Here We Go!
Another item from the Sex Pistols collection.
This time: Some Product – Carri On Sex Pistols (VJCP-23187). The Japanese CD pressing, complete with a full lyrics translation.
🧷 Basic Specs
- Title: Some Product – Carri On Sex Pistols
- Artist: Sex Pistols
- Format: CD
- Release date: 14 July 1993
- Label / Catalogue number: Virgin / VJCP-23187
- Packaging: Jewel case with booklet
🧷 Track listing
- The Very Name “Sex Pistols”
- From Beyond The Grave Big Tits Across America
- The Complex World Of John Rotten
- Sex Pistols Will Play
- Is The Queen A Moron?
- The Fucking Rotter
🧷 Press / Variant Details
✔️ Disc
Black label with the title printed in red.
✔️ Sleeve / Packaging
映画The product is a fictional item — a piece of imaginary merchandise from The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle. On the reverse, the Chelsea Hotel in New York: the place where Sid and Nancy Spungen stayed.
✔️ Booklet / Insert
Liner notes by the well-known Japanese music writer Mikio Moriwaki. As you’d hope from a Japanese pressing, a full lyrics translation is included — which is rather the point of owning this one.
✔️ Obi strip
Mine is long gone. At some point I used it as a label on a cassette copy. Not my finest hour. The original obi on this release was part of the “SuperMasters” series. Other variants exist — “Rock the 100” (TOCP-53101) and a paper sleeve edition for the Virgin 25th anniversary (VJCP-68056), among others.
🧷 Collector’s Notes
✔️ Some Product
1Released 27 July 1979. A compiled album of interviews, radio commercials, and TV appearances — including the infamous Bill Grundy incident — edited by John Varnom, with artwork by Jamie Reid.
I’ll be honest: when I first picked this up, I barely knew what the Pistols were. I assumed it must be unreleased tracks, put it on with some enthusiasm, and then sat there wondering what on earth I was listening to. Not the most flattering start. It reached number six on the UK albums chart at the time, which — given that it contains no actual music — is quite something.
✔️ This CD
I had it on vinyl first. Couldn’t make out a word of it, so I eventually replaced it with the Japanese CD purely for the translation. The original record ended up on the wall as decoration — the sleeve is genuinely good-looking. I sold it when I moved house. Probably shouldn’t have.
✔️ Holidays In The Sun
At the start of track four — “The Complex World Of John Rotten” — there’s a commercial for Holidays In The Sun, but it’s not the album version. It’s a demo, with a noticeably different vocal phrasing from Lydon. At a guess — and it is only a guess — this was the take they used before the final recording. It was later officially released as a “Rough Mix.” I found it rather good even before I knew what it was.
This isn’t something I’d put on outside the flat. But it gets a fair amount of play while I’m working on the blog.
🧷 Up Next
Next time: Live at Chelmsford Prison (TFCK-88513).
Stay tuned.
byebye 👋
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