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  • just love the "HD" in the title "rofl"

  • now these guys were cool...not like those phony clash

  • fap fap fap

  • who gives a fuk . be4 during after the pistols. they werr whot they werr .. just enjoy..

  • Glen Matlock, who btw wrote this song, will be playing Chicago on March 1st.

  • Best first 30 seconds of any rock song ever!

  • The looks I got on non-uniform day wearing a Sex Pistols t-shirt :D

  • @livylouluvstw never mind the bollocks!!!

  • Haha The Sex Pistols FTW

  • Never mind all those old stately homes and castles.

    The UK National Trust should own this video as its an important and valuable piece of UK history.

  • does sid know how to play bass, cuz he keeps holding his hand in the same position

  • @sinisan14 He COULD play bass but he just wasn't good enough to be able to play one of these tunes. He could play a whole entire Ramones album on bass even though he wasn't familiar with Bass at all.

  • @sinisan14 no he never learned. check it out he didnt even record the bass tracks on the album, the guitarist did.

  • Gordon Ramsey on drum

  • CUNT oh my

  • sid vicius is the best

    

  • thank god the sex pistols aren't on vevo...

  • If there was no sex pistols. There would be no Factory, Joy Division, New Order, Hacienda, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Oasis

  • sex pistols...3 black leather hard rockers and 1 mod.

  • I sure wish the generation from now would play this type of music..but sadly no...we have fagget ass Justin bieber... !sex pistols! :D

  • Great Rock and Roll. They were of course a manufactured band, like the Monkees

  • @simmo2303 The sex pistols wanted nothing to do with rock and roll. Yes they were manufactured, but they were not rock and roll. And comparing them to the Monkees is ridiculous. Completely different musical style. The Sex PIstols were Punk rock whereas the Monkees were more bubblegum/ pop rock.

  • @simmo2303

    They were not manufactured in any way or form whatsoever. If you read your history on this band it was Steve Jones who pestered Maclaren to manage them. Jones was young/clueless jailbird potential and approached Maclaren as he did not know where else to turn to. Maclaren was at first not interested and it was only because he took a shining to Jones he took interest. No way was it manufactured. They were not created on the west coast of USA for a TV audience to sell margarine in 1975.

  • ANGST!!!!!

    

  • and I Love the fact that Glen matlock was inspired by Abba's SOS piano intro to come up with the Pretty Vacant intro....and I never knew that till a few years ago..

  • I had this track in my head all day...

  • Love this song

  • Glen Matlock wrote this song, lyrics, music and all. Sid Vicious was a talentless fuckwit!!

  • @wideernie Fuck off. He was just misunderstood. He fucked up with the drugs, but everyone makes mistakes.

  • @wideernie Rotten/Lydon wrote the lyrics. He gave the intellectual backing to the Pistols without which they would be nowhere near as good as they were.

  • @Easyandy100

    Matlock wrote all the lyrics bar one line which was "we know what we feel" after the line "stop their cheap comment". It's in Matlock's book. All the other song lyrics are Lydon's, fair enough.

  • @wideernie I didn't know that. I thought Lydon wrote the 'Pretty Va cunt' so get an expletive on the radio. I will get the book. Cheers.

  • the band is about as rock n roll as you can get in my opinion, they did give it everything didnt give a fuck what people thought, what people said or fuck all just a group of lads saying fuck you we are the sex pistols take it or leave it

  • wt is this song content

  • Kosovo is forever Serbia

    

  • @EVMC3577

    neka si im rekao!

  • looove the pistols check out my acoustic cover of anarchy in the uk :)

  • 23 people in the world with whom I know I would have absolutely nothing in common with.

  • the only man to ever look cool in a knotted hanky...Steve Jones !!

  • glen was kicked out for liking the beatles lol

  • Mortal ese sonido de guitar inicial!

  • BRILLIANT

  • Best intro ever

  • Glen should come back....

  • proper fucking punk...

  • This is the real face of England. Not Harry pitter :-)

  • Simple memorable rift is the magic to any classic punk and no one mastered this better than the SP, a magical combination, would not have been the same without Sid,,

  • @21fruitbat eehh duuuh, but they never wrote any music with sid

  • This band was AMAZING!

  • The pistols were a killer band,but I can't understand why they didn't hire a real bass player after John Matlock left,instead of hiring Johnny Rottons friend.Sid Vicious.A self destructive junkie who had to be taught the bass,and still couldnt play it,so instead he just destroyed the band out of existance,by focusing everyone on him and his girlfriend Nancy's stupidity and dope addiction, among other things.The music went out the window.And thats a shame.

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  • WE NEED A REVOLUTION AND HAVE PRETTY VACANT AS OUR ANTHEM

  • @roryphelan Seriously to make a comment like that shows just how much you miss the whole point of what punk was trying to say and there is no point trying to explain it to you because you just dont get it ...... man !

  • @Blitzkriegpunk77 the thing that people forget when they go on about punk and the sexpistols was that they were actually an awesome band and made a few awesome records

  • THIS IS EVEN BETTER THAN SEX!

  • I want to like this song, but Johnny Rotten is wearing sunglasses. And its not bright.

  • THE most recognised start to any punk tune EVER. . . . END OF!!!!

  • @mblism Oh no, it's God Save The Queen. The only number 1 song to have been taken off number 1 BY THE GOVERNMENT!!!

  • punk ruled the late 70's and early 80's

  • watch this and weep FRANKIE COCOZZA.

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  • @flaxonx3

    Punk rock in Europe 1976-77 was a kind of Reformation of rock music. Too many were sick and tired of that nice, clean and sterile glamour rock. They wanted to pull off the plug of shit pipe.

  • true legends... THE PISTOLS INVENTED PUNK

  • When I first heard these guys I didnt pay much attention. I listen anarchy in the UK and God Save the Queen and I said okay cool songs nothin special then I listen to this and ''No Feelings'' and fuck my brains out it all changed. Raw sound lyrics and an attitude seen in a few. Okay Pistols the more I listen to you the more I love it.

  • Remember watching this when it was first aired T.O.T.P.s....was never the same person again ;~)

  • actually johnny rotten is pretty ugly

  • Milestones of western cultural decadence: French Revolution --->spagetti western --->Sex Pistols. They all were quite impressive too.

  • It was Rotten's contempt for the rock establishment that made their short existence inevitable. He didn't want to become the thing he loathed i.e an established rock band and all the fake nonsense that goes with it. The original intention was to destroy the rock industry not be a slave to it. If they had continued, it would have been a humiliating admission of failure. Of course all principles went AWOL with that dreadful reunion in the 90s but that was typical of that nasty decade.

  • @flaxonx3 you sir, deserve a Nobel Prize, no kidding

  • @0mgwtfbbq21 meant price, stupid illiterate (me)

  • @flaxonx3

    So what was PIL... an established touring band over 20 years and several albums. I don't really think you can say Lydon ceased the Sex Pistols because of 'contempt for the rock establishment '.

    I would say it was because the band had spun out of control and was in free fall. It was inevitable it would self destruct when you consider the band was mis-managed. McClaran was out of his depth and Branson was clueless as he had previously only had success with sedate hippy Mike Oldfield.

  • @MENSFORTHHILL99 Fair point but there was a bit of deliberate loss of control when you decide to tour 'cowboy country' rather the established spots on the US tour. Guess I was trying to picture Lydon's mind in early 1978 rather than the what has transpired since but as with all revolutions the establishment of the seventies he loathed was replaced by the one he helped found and which he has benefited from lucratively since.

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  • I would love to see Justin Bieber after 6 weeks on a tour bus with these guys. Open his fucking eyes

  • @lipsandhooves rape  justin bieber

  • sex pistols comeback would be cool,or some concert!! :D

  • why does everyone hate sid?

  • i would want to suck them all

  • jones is the bollox

  • Sid Vicious didn't play bass on this track or any other recorded material, it was all Glen Matlock. Fuckin' dumb milk sop :P

  • @meansofbeams Actually no it wasn't. Glen was kicked out of the band in '77. No one played bass on stage and Steve Jones did the bass for studio recordings.

  • @MerVicious Have you got the album Never Mind The Bollocks here's the Sex Pistols ??? It clearly states Jones, Rotten, Cook, Matlock. Pretty Vacant...is from Never Mind the Bollocks... You're telling me Steve Jones played bass for studio recordings, you my friend are talking shit. Jones was on guitar, Matlock was on bass. Wait till your bollocks have dropped b4 you try preaching to the choir, in fact, never mind the bollocks, you're vacant !

  • @meansofbeams Are you retarded? Of course Matlock would be on the album. He wrote Pretty Vacant and did the bass for Anarchy in the UK before he was dropped. I've watched enough documentaries and interviews to know for a fact that Steve played the bass lines in studio.

    "As well as lead guitar, he played many of the bass guitar parts on the Never Mind The Bollocks album. Glen Matlock's playing appeared on the tracks recorded when he was still in the band."

    Fuck you

  • @meansofbeams FRAID YOUR WRONG THERE MATE GLEN PLAYED ON ANARCHY AND LEFT THE BAND BEFORE THE REST OF THE TRACKS WERE LAID DOWN,YOU CAN KIND OF TELL BECAUSE ITS THE ONLY TRACK ON NMTB WITH A DEFINATIVE BASS LINE JONESY PLAYED THE BASS ON THE REST AND JUST STUCK IT TIGHT TO THE GUITAR....WHATEVER THE CASE A FUCKING FANTASTIC ALBUM

  • @fringecakeboy

    Yes your're right Jonesy played bass on almost all of the tracks on Bollocks,But Sid took up the touring bass playing after Matlock left and it was a dumb move on every level.Exept maybe he looked like a perfect Sex Pistol. Attitude and Looks. Maybe they were coming apart at the seams anyway by the time Vicious arrived,but once he got there it was bound to blow apart.

  • OH WE'RE SO PRETTY OH SO PRETTY

  • Sounds like vicious can play bass to me.....

  • when you look at johny rotten in 1977,he added some laughs to the recording studio sessions,r.i.p johny

  • @JOHNBEAR2 ...Johnny Rotten's still alive.

  • you can tell jonneys extremly high on heroin

  • Some time very soon the Sex Pistols will be re-discovered by a new generation of rock fans who will then realise just how bland and soppy the 'pop-music ' they now listen to really is!! This original and all-time great group will be among the legends where they belong!!

  • @MikeMuk1 Well I was not around when the Sex Pistols were actually a band. But I (although I'd heard them first about 12 years ago) have loved them more, for the past few years. So I and, am sure many others are doing what you mention, now! haha. Although what you mentioned in one way has probabaly happened before but with bad results, ie. American "pop punk" bands imitating in a not as powerful meaningful way hah.

  • @MikeMuk1 fuk me youve got faith thatas a little bit like saying capitalism will eat itself and guess what theve been saying that for years

  • @annabatarowicz and guess what, in the Euro zone and America that is exactly what's happening..the whole financial system is an absolute joke. America will never be able to pay off it's debt (to whom?) but they'll keep on printing money regardless. Be interesting to the debt collectors move in

  • I wish i could of seen the pistols when they were first starting out... I mean opening up for Joe Strummers 101ers band. Would of been a kick to see.

  • Seriously, probably one of the best punk/rock/folk/dance/hiphop/tr­iphop/classical tracks that's been recorded! As for the video, well Cid looks great! nuff said.

  • Johnny & Sid look fantastic here!!!

    (Steve & Paul too). ;)

  • punk: being pretty vacant, I wanna be me, and it's no fun

  • JR sounds like Frank Spencer on drugs in this vid!  Love the song tho!!

  • I like Johnny and Steve their cool.

  • they just like wearing filthy clothes and swapping filthy jokes......LEGENDS

  • Where is HD? x'D

  • Hey im ten and i like old music because its old. not good.

    YAWWWN

  • holy crap!! are the sex pistols the coolest or what???? I LOVE U SID VICIOUS! IF U WERE STILL ALIVE I WOULD FUCKIN MARRY YOU!!! sorry nancy... i love him more than yoooooou!!! so :P

  • Q GOL LES METIO EL DIEGO 10 FOR EVER

  • I don't get the point of stupid people voting "dislike" all the fucking time even when the video is good. If you don't like don't get the fuck in, you morons!!

  • for some good rock music hot off the god damn press put this in the search bar:

    Workin' Man Zombie ( Official Video ) - Album 4x4 Available Now!

  • @louderpowder checked it out, i'm an instant fan! keep up the goodwork

  • @TheSexyPistols all you kids need to try harder. You fucking fail, there is still a lot of good rock music being made. Of course your not going to find good music if you dont look outside corporate radio and mtv.

  • Punks not dead- Im 44 and still the same as i was at 12 Vive Le Rock.

  • i was born in '92, always wanted to live in '77.... even if i actually like clash or ramones more than pistols, who were a band created by McLaren to make money... i'm italian, maybe i can't understand american or british punk scene, but italian one now sucks, it always sucked, but now is fully crap...

  • The best music video ever! I had a ticket to see these at the bamboo club in Bristol, someone burned the club down though. Gutted!

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  • @TheSexyPistols I made my self the same question, why the fuck I born in the 90s. This music suks, maybe the 90 was the lasts years of good music, and de millenium fucked up everything

    P.D: Am 14 and I love everything call Rock and Heavy Metal and PUNK!

  • expect this when you call ebay or paypal

  • this is punk! all this crap today is a super watered down bullshit version of this

  • @zaqua3 the crap today doesnt deserve to be categorized in the same genre and style

  • love that guitar riff.........................

  • The greatest intro of all time, bar none!

  • the only band where the bassist is more popular than the rest of the band !

  • This video is Jesus!!!!! Man, I love Sid Vicious!!!!!!

  • still gives me shivers to watch, unequivocal & great

  • We're so pretty

    We're so pretty....

    Vaaaacccc-----CUNT!

  • LOVE<333333333333333333333

  • i still can´t belive how people love vicious, he was the cause of the end of sex pistols, he is just a fucking drugg addict, rotten rules

  • @hansikm013 they like him for being the "attitude" of punk... thats about it, as far as talent goes, a retarded midget with no hands is better :P

  • @hansikm013 I guess cause he's an icon that the punk culture has made him out to be, but your right he is kind of pathetic, but sad

  • @hansikm013 so ture!!!

  • @hansikm013 He fuckin' looked cool.....

  • @hansikm013 He was a sex god thats why

  • @hansikm013 dont blame vicious blame the chick who got him addicted to drugs

  • @hansikm013 Sid Vicious was NOT the end of the Pistols. Lydon kicked out Glen Matlock, who was the best songwriter in the group. McLaren poisoned everyone's mind against each other, so Lydon wasn't on speaking terms with Jones or Cook. Lydon also thought the band had lost its point by becoming a meaningless touring rock band, which is why he left it to start Public Image Ltd., which he considered an anti-rock band.

  • @HyenaJourno Spot on! plus Sid might have looked good but was next to fuckin useless on the bass so the writing was on the wall!

  • @Robcatist Sounds fine to me, theyre not trying to be Rush ya know....

  • @Robcatist

    ...and you must be reading my mind....

    If he could of played great bass and wasn't a self destructive idiotic junkie,it could of been great.I mean he LUCKED into a dream come true of entering into an already established popular recording and touring band and threw it all away for himself, and everyone else in the group,(and their fans). Like a selfish dumb wanna be junkie.But Hey"That's Punk Rock!!! NOT!

  • @HyenaJourno spot on young man

  • @hansikm013 fuck off!!

  • @souk766 do whatever, say whatever but it´s true, vicious was the cause of sex pistols end

  • @hansikm013 seriously i feel it was nancy if the movie sid n nancy was correct bout how everything in both their lives went down then i say it was nancy who cause the break up of the sex pistols and of course sid was blind not just blinded by drugs but blinded by love ie being in love with nancy and listening n doing everything she said

  • @hansikm013 It wasn't Sid, Rotton even said it himself that they were not having fun anymore.. they were getting too big, too popular, too well known. Sure Sid's drug use made it harder for them but he wasn't there downfall.

  • johnny looks like thom yorke in the video of creep

  • @hilliuno Thom yorke shite though

  • Ain't been caring since 88.

  • This is probably my fave song on their album.... Ahhh, I'm in love with Sid and Johnny ;)

  • awsesome...this always makes me think of those Christian cheerleaders in my old high school

  • The "sea side hankie" on the head of Steve Jones seems as brilliant today as it was back then.

  • i fucking love Sid but he couldnt play bass but Craggerlee i agree with you that guy should fuck off

  • hahahaha look at the fuckin pussy pretend to play bass

    glad your dead sid :)

  • @0MULCH0 Fuck off you cunt .......Johnny rotten would of said that to you ;(

  • @0MULCH0 Hahahaha look at the fucking pussy pretending to play bass yet people still idolize him 30 years after his death.... wow great burn man! when are you going to add in the part about you? how you will be forgotten by the rest of the world pretty much instantly only family to mourn over you while sid is loved by millions.

    new flash man its punk..

  • @LocalHippie420 whatever swing on sids dick... i could give a fuck

  • I'm Pretty.....PRETTY VACANT !

  • before i first listened to the sex pistols, i was a insecure girl who listened to death cab for cutie and jack johnson, that sort of crap. this band changed my life in ways that no other band today could. they started me on punk, on social justice, on class wars, on gender issues and feminism, on riot grrrl punk, on anarchy, on empowerment through rebellion. they helped give a scared girl courage, and to me that's pretty revolutionary.

  • This song, this vid, this band, this attitude was exactly what I was craving for as a stinky little teenager skateboarding around Melbourne (Aust). Like most of you, I was never the same again.., gladly. Waited until 1997, the 'filthy lucre tour, to see then. Though I did follow PIL around Melbourne when they toured in the 80's, nothing matched Johnny, Glen, Paul and Steve being "fat, forty and back" as Mr Rotten said.

  • I did this song on karaoke a few years ago. I thought I was gonna get chinned...

  • I was only 2 years old when this came out but I can just imagine what a hammer smack in the face it was to all the prog rock bollocks and inane music that was around at the time.

    Just fucking awesome.

  • none of that new piss for me just classic punk rock

  • 0:45 - 0:48 and 1:16 - 1:18. noel gallaghers textbook.

  • Directed by Mike Mansfield, what the camp bloke from Supersonic? The champion of seventies glitterati Gary Glitter, Bay City Rollers, Rubettes et al. Surely not!!

  • Musically, they can't play...hahahaha, that's what the press said. Only Sid couldn't play, these guys rocked and still do to this day!

  • im way to young to be fans but i like them anyway woot! like if ya wqanna bring back true punk like this

  • Musically they were fucking awful but still he most important band to come from the UK since Zep...35 years ago....That's fucking criminal.

  • My favorite sex pistol's song.

  • great song

  • god save jonny and the pistols god save punk swot its all about ....

  • "You want some pizza, Johnny?"