Condition: Brand New Ships from: Melbourne Description Release details Tracklist To mark the 40th anniversary of the original releases, Domino are very proud to announce details of the re-issue of Buzzcocks seminal first two albums, Another Music In A Different Kitchen and Love Bites. Famously taking their name from ‘It’s the buzz, cock’, a headline from a Time Out review of 1970s TV music drama ‘Rock Follies’, Buzzcocks formed in Bolton in 1976 by Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto, who have a strong claim to have kick-started a musical revolution in Manchester having organised and played at the now infamous Sex Pistols show at Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall in 1976, a show which inspired and spawned the likes of Joy Division, The Fall and The Smiths. Having recorded their debut EP, Spiral Scratch, in October 1976 for a cost of £45 (the single would go on to sell 16,000 copies in the first six months of release on their own New Hormones label), the band soon under-went personnel changes with founder Howard Devoto leaving before they signed to United Artists and embarked on the recording of their debut album. Within six months of their debut album release, the band had recorded and released its follow up. Again working with Martin Rushent at Olympic Studios, Love Bites was recorded in late July 1978 and released in September of that year. It featured their highest charting single, and arguably best-known song, Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve). By the end of 1978 with the release of the band's first two albums not only had Buzzcocks established themselves as one of the leading-lights of punk but proved themselves as deft songwriters capable of producing three-minute-mini-masterpieces that would endure long after the initial spark of punk had faded. After releasing a third album, A Different Kind Of Tension, in 1979 the band continued for a couple of years before finally disbanding in 1981. The band would re-form in 1989 for a number of shows and they have continued to play live and record albums since featuring original members Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle. Reviews "Both Another Music In A Different Kitchen and Love Bites, both released in 1978, know how to convince even after 40 years to convince, in contrast to many other punk records of the time This is due to the fact that the Buzzcocks, with all noise and rhythm of guitars, bass and drums, Bass and drums, the Buzzcocks always had for catchy melodies." (Good Times, February/March 2019) Genre: Punk & Alternative Review AllMusic rating: AllMusic users: (338 votes) Read the AllMusic.com review Artist: Buzzcocks Label: Domino Format: LP Units: 1 Country: US Genre: Punk & Alternative Style: New Wave, Punk A1 Real WorldA2 Ever Fallen In LoveA3 Operators ManualA4 NostalgiaA5 Just LustA6 Sixteen AgainB1 Walking DistanceB2 Love Is LiesB3 Nothing LeftB4 E.S.P.B5 Late For The Train
