Here We Go!
Another item from my Sex Pistols collection!
This time, I’m taking a look at…
No Feelings (GDR CD 9123)!
An Italian bootleg CD featuring a compilation of live recordings from various Sex Pistols gigs.
🧷 Basic Specs
- Title: No Feelings
- Artist: Sex Pistols
- Format: CD
- Release Date: April 1991
- Country: Italy
- Label / Catalogue Number: Great Dane Records / GDR CD 9123
- Packaging: Standard jewel case
🧷 Tracklist
- Pretty Vacant
- Holidays In The Sun
- EMI
- Delson Was A Gas
- Problems
- God Save The Queen
- Seventeen
- Anarchy In The U.K.
- Satellite
- No Feeling
- Submission
- I Wanna Be Me
- I’m A Lazy Sod
- New York
- Don’t Give Me No Lip
- Stepping Zone
- Liar
- Substitute
- No Fun
Some of the song titles are misspelt, but I’ve listed them exactly as they appear on the CD.
The correct titles are:
4. Belsen Was A Gas
10. No Feelings
16. Stepping Stone
Pressing & Variant Details
✔️ Disc Details
There are spelling mistakes on the disc label too.
It’s not that the titles have been translated into Italian just because this is an Italian release. They’re simply misspelt English titles.
✔️ Cover / Booklet
▼ The front cover. Surely they could have found a better photograph…
▼ The back is just as blurry.
Glen Matlock is credited as the bassist, but the photograph shows Sid!
▼ The rear inlay is identical to the back of the booklet.
▼ Inside the booklet.
▼ There’s no information about the band inside. Instead, the booklet contains a Great Dane Records mail-order catalogue.
It features live recordings from the 1960s and 1970s, including artists such as The Doors, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and David Bowie.
🧷 Collector’s Notes
✔️ Where Were These Tracks Actually Recorded?
According to the booklet and rear inlay, the recordings are from:
- Tracks 1–11: Live in England, 1977
- Tracks 12–19: Live in London, 24 September 1976
However, there are several corrections to these details, so I compared the tracks with various other bootleg CDs and LPs.
| Tracks | Discogs Notes | User Comment | My Findings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Atlanta | Halmstad | ✅ Halmstad |
| 2 | Atlanta | San Francisco | ✅ San Francisco |
| 3, 5–8, 11 | Stockholm | — | ✅ Stockholm |
| 4 | San Francisco | — | ✅ San Francisco |
| 9 | Burton-on-Trent | Cleethorpes | ❓ Unconfirmed |
| 10 | Halmstad | — | ✅ Halmstad |
| 12–19 | Burton-on-Trent | — | ✅ Burton-on-Trent |
Note: You can scroll the table horizontally.
The Discogs user comment also provides some information about where the recordings were sourced from:
- Tracks 1–6: Taken from side B of Anarchy World Wide
- Tracks 7–10: Taken from side B of Cash From Chaos
Apart from track 9, my comparisons matched the information in the Discogs Notes and user comment.
Track 9, “Satellite”, remains unconfirmed because I couldn’t find a suitable recording to compare it with. However, it certainly doesn’t sound like the Burton-on-Trent performance.
So, in the end, this CD is basically a bootleg of other bootlegs!
The tracks taken from better-quality sources are listenable enough, but overall, the sound quality is pretty poor.
✔️ How Much Did It Cost Back Then?
The Discogs user comment also mentions the original price, saying that £27 (approximately ¥6,400 at 1991 exchange rates) was far too much to pay for a CD like this.
However, the catalogue actually shows £27.000.
Could this be a reference to Italian lire rather than British pounds?
I think it’s more likely to mean ₤27,000 (27,000 Italian lire, approximately ¥3,000 at 1991 exchange rates).
The catalogue also lists a price of $22.00 (approximately ¥3,000 at 1991 exchange rates), which would have been a fairly normal price for a new CD at the time.
Whether the contents were worth the money is another matter…
Quite a difference, just because of the currency! Haha.
🧷 Coming Up Next
Next time, I’m planning to introduce We’ve Cum For Your Children (Wanted: The Goodman Tapes)!
Stay tuned!
byebye👋
For collectors interested in Japanese editions
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