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Track Listings
| 1. You Tear Me Up |
| 2. Breakdown |
| 3. Friends Of Mine |
| 4. Orgasm Addict (Explicit) |
| 5. Boredom |
| 6. Time's Up |
| 7. Lester Sands (Drop In The Ocean) |
| 8. Love Battery |
| 9. I Can't Control Myself |
| 10. I Love You, You Big Dummy |
| 11. Don't Mess Me Around |
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Punk seldom ages well, but there is a primal energy to Time's Up that lends it a certain timeless quality. While the Sex Pistols became a national institution, remembered best for their twee little anarchisms during Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee celebrations and years later celebrated as pantomime, the Buzzcocks never impacted as strongly on the Great British psyche. Rather, Time's Up is the archetypal document of punk's volatile underground genesis. Recorded just before original frontman and future Magazine linchpin Howard Devoto jumped ship, Time's Up is a collection of early recordings (including tracks from The Buzzcocks' legendary debut EP, "Spiral Scratch"), all bashed out in single takes and released on the band's own record label, New Hormones. It's a seminal album of its genre, and although some of Time's Up borrows too heavily from the Pistols' legacy, "Breakdown" and "Lester Sands (Drop In The Ocean)" still deserve that oxymoronic epithet "punk classic". --Louis Pattison
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Audio CD
This enhanced CD is a set of no-remix demos recorded live in a Manchester studio in October 1976, when Howard Devoto was still in the band. The recording predates the 'Spiral Scratch'ep.
There is a video clip, said to be an extract of film from their first ever live gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in July 1976. The quality of the film is remarkably good, but the music accompanying the clip is clearly the Spiral Scratch version of Breakdown.
Also included in the package is a 27 page booklet with snippets of early Buzzcocks memorabilia, most notable of which is an off the wall interview with Devoto.
The music is raw and exciting- a joy to hear, in this awful era of disgraceful dross from Hear'say and their vile ilk. Buy it.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
By John Blonde
Format:Audio CD
My only criticism of this majestic piece of work is that it hasn't got the original cheap red sleeve that I remember so well! What a great record, I bought it because my dreadful 70's quality tape of the vinyl was giving up the ghost. Doesn't seem quite right having it on CD as it really is a classis vinyl album. Raw, energetic, fresh, vital and totally exhillirating.Sounds like the later buzzcocks before production got a look in. On the scale of arty vs (allegedly)working class this flies the black flag for arty. Intelligent, witty, it sums up for me my punk schooldays in the 70's and the changeover from flares to drainpipes. Nostalgia certainly enhances it, but nonetheless if you are looking for a taste of original punk rock away from the London scene this is it. The tracks? I love em all. Personal fave is times up, still sends a shiver down the spine when I play it. Buy it, and when the dismal world news gets you down, and you're sick of more English moaning and negativity, get this in the Cd player, turn it up, and be reassured that there is creative hope for the human race after all.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Sees them shifting from speeded up RNB into that punk rock, self erected tent, built to dominate imaginations for more than a few years. Raw, uncooked but suprisingly well produced, all tighter than a rich mans pound; this captures the slower, pensive, thoughtful, but over brimming acidic Howard, dripping with his simmering tedium.
A version of "Boredom" is ensnared in one extensive, angry yawnnnnn. Displaying the full spectrum of ennui, bedum... dedum, Howard wrenches another definitive performance of a classic call on time. Time's Up; another fave from an era, stretching along to the 21st century, tagging along with his Big Dummy-here more rnb than punkkkkk rockkkkk.It still exudes that sneer, which twists the vocal lines, beyond punk into pure dripping snot.
Also wrapped up, is the majesty of the purple head, depicted standing proud in its perpetual stroking; Orgasm Addict; he's tried it once before and here it is again... still pummelling away 30 years later, now with a lot more to say..."not now I'm busy."
The other tracks are less familiar, those that were left in the can... apart from "Can't Control Myself." Yep, it finally makes sense being played along with the others... the Buzzcocks take on sex and relationships were...revelatory.
This albums skid marks its tires to the splurge of electric adrenaline, all firing back through the speakers as moments of enlightenment, untamed emotion dredged from seventies teenagers,captured in one long pristine bristling snap shot. When music that emitted was beaten and mashed, to satiate the hungry and wild... where nothing then.... was ever, as humdrum, as...
A version of "Boredom" is ensnared in one extensive, angry yawnnnnn. Displaying the full spectrum of ennui, bedum... dedum, Howard wrenches another definitive performance of a classic call on time. Time's Up; another fave from an era, stretching along to the 21st century, tagging along with his Big Dummy-here more rnb than punkkkkk rockkkkk.It still exudes that sneer, which twists the vocal lines, beyond punk into pure dripping snot.
Also wrapped up, is the majesty of the purple head, depicted standing proud in its perpetual stroking; Orgasm Addict; he's tried it once before and here it is again... still pummelling away 30 years later, now with a lot more to say..."not now I'm busy."
The other tracks are less familiar, those that were left in the can... apart from "Can't Control Myself." Yep, it finally makes sense being played along with the others... the Buzzcocks take on sex and relationships were...revelatory.
This albums skid marks its tires to the splurge of electric adrenaline, all firing back through the speakers as moments of enlightenment, untamed emotion dredged from seventies teenagers,captured in one long pristine bristling snap shot. When music that emitted was beaten and mashed, to satiate the hungry and wild... where nothing then.... was ever, as humdrum, as...
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An Iconic Punk Recording
Recorded in October 1976 by the original (real) version of Buzzcocks i.e. with Howard Devoto, Time's Up is a truly brilliant example of what British punk music could produce at its... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Keith M
4.0 out of 5 stars
Essential Early Punk
This review is for the original 1991 CD issue on Document (Document DCD2).
With 11 tracks clocking in at just over 28 minutes in total, and recorded in late 1976, this... Read more
With 11 tracks clocking in at just over 28 minutes in total, and recorded in late 1976, this... Read more
Published 20 months ago by XBBX
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TIMES NEVER BEEN UP
This cd is raw from start to finish with Howard Devoto putting it over in his usual brilliant style.Buy it.
Published on 3 May 2011 by Mr. S. Rushton
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