The Buzzcocks

[The Red Baron]

I've just been listening to their singles collection.
I had forgotten how insanely good this is.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S7_hYWbJDtc

[RedJ]

Never mind, eh?

[The Red Baron]

Never mind, eh?

I take it you're not a fan.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Good call TRB. I got their singles collection recently. Hadn't listened to them for years.

This one was my favourite song when I was 12. It's still up there with Teenage Kicks as about as close as you can get to post-punk pop perfection.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pf2DgSJuUHc

[RedJ]

Never mind, eh?

I take it you're not a fan.

Oh I don't mind them, was just a poor attempt at humour.

[The Red Baron]

Good call TRB. I got their singles collection recently. Hadn't listened to them for years.

This one was my favourite song when I was 12. It's still up there with Teenage Kicks as about as close as you can get to post-punk pop perfection.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pf2DgSJuUHc

That's a belter as well.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Actually, I take that back. It's not on a par with this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis

The O'Neill brothers were just astonishing. It's like they'd programmed a primitive computer to take the previous 20 years of rock and roll and fuse it into a flawless 2 mins. It's all there. Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, the Stones, T-Rex, Sex Pistols.

And the their balls had hardly dropped an all. They were only about 16-18 when they wrote that.

[DN8ROVER]

Buzzcocks financed the recording of Bingo-Master's Break-Out, the first single by The Fall. The world shall be forever in their debt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ZvO4pcTHs

[turnbull for england]

I occasionally work with a relative of Howard Devoto,  she had no idea herself till i asked her

[The Red Baron]

I was listening to the John Peel the night he played Teenage Kicks twice.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPzyN8Qq5XA

[bahrain rover]

I saw them a few year back when they played Donny market in Ledger week. It was my sons ( 8 year old) first taste of live music. I am proud to say he is now a blinder on Bass guitar.

[Bentley Bullet]

I bet he thought, "I'm sure I can do better than that"! 

[roversdude]

https://youtu.be/uwAtifCoB3I

This was always a favourite

[BillyStubbsTears]

I'm sure he did BB. But not many have managed it. Before or since.

[DN8ROVER]

My fave Buzzcocks tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re9fcfHMsp0

[darren61]

if like me you like the Buzzcocks live sound which i first heard when i was 15yrs old on the Live at the Roxy 1977 album you will love the album "French" just turn the volume up and enjoy, class.

[German Rover]

Have a listen to the a -z of punk podcasts from bbc 6 music. Mark riley and bob Hughes have done a great job exploring how important buzzcocks were not only for punk but british music as a whole. A great band, ever fallen in love is one of the best ever.

[Dutch Uncle]

Actually, I take that back. It's not on a par with this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis

The O'Neill brothers were just astonishing. It's like they'd programmed a primitive computer to take the previous 20 years of rock and roll and fuse it into a flawless 2 mins. It's all there. Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, the Stones, T-Rex, Sex Pistols.

And the their balls had hardly dropped an all. They were only about 16-18 when they wrote that.

Saw a brilliant film 'Good Vibrations' about music (including punk and the Undertones) in Northern ireland during the troubles, centred around Terry Hooley and his record label Good Vibrations.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1920945/

Well worth watching.

Short clip about Terry Hooley and the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9CPQvRjsMQ