Here We Go!
Sex Pistols collection write-up.
This time it’s…
the fourth instalment in the Anniversary Edition series:
Never Mind The Bollocks (30th Anniversary Edition)
Japanese import pressing (Virgin / TOJP-60172).
NMTB turns 50 in 2027. With that milestone approaching, I’m working back through the various “anniversary”-branded releases that have appeared over the years.
🧷 Basic Specs
- Title: Never Mind The Bollocks 30th Anniversary Edition
- Artist: Sex Pistols
- Format: LP (33⅓ RPM) + 7″
- Release date: 21 November 2007
- Label / catalogue number: EMI Music Japan / TOJP-60172 (Virgin / V 2086 + VDJ 24)
- Sleeve: obi replicating the Nippon Columbia-era design (issued by EMI Music Japan), plus a 30th Anniversary sticker
A UK pressing (replicating SPOTS 001) fitted out with a Japanese obi and inserts (liner notes, lyric sheet) for the domestic import market.
🧷 Tracklist
Side A
A1：Holidays In The Sun（single VS191）
A2：Liar
A3：No Feelings
A4：God Save The Queen（single VS181）
A5：Problems
Side B
B1：Seventeen
B2：Anarchy In The U.K.（single EMI2566）
B3：Bodies
B4：Pretty Vacant（single VS184）
B5：New York
B6：EMI
7″ (one-sided single)
C1: Submission
The obi’s Japanese title for Bodies is a plain transliteration — it doesn’t carry the subtitle sometimes seen elsewhere. Not the most flattering credit for a song about, well, Bodies.
🧷 Pressing / Variant Details
✔️ Matrix numbers
- Side A: V2086 A-1
- Side B: V2086 B-1
- 7″: V2086 C-1
✔️ Sleeve & Obi
厚手のペーパースリーブ
Heavyweight paper sleeve.
It follows the SPOTS 001 format, but without the “UK PRESSING” sticker.
The rear sleeve carries the 11-track listing, with Submission omitted.
▼ The obi and the “30th Anniversary Edition” sticker, bottom right.
▼ The reverse of the obi differs from the original design.
✔️ Inner Sleeve / Inserts
Inner sleeve
The 12″ comes in a poly-lined paper inner sleeve.
The 7″ is housed in a plain paper sleeve.
💡ポWhat’s a poly-lined paper inner sleeve?
A protective inner sleeve for vinyl with a heavyweight paper exterior and a high-density polyethylene lining bonded to the inside. It combines the rigidity of paper with the protective qualities of plastic film, guarding the disc against static and dust.
Inserts
▲ Liner notes
▲ Lyrics and translation
▲ Lyrics, translation, and an advert
▲ An advert for the same 30th anniversary cardboard-sleeve CD series
The cardboard-sleeve CD pictured in the advert carries an orange “UK PRESSING” sticker.
✔️ Labels
Sky-blue gradient labels.
I don’t have an original to compare against, but the blue looks slightly paler than I’d expect. At a guess — and it is only a guess.
▼ Side A
▼ Side B
▼ 7″: Submission
The flip side carries no label at all. (I believe the original has a blank white label here?)
✔️ Poster
Includes the collage-style track-title poster.
🧷 Collector’s Notes
✔️ SPOTS 001
💡What is SPOTS 001?
The UK original: an 11-track LP (rear sleeve also lists 11 tracks) packaged with the one-sided 7″ “Submission” and a poster. Both the LP and 7″ carry the sky-blue gradient label, with the 7″‘s flip side left plain white. The whole package, shrink-wrapped (unusual for a UK release) and stickered “UK PRESSING”, is what’s known as SPOTS 001. The sticker also came in green as well as orange.
This 30th anniversary pressing follows that SPOTS 001 format, but with a few differences:
- No “UK PRESSING” sticker
- No blank white label on the 7″‘s flip side
- Pressed on 180g vinyl
So the LP isn’t a full replica by any means. The CD version does get the sticker, so it would have been nice to see it here too.
I’ve also heard it said that the sticker is meant to sit over the word “Bollocks” on the sleeve — no idea if that’s actually true, though.
The UK pressing (V 2086) of the 30th anniversary doesn’t carry the sticker either.
✔️ 180g Vinyl
This pressing is on 180g vinyl, which is generally said to offer a few advantages.
Sound
Thicker, more rigid vinyl is said to resist vibration during playback, which can mean more stable tracking.
Less prone to warping — lower risk of deformation in storage or transit than a standard-weight pressing.
Durability
The extra thickness is said to hold up somewhat better against handling, scuffs, and breakage.
Ownership
There’s also the simple satisfaction of the extra heft in hand, which matters for a collector’s piece.
That said, to be honest…
“180g” doesn’t automatically mean “better sound” — the cutting and mastering matter far more, by most accounts. Some would even argue a thinner pressing can sound better, on the theory that it affects how the dynamic range is cut.
Anniversary pressings like this TOJP-60172 tend to run noticeably larger and heavier than the original. They’re billed as faithful reproductions, but the physical specs often tell a different story.
🧷 Next Time
Next up is the fifth instalment: Never Mind The Bollocks 35th Anniversary (Super Deluxe Box).
See you then!
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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