May 28th, 2012
04:05 PM ET
Sex Pistols re-release 'God Save the Queen'We wonder how the palace feels about this. On Monday, the Sex Pistols re-released a limited edition, remastered 7-inch vinyl record of "God Save the Queen," according to their website. Apparently the last time the song hit the airwaves, it was not a royal time for the iconic punk band. "It will be exactly 35 years and a day after it was first released, in a barrage of controversy the likes of which the U.K. had rarely seen," a description on the website said. "No one had ever dared question the Monarchy so publicly; and it wasn't without its repercussions. Members of the band were attacked in the streets; and Government Members of Parliament even called for the Pistols to be hung at Traitors' Gate." The song was released in 1977 during Queen Elizabeth's Silver jubilee. The flip side of this limited vinyl release is a remastered version of the song "Did You No Wrong."
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Punk kicks metal's ass all day and all night. Long live PUNK!
Still sounds good, and most of them are still here, not looking half bad either.
GOD THEY SAVED THE QUEEN!
They all got cash for chaos!
Its a swindle, I tell you.
he still has a voice that commands your attention...loved his generic Album/CD/Cassette release with PIL.
Rap is still the best.
I love reading all this hate. The fact that this band is being Talked about 35 years after the release just goes to show you something and how talentless any of the bands any of you listen to are if you can't even acknowledge the respect they deserve.
Kenny Rogers - Now that's music! You can take that gobbing and 3 chord , no, 1 chord rubbish and do you know what with it!
Kenny Rogers needs to get another facelift asap. I heard that he laughed adnd coughed at the same time once, and his lips fell off. Johnny Rotten rockz
Kenny Rogers?.......HA HA HA HA HA HA....HAAHAA! I just spilled coffee over myself. You are hilarious.
COOL STORY, BRO.
Flogging a dead horse..........again.
I see what you did there...
/had the vinyl of "Flogging a Dead Horse"
Filthy lucre!
They need money again .
I'll take Dead Kennedys and Anti-Nowhere-League any day. Listen to So What? by ANWL or Too Drunk to F*** by DK. Blows the Pistols away!
Bollocks!
I hear that the new version has Autotune, and is now a duet with Tupac. Should be great.
I was heavily into punk music as a teenager, and I never cared for the Pistols. It wasn't that I thought that they sucked, I just thought that they seemed to be for British working class kids and not suburban American kids. An American kid isn't going to get too riled up over a song denegrating the Queen of England. Still, I like how they got under everyones skin over there.
And... it's gone. Sold out already.
Punk band that played watered down metal.
Holiday in the sun.
Im going over the wall.
Punk and metal don't really have as much to do with each other as you might think. I'm not even in the loop and I know that much.
Thank You
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didn't it and the group suck enough the first time around? the only thing they did for the music world was encourage other talent less losers to try and make it and to make putting safety pins in your face a fashion statement.
What, vs. the talentless loser metalheads who are incapable of writing lyrics beyond an 8th grade level, and make faces like they are straining to take a dump?
At least the Pistols sounded good, where I can't think of a single metal band past Motorhead that was worth listening to...especially that 80's poofy hair garbage.
Great song.... Great lyrics.... CLASSIC
ok im american and my family roots go all the way back to britan but im proud of my f***in country so all you stupid a** britans who think all of us americans are fat you can go eat a bag of big floppy d*cks
Is it alright if they think you are retarded? Because your posts certainly give that impression.
LOL good to see the Pistols haven't changed, and are still mostly alive – unlike the Ramones. They can't play their music and they can't sing but that's sort of the point – they aim to be offensive and against everything like the futurists and dadaists of the 1920s. Their lyrics – despite some of the gratuitously offensive content – are actually quite brilliant though.
You people are funny. Grow up it's only music. It's not about what or who's better. It's about listening to whatever floats your boat. Food for thought.
so true, 👍
LMAO...
Come on guys, the Pistols brought Punk to the UK. Good? They weren't supposed to be good ... it's punk. Mainstream? Hardly, within the context of the times. The Clash maybe, but not the Pistols when they became the Pistols. Very influential. Love the song
Never liked them, loved husker du and devo. DK was ok but way better than the pistols.
Your co-workers think they're better than you because they probably ARE.
U S is trash, and will NEVER have anything on THE U K ! ! !
Having to agree with GMAN, keep your trashy comments about the United States to yourself, I've visited England several times and it's very lovely, bet your ignorant self havn't even been here to talk sH&t
You sure are outrageous!
At least we don't eat blood sausages and spotted dick.
Arrogant, doggie-dicked british imperialists and dingo-dicked, bootlicking yobs, go kill some more millions for queen (which many of you are) and country. As they say en France: "Les rosbifs sont tous de pédés!"
US PWNS THE UK ANY DAY OF THE WEEK JUST LIKE THE RAMONES PWNING THE PISTOLS
You've lost any credibility you may have had by writing "pwns"....twice! I won't even get into posting in all caps, and that run on sentence, my god, man!
I work with a bunch of dumb british IT guys who think they are better than us...next time they are in Houston I should show them how things are.
And get your stupid chefs outta here Rothberg, your food is the worst in the world. No one ever goes out in the US to eat "british" food.
Shutup brit idiot the us could kill the uk with its little
finger.
You fattys need to relax... pistols are amazing and challenged the status quo.. now go listen to your U2 cassettes
they challenged the status quo ...lol that made me laugh.
Only good thing they ever did was decline the RnR HoF, and that was pretty cool. However, dozens of bands much better and more influential. This belongs in the 'who cares?' file
They sucked in the 70s and irrelevent now.
Lydon must be broke.
Actually he is quite well off from all the real estate he bought in the late 80's. In addition his wife is a heiress to a huge German publishing company. In all likelihood it was probably just a chance to recreate the riverboat incident at the Queen's last Juiblee.
this is by far the best and funniest headline I've read re: the queen's jubilee. long live sid vicious!
Sid Vicious didn't play on this song, nor the entire album. Their original bassist, Glen Matlock is pictured here. Glen's bass lines carried the Pistol's music and their career nose-dived when he was kicked out and replaced by Sid, who was hardly a musician and all image. In fact, his name was irony for his being such a wuss.
Actually, David, look who spent their last few months of life either in jail or a drug induced haze followed by ODing themselves to death versus who is celebrating 60 years on the throne this year.....someone lived far longer than Sid. Loved their music, but their his lifestyle certainly caught up to him, didn't it?
ACTUALLY, Sid was so fu**ed up most the time the band admitted pulling the plug off his bass because he couldn't remember the songs and kept butchering them
Would take the Ramones over these posers any day
I listened to the pistols when I was like 11 or 12 and very quickly learned that there were tons of waaay better punk bands than the pistols. Actual punk bands not some lame main stream garbage.
Their manager Malcom McLaren formed the Pistols when the Ramones refused to let him be their manager. McLaren left New York, went back to England and put together the Pistols. They were manufactured like the Monkees. The Ramones were the first true punk band, after Iggy and the Stooges.
And I'd take someone who knows poseur is correct and poser is incorrect in this context.
Top Three Best Ramones Albums:
1.The Ramones
2.Rocket To Russia
3.Halfway To Sanity
Re-release? Oh well... when all else fails...
Shows how music can change the World–
the United Kingdom is stilll the real leader of the World.
LOL.
lmao... Riiiiight
These guys are Great.
We are gratified that they coninue to perform.