Sex Pistols Album: «Flogging a Dead Horse»

- Customers rating: (3.9 of 5)
- Title:Flogging a Dead Horse
- Release date:1995-08-24
- Type:Audio CD
- Label:Virgin Int'l
- UPC:007777867522
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- 1 Anarchy in the U.K.img 3:52
- 2 I Wanna Be Meimg 3:11
- 3 God Save the Queenimg 3:43
- 4 Did You No Wrongimg 3:24
- 5 Pretty Vacantimg 3:10
- 6 No Funimg 5:01
- 7 Holidays in the Sunimg 3:22
- 8 No One Is Innocentimg 2:58
- 9My Way - Sid Vicious
- 10 Something Elseimg 2:11
- 11 Silly Thingimg 2:52
- 12 C'mon Everybodyimg 1:57
- 13 (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stoneimg 5:50
- 14 The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindleimg 4:16
OK, if you've got that great album "NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS", there's the only thing left to be done - buy this album. Just because their next album "The Great R'n'R Swindle" turned out to be disappointing, but it had a few real good tracks (contributed by Sid Vicious), which all are included here.
This is a collection of all the Pistols' singles from 1976 to 1979, so besides the tracks from "The Swindle" (and "Never Mind..."), there is a great deal of famous tracks omitted from "Never Mind...": "No Fun", "I Wanna Be Me", "Did You No Wrong", "Steppin' Stone" and "Anarchy In The UK" - in its raw original version. You wouuld be enough satisfied.
[This collection originally was released in 1979 in the U.K.]
Hey. Hey! HEY! Listen up now people - if you've been looking for a Pistols album and you already have Bollocks than this is the one for you. This one shines amidst the flurry of sound-alike compilations and so-called bootlegs. The first half has their essential tunes from Bollocks mingled with the more rare songs like the awesome I Wanna Be Me and the classic Did U No Wrong. The second half is what sets this apart from the other discs of the genre. Sid's incomprable My Way is included along with groove of Somethin' Else that was featured in Sid & Nancy but didn't make it onto the soundtrack. Tack on Swindle, No One Is Innocent, and a few other gems and you've got the best offering released under the Pistols name since they disintegrated after the 'Frisco show in '78. If you only own one Pistols album then you better go back, scroll up, and click on Never Mind the Bollocks. But if you're in the market for two then get to Floggin'!
'Flogging...' is a collection of both the A and B sides of each of their seven(7)British singles released between 1976-79.All your favorites are here,like "Anarchy In The UK",their infamous "God Save The Queen","Pretty Vacant",their Stooges cover "No Fun" and their remake of the Monkees hit "(I'm Not Your)Steppin' Stone".This fourteen track title MAY not be the best Pistol's compilation,but it'll simply do.Check it out.
I originally bought the virgin release on vinyl back in the 80's. This album has some very rare cuts, and all of the best of the Sex Pistols. In order to get all of the songs on this album, you would have to buy every Sex Pistols album ever released by Virgin records. This album contains such greats as Stepping Stone, My Way, The great Rock And Roll Swindle, etc. I went ahead and bought this album on CD as well, since there isn't a need for vinyl anymore unless you are a DJ or something, and it's not like you can plop your vinyl in your car and rock on! I put this album up with some of the greatest punk rock albums of all time, such as the Ramones "Road to Ruin", The Adolescents album, Bad Religion's "Fxxx Armageddon, this is Hell", etc. there is a long list of great albums. Of course, I would have to add The Clash"london Calling", if you listen to punk rock, I'm sure you get the idea by now. All of the Virgin Records releases had great production, especially considering the time, what they had to work with, as far as the original demo recordings that some of these songs came from, and the raw punk sound itself. Of course the CD version is of much better quality as far as sound, since by the time CD's were available, the technology had vastly improved. Being a music producer myself,I actually remastered my copy of the cd, using the latest programs, and really boosted up the sound for my own personal listening pleasure. Short of it all BUY THIS ALBUM!!!
A few scattered singles are collected here, along with some of the few "good" songs from the "...Swindle" soundtrack. Nothing exciting, or terribly essential.
The album's title makes perfect sense, the Pistols were the dead horse and this compilation was out before the corpse got cold. (The cover looked terrible then and much worse today, and the coprophage reference is a tired situationist joke). Mediocre and unessential.

