― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Interesting piece on them in this Mojo Punk Special. I envy those of you who got to see those TOTP performances, etc.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 10 April 2005 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 10 April 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link
buzzcocks fans with descendents hate are like run-dmc fans who hate public enemy. don't hate the playa, hate the game, etc...
― peteshelleygoestocollege, Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Blame it on X-Ray Spex.
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
By the way, Buzzcock's are as classic as it gets. A little maudlin sometimes, but aren't we all.
― Fa Fa fa FA, Fa fa Fa fa FA Fa (poop), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fa Fa fa FA, Fa fa Fa fa FA Fa (poop), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, I liked my lyrics better. Call Pansy Division. If they haven't already gone to it.
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Monday, 11 April 2005 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 11 April 2005 04:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Another Music in a Different Kitchen / Singles Going Steady: Pretty awesome.
Afterwards, progressively losing the plot.
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 11 April 2005 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 11 April 2005 07:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 11 April 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
By the time you get to "Airwaves Dream," you're a million miles from "Orgasm" (one of the few songs I knew) - it's positively Joy Divisionish.
― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
"Ever Fallen In Love" might be the my favorite single by a first-wave UK punk band.
― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link
OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!!!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Over-familiarisation with their music ruined the Buzzcocks for me big time.
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― zeus (zeus), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 09:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 09:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Try the Fastbacks. "The Question Is NO" is their "Singles Going Steady" (and is just as good says me).
― drench, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Get the fuck in, Peter Shelley. What a band.
― Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Devoto
― dr x o'skeleton, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Right, they've done Jonathan Ross and Simon thingy as guest presenters.
Let's be having Pete Shelley up next you bbc you.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link
We need a new recd from Howard about now I think.
Anyone see the Devoto/Shelley piece in Q's Machester Special? Good Slaughter and The Dogs article too.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
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And rather fine it is too.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
It's good - but if you want to buy one post '89 Buzzcocks album I'd recommend 2003's Buzzcocks (for starters).
Quite apart from being probably the best album they've recorded since they reformed, it includes a version of the original Howie-era song "Lester Sands" (previously only available on the Time's Up bootleg) and a more aggressive take on "'Til The Stars In His Eyes Are Dead" (retitled simply "Stars") from the previous year's ShelleyDevoto album Buzzkunst.
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― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
I prefer TTT myself, but 'Buzzcocks' is pretty damned good too. Haven't heard the new one yet - my copy's in the post. Just don't break your neck to find copies of 'All Set' and 'Modern' cos they're decidedly patchy to these ears.
If you want to head the post '89 band in rip-roaring live form, then the two CDs issued by Dojo in 1995 are what you want: 'French', and the mail-order only 'Encore Du Pain'. IIRC they have been reissued as one double CD called 'The complete French sessions' or some such.
― Niall, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Niall, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 30 March 2006 08:47 (eighteen years ago) link
There's 'Totally from the heart' and 'Give it to me' too. The rest of it's a bit shonky, though.
Is 'All set' the only out-of-print Buzzcocks album?
― Niall, Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway I picked up the rerelease of TTT (there's lots of copies for £3.95 in SellandBuy in Harrow) and I'm pleased to say that it sounds a lot better than the orig. It's still not a great production - the guitars are a bit diffuse at times and the drums are not well recorded - but it's a lot more listenable than before. I guess we're somewhat spoiled by the classic Rushent productions - urgent and poweful, yet lots of space. I don't know Ralph Ruppert, producer of TTT, anyone know what else he's produced? He's German apparently.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 31 March 2006 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 31 March 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 31 March 2006 10:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Don't ever recall seeing it myself, but Jeff Hall's discography says:
"CD released (UK) as EMI CZ93"
so maybe it was and it's also OOP?
> I wonder if XL1 will do have the computer graphics that were on the original tape release.
Anyone got a working Speccy to play them on? I'll YSI 'em if anyone wants.
― Niall, Friday, 31 March 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bimble, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Finally, after all these years, got to see the 'cocks last night at Beverley Leisure Centre - an incongruous venue and even more worryingly it was billed as part of the Beverley Folk Festival.
I wasn't expecting much.
Images of Shelley and Diggle morris dancing onto the stage in aran sweaters were exploded
THEY WERE FUCKING AMAZING!!! Wave after wave of the best pop punk songs on the planet. Steve Diggle particularly was worth the price alone. A fucking nutter,grinning like a loon, pulling all the poses. Shelley just stood there with that cocked head belting out all the hits for the kids (actually old bastards like me withtheir kids).
The two 'new' guys were unnoticeable apart from laying down the impressive rhythm, which is how it should have been.
I was chuffed to bits for Shelley and Diggle. They seemed to be having a wail of a time. Ditto the audience. Saw a lot of old muckers too which made the night even sweeter for me. Nostalgia indeed.
― Fer Ark, Saturday, 21 June 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Why's no-one talking about the 2CD reissues of the first 3 albums, eh?
― Dr.C, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I did mention them on some other thread, but yeah.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 11:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, and they're doing a "Don't look back" gig, consisting of the first two albums in full.
What's so wrong with "tension" then?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link