only1billybonds 10:45 Sun Mar 22
Anarchy in the UK
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Young WHOers please ignore.
How,if at all did this song affect you when you first heard it?
I was (just) 16,had started work in Poplar and had heard rumours of this punk malarkey. Went round my mates gaffe and his brother was playing NMTB. When 'Anarchy' came on it felt like someone had plugged me in to the mains,i felt like i was on fucking fire. I went out and bought the album the following day and it was like a vinyl bible,it was played relentlessly in my house.
Anyone else got any memories of being truely shaken by this gem?
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Swiss.
4:03 Fri Apr 3
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of course it allowed I guess more access to The Jam, The Clash etc superior bands with a better style?image fashion wise. I'd never dress like a pistol.
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Swiss.
4:01 Fri Apr 3
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An Absolute awakening with all that homosexual dross around like Yes and ELO . Their concert audiences were like 80% men. Just showed what boring dross there was.
However probably has less of an effect than Bowie's Heroes and Kraftwerk at the time.
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SE5 Hammer
3:53 Fri Apr 3
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I think what young people don't realise is that to be a punk in 1977 you really only had to have short hair and not be weariing flares or big collars, that made you look different enough!
BTW, Anarchy in the UK was realeased months before Never Mind the Bopllocks so you must have been onto to punk quite late!
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eusebiovic
12:05 Wed Mar 25
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the coming of gary 11:42 Wed Mar 25
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cholo
11:55 Wed Mar 25
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'Changing Man' / E.L.O – '10538 Overture'
Although, elo weren't adverse to ripping off the beatles
In fact some might say they are "the band the beatles could've been"...
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the coming of gary
11:42 Wed Mar 25
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lots of Weller examples ('its too bad' is 'she loves you', 'monday' is 'waterloo sunset') , but his lyrics and band were just outstanding
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zebthecat
11:41 Wed Mar 25
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eusebiovic 11:28 Wed Mar 25
Jeez that is so blatant.
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eusebiovic
11:28 Wed Mar 25
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only1billybonds 10:40 Wed Mar 25
SurfaceAgentX2Zero 10:30 Wed Mar 25
Weller also completely ripped off the bassline from Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag for Precious...He didn't even wait until the corpse was cold to do that one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL1v7WKpCic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0mDmabbR1E
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violator
11:14 Wed Mar 25
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I had NMTB pink sleeve, was a Canadian import. Played that album to death, mum hollering up the stairs about the language on Bodies
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cholo
11:08 Wed Mar 25
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Surf
No doubt, Weller has ripped off numerous riffs, melodies and bass lines over the years.
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zebthecat
11:07 Wed Mar 25
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chim chim cha boo 4:20 Wed Mar 25
Almost the same here except I dyed my hair and jeans black (converted them to drainpipes too with my mum's sewing machine), spiked my hair and invested in some T shirts from Small Wonder records.
My parents were appalled.
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only1billybonds
10:40 Wed Mar 25
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Surf.
Yep,i was just thinking that,Weller was a great writer but 'Start' has to be one of the blatant song rip off's ever. Didnt he claim it was a tribute to the Beatles at some point?
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
10:30 Wed Mar 25
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cholo 2:22 Tue Mar 24
Weller had some brass neck after lifting 'Taxman' note for note for 'Start'.
I don't remember George giving him grief.
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chim chim cha boo
4:20 Wed Mar 25
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The day I heard it I bleached my hair while my lorry driver dad took my mum on a job the Glasgow so I knew they'd be away all day and two foxy birds from across the road could do my barnet. I was 12.
Dad (bless him) was SO fucking angry that he chased me around the garden with a brick in his hands!
That's when it hit me that Never Mind The Bollocks was the greatest album ever made.
It still is.
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geoffpikey
12:52 Wed Mar 25
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Was a bit young, really, but remember the furore about LP displays in record shops being removed. Bollocks!
When I DID get it, though Anarchy... was not my favourite by far.
Holidays In The Sun
Bodies
Pretty Vacant
Taped it off a friend. Had to hide it from parents.
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cholo
2:22 Tue Mar 24
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Didn't they rip off the Holiday In The Sun riff from The Jam - In The City?
Weller and Lydon had a handbags at dawn moment over it.
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bill green
1:53 Tue Mar 24
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nice quote from Noel Gallagher about hearing the jackboots marching on Holiday in the Sun
"As soon as that starts, everything that has gone on before is now deemed fucking irrelevant, as soon as he (John Lydon) starts anti singing."
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the coming of gary
1:44 Tue Mar 24
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Holidays in the sun intro was nicked from the Jam (in the city)
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D.B Cooper
1:26 Tue Mar 24
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Sub-mission is a fucking classic tune
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yngwies Cat
1:19 Tue Mar 24
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I like the album Great Rock n roll swindle
Was in my prog stage so was delighted at the
Ochesteral arrangement on the album version of
EMI. Marvelous.
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Syd Puddefoot
12:41 Tue Mar 24
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I have the 7 inch single on the EMI label (my memory says they were sacked by EMI after using naughty words on TV and switched to Virgin) which i am told is worth something.
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