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These are great songs played passionately, this album has been produced to work as a whole piece, not the ragbag stop/start collection of hit/filler we have become used to from so-called chart acts. Bassist Tony Barber's production puts the guitars at the sharp end of the sonic assault. But in these heavily labelled and branded times, is it punk rock? Yes it is, but don't let that put you off. In sound, Buzzcocks reprises key moments of the band's history, right back to 1978's seminal Another Music in a Different Kitchen album. The longest song is the closing track Useless at a smidgen over four minutes. Aficionados will welcome the inclusion of a revived Lester Sands from the band's earliest days, and a storming version of Stars, which appeared on Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto's highly-regarded Buzzkunst album. Highpoints of this album are Shelley's opener Jerk, the classic-in-waiting Friends and Diggle's Sick City Sometimes, though the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This is an album you'll want to play through from start to finish again and again and again.
It's a mixed-up world, these are mixed-up times. Fame has never been more transient or manufactured. How reassuring to be presented with an honest product by the finest exponents of the genre they invented. Power and craftsmanship - you couldn't ask for more. This is a straight-up album that slaps you about the ears and then leaves you strangely thankful for it. Old and new punks, Nu-metal youths, sk8r b0is and grrls - get out there, buy this and enjoy. Original and best.
Buzzcocks trademarks are aplenty- there’s some great one string/two note guitar solos in this lot, and the production is certainly in overdrive. What’s interesting to note is the way that the Shelly/Diggle compositions now sound so similar, with the vocal delivery still that of the Buzzcocks sound. Guitars perform the trademark start stop routine with great use of lo-fi swirling effects and the familiar ahhh’s and ooohh’s are ever present.
You won’t find any thing as good as some of the classic singles fodder that used to cheer up the charts during the grim late 70’s, however as an album this really does stand up as a bit of a cracker and stands well along side the classic 3.
Guitars chime and buzz as before, and the drumming is fast & furious. At one point I am sure I can hear the sound of a telephone ringing in the background! Or is this just an acknowledgement of the wonders of the association with Telephones that the group always had?
If you’re a 40 something survivor or a new punk rock fan that wants to find out where it all started and finished? Get this now and trust that the Buzzcocks are the only punk originals to carry this off to this level without looking like embarrassing old-timers!
All the albums from 'Trade Test' to 'Flat Pack' are first rate, but this collection edges it, for me,... Read more
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