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SEX PISTOLS
THE LEGENDARY NASHVILLE TAPES
Compact Disc
Item no. :YS074 Barcode :0823564040523 Artist :SEX PISTOLS Product type :Compact Disc Label :YARD STICK Release Date :07 August 2026
OVERVIEW
The earliest known live recordings of the Sex Pistols (often referred to as ‘The Savage Young Pistols’), the bulk of which were
recorded at the Nashville Rooms in London in April 1976, just five months into the band's live career, stand as a damning
indictment of the 18 months that would follow. Already, the majority of the band's repertoire is firmly in place; already, the
incendiary assault that would characterise their career has been perfected. Only the absence of the still-unwritten "Anarchy in
the U.K." and "God Save the Queen" prevents one from writing off the rest of their life as a sheer waste of time. Of course, the
media circus that would soon attach itself to the band was scarcely conducive to creativity but, while the Pistols' own insistence
on playing up to their image, rather than getting on with the music, might be understandable, it's still infuriating. Comparable to
a great tape of the unsigned Stones or Beatles (hence the alternative title, a play on the Hamburg-era Savage Young Beatles
collection), The Nashville Tapes showcases a classic and classically inventive rock band in the making, tearing up the rule book as
Johnny Rotten's anti-voice yelping rises above the thrashing maelstrom to signpost rock's next direction. If they hadn't been
derailed, who knows what could have happened?
• Isolated cuts from a Birmingham gig six months later maintain the momentum, while three demos recorded with guitar
legend Chris Spedding ("Problems", "No Feelings", and "Pretty Vacant") prove that the Pistols' strengths remain
undiluted by time and fashion; indeed, the occasional below-par sound quality here actually contributes to their
impact.
• As you struggle to make sense of what's going on, you remember that's what made it worth deciphering in the first
place.
• Not for sale to GAS (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
TRACK LIST
1 Did You No Wrong 3:13
2 No Lip 3:48
3 Seventeen 2:26
4 New York 3:27
5 Watcha Gonna Do About It 4:05
6 I’m Not Your Stepping Stone 3:15
7 Submission 3:48
8 Satellite 3:51
9 No Feelings 2:53
10 Pretty Vacant 3:27
11 No Fun 5:27
12 Substitute 2:05
13 Problems 4:21
14 Understanding 4:17
15 Problems 3:24
16 No Feelings 2:29
17 Pretty Vacant 1:57
18 Anarchy In The UK 5:34
19 I Wanna Be Me 3:05
20 Liar 3:10
21 No Feelings 2:48