough Anthony All-Stars" had a song called "I want to spill the bloody of a hippie" but it was understood that they were an ironic band, not to be taken seriously. I did hear though that skin-heads in the UK latched onto this band and totally missed the irony. I'm not sure how ironic the Pistols are in these songs.
Anyway, other songs of interest are the catchy song "Silly thing" which is a real singalong kind of song. The sound is real polished and smooth-so, I'm not sure if it is the Pistols doing it.
"Friggin' in the riggin'" is a catchy, singalong Broadway type of song, based on a traditional verse, I think. It is bawdy though.
Lastly, Sid Vicious has some singing duties on this cd-covering Sinatra's classic "My way" and the '50's rock'n'roll song "C'mon everybody". Vicious sings the first really badly, both intentionally and unintentionally, I think [I mean, how well can he sing anyway?]. I haven't heard singing that bad since the last 5 seconds of a song in a Sinatra compilation [read my review of a Sinatra cd for further details on this]. "C'mon everybody" is Vicious at his singing best-well, better than for "My way" in any case.
Well, I'm only giving this compilation 3 stars because it lacks one of the all time great songs, The Sex Pistols version of "God save the queen". That song is a notable exclusion from this cd. But, having the Pistols' "Anarchy in the UK" is good, because that too is one of the all time great songs-with Johnny Rotten at his maniacal and playful best...all snarls and mocking attitude.
N.B. you may be interested in the followind cds I've reviewed, related to punk:
The Saints: Know your product [punk pioneer from Australia]
The Ramones: Anthology [punk pioneer from the U.S.]
Billy Idol: Greatest Hits [part of the early U.K punk movement]
Patti Smith: Horses [not a punk album but she came from that movement]
Megadeth: [don't have album details with me, but they do a pretty good cover of "Anarchy in the UK" featuring The Sex Pistols' Steve Jones]
For socially and politically conscious pop/rock music, check out the numerous reviews I've put of Australian legends Midnight Oil [esp: "10-1" and "Diesel and dust"].
The most complete version of the LP available on CD.......2006-11-01
This is the import "Remastered" CD and it sounds great. It even includes "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" which got left off some CDs (I think the US one left it off,too). But, like the original LP which had multiple vinyl versions, this one is not fully complete and it's a shame because they had so much they could have included to make it *complete* (hence, my 4 stars). This has the single version of "Anarchy..." instead of the enhanced demo version (only on the old vinyl LP). Also, some LPs and one of the singles had a fully instrumental (no voiceover) of the "God Save the Queen (Symphony)" that could have been included. Another b-side was "Pistols Propaganda" which featured the films' trailer voiceover narration. But, these are quibbles - this is a fun, ridiculous, music-hall cartoon of the Sex Pistols meant to be an iconoclastic "f-you" to the punks that took the whole thing way too seriously. Honestly, would the Clash ever have had the guts to ridicule themselves like this? No - they were too busy being earnest and 'serious.' The Pistols rule.
Malcolm Says.......2006-09-08
In the original packaging of the double-album set, a photograph of a bloodied dead doe shot through the throat with an arrow, with the question, "Who Killed Bambi?," says everything about this soundtrack to a movie of the same name. It was a bloody mess.
Marketed as a Sex Pistols album, it only features vocalist John Lydon and original bassist Glen Matlock in audio from archival footage, but has guitarist Steve Jones and "The Great Train Robber" Ronnie Biggs fronting the "new" Pistols - minus Lydon - and tracks from other artists.
I strongly feel the album was Malcolm McLaren's rib on fans who actually took the "punk revolution" seriously and his hope the brand name could survive with anyone in the studio. There is McLaren - in his best "Voice of Christmas" - bragging about creating punk rock, a disco medley of four Pistols' songs and French street musicians playing Anarchy in the UK.
The best track is a remix of My Way - performed by Sid Vicious, which initially appeared on Sid Sings - that was released as a single in the UK.
Punk rock was never owned by any person or band. But McLaren made sure that he was poised to push the movement over a cliff. Too much too soon, indeed.
practically a novelty album.......2006-08-25
"Never mind the bollocks" has 4 awesome songs with the remainder being fair to good. Overall, it deserves to be a classic rock album. Historically, its just a stripped down, raw, hard rock album... which is good!
This has outtakes, which are inferior to "Bollocks", some Sid Vicious songs (he had no talent) and some bizzaro foreign language, symphonic versions of Pistols songs. It may have been very appropriate as a soundtrack to the movie, but as a pure musical work... its goofy.
The exception is Roadrunner and Stepping Stone, pure gems.
Pistols Punk At Its Best.......2006-07-12
This is an album thats totaly ridiculous,but somehow they produced some excellent songs.
Silly Thing,Lonely Boy,Something Else,Come On Everybody,and you cant forget Sid Vicious's My Way.Its hard to understand the words in some of the songs,due to their heavy English and somewhat lazy accents,namely My Way and Friggen In The Riggen.
Alot of the songs appear in the movie of the same title.There is some songs that....hmmm ....well im sure they could of done better.But somehow it all fits in well.
There is no way i could close this review without mentioning the Sex Pistols versions of Road Runner and Johnny Be Good.Johnny Rotten didnt know the words of these to songs which are played like a medly.Its hillarious to hear him stumble over the words as he tries to remember them.But that music in the background of it was spot on sensational.
They said this band couldnt play,but with Steve Jones taking the bulk of the guitars it sounded good on their 2 album releases.Every one keeps saying they only released one album,they keep forgetting this.
But it also contains some other artist singing and playing on it.Its a definite Swindle,but some great songs do exist on this CD.
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
T. Raumschmiere
Manufacturer: Shitkatapult Records/Forced Ex
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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| Miscellaneous
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ASIN: B00020PUX0
Release Date: 2002-09-09 |
Tracks:
- Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle
- Bow Down Big Man to Get Your Credit, I Watch Your System and Spit ...
- Willkommen Im Strom
- Ravemusick
- Nietenbolzen
- Musick
- Zartbitter
- Monoblock
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
T. Raumschmiere
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Experimental Music
| Miscellaneous
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| Imports
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ASIN: B00006G9TS
Release Date: 2005-05-31 |
Tracks:
- Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle
- Bow Down Big Man to Get Your Credit, I Watch Your System and Spit ...
- Willkommen Im Strom
- Ravemusick
- Nietenbolzen
- Musick
- Zartbitter
- Monoblock
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Great Rock N Roll Swindle
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ASIN: B000A29DJM
Release Date: 2002-11-18 |
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
The Sex Pistols
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ASIN: B000A28LQ8
Release Date: 2002-05-21 |
Tracks:
- God Save the Queen [Symphony]
- Rock Around the Clock
- Johnny B. Goode
- Road Runner
- Black Arabs
- Anarchy in the U.K.
- Whatcha Gonna Do About It?
- Who Killed Bambi?
- Silly Thing
- Substitute
- Don't Give Me No Lip Child
- (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
- Lonely Boy
- Something Else
- Anarchie Pour le U.K.
- Einamal War Belsen Bortrefflich
- Einmal War Belsen Wirflich Bortrefflich
- No One Is Innocent
- My Way
- C'mon Everybody
- EMI (Orch)
- Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle
- You Need Hands
- Friggin' in the Riggin'
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Great Rock'n Roll Swindle
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ASIN: B000GW87Q6
Release Date: 2006-09-12 |
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- Greatest Hits
- Hard Candy
- HASTE
- Head Music [Enhanced]
- I'm a Believer [CD-single] [Import]
- Icky Mettle [Import]
- In It for the Money
- In Our Gun
- Insectivorous
- Interview Sessions
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The Orchestral Music Of Meyer Kupferman, Vol. 4
When You Lie Next to Me
A Handful of Stars
Wolfman Calling
Viva Forever [UK CD2] [CD-single] [Import]
We Gather Together - Hymns & Spirituals for Solo Jazz Piano
Ste for Vln & Orch / Ste for Orch / Et Al
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