Blast from the Past - 10 Punk Rock Albums Everyone Should Own!Never has a band, not even The Clash, depicted the London punk rock scene as accurately (or for that matter as angrily) as The Sex Pistols. Tons of guitar distortion, heavy drums, and Johnny Rotten's frothy delivery all combined make for one amazing album on Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols. While two two most popular tracks seem to be "God Save the Queen" (which is not the British national anthem, although it really should be) and "Anarchy in the U.K." this album doesn't have a bad song on it. "Seventeen" tells us what it's like to be a teenager in 1970's low class England and the band also pays homage to the U.S. with "New York" while "Bodies" speaks of times of war." This fast, angry, archaic, bold punk rock, well worth the $12.00 or so you will probably spend on the album. It's available on iTunes for $9.99 (a steal considering all 17 tracks are individually priced at $1.29 each) but there's nothing like the actual album and the original vinyl is ever better if you can get it. This album changed things not just for the underground world of punk rock but for the entire rock and roll music scene in general. This really is an album that everyone (and I mean everyone) needs to own.
By I.M. Wright
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