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Kiss This: The Best of the Sex Pistols |  | Artist: The Sex Pistols
Label: Virgin
Category: Music
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 14100
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 077778648925
EAN: 0077778648925
ASIN: B0000073PQ
Release Date: October 5, 1992
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| Tracks:
| • | Anarchy In The UK | | • | God Save The Queen | | • | Pretty Vacant | | • | Holidays In The Sun | | • | I Wanna Be Me | | • | Did You No Wrong | | • | Satellite | | • | Don't Give Me No Lip Child | | • | Stepping Stone | | • | Bodies | | • | No Feelings | | • | Liar | | • | Problems | | • | Seventeen | | • | Submission | | • | EMI | | • | My Way | | • | Silly Thing |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
What do you mean you don't own it? The Sex Pistols were the most important band of the 1970s, if not the whole rock era, and IKiss This/i is a priceless compilation of every essential recording the band ever made. Formed in 1975, the Pistols almost immediately anachronised all that they surveyed. They beefed up the sound of the New York Dolls and drenched the resultant sonic stew in lashings of situationist rhetoric. They expectorated themselves into the headlines with an antagonistic blend of profanity, razored hair and sharp sartorial comments and single-handedly wrote the entire punk rock rulebook, before gleefully ripping it to shreds and throwing the remaining shards to an entire generation of spike-topped acolytes. Hear Johnny Rotten sneer through "Anarchy In The UK", Steve Jones redefine metal with "Holidays In The Sun", and Sid Vicious annihilate "My Way". Simply magnificent; buy two in case you misplace one. I--Ian Fortnam/i
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Sex Pistols-Kiss This November 2, 2004
Ted Maul (Cowsick)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This 20-track compilation is the best Sex Pistols CD available-It features the whole of the classic Never Mind The Bollocks album (and all ten tracks on that album are great),the B-Sides from that era's singles (which means that you get the great cover of The Stooges'No Fun,recently seen/heard in the film 24 Hour Party People) and the pick of the post-Johnny Rotten Pistols-so you also get Sid Vicious'peerless rendition of My Way. Essential.
PROPA PUNK ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! July 26, 2004
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
May I just say if you dont own a sex pistols album...buy *KISS THIS* and NOT *Never mind the b**locks*, becoz it contains ALL 12 tracks from NVTB and 8 extras...for the same price!brThe album is split in 4 sections..pSTAGE 1:THE SINGLESp1.Anarchy in the UK - 10/10 -legendary punk song...so explosive with Rotten at his best.br2.God save the queen - 10/10 - Infamous song with great guitar riff...something that will go down in history books.br3.Pretty Vacant - 9.5/10 - Probably their most "pop" song...but listen out for the chorus! ( Va-c**t!)br4.Holidays in the sun - 9.5/10 - Another great song with a famtastic intropSTAGE 2:THE B SIDESp5.I wanna be me - 8/10 - Quality sounds poor but the song is still real gritty...very early pistols material.br6.Did you no wrong - 8/10 - Another good song...oroginally before Rotten arrivedbr7.No fun - 9/10 - Infamous for being played at winterland as the last song the band ever played live....."Ever feel like your being robbed?"br8. Satellite - 8.7/10 - Another early song with a great guitar riff...about the early satellite towns they touredbr9.Don't give me no lip child - 9/10 - A cover of a Dave Berry song...Jones played with the wrong guitar strings but it sounded so good that they kept it.br10.(I'm not your)stepping stone - 7/10 - Doesn't appeal to me...worst on album in my opinion.pSTAGE 3:NEVER MIND THE B**LOCKSp11.Bodies - 10/10 - One of my favs....Steve Jones is at his best here...also the only track that Sid Vicious probably appeared on....br12.No feelings - 9.5/10 - Glen sed it was their most "rock n roll" record....Rotten stands out as superb.br13.Liar - 8/10 - I fitting track wrote about their weasal managerbr14.Problems - 9/10 - Simple track....still great.br15.Seventeen - 9/10 - A two-minute thrasher about the feelings of being 17 and not giving a f**k about anythingbr16.Submission - 8/10 - A slower than usual song to p**s off their manager again.br17.New york - 10/10 - Pistols on top form with an attack on the New York scene claiming to have created punk.br18.E.M.I - 10/10 - Fantastic track about being dropped by their record label....guitar riff is SO catchy...u gotta turn up the volume for this one!pSTAGE 4:POST ROTTENp19.My way - 7.8 - Sid vicious on vocals...he is poor trying to copy Rotten...but the song itself is famous within the punk world..br20.Silly thing - 10/10 - Paul Cook and Steve Jones on vocals..about Maclaren or Vicious...this shows that maybe they could have continued without John but it wasn't meant to be.... pThe album has 20 tracks on...not 18 like advertised...ENJOY!
The best of the Pistols January 29, 2007
M. Farrow (U.K)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought the original 'Never Mind The Bo**ocks'when I was sixteen (1978). I played it until i literally wore it out, I still have it somewhere in the house. So, I decided to replace the original 'Never Mind the' with a new CD and bought 'Kiss this' at the same time. Their sound and lyrics are as good today as they were when i first rushed home with my original album. A definitive and timeless album.
Everything you need by The Sex Pistols on one handy cd! February 2, 2004
Jason Parkes (Worcester, UK)
21 out of 27 found this review helpful
Kiss This! is great value, as it is all of Never Mind the Bollocks (out of sequence) with b-sides and the odd single included: a 20-track primer into the joys of Rotten, Jones, Cook, Matlock Vicious. It's the best compilation, as it leaves off post-Lydon drivel like No One is Innocent the sad Cochran covers, but does include things like My Way Silly Thing that have their own charms also. I'd argue, for historical purposes, to include Belsen Was a Gas No Fun from Winterland- the former shows the nihilistic brickwall that Lydon would surmount with PIL's Theme, while the latter was the greatest exit ("Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"). But this, Lydon's memoir (No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs) Julien Temple's The Filth The Fury are all you need from the Sex Pistols...pIt opens with those anthems- Anarchy in the UK, God Save the Queen Pretty Vacant: great pop songs delivered with complete panache (Chris Thomas probably needs mentioning). The lyrics do actually say something- Rotten/Lydon a precursor of people like Morrissey, Kevin Rowland Mark E Smith, his lyrics cutting to the point with amphetamine accuracy. the phrasing is great- "we're so pretty, oh so pretty, we're VAY-****"!!!!). Holidays in the Sun is even better, even if Paul Weller claims he was ripped off- its Berlin Wall themes sound interesting from a 1989 point of view, as well as a 1977 one. pNon-album tracks like I Wanna Be Me and Did You No Wrong are great- the former asserts individuality that most punk fans wouldn't get and remains relevant with all these sad retro bands of late. Did You No Wrong would have made a great single, a great pop song, "going out of my head!". No Fun is even better than The Stooges original, Lydon's opening rant a form of proto-rap ("it's time for a sociology lecture...") and an example of a great cover version. Like Husker Du's Eight Miles High or The Clash's Brand New Cadillac, it's superior to the original. The music is kind of limited rock roll, which tracks like Satellite, Don't Gimme No Lip a cover of Steppin' Stone (which amusingly I'm a Celebrity hosts AntDec also covered!) demonstrate. Lydon would advance into music as exciting as his lyrics with PIL this lot would influence loads of acts in the punk/post-punk era. Without them, no Joy Division, Wire, Slits, Buzzcocks, Undertones, Clash, Gang of Four etc. Still, it's all good primal rock, like Motorhead or AC/DC...pThe latter half of the album takes in the Nevermind...-tracks that weren't singles- Bodies utterly violent stuff then four tracks that fly by: No Feelings, Liar, Problems, Seventeen- they had hit on a brilliant chemistry. Problems would stand up as a song performed by anyone- wait for the Justin Timberlake cover. Even better is Submission, Rotten having been asked by McLaren to write a song about bondage- so Rotten opted to write about a submarine mission instead! The music is almost funky and played against something like Death Disco, it's evident where Lydon might be heading next. New York EMI are wonderful ripostes to the moment, The Sex Pistols seemed so present tense!pRotten/Lydon left and McLaren carried on the b(r)and for a while longer- The Great Rock Roll Swindle and all that- fortunately we get just two tracks from this era. My Way is the best thing Sid Vicious sang (the Cochran covers were too sad, showing how unrevolutionary punk was in some ways), an amusing vocal that must have influenced Shane MacGowan's vocal delivery on something like The Irish Rover. It's also used at the climax of Martin Scorsese's masterpiece Goodfellas (1990), the scene where Henry Hill ungratefully gripes about living in the witness protection programme cos they can't get the sauce right, then we see Joe Pesci's character shoot at the screen. It's very Sid and very punk rock and has made this song more charming for me. Silly Thing (the original title a little bluer) is a good song also, Steve Jones takes lead vocals and sounds not unlike...Joe Strummer! Lydon even likes it- an epitaph for a band that didn't exist anymore...pKiss This! is great stuff and the ideal primer in Lydon's career, along with PIL's Greatest Hits...So Far; though no doubt, following Lydon's TV appearance, Virgin will put out another compilation. Bet it's called 'I'm Johnny...get me out of here!'- still, if it has that Timezone/World Destruction Leftfield/Open Up singles on, I won't complain! Every home should have a Sex Pistols record and this is probably the one...
almost like never mind the bolloocks, but maybe even more? December 6, 2001
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have to say that it was Never Mind the Bollocks that changed my life. It was it's 'fault' that I got intrested in punk, stuff and of course the Sex Pistols. But you want to hear more! On Kiss This are the great tracks from NMTB, but not only that. There are also many b-sides from the Sex Pistols' singles, and they're great! It's true that the Sex Pistols is dead, but it still sounds alive, timeless and rebellious. You know, the songs make you to want to change the world. It was the time when they did really mean it, maaaan.
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