BUZZCOCKS

BUZZCOCKS
THE COMPLETE SINGLES ANTHOLOGY (2004)
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This three-disc package of the Manc punk demigods' complete 45s catalogue amounts to 1979's 'every home should have one' hits collection Singles Going Steady— "plus". That "plus" includes: 1977's historic Devoto-sung, Hannett-produced "Spiral Scratch" EP; their later Hannett productions (1980's swan song Parts 1,2,3 EP); and a decade's worth of reunion water-treading. Inevitably, the innovation of the first 31 tracks (pre-split) is rehashed in the remaining 23 (post-reformation), though not enough to taint everything from "Breakdown" to "Harmony In My Head".
All in all, this is a great introduction to the Buzzcocks.

Disc 1
1. Breakdown
2. Times Up
3. Boredom
4. Friends of Mine
5. Orgasm Addict
6. Whatever Happened To?
7. What Do I Get
8. Oh Shit!
9. I Don't Mind
10. Autonomy
11. Moving Away from the Pulsebeat
12. Love You More
13. Noise Annoys
14. Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?)
15. Just Lust
16. Promises
17. Lipstick
18. Everybody's Happy Nowadays
19. Why Can't I Touch It?
20. Harmony in My Head
21. Something's Gone Wrong Again
22. You Say You Don't Love Me
23. Raison d'Etre
24. I Believe

Disc 2
1. Are Everything
2. Why She's a Girl from the Chainstore
3. Airwaves Dream
4. Strange Thing
5. What Do You Know
6. Running Free
7. I Look Alone
8. Alive Tonight
9. Serious Crime
10. Last to Know
11. Successful St
12. Isolation
13. Innocent
14. Who'll Help Me Forget?
15. Inside
16. Do It
17. Trash Away
18. All Over You
19. Libertine Angel
20. Roll It Over
21. Prison Riot Hostage

Disc 3
1. Totally from the Heart
2. Thunder of Hearts
3. Soul on a Rock
4. Jerk
5. Don't Come Back
6. Oh Shit!
7. Sick City Sometimes
8. Never Believe It
9. Paradise
10. Steve Diggle and Tony Barber Interviewed By Alan Parker