"This oddity was posted up on Amazon with a September 3rd 2013 release date, but delayed until 10th September, and with a description of "Studio Sessions, Live Gigs and Rarities", prompted me to pick it up for just under a tenner.Thinking to myself that it would be one of those extremely poor quality Dave Goodman grab bags issued on those budget labels like Delta, I noticed it was a 3 cd set, so there might be something in its favour. So What do we get for the money?A nice big Digipack, holding the 3 discs, looks great, and slipping CD 1 in the machine, we have the "Vinyl Quotation" version of ANARCHY IN THE UK kicking it off, in I have to say, the best quality I have heard it, remastered, clear, crisp and fresh. Next up in these "Studio Sessions" is the 6 tracks from Goosebury Studios, January 1977, which we all know. Although sounding good, these are now redundant due to the better mixes on the NMTB Box Set of last year. The unedited NO FUN is next, followed by the demo of SILLY THING, with its different chorus and guitar work - in crystal clear quality I might add, as is HERE WE GO AGAIN. this disc is rounded off by the EX Pistols, demo versions of SWINDLE CONTINUES, JUDGING MINDS, an acoustic version of ANARCHY IN THE UK, and the SEX ON 45 MEDLEY.Ok, so it’s clear from here on in, that Dave Goodman may have been dead for almost 8 years, but the cupboards are being raided again, and as the song says, The Swindle Continues, but CD 1 is an excellent job, sound wise, and I have always been a fan of the Ex Pistols material as a stand alone unit.On CD 2, we have the entire, ultra rare DENY album, released in 1992 by Dave Goodman, under the moniker, SEXLESS PISTOLS. It is good to finally have this album on a proper mainstream release, and in its original running order, but sadly it is let down by being mastered from a vinyl issue, so some distortion appears in its sound, as the engineer has tried to push up the sound levels to optimum level. I rate this album, but of course, it's not the Sex Pistols.Completists may want to grab this for the track HAPPY FAMILLIES, which has long been rumoured to feature Glen Matlock on bass duties, and here he gets a songwriter credit. All seems to be going well for a release like this, until CD 3.Yep, one of those very poor releases rears it head again, one of those Delta label things (like the SUBMISSION CD), with awful quality versions of I WANNA BE ME, SATELLITE, PRETTY VACANT (Winterland), MY WAY (demo), C'MON EVERYBODY (poor single vinyl version), followed by 5 tracks of Sid live at Max's 1978, lovingly ripped from the second half of Anagram Records' SID DEAD LIVE release. Then it gets better with 2 demo versions of Ex Pistols tracks, and the LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY single.Normally, these days, as a collector, I wouldn't touch any more Dave Goodman recorded stuff with a ten foot bargepole, having everything that he has put out under the Pistols name that is and isn't the Pistols, but as I said previously, the first disc has been done well, and the DENY album is a welcome bonus for those who don't have it, or have the inferior cd-r that has been knocking around for a while. For under a tenner including postage, I actually recommend this, purely for discs 1 and 2 and its nice packaging. It really should be the last word on the Goodman stuff, until the REAL mixes of the Denmark Street 76 demo's turns up."Review by Jon Edwards (September 2013)Source: http://www.philjens.plus.com/pistols/pistols/pistols_reviews_latest.html#Faces