On-stage, the reunited Buzzcocks have been a consistently superb live act since Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle began making the rounds again in 1989, but the second edition...
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If Never Mind the Bollocks and London Calling are held up as punk masterpieces, then there's no question that Singles Going Steady belongs alongside them. In fact, the slew...
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General judgment holds the Buzzcocks' peerless singles, the definition of punk-pop at its finest, as the best expression of their work. However, while the singles showcased...
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Continuing their nimble-footed journey down the comeback trail, All Set offers more of Pete Shelley's trademark tales of doomed love ("Without You," "Point Of No Return,"...
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Hooking up with Neill King as producer for All Set was an amusing turn on the part of the Buzzcocks, given that King had engineered Dookie, the breakthrough album from open...
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This recently-recorded live document provides a great introduction after Singles Going Steady, compiling classics from all of their albums along with hard-to-find gems like...
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So named because of the concert location in Paris, French captures the '90s Buzzcocks line-up ripping through an extensive, energetic set of old classics and newer material...
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The opening track--the blunt, obnoxious masturbation celebration "Orgasm Addict"--has instantly changed the life of many an impressionable budding punk kid, and "Noise...
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If Never Mind the Bollocks and London Calling are held up as punk masterpieces, then there's no question that Singles Going Steady belongs alongside them. In fact, the slew...
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The Buzzcocks' self-financed debut is every bit as important as the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the UK" in the establishment of the U.K. punk scene. And playing those two...
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"Tension" is the key word; the suffocating sense of despair and alienation mounts on this pre-break-up release, with the hopeless "I Don't Know What To Do With My Life",...
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Even at the end of their career, the Buzzcocks were recording an amazing array of ferocious pop songs. Their last album, A Different Kind of Tension, featured some of Pete...
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An archival recording from a early-1979 concert in London, Entertaining Friends is a fine blast from the band's classic lineup. On one hand there's no immediate reason for...
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While the Buzzcocks were on tour in 1979 and 1980, Joan McNulty, the publisher of their official fan magazine Harmony in My Head (and then-girlfriend of singer Pete...
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To put it mildly, April of 1977 was not a peak moment in the Buzzcocks' career -- Howard DeVoto had just bailed out to form Magazine, Pete Shelley was taking his first stab...
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Buzzcocks debuted in the wake of the Sex Pistols with this phenomenal LP that embodies everything young, fast, loud and snotty about punk, as well as everything clever,...
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With "Ever Fallen In Love" (later covered by Fine Young Cannibals), "Nostalgia," "Nothing Left" and "Real World," the cynical edge is sharpened to a lethal, glinting point....
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While the Buzzcocks' singles captured the band's energetic, tightly wound pop style perfectly, the band experimented a bit more with song structures on their full-length...
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Did the Buzzcocks invent pop-punk? Probably not. Did they perfect it? You bet. Marrying glorious pop melodies, the chainsaw roar of a downstroked guitar, and the furious...
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Probably the first punk-era box set, Product is an almost-complete collection of the Buzzcocks' original 1976-1980 incarnation. It's only almost complete because it doesn't...
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If you crave another fix, these 14 tracks recorded for John Peel's BBC 1 radio show are just the medicine you need. Recording quality is good and grubby, and the band is in...
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This is their "reunion" album, but slap this baby on and it's like they never left. They sound as fresh as ever, with few changes to their flawless formula other than the...
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Despite the punk revival of the '90s, the Buzzcocks operated somewhat under the radar. They were an undeniable influence on many bands, including the chart-topping...
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In the late 1970s, the Ramones were the kings of punk-pop. But in England, that honor went to the Buzzcocks. Arguably British punk's equivalent of the Kinks, the Buzzcocks...
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The final album of the Buzzcocks' first phase of existence is the most fragmented of the three, with increasingly ambitious songs fighting for time with tracks that sound...
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Available only via the band's website, this generic-sleeved CD collects 21 live songs from nearly as many venues over the last decade -- since Tony Barber (bass) and Phil...
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