Not that we're surprised, but the handwritten announcement on the Pistols' official site is typically Johnny and worth a chuckle:
Ozzy's never been keen on the Hall either, but presumably Debbie Harry will show. We'll see March 13th.
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How punk rock of them. It's signed by The Sex Pistols but it sounds mostly like Johnny. I was never big on The Pistols but I still think they should have accepted the induction.
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Why?
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Oh yeah. I forgot the Sex Pistols were all about anti-establishment. I forgot they formed as a band through Malcolm McLaren because their "hot new looks" were profitable. I forgot they released their Bollocks on a major label. ("EMI"? Give me a break.) Sigh. Such extensive falsities from such a good band.
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So no one else is bothered by the lack of apostrophes, bad use of you're and your, or misspelling of congratulations?
damn.
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One thing is for sure: they can't afford lined paper.
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I never knew they had to pay to go to the induction... that's fucked up!
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and to think those a**holes haven't voted rush in yet
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Nice grammar, Mr. Lydon. I'm no fan of the industry either but he's acting like a jackass.
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was this written by john lydon or his kid? jt (above) is on the money. let me guess, the tenuous grasp on the language is ultimately a statement against authority that "we're not going to play by your rules". just awful. the sex pistols are a shitty fucking band... always have been. how they got labelled 'innovative' is beyond me. like madonna herself, they were little more than the product of marketing: market-share analysis and an easily commodified product. absolute shit. it's sad that they're typically thought of as the archetypes of punk.
and even if i'm wrong their whole shtick is getting tiresome. why post this letter at all? becuase obviously they care about the "shit-stem's" acknowledgment. they care if only because it's something they can react too, and thus co-opt the rebellious spirit of punk. ya, real authentic. oh, and the rock and roll hall of fame is shit too.
fuck i'm in a bad mood today.
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Uhm yeah. This the most retardulated thing I've seen in a week. Dude's band was started as a marketing ploy to sell clothes. And JL jumped the credibility shark (whatever credibility he started out with) about two decades ago. What a load of garbage.
Hey guys, it's probably a mid-life crisis though. We should be nice to him. Who wants to be "inducted"? It pretty much means you're dead.
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I believe the moment john lydon jumped the credibility shark, at least for good, was his appearance on, "I'm a celebrity get me out of here," a terrible reality show where they sent semi-famous people camping. it was horrible. he stormed off immediately.
nowadays, he has only one line, and the above is it. he doesn't know punk from a hole in his ass. and his band was the s&m version of the monkees. go to sleep grandpa.
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You guys are dicksmokes. This fucking rocks. What did you want them to do. You knew this was coming.
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Lydon's letter could have been wittier no doubt. He is becoming quite the old crank.
I really wish there were a band as powerful as the Pistols today, though. The Pistols really had the ability to piss people off. Nobody seems to be able to do that nowadays. Maybe Kanye West. "George Bush doesn't care about black people" was probably the most punk rock moment since Jarvis Cocker mooned Michael Jackson.
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lol his grammar's so bad
(thats the only part i found entertaining, sry)
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why haven't PiL been inducted yet?
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i thought it was hilarious. "______ is a piss stain" is totally going to replace "that sucks" in my conversations. loves it.
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I'm sure one of the big souless corporate companies like Sony, Universal, or Pitchfork Media will take their table.
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Since when have the Sex Pistols had any credibility? I think it's great that any band would do this and it's applaud the Pistols for having the guts to do it.
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I don't understand the Sex Pixtols, I mean doesnt that Steve Jones do TOYOTA COMMERCIALS on his radio show, 103.1 IS TOTAL SELLOUT.
So why get so pissy about rock n roll hall of fame, unless they don't consider themselves a rock bands?
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caring = not punk rock
writing a letter = caring
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It's sad to see Pistols guitarist Steve Jones has sunk to promoting MySpace & some local car dealer (in what may be the more horrid radio commercials ever!) on his show, while dissing the R&R HOF. By the way, didn't he recently pose for an upcoming Rolling Stone cover? That's about as punk as Wal-Mart.
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Remember when Johnny was sued on Judge Judy a few years ago and lost? It was great!
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skinnyslim is correct.
And for all you bitching about his grammar and spelling, lay off. He's a foreigner! English is his second language to whatever it is they speak in the UK.
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I totally disagree with skinnyslim. I think it is more punk rock to care too much. I think you are confused with Emo or something else.
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rockin'fuckin'roll!
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Love them or hate them, they changed the face of music, one way or another.
Art is art, not when it's good or bad, but only when it cannot be ignored. How many of the people writing here wish THEY had created "Never Mind the Bollocks"? Yeah, look at all those hands. The Live Pistols CD from 1996 proves they weren't just a bunch of drugged and drunken hacks.
The one problem with this letter is that it should have been completely predictable. What the Pistols SHOULD do is play at the ceremony as secret special guests, and throw rotten tomatoes at the tuxedoed crowd at the end of their one song.
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They should not have been allowed in because they bet on rock and roll
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You are all lame. Well, most of you are. So are the Sex Pistols. The main quality they had is that they were amusing, and that's only because they're so riduculous.
And they WERE a bunch of drugged and drunken "hacks". 1996 was more than a decade after the sex pistols, as they were when they became famous, were over. Go check out footage of the live shows from their real years of fame. They're all about words and even their words don't make any real sense.
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The Sex pistols were great. Right.
Johnny's just playing it up again.
They'll probably tour again, this is great press
to use... am I right? Huh?! Wha'?
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Wow it's kind of sad that Rotten decided to do this... I mean it's the Hall of Fame... I don't blame him in the sense that he still feels cheated... I would too... but man Mr John Lydon you can only get SO PISSED!!!... there's got to be a limit... I'm pretty sure some of the Pistols wouldn't mind to be recognized as a great rock and roll band... they will always be... and to those of you who think otherwise (including you Mr Rotten) I can only say FUCK OFF!!!
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Nice comments from the Sex Pistols. Pity it all falls apart when you see that they want £85 a ticket for their tour. May be its time we said Were not coming either!
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Ya all suck....what u have written i don't give f**k to that...just like sex pistols didn't give that too...ya all're funny...u don't know what they did..and know what they did what they wanted to...they don't care even then that made 'hem more dangerous than anyone..if they said hall of fame is a piss stain they were right 'cos all hall of fames did like a puppet promoting somthin' that they donot like and pistols don't want to squeak up in the gallery like the poor old Nuts hall of fames are..Fuck they did nothin' what sex pistols did so early i Love them and i give f**k to all of ya..bcz what i know ya don't know and what you know totally a shit i don't wanna know..F**k off
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well ya all people who said bad about sex pistols should look what u r doin' since birth..doin' somethin' you don't wanna do and you people really livin' the lives of foes but you can't express it straightway on the face of someone whom u don't like ..but sex pistols did it openly whether u like it or not ..and the fact is the only way they give fuck to everyone made them really Sex pistols..well the thing is that to play guitar like van halen,jimmy page isn't somethin' they should be proud of ..its just the ting they should get applause but i prefer someone who did the real thing Dudes Sex pistols did soemthin' noone before did..britain the freedom of speech..ha ha they r not...sex pistols proved it ..they were baend for the song God save the queen..while if u will see the lyrics there's nothin' bad in it..grammer sucks...who cares..do u think Punk can care..you all are really Nuts...sorry better to get the brain to to know what their letter really means
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"So no one else is bothered by the lack of apostrophes, bad use of you're and your, or misspelling of congratulations?"
No. They are rockers, not English professors.
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The Sex Pistols were famous for their "I don't give a shit" attitude. It's what made them famous.
If they don't like the Hall of Fame, I don't blame them for not going.
Punk Rock = Anti Authority
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More people should reject this astoundingly moronic organization. Cheers Pistols!
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