TS: Deja Vu vs. Never Mind the Bullocks

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Hey hey, my my. Apples and oranges maybe, or maybe not, depending on the Neil Young factor. Not counting either's reunions, CSNY and The Sex Pistols each released huge one-offs in the 70s whose reputations these days obscure the albums' music. Never Mind the Bullocks supposedly is in part a blast of fresh air clearing out the kind of stale bloated hippie jams bands like CSNY purveyed; but while it's fun to listen to every now and then, when all's said and done, it doesn't really hold up that well compared to Deja Vu.

Deja Vu (1970)

1 Carry On 4:25
2 Teach Your Children 2:53
3 Almost Cut My Hair 4:25
4 Helpless 3:30
5 Woodstock 3:52
6 Déjà Vu 4:10
7 Our House 2:59
8 4 + 20 1:55
9 Country Girl: Whiskey Boot Hill/Down, Down, Down/"Country Girl" (I Think You're Pretty)"
10 Everybody I Love You

Never Mind the Bollocks

1 Holidays in the Sun 3:20
2 Bodies 3:02
3 No Feelings 2:49
4 Liar 2:40
5 Problems 4:10
6 God Save the Queen 3:18
7 Seventeen 2:02
8 Anarchy in the U.K. 3:31
9 Submission 4:12
10 Pretty Vacant 3:16
11 New York 3:05
12 E.M.I. 3:10

― little bear, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

but while it's fun to listen to every now and then, when all's said and done, it doesn't really hold up that well compared to Deja Vu.

Ummm...Says you.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 August 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

david crosby is the most noxious person in the history of music, so his band loses.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 12 August 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't really like either albums.

― Voodoo Child, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

The Byrds versus The Sex Pistols is no contest. And Johnny Rotten isn't at least as noxious as Crosby? Come on.

― little bear, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

I might have traded in Deja Vu to buy Never Mind the Bollocks back when it came out. At least around that time, in one fell swoop I cleansed my album shelves of any hippie country rock and took it to the same store where I bought Bollocks. Of course, stuff like Sweetheart of the Rodeo was in there, too, but it felt good at the time.

― Curt (cgould), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

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