A REASONABLE ECONOMY

Lazy man like theme. Theme good.

So Bollocks turned out to be as patchwork as the album art's ransom-note motif. It ranged from the glorious (Holidays, God Save the Queen, Anarchy), to the gleefully nihilistic (Bodies, No Feelings, Problems, Seventeen), to a simulacrum of the glorious and gleefully nihilistic (Pretty Vacant), to the punkily pedestrian (Liar, New York, E.M.I), to the please-make-it-stop-right-now (Submission).

And the stuff worth mentioning outside of Bollocks?

Substitute
Early Who is as punk as anything, so this fit like a glove.

Steppin' Stone
"Hey hey, we're the Punkees..."

Belsen Was a Gas
This is no doubt the kind of by-the-numbers punk rock shock horror they would have churned out if there was an album number 2. Europe would've recoiled; America would've rested comfortably waiting for someone to explain what a Belsen was.

Silly Thing
This is flanged, phased, overdubbed, and more processed than a package of Kraft singles. Goes down like comfort food, though...

Something Else/C'mon Everybody
It would take actual effort to not make these songs pulse, and lord knows the boys couldn't be bothered. So it all works out for the best.

No One is Innocent/The Great Rock 'N Roll Swindle
McClaren, McLuhan. McLuhan, McLaren.