The Sex Pistols - Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle

Originally released in 1979 as the soundtrack to a documentary that marked the rocket rise and flaming crash of the SexPistols, the Great Rock & Roll Swindle was really Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren's cinematic (and vinyl) potshot at the music industry he despised. Engaged in vicious legal battles with Johnny Rotten, Warner Brothers Records and Virgin Records, McLaren fought back in the only way he knew how, by raising hell and documenting the whole bloody mess. By the time the Great Rock & Roll Swindle was released, the punk-era soap opera had ended: Sid Vicious was dead and Rotten had formed Public Image Limited. Probably best known for Vicious' tortured deconstruction of 'My Way', the 21-track compilation features seven tracks by the Pistols even though Rotten only appears in the film via archival footage-as well as songs by Tenpole Tudor, Ronnie Biggs and others. Curiosities abound, including a French version of 'Anarchy in the U.K', drunken rugby songs, and the fey, McLaren- crooned 'You Need Hands'. Both ragged and riveting, the Great Rock & Roll Swindle is a fascinating, screaming document of the tattered remains of one of the most explosive moments in rock history. EMI.

1) God Save the Queen (Symphony)
2) Johnny B. Goode/Road Runner
3) Black Arabs
4) Anarchy in the U.K
5) Substitute
6) Don't Give Me No Lip Child
7) Stepping Stone (I'm Not Your)
8) L'anarchie Pour Le U.K
9) Belsen Was a Gas
10) Einmal War Belsen Wirflich Bortrefflich (Belsen Vos a Gassa)
11) Silly Thing
12) My Way
13) I Wanna Be Me
14) Something Else
15) Rock Around the Clock
16) Lonely Boy
17) No One Is Innocent
18) C'mon Everybody
19) EMI (Orch.)
20) The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle
21) Friggin' in the Riggin'
22) You Need Hands
23) Who Killed Bambi
24) Friggin' in the Riggin'