Sex Pistols - Flogging A Dead Horse [Lossy Mp3 320 Kbps]

Gruppo: Sex Pistols

Titolo: Flogging a dead horse

Anno: 1980

Genere: Punk

Durata: 48'







Band:











01 - Anarchy in the U.K. (Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Paul Cook) – 3:33

02 - I Wanna Be Me (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook) – 3:06

03 - God Save the Queen" (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook) – 3:21

04 - Did You No Wrong (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook, Wally Nightingale) – 3:14

05 - Pretty Vacant (Rotten, Jones, Matlock, Cook) – 3:18

06 - No Fun (Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, David Alexander) – 6:26

07 - Holidays in the Sun (Rotten, Jones, Sid Vicious, Cook) – 3:21

08 - No One Is Innocent (Jones, Cook, Ronnie Biggs) – 3:03

09 - My Way (Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux) – 4:05

10 - Something Else (Eddie Cochran, Sharon Sheeley) – 2:12

11 - Silly Thing (Jones, Cook) – 2:53

12 - C'mon Everybody (Cochran, Jerry Capehart) – 1:57

13 - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) – 3:09

14 - Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle (Jones, Cook, Julien Temple) – 4:24







Italiano



Flogging a Dead Horse è una compilation di singoli del gruppo punk Sex Pistols, pubblicato dopo la loro separazione. Il cd include tutti singoli precedentemente pubblicati (Anarchy in the UK, God Save the Queen, Pretty Vacant, Holidays in the Sun) provenienti dall'album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, tre B-sides, sei A-sides provenienti da The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle e una B-side proveniente dallo stesso, My Way interpretata dal solo Sid Vicious.



Il titolo del disco ha diversi significati ironici: l'espressione "flogging a dead horse" (in italiano "frustando un cavallo morto") significa fare qualcosa di inutile e senza senso, e in slang britannico "flogging" può voler dire anche "vendere", "spremere fino al midollo al fine di ricavare qualche vantaggio". Tutto questo riflette il fatto che essendo ormai la band sciolta e i Pistols finiti da tempo all'epoca della pubblicazione di questa raccolta, il management del gruppo e la casa discografica stessero "raschiando il fondo del barile" per cercare di guadagnare il più possibile dal marchio Sex Pistols, truffando, in perfetto stile punk, i fan con materiale già disponibile in precedenza.



English



Flogging a Dead Horse is a compilation album of singles by the Sex Pistols, released after their break-up, and includes the four songs that were issued as singles A-sides from Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols with three of their B-sides, as well as the six A-sides that were issued off The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and one B-side, "My Way".



By the time the record was released, the group was finished as a musical unit; The Sex Pistols consisted only of manager Malcolm McLaren and designer Jamie Reid. Their relationship with Virgin records was difficult, and Reid's tacky sleeve design was intended to warn people against another cash-in; it was largely interpreted as a hip joke, and seems to have hurt sales very little.



The title has several ironic meanings: the idiomatic one of the saying "Flogging a Dead Horse" reflecting the fact that the Pistols' endeavours were now finished, futile and pointless; and the British slang use of 'flogging' to mean 'selling' - i.e. the Pistols' management, in true punk style, were overtly referencing that they were trying to get as much money for as little effort as possible from the album's sales.