The Original Recordings serves as an accompaniment to the new mini-series Pistol, about the genesis and eventual implosion of the Sex Pistols and directed by Danny Boyle. The 20-track compilation features their hits from their seminal 1977 album, Never Mind The Bollocks, interspersed with B-sides and rarities from The Great Rock n’ Roll Swindle mockumentary in which they were featured. While the sequencing of the tracks makes sense for the kind of hallmark collection this is intended to be, the remastered versions of the songs have flattened out the snarls and lows of the various tracks, giving a smooth veneer to what used to be one of the most angular and jarring series of recordings. They sound more like a Strokes album than Sex Pistols which, if we were being as charitable as possible i...