{"id":4518,"date":"2025-08-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-steve-jones-of-the-sex-pistols\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:00:00","slug":"5-albums-i-cant-live-without-steve-jones-of-the-sex-pistols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-steve-jones-of-the-sex-pistols\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without: Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/Credit-Giuseppi-Craca-.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"860\" alt=\"Sex Pistols (L-R): Glen Matlock, Frank Carter, Steve Jones, Paul Cook. (Credit: Giueseppi Craca)\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Steve Jones<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/deep-cut-friday-between-a-laugh-and-a-tear-by-john-mellencamp\/\">Deep Cut Friday: \u2018Between a Laugh and a Tear\u2019 by John Mellencamp<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/b-real-breaks-down-how-insane-in-the-brain-made-cypress-hill-superstars\/\">B-Real Breaks Down How \u2018Insane in the Brain\u2019 Made Cypress Hill Superstars<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/20-years-later-the-soundtrack-of-brokeback-mountain-still-echoes\/\">20 Years Later, the Soundtrack of \u2018Brokeback Mountain\u2019 Still Echoes<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best known for<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Swearing on the\u00a0<em>Bill Grundy Show<\/em>\u00a0[on December 1, 1976].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current city\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excited about<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m going to be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/events.seated.com\/sex-pistols-featuring-frank-carter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">touring<\/a>\u00a0until middle of October\u2014all around Europe and England, then going to South America for a few dates. We end up in the States, in Dallas, and work our way all around the States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My current music collection has a lot of<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Catchy songs. (I\u2019m particular what kind of catchy music I like. It\u2019s not just a genre in general.)<\/p>\n<p>I do like the last Arctic Monkeys album,\u00a0<em>The Car<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And a little bit of<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0I love \u201970s reggae. Especially [The Harry J All Stars] \u201cLiquidator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preferred format<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0I just stream now.\u00a0I appreciate the whole vinyl community and the Hi-Fi and the Lo-Fi, and all that, collecting albums. It\u2019s just I haven\u2019t got time. I haven\u2019t got the space, the time, and\u2026I want to hear it now. I want it all on my phone. I don\u2019t want to be schlepping albums around. I just gave up on all that. I got rid of all my CDs years ago.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"i4YM70M_e-U\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5-albums-i-can-t-live-without\"><strong><u>5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without:<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1\">1<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-every-picture-tells-a-story-rod-stewart\"><strong><em>Every Picture Tells a Story<\/em>, Rod Stewart<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1260\" height=\"1210\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/Every-Picture-Tells-a-Story-Rod-Stewart.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-470581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/Every-Picture-Tells-a-Story-Rod-Stewart.png 1260w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/Every-Picture-Tells-a-Story-Rod-Stewart-340x327.png 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/Every-Picture-Tells-a-Story-Rod-Stewart-768x738.png 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/Every-Picture-Tells-a-Story-Rod-Stewart-498x478.png 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1260px) 100vw, 1260px\"><\/figure>\n<p>I can start with\u00a0<em>Every Picture Tells a Story<\/em>\u00a0by Rod Stewart. That was a big album for me growing up for many reasons. I remember buying it down Oxford Street at the HMV shop. I didn\u2019t know who it was. I just liked the cover. Then I got it, and I loved Rod Stewart\u2019s voice. I loved \u201cMaggie May\u201d\u00a0and the song \u201cEvery Picture Tells a Story.\u201d\u00a0I was really proud of myself because after buying it, it became the No. 1 album in America, No. 1 album in the U.K., and then No. 1 single in America, and No. 1 Single in the U.K. with \u201cMaggie May.\u201d I thought, \u201cOh, I must know what I\u2019m doing then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was obsessed with Rod Stewart when I was a teenager. I liked his hair, the fashion, his voice, and the Faces as well, the band he was in with Ronnie Wood.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2\">2<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-rise-and-fall-of-ziggy-stardust-and-the-spiders-from-mars-david-bowie\"><strong><em>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,<\/em> David Bowie<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1290\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Ziggy-Stardust-and-the-Spiders-from-Mars-David-Bowie--1290x1290.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-470567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Ziggy-Stardust-and-the-Spiders-from-Mars-David-Bowie--1290x1290.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Ziggy-Stardust-and-the-Spiders-from-Mars-David-Bowie--340x340.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Ziggy-Stardust-and-the-Spiders-from-Mars-David-Bowie--768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Ziggy-Stardust-and-the-Spiders-from-Mars-David-Bowie--498x498.jpg 498w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Ziggy-Stardust-and-the-Spiders-from-Mars-David-Bowie-.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\"><\/figure>\n<p>I know he had a few albums before that when he had curly hair and wearing dresses. I knew a couple of the songs, but that whole look, the glam look, I was sold hook, line, and sinker when that came out. I saw him a few times. I love Mick Ronson, Woody Woodmansey is a fantastic drummer, and Trevor Bolder. They were just a great band. I know it was basically David Bowie\u2019s thing, and then he left them after two albums. Pretty much all of them anyway. Mick Ronson went on a bit longer to play with him on\u00a0<em>Pin Ups<\/em>. That album was definitely one of my favorite albums. Very inspirational to me. Steered me in the direction. I loved all that glam, to be honest with you. T. Rex, Mott the Hoople. Good glam. There was a lot of cheesy glam, which I don\u2019t mind now, but at the time, I was a bit particular. They had to look a certain way. Slade and The Sweet and bands like that, they seemed a bit more just manufactured and\u00a0<em>Top of the Pops<\/em>\u00a0friendly. I liked a bit more avant-garde with Bowie, and the next album, I\u2019m going to say, as well. If you want me to still talk about the rise and fall, I will, or are we done now?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3\">3<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-for-your-pleasure-roxy-music\"><strong><em>For Your Pleasure<\/em>, Roxy Music<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1248\" height=\"1206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/08\/For-Your-Pleasure-Roxy-Music.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-470568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/08\/For-Your-Pleasure-Roxy-Music.png 1248w, https:\/\/www.spin.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/08\/For-Your-Pleasure-Roxy-Music-340x329.png 340w, https:\/\/www.spin.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/08\/For-Your-Pleasure-Roxy-Music-768x742.png 768w, https:\/\/www.spin.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/08\/For-Your-Pleasure-Roxy-Music-498x481.png 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1248px) 100vw, 1248px\"><\/figure>\n<p>The third album then leads me to Roxy Music. Their second album,\u00a0<em>For Your Pleasure<\/em>, was also produced by Chris Spedding, who produced\u00a0<em>Never Mind the Bollocks<\/em>. That was one of the reasons why I was excited to use Chris Thomas as a producer because he did a few Roxy Music albums, actually.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Again, I loved the fashion. I loved that when you actually bought an LP, you could open it up and there was an individual picture of each band member. It was very stylized, the way they looked. It was great. That was the last album they did with Eno. What he played, even though it was chaotic, on the synthesizers and all that, I thought it worked good. They\u2019re brilliant songs, \u201cDo the Strand,\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe Bogus Man,\u201d \u201cIn Every Dream Home a Heartache.\u201d Just a brilliant album. Again, it\u2019s one of them albums for me as a 15, 16 year old, however old I was when that came out, I would just lie on the bed and close my eyes and just get all these images of it, of what was going on. That was a great thing back in the \u201970s, you had to buy an album. Obviously, there was no CDs or even 8-tracks at that point, I don\u2019t think. You had the big albums to look at. Some of them opened up and they had more pictures or information or in a sleeve.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-4\">4<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-50-big-ones-the-beach-boys\"><strong><em>50 Big Ones<\/em>, The Beach Boys<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1254\" height=\"1250\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/50-Big-Ones-Beach-Boys.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-470582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/50-Big-Ones-Beach-Boys.png 1254w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/50-Big-Ones-Beach-Boys-340x339.png 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/50-Big-Ones-Beach-Boys-768x766.png 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/50-Big-Ones-Beach-Boys-498x496.png 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1254px) 100vw, 1254px\"><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s so great. I like all their big songs. I could just listen to that over and over again, just have it in the background. It\u2019s so catchy. Some of their songs are just so catchy. I even like the ones where Carl sings, even when Brian Wilson dipped out a little bit. \u201cI Can Hear Music\u201d\u00a0I think is with Carl singing. I think he\u2019s got a great voice. It\u2019s just unbelievably catchy, most of their songs. Obviously, I bet musicians pick\u00a0<em>Pet Sounds<\/em>, probably. I loved the pop. I can\u2019t get enough of catchy songs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5\">5<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-anything-by-steely-dan\"><strong>Anything by Steely Dan<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1268\" height=\"1212\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/Aja-Steely-Dan.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-470572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/Aja-Steely-Dan.png 1268w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/Aja-Steely-Dan-340x325.png 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/Aja-Steely-Dan-768x734.png 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/Aja-Steely-Dan-498x476.png 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1268px) 100vw, 1268px\"><\/figure>\n<p>They don\u2019t really have a best song. That\u2019s the thing. They have\u00a0<em>A Decade of Steely Dan<\/em>, but it\u2019s not a lot of songs. It\u2019s only 10 or 12 songs. I would love to get an album with all of them. I make playlists. I\u2019ve got all their albums on the playlist on Apple, so I\u2019ll just let that play from the beginning to the end. Anything, just pick any album of Steely Dan.<\/p>\n<p>They put so much work into making them albums. It\u2019s basically the two guys who use different musicians on most of the albums. They stopped touring and they just wanted to record. It shows. You could really listen to the records, they\u2019re perfect. Again, a pop sense, but in a subtle way.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name\u00a0\u00a0Steve Jones More from Spin: Deep Cut Friday: \u2018Between a Laugh and a Tear\u2019 by John Mellencamp B-Real Breaks Down How \u2018Insane in the Brain\u2019 Made Cypress Hill Superstars 20&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262,3348,2414,31,24,2615,3349,1753,3350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-albums-i-cant-live-without","category-beach-boys","category-david-bowie","category-features","category-pushly","category-rod-stewart","category-roxy-music","category-sex-pistols","category-steely-dan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}