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Sex Pistols collection post!
This time it’s…
The Universal Music limited edition of Never Mind the Bollocks, with an obi strip reproducing the original Nippon Columbia design!
A Japan press LP, cut at Abbey Road Studios!
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🧷 Basic Specs
- Title: Never Mind the Bollocks
- Artist: Sex Pistols
- Format: LP (33 1/3 RPM)
- Release date: 24 June 2026
- Label / Catalogue number: Universal Music / UIJY-75385
- Sleeve: Comes with an obi strip reproducing the Nippon Columbia pressing design
🧷 Track listing
Side A
- Holidays in the Sun
- Bodies
- No Feelings
- Liar
- God Save the Queen
- Problems
Side B
- Seventeen
- Anarchy in the U.K.
- Submission
- Pretty Vacant
- New York
- EMI
This one’s the 12-track configuration — Submission is in there.
🧷 Pressing / Variant Details
✔️ Matrix
- Side A: UILY-75385 SEXPISLP77 A1
- Side B: UILY-75385 SEXPISLP77 B1
✔️ Sleeve
The pink on the logo and the reverse is slightly muted — understated compared to what you might expect.
✔️ Labels
Side A: yellow background with a pink logo (text in yellow)
Side B: the reverse — pink background with a yellow logo (text in pink)
✔️ Insert
An 8-page booklet on clean coated stock. Includes liner notes by Junichi Yamada and lyrics with Japanese translations by Atsuko Numazaki.
🧷 Collector’s Notes
✔️ Obi strip
Including this Universal pressing, three analogue LPs have been released in Japan with an obi strip reproducing the Nippon Columbia design — the so-called “Kuro bukkake-obi.” The original Columbia pressing, the 30th Anniversary edition, and now this one.
Nippon Columbia pressing (left)
- The first domestic LP release in Japan, 1977 — 11 tracks
- The obi front carries the Nippon Columbia and centenary logos
- The reverse features a singles advertisement and a quote from Camus
30th Anniversary edition (centre)
- Configured to match the UK original (SPOTS 001 / V 2086), with a poster and a 7-inch of Submission included
- Released domestically with an original obi, Japanese liner notes, lyrics and translations
- Released by EMI Music Japan
- The obi reverse shares only the band logo with the Columbia original; everything else — album description, track listing — is different
Universal limited edition (right)
- The front is a faithful reproduction of the Columbia obi
- The reverse has been simplified to liner notes and track titles only — the band logo is gone
✔️ Jacket differences
The colour varies across all three.
The Universal pressing (left) is on the lighter side. The 30th Anniversary (centre) is the most vivid. The Nippon Columbia (right) has a slightly matte quality.
The 30th Anniversary is configured to the UK original spec, so the text has that characteristic faded look.
The Universal pressing is the only one of the three with 12 tracks, so Submission appears in the track listing. The wide obi covers it — but slide the obi across and the title comes into view underneath.
✔️ Label differences
All three labels are different.
The Nippon Columbia pressing has its traditional blue label.
The 30th Anniversary uses the gradient label matching the UK original.
✔️ Sound
The resolution is high and the sound opens up well — as you’d hope from an Abbey Road cutting on a new Japan press. No surface noise to speak of, which makes a difference.
That said, for all the fidelity to the original master, I still find the 11-track version rawer and more immediate. Personal preference, but there it is.
🧷 Coming up next
Next time: “Anarchy in Sweden ’77 EP.”
Stay tuned!
byebye👋
For collectors interested in Japanese editions
If you are drawn to the design and information found on Japanese releases, particularly obi strips, you may want to take a look at my Never Mind The Bollocks Japanese CD OBI Gallery.
This page organises each obi strip variation issued for the album individually, presenting the obi itself as the main focus in a collector-oriented reference format.
It is intended as an entry point for those interested in Japanese obi strips.
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