If you don't know what this great record is, it's a Spanish only punk cash-in.A session musician created replica of the aforementioned "Bollocks", but fronted by what sounds like the first bloke they could find on the streets of Madrid who had heard of Rock'n'Roll; played the Pistols album to him once, then said "Ok, lets do a take", with the poor witless fool trying his best to remember the lyrics. There's lots of Rottenesque cackling laughter, and mucho misheard versions of Lydon's art-foundation course scribblings of yore. My favourite being the almost Burroughsian version of "Seventeen" ('s) chorus ("I'm a lazy Sod"), which is gloriously transformed into the dada-esque "I'm a Lazy Seven"!!!?? And there's plenty more where that came from, but I won't spoil the fun,I'll leave it to you digital plunderers to discover for yourselves. Musically, this sessionista faux-punk bland out was only ever bettered by the backing tracks from the magnificent second album by the immortal Adverts; ie "A Cast of Thousands"(1979); which (I hope?) was a deliberate act on the part of TV Smith and co, and a unmatched middle finger to the hive minded cast of thousands of flocking Travis Bickles in denim and levver! This is fucking(note punk style swearing from your author) GREAT!, and don't you just love that cover? Its as if the 'designer' had done his research on Punk Rockers by reading Kays Catalogue (cheapo and probably now defunct UK shopping catalogue from the 70's/80's).
TRACK LISTING:
A1 Holidays In The Sun 3:31
A2 Bodies 3:09
A3 No Feelings 3:00
A4 Liar 4:23
A5 God Save The Queen 3:23
A6 Problems 4:23
B1 Seventeen 2:00
B2 Anarchy In The U.K. 3:26
B3 Submission 4:11
B4 Pretty Vacant 3:18
B5 New York 3:06
B6 E.M.I. 3:09
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Great comment, and recommended for old punks on speed - this is anti-classic stuff, great!
ReplyDeleteOh man what a find! This is brilliant thanx
ReplyDeleteha ha. this just came up in the November 2020 Mojo so I came looking for it.
ReplyDeleteTragically brilliant
Incidentally, I dropped the Adverts after they changed label and I heard (OK, bought) Television's Over so I never heard Cast of Thousands (unless Peely played tracks off it) and I don't think I even bought Crossing... until it came out on CD as so many of the tracks were singles I already had.
I loved singles in the late 70's but sold them all a couple of years ago... Probably shouldn't have, but I didn't think I would actually get round to playing them as the turntable was packed away
Anyway, please excuse my sad ramblings.
Cheers
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@AFGreenwood....Yeah i didn't buy Crossing the Red Sea until 1982..it got a Red Vinyl treatment. Had the superior verions on 7",plus "No Time to be 21". So got "Cast of Thousands" before Crossing....of course I thought it was shit,like most second album punk.But now i know better.....its still shit,but lyrically great,and subversive stuff when you consider the Punk Tribe nonsense that still exists today!Almost as shocking as The Saints using a Brass Section for their second album!!!!? The Peel sessions versions of COT are more punk rocky however.See the reissued version for them.
ReplyDeleteGet yer turntable out A!
Incredible!...you cannot be more punk than this
ReplyDeletelegend has it that there was a Spanish record label that was early in line to license the Sex Pistols LP in their country. unfortunately, state run Franco-ist censorship was still selectively enforced at that time, and they werent allowed to bring such foreign produced "basura" into the country right then. not wanting to miss out on all that exploitative cash they saw waiting to be raked in, they got around the foreign censorship by recording their own domestic version of the Pistols record that wouldnt have to go before some sort of review board, and the world was then blessed with this fucking masterpiece. sometimes, a brutal fascist government actually knows what their doing, they just dont know it or comprehend the accidental genius of their ways. PS- theres more than a couple officially licensed versions of this that have appeared on CD over the years.
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