1. Problems

A lot of punk fans hate them and numerous musicians bag them, but I feel they miss the point about what is great about the Sex Pistols. Most importantly they played music with their whole souls. I have heard a million albums in my life and I still get something from Never Mind the Bollocks, Here s the Sex Pistols. The song Problems articulates anger and frustration perfectly and is just a damn great rock track. When I am angry with the world and someone in it, one listen to this makes me feel so much better. Listen to this track and all the Sex Pistols greatest hits by getting your music downloads for free and sticking it to the man.

2. Holidays in the Sun

I love the tightness of this song and revolutionary feel that came about after the lads spent a few weeks in Berlin escaping the hostile British reaction to their album. Johnny Rotten fell in love with the Berlin wall and the whole circus of the city, which I feel was a microcosm of the world at that time and it like most tracks on the album it rocks.

3. Bodies

One of the crudest songs on an album that shocked the world says much more about society than most artists or politicians do in a lifetime. This track speaks of abortion in the most upfront and provocative manner I have ever heard.  The coarse lyrics in the chorus are from an aborted fetus’s point of view and are spoken with furious venom by Rotten.

4. God Save the Queen

This track almost got young Johnny killed in the forward thinking nation that was England circa 1977. It was banned by the BBC and every independent radio station in the country. It is a straight forward attack on Briton’s social conformity and deference to the crown. The track is performed with as much heart as anything else on the album and placed the Sex Pistols in the hearts and minds of many an angry young person left out in the cold by the old world order that controlled England in 1977.

5. Anarchy in the U.K.

When you make a statement like God Save the Queen you might as well back it up with this so the punters really know how you feel about the state of the nation. This is directed straight at the authority figureheads at the time. Personally I feel that it was not a call for a lawless society but spoke of the lawlessness of those that enforced the rule of the day. Whatever it really means doesn’t matter for fans fond of great Rock ’n’ Roll with Steve Jones providing some classic guitar riffs and feedback.

Below is a video of Steve Jones demonstrating Sex Pistols guitar riffs: