Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks

Starring:Sex Pistols
Studio: Eagle Vision USA
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
Track List

Chapters

1)Introduction 2)Pretty Vacant 3)Submission 4)Anarchy In The UK 5)EMI Unlimited Edition 6)Liar 7)Holidays In The Sun 8)Bodies 9)God Save The Queen 10)Problems Bonus Interviews

Description

Track List

Chapters

1)Introduction 2)Pretty Vacant 3)Submission 4)Anarchy In The UK 5)EMI Unlimited Edition 6)Liar 7)Holidays In The Sun 8)Bodies 9)God Save The Queen 10)Problems Bonus Interviews

Customer Reviews:

Even better than "The Filth and the Fury", I agree!.......2006-04-15

I felt pleasantly surprised after watching this. I gained a new respect for the band, and seeing how they created this unique album added a new dimension to the film. I enjoyed the many special features possibly more than the documentary itself.

The band members are in great form and are as candid as you'll ever see them. Glen Matlock and Steve Jones provide many insights, and watching them perform their riffs today is a great pleasure, but it's Johnny Rotten who steals the show with his dark clarity. Amazing words!

It's a fairly low-budget effort, but it's the best Sex Pistols DVD that you can find, and an excellent documentary about the making of legendary music.

Better Than "The Filth and The Fury".......2006-03-17

For several reasons:

1) It's shorter, appropriate to a career as short as the Pistols was.

2) It's less pretentious.

3) It's less burdened by the need to undo "The Great Rock n'Roll Swindle", which was more or less "Fury's" entire purpose. In this we actually get to hear McClaren bubble harmlessly about how he was a "mis-manager" from the beginning.

4) It drives home the point that John Lydon is completely full of offal, and himself. Case in point: in his autobio, Lydon claims that Glenn Matlock directly said to him that he wanted the band to be like the Bay City Rollers: "That's a direct quote from him to me." In this DVD, he says "Turns out, years later, the Bay City Rollers was NOT what Glenn had in mind. That's unfortunate. In a way, I suppose we were both duped." So the "direct quote" appears not to have been instead a complete untruth, yet somehow Johnny's still the victim. When is this fool going to outgrow his adolescence?

5) It nicely affirms my suspicions that the only Pistol you'd ever want to have a beer with is Steve Jones. I suspect that's why he's a DJ on Indie 103 today, and Lydon is...on Judge Judy?

6) It's actually about the MUSIC of the Sex Pistols, as opposed to their place in the sociopoliticoculturoeconomic history of Britain.

7) Very Little Sid. Which is good, because honestly, who cares?

Entertaining and Surprisingly Intelligent Documentary.......2006-02-09

I bought this DVD on a whim, and am glad that I did. The disc brings the mayhem of 1976-77 to life, but in a very matter-of-fact way. The band and the people who helped create "Never Mind the Bollocks" are direct and often quite funny. Moreover, while they're not exactly sentimental or nostalgic, they do recognize they created something that, despite countless imitators, remains quite unprecedented.

How to play Nevermind the Bollocks.......2005-08-20

I'm an old fogie who actually saw the Pistols perform live in Dallas way back when. I was really entertained and educated by this documentary. Excellent reviews and chronology. For me, as a guitarist, the best part is one of the extras where Steve Jones shows how he plays several of the riffs and leads.

"How can you ban words?"(John Lydon AKA Johnny Rotten)".......2005-03-08

"Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" is a behind the scenes look at the making of the GREAT Sex Pistols' album. The documentary is about 50 minutes long (with approximately 40 minutes of bonus features), and includes interviews with surviving, original band members John Lydon, Glen Matlock, Steve Jones and Paul Cook. Also interviewed are: Sex Pistols' manager Malcolm McClaren, various rock journalists, record executives, and technical people who were involved in putting the album together. Some of these interviews include conflicting comments about the band (for example, on the subject of Glen Matlock's departure), and the juxtaposition of these conflicting statements will fascinate the Sex Pistols fan.

There are also video clips of performances from several of the album's tracks, and footage of the performance of "EMI" (as well as the background story to why the song was written in the first place). The film's narrative covers some of the highlights in the Pistols' career--the Bill Grundy debacle, the Jubilee barge on the Thames (John Lydon: "It was fun letting off a storm outside of parliament"), and the various record company contracts. The band members all comment on the addition of Sid Vicious to the Pistols, and Lydon expresses some insightful comments on Sid's ultimate self-destruction. Steve Jones plays many of the now-famous rifts on his guitar, and his segments reveal a pleasant sense of humour laced with an element of nostalgia.

The interviews with John Lydon were the highlight of the DVD. Almost 30 years after Lydon's Sex Pistols' days, Lydon still has the same demented look in his eyes, and he is clearly an articulate, intelligent, freethinking rebel who possesses an amazing clarity of vision. His sheer force of character created many riveting scenes. Fans of the Pistols won't want to miss this DVD--displacedhuman

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