Albums to hear before you die.

Part 4.


It seems only appropriate to start off 2012 by talking about, perhaps, the most influential and groundbreaking album in music history. 
Ladies and Gentleman, I give you the album that changed everything...


Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols. 
Released in 1977 to a barrage of controversy from the 'obscene' album name, to the opposition over the lyrics to songs 'Anarchy in the U.K' and 'God save the Queen', Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols was to be the only album the band ever recorded and released.
Rotten's assault of angry vocals with a bitter, spit-slurring, foaming delivery was the first of it's kind at the time of release, as was his use of profanity to convey the band's message in the most impolite, and controversial manner possible. Despite the alternating between screaming, whining and growling the Pistols' managed to do what so many bands have failed to do since them: clearly present the listeners with harsh social critiques and commentaries, as loud and clear as a smack in the face, under a wall of noise and rage brought to us by the bass guitar of Jones, Matlock & Vicious and the drums of Cook. 
To merely write this album off as a bunch of ragged punk rockers recording an album of loud, grating noise, lacking in melody with a shredding vocalist would be a big mistake. 
Sex Pistols opened the flood gates for a generation of bands to rebel against society, political hypocrisy and corporate control - however none came close to the punchy, overwhelming energy and take no prisoner's attitude of the Pistols'. 
A twelve-track musical revolution with a force that shook the framework of music history forever, with an influence so profound it's unconfined to genres, or generations.