Review: Ignore the typically self-depreciating title - when the 'same old bollocks' in question happens to be a set of songs that changed the world irrevocably, they can have all the reissues they want. Capturing the notorious London punk monarchs on their first foreign live outing, to Paris in September 1976, this double album presents pretty much the whole of their only studio album Never Mind The Bollocks thrashed out in adrenalin-fuelled fashion, with the addition of three other lesser spotted tracks. This trio, namely a suitably snarling cover of the Monkees' 'Stepping Stone', plus originals 'Did You No Wrong' and 'Satellite', are worth the admission price alone, with the latter's delightfully nihilistic polemic ("Lookin' like a dirty lavatory/There ain't no bid for your chastity") proving unmissable. The dog's, inevitably...
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