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The Great Rock n Roll Swindle mockumentary film is often mooted as a Sex Pistols project, but in reality it was a Malcom Mclaren money-maker. This CD features all the music from the film which basically took the piss out of the music industry and how easy it was for Malcom Mclaren to "embezzle" money from it. The Pistols, however were defunct by the time the film and its soundtrack were in production, and Jonny Rotten wanted nothing to do with any of this, so the only genuine Pistols tracks on it are reworked demos from 1976 featuring Jonny's original vocals - including the hilarious "Roadrunner" with Jonny forgetting the lyrics and carrying on regardless in his own charismatic way. The remaining members of the Pistols do provide some new tracks (even having a go at vocals) for the film which are included here. Also, there are some interesting takes on classic Pistols tracks such as The Black Arabs disco medley and "L'Anarchie Pour Le UK" - a French version complete with accordion and fiddle. The rest of the songs feature a motley crue of singers and performers including Ronnie Biggs (He of the Great Train Robbery - an ironic twist on the film's ideology and title) Edward Tudor-Pole, Malcom Mclaren and Sid Vicious. Original punks/Pistols fans may be annoyed even mortified by the audacity of Mclaren to cash in on the Pistols further by ruining some classic Pistols songs, but I would recommend this CD just for the hilarity - yes it's offensive sometimes, and even childishly so (hear "Friggin' in the Riggin') but I couldn't help laughing at most of the songs. If none of it is taken seriously by the listener, its worth buying - thus, providing success for Mclaren in his "swindle".Read full review
Johnny, Steve, Paul and Glen and Sid. You were the first, the best and the only! McLearen, you are a t*sser. Not the best of the Pistols but a damn good second. Inspiration of a generation, you spawned a monster but by God it made my life as good as it gets. Vive la rock! Punk is dead but I'm still dying. TRY, BUY, BELIEVE AND LIVE YOUR LIFE AS YOU WANT.
Angry music railing against a squalid, self-serving system rigged by the privileged few, the Sex Pistols still have the energy and applicability from the 70s to the discontented Noughties. Back then the ruling class were clearly different, set apart from those who watch their hopes get dashed to feed The Machine. Today's ruling class, not content with pouching the corporate sausage to the back of the throat, has the audacity to pretend to be one of us - for us. Listen to the Sex Pistols and look again at the system, worked by differing colours on their rosettes but helping one another keep their fat snouts buried deep in the trough. The Sex Pistols triumph, angry and energised 30 years on, a musical stand from another era brandished today against a bland, beige, ball-less soul-free music scene. How tragic it is that music from thirty years ago heats our blood to rail and yell, and moves us to jump and shout for our place while today's manufactured and metrosexual chart 'stars' barely inspire us to move our bowels. Each time the CDs play it's the voice of belonging to the dispossessed. Against the suited, spoiled, self-important, venal, condescending, greedy, parasitic, vile dark strands that drift out of a goldfish's anus in the fish tank of Westminster, let us hail the raw courage of the Sex Pistols, and mourn the reality that we will never see their angry kind inspire an entire generation to question, refuse to be more than a cog, and stick two fingers up to authority.Read full review
Never bought a Sex Pistols CD so did not know what to expect, some tracks very good but a little dated, I was a fan of punk at the time but things move on, but overall fairly pleased.
Having still got the vynal from the late 70s and the film and also being a die hard punk,the sound track to the great rock n roll swindle is excellent driving music.