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Sid Sings is Sid Vicious's first and only solo album, released posthumously in the same year of his tragic death, 1979. It's predominantly a Live Album, a Greatest Hits Album as well as a Cover Album, with Vicious' renditions of 'My Way' and 'Something Else' as the best known hit singles.

While the album sold well due to Sid Vicious' rise in legend after his death it's generally not seen as a well-produced or good record for that matter. Apart from his deliberately bad vocals there is only one song, 'Belsen Was A Gas', where he had a hand in as co-writer. All other tracks are covers, many recorded live in bad sound quality. Many people who bought it seldom played it ever again. Still, Vicious himself is not entirely to blame, seeing this record was hastily cobbled together from whatever tracks the studio had lying around. And for people interested in his songs it is the most essential legacy available.

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The cover of 'My Way' was later used in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas.

Tracklist

Side One

1. 'Born to Lose' (3:08)
2. 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' (3:19)
3. 'Take a Chance on Me' (2:53)
4. 'Stepping Stone' (2:19)
5. 'My Way' (3:55)

Side Two

1. 'Belsen Was a Gas' (2:11)
2. 'Something Else' (2:07)
3. 'Chatterbox' (1:51)
4. 'Search and Destroy' (3:03)
5. 'Chinese Rocks' (2:43)
6. 'I Killed the Cat' (1:04)

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• Alliterative Title: 'Sid Sings'. Also the track 'Stepping Stone'.
• Cover Album: All songs are covers:
  • 'Born To Lose', 'Chinese Rocks' and 'Chatterbox' are covers by Johnny Thunders. 'Chinese Rocks' would later be covered by The Ramones on End of the Century (1979).
  • 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' is a cover by The Stooges, from their debut The Stooges. 'Search and Destroy' is another Stooges cover, but from their album Raw Power.
  • 'Take A Chance On Me' is a cover by The Heartbreakers.

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  • 'My Way' is a cover by Frank Sinatra, in itself based on 'Comme d'Habitude' by Claude François.
  • 'Belsen Was A Gas' was originally recorded by The Sex Pistols, but is heard here in a solo version.
  • 'Something Else' and 'C'mon Everybody' are Eddie Cochran covers.
• Covers Always Lie: It's debatable how far Sid actually sings..
• Dancing Is Serious Business: During his stage show Sid remarks: 'It's nice to see someone dancing for a change.'
• Dead Artists Are Better: If Sid hadn't died an early death the album probably wouldn't have sold so well as it did. The music and sound quality leave a lot to be desired. His hilarious rendition of 'My Way' actually gets a tragicomical undertone knowing that died only a few months later.
• Dreadful Musician: Sid Vicious is not even trying to be a good singer or guitarist. He misses most of his pitches and his bass playing is awful. He is audibly drunk and/or high most of the time and the recordings are all very lo-fi.
  • For some reason they wanted Sid to actually sing 'My Way' in a Frank Sinatra style, and he wanted to 'sing' it in a punk style. They compromised on doing half each way, but Sid still purposefully did the Sinatra part as bad as humanly possible.
• Face on the Cover: Sid's sneering face.
• Greatest Hits Album: All tracks were just compiled from whatever recordings were available by Sid.
• 'I Am Great!' Song: 'My Way' has Sid Vicious lamenting over his life and how, despite what he did, he still did things in his personal way.
• Live Album: All of the tracks are live, except 'My Way'. They were recorded between 28, 29 and 30 September 1978 in Max's Kansas City, New York.
• No Animals Were Harmed: Vicious adlibs that he 'killed a cat' in his live version of 'My Way'.
• Ode to Intoxication: Sid poses with a beer bottle on the cover. He was also under the influence during all recordings.
• One-Word Title: 'Chatterbox'.
• Outsider Music: The album is close to being such a record.
• Punk Rock: The entire record is completely punk in the sense that nobody seemed to care how awful it sounded.
• Record Producer: John 'Boogie' Tiberi, credited as 'The Engineer'.
• Refuge in Audacity: The inclusion of 'Belsen Was A Gas', a song that mocks the Holocaust. There was also a guitar swastika on the labels of the original UK pressings.
• Sarcastic Title: 'Sid Sings'. Yeah, right!
• Self-Titled Album: 'Sid Sings'.
• Siamese Twin Songs: 'My Way' is featured twice on the album. The first version was recorded in the studio without strings, the second is a shorter live rendition.
• Special Guest: Sex Pistols members Paul Cook and Steve Jones perform drums, guitar and backing vocals on 'Born To Lose'.
• Take That, Audience!: The concert tracks have Sid frequently insult the crowd from stage.
• Three Chords and the Truth: All songs are very simple, but effective.

Sid Sings is the first released solo live album by English punk rock musician Sid Vicious. It was released posthumously on December 15, 1979 and peaked at number 30 on the British album charts.

The album features the two singles 'My Way' and 'Something Else'. These songs also appeared in the film and album The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle along with 'C'mon Everybody', which did not appear on this album. Most of the album features cover versions of other artists' songs whilst only one original by Vicious is featured on the album, that being 'Belsen Was a Gas', originally a Sex Pistols song that Vicious regularly performed and so far the only known Sex Pistols song that has a solo version done by him.

Overview[edit]

The album is thin on liner notes; there are no musicians' credits or recording info, and the production credit goes to 'The Engineer,' John 'Boogie' Tiberi.

The bulk of the album comes from lo-fi recordings of performances at Max's Kansas City in New York on 28, 29 and 30 September 1978.

The version of the Johnny Thunders song 'Born to Lose' on this album reportedly comes from a Sex Pistols concert at Huddersfield, on 25 December 1977.^[3] During the children's matinee performed during the day, lead singer Johnny Rotten stepped off stage to act as Father Christmas,^[4] while the remaining trio played a set, including among other songs 'Born to Lose' and 'Chinese Rocks'.

Despite having an audio fidelity not much better than the rest of the album, 'My Way' comes from a studio session in Paris with French session musicians.^[5] The remixed version that was released as a single and on The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle features a different vocal take, an overdubbed guitar solo from Steve Jones and strings, arranged by Simon Jeffes. But on the video version of the song it features Vicious' vocals on Sid Sings but an instrumental version from The Great Rock and Roll Swindle. There is also another demo version available from the album Too Fast To Live, which is entitled 'My Way (Take 3)'.

Mick Jones from The Clash was long rumored to play on the album. His two sets with Vicious have now been released on CD in the double album Sid Lives, released by Jungle Records.

The album was not designed by Jamie Reid, the Sex Pistols' art designer, but he created the guitar swastika that appeared on the labels of the original UK pressings (though the German pressing had a blank spot instead due to the swastika's illegality in that country).

Track listing[edit]

All tracks are live, with the exception of 'My Way'.

Side one

1. 'Born to Lose' (Johnny Thunders)
2. 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' (Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton)
3. 'Take a Chance On Me' (Jerry Nolan, Walter Lure)
4. '(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone' (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart)
5. 'My Way' (Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux) (alternate version without strings)

Side two

1. 'Belsen Was a Gas' (Johnny Rotten, Paul Cook, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones)
2. 'Something Else' (Sharon Sheeley, Eddie Cochran)
3. 'Chatterbox' (Johnny Thunders)
4. 'Search And Destroy' (Iggy Pop, James Williamson)
5. 'Chinese Rocks' (Dee Dee Ramone, Richard Hell)
6. 'My Way (I Killed The Cat)' (shorter live version Of 'My Way')

Mediachance pattern studio v5.2.3. Tracks 2, 3, 10, 11 – 1st set, Max's Kansas City, New York City, September 29, 1978

Tracks 4, 6, 8, 9 – 1st set, Max's Kansas City, New York City, September 28, 1978

Track 7 – 1st set, Max's Kansas City, New York City, September 30, 1978

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Track 5 - Studio de la Grande Armee, Paris, April 10, 1978

There are talking bits edited in from both the 28th and 29th sets, including quite a few from the second set of the 28th, although no music is included from that set. This helps at least make sense out of the fact that the LP's inner sleeve shows a copy of Boogie's notes from the second set of the 28th used during compiling the LP.

Personnel[edit]

• Sid Vicious – lead vocals; bass on 'Born to Lose'
• Paul Cook – drums on 'Born to Lose'
• Steve Jones – guitar, backing vocals on 'Born to Lose'
• Arthur Kane – bass
• Steve Dior – guitar
• Jerry Nolan – drums
• Claude Engel – guitar on 'My Way'
• Sauveur Mallia – bass on 'My Way'
• Pierre-Alain Dahan – drums on 'My Way'

Technical

• Chris Jenkins - engineer
• Manu Guiot - engineer on 'My Way'
• Jamie Reid - design

References[edit]

1. ^Allmusic review
2. ^Starr, Red. 'Albums'. Smash Hits (January 24 – February 6, 1980): 21.
3. ^'Sid Sings track breakdown'.
4. ^'Sex Pistols Date Diary'.
5. ^'My Way recording information'.