re: The Sex Pistols played Baton Rouge in 1978

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Meh. Almost all of it was bad. The Sex Pistols are no more real a band than N Sync. Malcolm McLaren found a few stupid dopes to stand in costumes to market his store and ape much more talented bands. He tried the same crap with Dolls.

It's a shame they are the standard templar for punk, as they are one of the very worst punk bands and just a terrible example of the whole genre. They sucked, but became famous for essentially being obnoxious and outrageous on TV a few times. Guh.

The Pistols are pretty much Example A of why American punk is so much better than British punk. Dude, they have a song whining about major labels not siging them. STFU. Do it yourself. We didn't need corporate overlords like you did.

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no arguments here.

while i do like several songs on 'never mind the bollocks', the reality is they were more posers than punk. they might've given the movement as a whole some media attention, but their music & attitude hardly influenced any punk bands. perhaps, if anything, they inspired some (mostly) next-gen glam washouts to start some bands, but that's the extent of it. IMO of course....