Advantages: raucous, rebellious, irreverant and OFFENSIVE
Disadvantages: raucous, rebellious, irreverant and OFFENSIVE

...for anybody on Ciao to be offended or wound up by my review (there's a time and place for everything!). If you like Green Day or Good Charlotte or Rancid or the Young Ones or the Simpsons you might like this album, so read on, but NMTB has none of the smoothness and sophistication of those bands mentioned above. The Sex Pistols set out to shock, and this album was constructed specifically so as to be challenging, so be warned. If you like GBH, or Discharge, or Conflict, you know this album already, and are just curious as to what i have to say. Hello, we may well have met before met before. This review comes in two parts, first the music itself, then an address to some of the Boll**ks that's written about it. The Music *********** I don't wanna holiday in the sun I wanna go to the new Belsen I wanna see some history... Read review

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Advantages: It requires skill, concentration and discipline.
Disadvantages: It's not exactly exciting!

...guns with left handed grips. You can also shoot 20yds (the targets are bigger) and every so often I shoot 25 metres sport pistol, this is with turning targets. This one is very fun! Pellets? There's also a lot of pellets out there...some of the better makes are R10, Match Kugeln and Eley. I don't really know of any others, but I don't recommend simply buying the cheapest because they won't be of very good quality and it can affect your shooting scores. Conclusion: I wouldn't call shooting a spectator sport, and it doesn't appeal to a lot of people who prefer speed, adrenaline and excitement. Instead it's a sport requiring a lot of skill, mentally and physically. There is definitely a lot more to it than first meets the eye. It does require discipline, and you need to be committed because as in all sports if you can't be bothered... Read review

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Advantages: User friendly release button & dials for shutter & apature control while shooting in the verticle position.
Disadvantages: NONE

...I purchased a Nikon MB D100 Battery grip for my Nikon D100 about 2 months ago, I have found that the grip realy balances the camera well & is pretty easy to fit to your camera body. The MB D100 takes up to 2 ENEL3 lithium Ion batteries, or 6 AA batteries in a cradle insert which is supplied with the grip, I tend to use 2 ENEL3 lithium Ion batteries & only charge them once weekly although I have tried using the cradle with 6 AA batteries and found that the power only lasts for around 50 shots as to 600+ with the ENEL3s x2. The MB D100 also adds some usefull extra features to the Nikon D100 such as a socket to connect a remote control for shutter release control for portrate shots or for long exposure shots, Without the MB D100 you would be limited to a cable release as the Nikon D100 only has a screw in socket located on the shutter... Read review

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Advantages: Wireless without battery. Very comfortable
Disadvantages: The upper button may be alittle uncomfortabe to use

...Technology does wonders! I just hated the point when my wireless Grip Pens would run out of battery, or when I needed to struggle with the cords. This thing really does wonders. Easy to grip, very comfortable. Sometimes I wish all my pens would be that soft. The eraser on the back is actualy usefull. I used to tap the eraser/brush shortcuts madly back and forth, but turned out that after some time I started to prefer flipping the pen for erasing better, so when I am going into photoshop I can safely put the keyboard away. The only thing that I do find a little unpracticle though is the top half of the button. I am not sure it may be my hand - but I am always having hard time repositioning my fingers to click the button. The pen tips are provided in different materials, and in couple of individuals - but honestly, I had one tip... Read review

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Advantages: A proper punk record
Disadvantages: Punk doesn't sound like this anyomre

...Album: Nevermind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Artist: The Sex Pistols Released: 1977 Label: EMI Producer: Chris Thomas Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) - Vocals Steve Jones - Guitar Sid Vicious (John Richie) – Bass Paul Cook - Drums "There's No Future And England's Dreaming" This is the first of three music reviews I’m going to do on “punk” albums. The word punk has largely become redundant since the arrival of bands like Sum41, Blink 182 and the like. My own definition of punk may differ to others – but I intend to write about three groundbreaking punk records released in different times and three distinctly different musical climates . The first record, is rather predictably, “Nevermind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols” – the one and only punk album from 1977 to stand the test of time. Older readers... Read review

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Advantages: Consists of some great late 70s punk rock songs.
Disadvantages: Theres no point wasting your money on this one..

...Sex Pistols – Greatest Hits (Kiss This) Background Knowledge / It was the mid 70’s and fresh out of England came the Sex Pistols. Led by Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) accompanied by Steve Jones on guitar, Paul Cook on drums and Glen Matlock on bass, who later left and was replaced by the infamous Sid Vicious. The Sex Pistols were hailed as the Creators of Punk, well in the UK anyway and fired up a youth uprising against the government and generally everything English. Often tabbed as the filth and the fury, which they later adopted for a movie about them, they were hated amongst adults and your average person especially for the controversy caused as they sweared in their music and on TV interviews. Not only that, they sang about ‘The fascist regime’ and various other topics that peed off the general public. They were different, a breath... Read review

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Advantages: A magnificent film that dares to be different; elegant yet over the top; rich and filled with beguiling images
Disadvantages: Some will be put off by the disjointed (and lack of) story

...The chances are you've not heard of Pistol Opera or its octogenarian director: Suzuki Seijun. If you have then you might have an idea of what you might be getting yourself into. But let's backtrack to the sixties for a moment, it being by far Seijun's most prolific period. He worked for the studio Nikkatsu, where like so many other directors he churned out Yakuza (gangster) movies by the dozen, most of which were generic. Except: Two truly great pop-art yakuza movies (well, the first one is a yakuza movie anyway) and both which are worth seeking out on their own merit. The first: Tokyo Drifter, the story of a lone yakuza adrift amongst a sea of duplicity and seeking out a life devoid of love but continuing to retain his honour. The second: perhaps one of the most perverse, stylised and most enigmatic of movies: Branded... Read review

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Advantages: An essential purchase, sounds great and innovative, digitally remastered
Disadvantages: Some of the songs sound kinda similar, London Calling's better

...Practically every modern British rock band owes a debt of gratitude to the Sex Pistols. Given the heritage of this band, it's kinda surprising, after all, the Pistols were a manufactured band, like Hear'Say or god knows who else, and they also suffered from one major drawback....they couldn't play. Somehow, this band, the most influential band since the Beatles, managed to overcome that. The Pistols were accused of not being able to play. Listen to this album, their only 'proper' album, I think (although I can't claim that to be hard fact), and you'll hear what was basically the biggest revolution in music since rock n' roll finally blasted away the appalingness of drivel like 'How much is that doggy' and all the other songs your grandparents would find wholesome. Picture the scene...ok, for me this is purely hypothetical because I... Read review

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Advantages: Still sounds raw and fresh
Disadvantages: Some dodgy playing

...Whether you watched it or not, John Lydons appearance on 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here' probably helped propel, or spit, the Sex Pistols back into the public domain. Being just old enough to remember them from the first time around, and having lost my copied cassette, I found myself browsing the shelves of HMV earlier today seeking a replacement. It didn't take long to find either, with it's 'day-glow' fluorescent yellow and pink cover almost leaping out at me from the shelf. If that wasn't enough to attract my attention, the fact that it'd been reduced from £8.99 to £4.99 in the sale certainly was. Who could resist a little bit of music history at that price? THE BAND A lot has already been written on the Sex Pistols so I won't recover old ground here. The band as listed on this album consisted of;- Johnny Rotten...