[This post was originally posted on the #vinylcollector group but I'm re-posting here so it can be shared -- I hope! - as the group sharing bug has not yet been stamped out.] Sex Pistols singles "Anarchy in the UK" / "I Wanna Be Me" - Glitterbest - 640 112 - 1977 (1976) - Fr "God Save the Queen" / "Did You No Wrong" - Virgin - VS 181 - 1977 - UK "Pretty Vacant" / "No Fun" - Virgin - VS 184 - 1977 - UK "Pretty Vacant" / "Sub-Mission" - Warner Brothers - WBS 8516 - 1977 - US "Holidays in the Sun" / "Satellite" - Virgin - VS 191 - 1977 - UK These are the four UK Sex Pistols singles, plus one US variant. "Anarchy in the UK" is a 1977 French re-press. These aren't particularly rare or valuable, being on major labels and released with massive attention and hype and re-pressed endlessly, but collecting them was a big deal to me when I was a kid and I'm glad I still have them. Which I probably wouldn't now, if they had been valuable enough to warrant selling somewhere along the forty year (!) timeline. I still think they're great. No doubt you can get all the Sex Pistols you'd ever need or want conveniently from the LP (which contains five of these songs and which is obviously great too.) But the singles is how I first experienced this music and it seems the proper way somehow. Plus the B sides are great great great. It's easy to adopt a jaded, been-there-done-that attitude towards this band. After all, it's what the band itself appear to have wanted. The hype quickly became a bit tedious even at the time, in the course of a single Summer, even to a thirteen-year-old an ocean and a continent away. I've even been known to describe the Sex Pistols on occasion as "just another rock band." Not that there's anything wrong with that, and anyway it is absolutely correct, they were. But the main thing I get from listening now is how remarkable the music is for all that. It genuinely rocks and rolls. And I mean, it really, really rolls, in a way that few punk bands (and few e...