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Listen to these ridiculous Spanish covers of the Sex Pistols

by Jeremy Mersereau

We’ve all done some questionable things to save money at one point or another, but I’m willing to bet few of us recorded an unlicensed, uniquely terrible cover version of the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind The Bollocks in its entirety rather than pay a license fee.

That’s just what fly-by-night Spanish record label Dial Discos did in 1978 with Los Exitos de Sex Pistols (The Hits of the Sex Pistols), a complete remake of the punk legends’ mega-influential (and only) studio album. Everything you loved about the original Bollocks is here, albeit in an even scuzzier, hilarious, much more lo-fi form. As an added bonus, Johnny Rotten’s lyrics have been rendered completely nonsensical.

As the original Sex Pistols record wasn’t available in post-Franco Spain, Dial Discos decided to cash in on the burgeoning punk craze by hiring a group of musicians (rumoured to be Spanish prog rockers Asfalto) to recreate every song on the album. They then pressed and sold the resulting legally-dubious collection throughout the country. Hear the results below:

[h/t Shit-Fi]