Singles Going Steady (1979) ( )

Artist: Buzzcocks
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Label: Emd/i.r.s.
UPC: 00022071315326
Release Date: 7/14/1992
Buy.com Sku: 60007946
Item#: MDVVSH
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Orgasm Addict - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
2. What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
3. I Don't Mind - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
4. Love You More - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
5. Ever Fallen in Love? - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
6. Promises - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
7. Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
8. Harmony in My Head - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
9. What Ever Happened to? - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
10. Oh Shit? - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
11. Autonomy - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
12. Noise Annoys - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
13. Just Lust - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
14. Lipstick - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
15. Why Can't I Touch It? - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks
16. Something's Gone Wrong Again - Buzzcocks ~ Various Artists/Buzzcocks



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
SINGLES GOING STEADY is a collection of the Buzzcocks' singles, including both A and B-sides.
Buzzcocks: Pete Shelley (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Steve Diggle (vocals, guitar); Steve Garvey, Garth Smith (bass); John Maher (drums).
Engineers: Alan Wistanley, Doug Bennett, Martin Rushent.
Recorded at Eden Studios and Abbey Road Studios, London, England; T.W. Studios, Fulham, England; Olympic Studios, Barnes, England; Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England.
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 of astonishing seven-inches collected on Steady and their influence on future musicians - punk or otherwise -- sometimes even betters more famous efforts. The title and artwork alone (the latter itself partially inspired by the Beatles' Let it Be) have been parodied or referred to by Halo of Flies and Don Caballero, which titled its own singles comp Singles Breaking Up. As for the music, anybody who ever combined full-blast rock, catchy melodies and romantic and social anxieties owes something to what the classic quartet did here. The deservedly well-known masterpiece "Ever Fallen in Love" appears along with Love Bites' "Just Lust," but the remaining tracks originally appeared only as individual A and B-sides, making this collection all the more essential. The earlier numbers showcase a band bursting with energy and wicked humor - the tongue-in-cheek "Orgasm Addict," details the adventures of a sex freak with a ridiculous fake orgasm vocal break to boot. However, the slightly more serious but no less frenetic singles are equally enthralling. "What Do I Get?" with its pained cry about lacking love, the deeply cynical "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" and Diggle's roaring "Harmony in My Head" are just three highlights on an album made of them. The final songs show the band incorporating their more adventuresome side into their singles, as with the slower, very Can-inspired "Why Can't I Touch It?," the semi-jokey stop-start thrash "Noise Annoys," and the Murphy's Law worries of "Something's Gone Wrong Again." ~ Ned Raggett
The Buzzcocks emerged from Manchester's thriving punk enclave with a succession of startling pop singles. Tight melodies and highly memorable hooklines were enveloped in a breathless group sound full of purpose and drive which contrasted with singer Pete Shelly's dispassionate, almost throwaway, delivery. These eight singles, both a-sides and flips, covered a variety of subject matter, from masturbation ('Orgasm Addict') to 1981 nuspeak ('Everybody's Happy Nowadays'), without recourse to obfuscation. Such seminal recordings have ensured the Buzzcocks' place in a lineage just a bit below the Kinks and the Smiths as one of the best purveyors of the 45 rpm.

Producer: Martin Rushent

 
Artist Overview
They never achieved the status of punk peers the Sex Pistols and the Clash, but the Buzzcocks are one of the most influential rock bands of the latter 20th century. With a blazing guitar attack, bratty singing, and riff-happy songs built around a few simple chords, the Buzzcocks could almost be called England's answer to the Ramones. Crucially, they added wry, scathing wit and undeniable pop sensibilities. They created some of the greatest singles in rock, and generations of groups have subsequently borrowed or stolen from them.

Artist Influences
Brian Eno | Can | David Bowie | Faust (Kraut Rock) | Guru Guru | Iggy Pop | MC5 | New York Dolls | Roxy Music | The Beatles | The Ramones | The Sex Pistols | The Velvet Underground

Artist Contemporaries
Cheap Time | Gang Of Four | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Slaughter & The Dogs | Stiff Little Fingers | The Clash | The Damned | The Fall | The Jam | The Mekons | The Stranglers | The Undertones | The Vibrators | Wire (Punk)

Artist Followers
Blur | Elastica | Green Day | Husker Du | Magazine | Manic Street Preachers | Pennywise | Pulp | Rancid | Super Furry Animals | Superchunk | The Breeders | The Offspring | The Replacements


 
Technical Info
Release Date : 07/14/1992
Original Release Date : 1979
Catalog ID : 13153
Label : Capitol Records (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Runtime : 47m : 14s
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00022071315326

 
Professional Reviews
Spin (5/01, p.108)
- Ranked #6 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...These 8 No. 1 hits...plus 8 brill B-sides...reveal Manchester's fey, frantic Buzzcock's as 1977's very own Beatles."

Q (10/01, pp.140-1)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...This album has lost none of its vitality..."

  
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