The Sex Pistols may not have been the first punk band, but no group better embodied the movement's gobbing and pogoing, middle-fingered essence. Their recorded legacy amounts to just one official album—1977's Never Mind the B******s, Here's the Sex Pistols—but it remains one of the most thrilling rock albums ever made, pitting Steve Jones' glam-schooled riffage against Johnny Rotten's anti-pop snarl on monarchy-toppling anthems like “God Save the Queen”. After original bassist Glen Matlock was ousted for the more unhinged Sid Vicious, the Pistols turned more extreme—see: the graphic abortion tale “Bodies”—before unceremoniously imploding in 1978.