I think that the Sex Pistols are crappish/overglazed, at least in comparison to PiL. PiL is the real height of John Lydon's works.
It is definitely a real fact of this reality that USUALLY a band's first album is their best bcuz of them having more energy, the albums made when band are geezers being lesser works = less mojo. 80s metallica > current met., black sabbath > ozzy's latest, the cure boys dont cry > songs of lost world etc.
The average expectaction a person has of a band is spectrum running from one hit wonder all the way to something like rob zombie, the quality deteroriating/tapering off at a really really slow pace. John Lydonds career would look like /^\ a case that is rare or at least messes with the ram chip, the expectations, the framework of thinking of a normal person somewhat.
PiL as a project actually has effort put in & more creatvity. The only one yellow sex pistols album has the same background rambly repeateed guitar chords with alternating gross attention-seeking pro-abortion screaming lyrics and calling the queen a fascist for some retard reason. PIL doesn't drone-on repetitively & yellingly like sex pistols because Pil's albums definitely were written a real episode of mania of new ideas falling into the bands heads, too fast to operate with, too many ideas short time.
Even the tracklist and themes of nevermind the bollocks smells a bit manufactured or company-invented but I'm not sure.
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