The Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex (1977)

“If the sessions had gone the way I wanted, it would have been unlistenable for most people,” Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten said. For millions, it was. But when the Sex Pistols’ only official album made a frontal assault on the U.K. pop charts, Rotten’s snarled lyrics about abortion and anarchy terrorized a nation. The result remains punk rock’s Sermon on the Mount, and its echoes are everywhere.