Here We Go！
This time it’s an early live recording: Aggression Thru Repression.
It’s a bootleg CD built mainly around solid live material from the Glen Matlock era, along with the Anarchy performance from a TV appearance and a GSTQ demo.
🧷 Basic Spec
- Title: Aggression Thru Repression
- Artist: Sex Pistols
- Format: CD
- Release year: 1992
- Label / Catalogue No.: Silver Rarities / SIRA 38
- Sleeve: Jewel case
🧷 Tracklist
- Did You No Wrong
- (Don’t You Give Me)No Lip
- Seventeen
- (I’m Not Your)Steppin’ Stone
- New York
- Whatcha Gonna Do About It
- Submissio（Submission）
- Satellite
- No Feelings
- No Fun
- Substitute
- Pretty Vacant
- Problem（Problems）
- Anarchy In The U.K.
- God Save The Queen（No Future）
- Flowers Of Romanc（Flowers Of Romance）
- I Wanna Be Me
- Liar
A few of the titles on the back are missing their last letter.
🧷 Pressing / Variant Details
✔️ Disc (label side)
Matrix: SIRA 38
There’s what looks like a “Silver Rarities” logo, along with a “GEMA” mark.
✔️ Sleeve / Packaging
It’s a shame, because the music’s good — the photos really aren’t up to much.
✔️ Booklet / Insert
The photos inside are a bit blurry too, but they’re a slight improvement on the cover.
🧷 Notes from a Collector’s Perspective
✔️ Track Sources
Tracks 1–13: Lesser Free Hall, 4th June 1976. No Fun from the encore isn’t included.
Track 14: the performance from their appearance on the TV programme So It Goes, broadcast on 4th September 1976. The opening Flowers (Of Romance) section has been cut. You can hear it on YouTube, or on Pirates Of Destiny’s Woodstock Baby.
Track 15: an extended GSTQ demo, running over five minutes.
Track 16: 100 Club, 29th June 1976.
Tracks 17–18: The Screen On The Green, 29th August 1976.
This material can also be heard on official releases such as SEX BOX1 and LIVE ’76.
This material can also be heard on official releases such as SEX BOX1 and LIVE ’76.
Currently available here:
▶ Amazon UK Live ’76
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✔️ Silver Rarities
Silver Rarities was a label active mainly in Europe during the bootleg boom of the 1990s. It seems to have released live recordings by a range of punk and rock artists under the same logo, as part of an ongoing series.
On the right-hand side of the disc, there’s a catalogue number: SIRA 38. SIRA is presumably an abbreviation of Silver Rarities, with 38 being some kind of sequential number.
Then there’s the GEMA mark. GEMA is the name of a German copyright collection society (Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte). On legitimate releases, it indicates that royalties have been paid — though it crops up on plenty of bootlegs from this period too.
At a guess — and it is only a guess — it may have been a way of making bootlegs look more like legitimate releases, helping them pass unnoticed in shops or at customs. Not something I can confirm, though, so take it for what it’s worth.
🧷 Next Time
Next up is the semi-official release Pirates Of Destiny.
See you then!
byebye 👋
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