Sex Pistols – Some Product: Carri On Sex Pistols (VJCP-23187) | Japanese CD with Lyrics Translation and Liner Notes

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

1. The Very Name “Sex Pistols”
2. From Beyond The Grave Big Tits Across America
3. The Complex World Of John Rotten
4. Sex Pistols Will Play
5. Is The Queen A Moron?
6. 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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