5th, November 1977 The sex Pistols album 'Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols' reviewed by Jon Savage. "As rock 'n' roll, can't be faulted." @sexpistolsofficial.bsky.social @glenmatlock.bsky.social @jonsavage.bsky.social

An article on Magazine by Jon Savage in Sounds 5th, November 1977. Pics by Kevin Cummins. @jonsavage.bsky.social @kcmanc.bsky.social

Singles reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 5th, November 1977 including Buzzcocks 'Orgasm Addict', Devo, Pere Ubu, John Otway and many more. @buzzcocks.com @jonsavage.bsky.social

RIP Peter Watkins: his film The War Game is the most frightening I’ve ever seen: it changed my life when I saw it at 15. Nothing was the same afterwards. I wrote about it at length in 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded

After reading the Daniel Rachel timely book about Rock’s fascination with Nazi symbolism - I went back to my first fanzine London’s Outrage and this is what I wrote in December 1976 after seeing punks wearing swastika and getting freaked out

Very pleased to receive this new book by Daniel Rachel - a catalogue of Rock’s flirtation with fascist symbolism that builds into a relentless polemic. Important and timely

At the John Swarbrooke Fine Art Denton Welch show. Huge fan of his writing as a late teenager and bought a drawing at the 1985 Castelnau show. In front of the great 1935 portrait by Gerald Leet

Really enjoying this memoir from a different time and place: women in a boys’ world, Manhattan when it was full of space, creativity and danger. Highly recommend. Published next year

Very excited to get this great Les Petites Bon-Bons package from Boo-Hooray to celebrate (Bobby Bon Bon) Robert Lambert’s recent appearance at Printed Matter Art Book Fair in NY #anewbohemia

Buzzcocks, Magazine, John Cooper Clarke, The Worst, The Fall, The Prefects, The Negatives and Warsaw's gig at the Electric Circus, Manchester reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 15th, October 1977. @jonsavage.bsky.social @buzzcocks.com

Sun at last

Bought OTD in 1971: ok one day we had a contest at school: who had the heaviest record? My peers brought in Purple and Sabbath and smirked until I put on Sister Ray - cleared the room. Love this record - the insane bass on White Light, the guitar explosions on Call My Name and still Sister Ray

Penetration's album 'Moving Targets' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 14th, October 1978. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Bought OTD in 1972: another proper 1967 psych album. Doesn’t have a first class rep but so what - it’s charming, tuneful, inventive and light. Look At Me I’m You is mundanity transformed by musique concrete, Frozen Dog rocks, People of the Royal Parks a protest against a more regimented time. Dig it

Bought OTD in 1972: and the future. The hits are on the first side but the second is more experimental and far stranger. Postmodern pop with emotion and sound combinations never heard before - oboe with guitar and synth - culminating in the space age torch song Sea Breezes

Bought OTD in 1972: one of two, the past and the future. This is a proper 1967 psych album - not too many of those - with jammy excursions, sitar drenched Dave Mason songs and Steve Winwood’s beautiful No Face No Name No Number. One last rave up on the title track too

Bought OTD in 1970: this was a huge one for me at the time - twisted psych blues with a unique vision. So many great songs: Electricity. Plastic Factory, Yellow Brick Road, Sure ‘Nuff, Zig Zag Wanderer, Dropout Boogie. The one that crept up on me: the version of Robert Williams’ Grown So Ugly

I’m obsessed with this record at the moment - a perfect mix of melody, deep feeling and the complexities of love. Arthur as June Alexander’s first record, from around 1960. Dylan covered it but the original is just wonderful (repro 45) m.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ky...

Sounds Singles Page reviewed by Jon Savage, 7th, October 1978. Including Public Image, Cabaret Voltaire, Penetration, Stiff Little Fingers and The Yachts. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Very pleased to have images from my early 77 fanzine London’s Outrage 2 (photos taken from the Uninhabited London series) in the Rock’n Roll Public Library zine #2

1st, October 1977 an article on The Heartbreakers by Jon Savage and pics by Andre Csillag and Ray Stevenson. "....you can be an asshole and still be a rock'n'roll star. (Laughter)." @jonsavage.bsky.social

The Heartbreakers' album 'L.A.M.F.' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 1st, October 1977 . @jonsavage.bsky.social

46 years ago today, @jonsavage.bsky.social reviewed Wire's "154" for the Melody Maker (29 September 1979). @robertrotifer.bsky.social

46 years ago today, @jonsavage.bsky.social reviewed Wire's "154" for the Melody Maker (29 September 1979).

Don't recall seeing at the time, directed by Derek Jarman. I think I learned about it from a post by @jonsavage.bsky.social

Ace live version of Hero by Neu! in 1974/5 - pre punk or what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPuB...

Talking about the new Ace comp, 1986-1990 Rollin Under the Melody with John Robb louderthanwar.com/jon-savage/

Buzzcocks album 'Love Bites' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 23rd, September 1978. @buzzcocks.com @jonsavage.bsky.social

Bought OTD in 1972: very late SF plus a Grateful Dead solo album to boot. I like it more than any of the others at the same time (Weir, Garcia). It’s got a great Kelley/ Mouse cover, the best version of Playing In The Band, Shoshone chants andcool originals Fletcher Carnaby and Blind Man

Bought OTD in 1972: covers of James Brown, Paul Simon and psychedelic Beatles (Rain, Day Tripper) ? Check. Groovy hard rock opener (Downer) ? Check. Cool flash and energy from post Spirit Randy California - gratefully received in the hard rock desert of 1972

Bought OTD in 1972: a very big album for me - a guitar symphony topped by Ron Elliot’s tricksy, hypnotic songs and Sal Valentino’emotional vocals. Plays well all the way through but stand outs are Turn Around, Deep Water, Little Bird, I’m A Sleeper and the infinite strings of Cherokee Girl

Bought OTD in 1970: possibly the last good Byrds album. A bit enervated but has social consciousness (Woody Guthrie’s Deportee) and a mood of sad regret. Sold by the title song, it’s uplifted by a a gorgeous version of Pamela Polland’s Tulsa County Blue - which we comped on Meridian 1970

Bought OTD in 1971: love the whole thing now but initially it was sides C+D: Rainy Day, Watchtower, House Burning, Voodoo Chile. Midnight Lamp is my favourite single and the long Voodoo really works. This was the big statement, capped by the ambient, oceanic 1983 - incredible

Bought OTD in 1972: a rarity, a proper live 60s album. Partly overdubbed screams of course and ragged performances but it’s a treat. The medley is great and You’re Looking Fine (sung by Dave) rocks harder than the studio version. The US edition of Kelvin Hall, packaged with faux Monterey relevance

Bought OTD in 1971: I had a very battered UK first issue but upgraded to this brand new MGM UK reissue. With US cover. It’s threatening and I love all of it, the quieter songs, the jams, the big statements but above all the insane drones: Venus in Furs, Black Angel’s Death Song

Bought OTD in 1971: this contains the long form version of The Hit - a teenage party perennial - but I prefer Free when they’re slow and spacey: Oh I Wept, Heavy Load. Exception to the rule: Mr Big, with its stick-it-to-the-man lyrics, extended drone and popping bass solo by Andy Fraser

Bought OTD in 1971: under a quid. The forgotten third album, this is a really great record. The boogies are fast work and the other songs veer from heartfelt (I Am Not Willing, What’s to Choose) to flat out nihilistic (Captain, Going Nowhere). And then there’s the shattering Skip Spence Seeing

Finished copies have arrived! The last in the series? Out at end of month - order details at www.acerecords.co.uk/jon-savages-...

Bought OTD in 1969: I bought the hype on this one as well. Apart from the awful cover - not reproduced - it’s held up ok. The big rock songs - Had To Cry and Presence - are ponderous but the cover of Well All Right is great and Sea of Joy cool psych. Best by far: Winwood’s Can’t Find My Way Home

Birthday boy last night

Bought OTD in 1969: ok so I bought the hype on this one. Ex Hendrix, gimmick fold out cover and….its ok. Near generic psych shading at times into prog with some charming pop sike tunes - Magic Forest, Petrol Pump Assistant, Walking Thru A Garden. I like it for nostalgic reasons but it’s a bit flat

Bought OTD in 1970: this was a holy grail after Greil Marcus’ rave review in RS - great piece of writing. Found it by chance in Amsterdam. It was initially intimidating- entry points Little Hands and War in Peace. One of my favourite albums ever: smart, funny, spacey, disassociated and unflinching

Bought OTD in 1970: big Dylan bootleg year. Wish he’d released this instead of the dry, dirgey JWH: 15 songs that vary from serious and profound to loose, funny and rude. Plenty of hits for other people but Quinn the Eskimo, Please Mrs Henry and Yeah, Heavy and a bottle of breath are brilliant

Bought OTD in 1972: this was huge, with first side classics Life on Mars, Changes, Oh! You Pretty Things and second side brainstorms Andy Warhol and The Bewlay Brothers. Still in singer songwriter mode but the one rocker - Queen Bitch - V.U. Returned with thanks - changed my life. Choo’ betcha

Bought OTD in 1972: 50p, my favourite Kinks album - each song different with instruments, arrangements, vocals - and sound effects - changing to suit the song. There’s a bit of filler but Party Line, Rosy, Dandy, Too Much on My Mind, Sunny Afternoon - and the wonderful, elliptical drone Fancy

RIP Joe Stevens 25/7/38-26/8/25 - stylish and timely photographer. He got the pictures that told a story. Like this one, taken when the Sex Pistols played Andrew Logan’s loft on 14/2/76: Jordan being stripped by Rotten in the name of publicity. Extracts from Stevens’ England’s Dreaming interview

Bought OTD in 1972: good time to pick up psych albums cheap. This has really held up: great tunes, ringing clear production, cool psych effects and emotional heft in the songs and storyline. Listen to S.F.Sorrow, She Says Good Morning, I See you, and the concluding heartache, Loneliest Person

Bought OTD in 1970: canonical now but not so then. I loved Them so took a punt. It is everything that people say about it, with standouts Madame George and the title track, but the track that gets me now is the concluding Slim Slo Slider: ‘Every time I see you I just don’t know what to do’

Bought OTD in 1970: Not a bad cut on this one - a classic with the ambient Song For Our Ancestors and the all out rockers Dime A Dance Romance and Living in the USA. With some ups and downs Miller kept on making great records into the 80s, most notably the Loft classic, 16 minutes of Macho City

The history of Music Papers and Fanzines by Giovanni Dadomo and Jon Savage in Sounds 20th, August 1977. @jonsavage.bsky.social