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Nostalgic right down to the faded insert printed inside, "There Is No Future" is the Sex Pistols naturally at their worst which in itself should be music to the ears of the Hard-Core purists who've never forgotten where they were the first time they heard "Anarchy In The UK," or "God Save The Queen…" even if the contents herein isn't… music that is. Hey The Pistols' would never go down in history as the most instrumentally inclined, that's what endeared 'em to a whole new generation of Punk followers and so much so that from only that one recording, the genre-breaking, ground-breaking, ball-breaking, Hell put anything in front of the damned thing and odds are it have broken it, "Never Mind The Bollocks…" that first put 'em on the map back in '77. They've survived amongst the standard bearers if not the standard bearer for the many UK Punkers to follow, of which there've been many.
The cool thing about this one is… well it's still the Sex Pistols, in raw, rare and expectedly dodgy form -- and I mean we're going way back here before Vicious Sid made his way into the band and just prior to hit bout with Rock & Roll infamy -- the many favorites from the beginning appearing here for the first time. Ragged early demos, live clips, two versions of "Anarchy In The UK…" okay, so where was something like this when Lydon and the boys were out there on the comeback trail? Maybe the timing's off but then their timing's been off since day one and amazingly enough "No Future," prophetic for sure, but they've made a Hell of a career out of their short-lived twenty-four month past!

The tunes are mercifully remastered and contain anything and everything one would wanna concern themselves with -- "Pretty Vacant," twice actually, first and thirteenth, the "Anarchy" twins, one old, one new, we'll call it the "Pour me a double… cheers mate," version even if they don't, you'll understand… "Problems," and a sloppy as shit live in-studio(?) version of The Who's "Substitute" to close out -- I mean there's no way they can pull off a bootleg that clean…

Got a few quick historical notes to go with this U.S. virgin release and sixteen cuts that like they say in the write up "Will burn a hole in your CD machine…" and apparently it does cuz the fucking thing just crapped out at the start of track four!