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Sex Pistols - The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

Track listing:
  1. God Save the Queen (Symphony) 4:03
  2. Road Runner/Johnny B. Goode 6:14
  3. Anarchy in the U.K. etc. medley 4:45
  4. Anarchy in the U.K. 4:04
  5. Substitute 3:07
  6. Don't Gimme No Lip Child 3:29
  7. (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone 3:09
  8. L'Anarchie pour le U.K. 3:26
  9. Belsen was a Gas 2:09
  10. Einmal Belsen war wirflich bortrefflich 2:13
  11. Silly Thing 2:50
  12. My Way 4:04
  13. I Wanna Be Me 3:03
  14. Something Else 2:09
  15. Rock Around the Clock 2:03
  16. Lonely Boy 3:01
  17. No One is Innocent 3:01
  18. C'Mon Everybody 1:58
  19. EMI (ORCH) 3:48
  20. The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle 4:18
  21. Friggin' in the Riggin' 3:35
  22. You Need Hands 2:52
  23. Who Killed Bambi 3:03

Notes

A wildly inconsistent but often entertaining collection, the soundtrack to the Pistols' pseudo-documentary contains great music, wacked-out novelties, and flat-out tripe in approximately equal proportions. Some formative recordings are included — mostly covers like "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone," plus a demo of "Anarchy in the U.K." that somehow manages to top the version on Never Mind the Bollocks in terms of raw rage and sheer power. "I Wanna Be Me" and a veiled chronicle of the band's breakup, "Silly Thing," are also necessary items. Devoted fans will enjoy the Black Arabs' disco medley of Pistols hits, a French version of "Anarchy in the U.K." complete with accordion, two tracks sung by loony Edward Tudor-Pole (later of Tenpole Tudor), and Sid Vicious' awful but strangely appropriate reading of Frank Sinatra's "My Way."