Inventory (Singles Set) - Buzzcocks

Advantages: All your old favourites
Disadvantages: No "Boredom"

...This compilation comes complete with all the old favourites ("Ever fallen in love", "What do I get") and a few B-sides as well. Pete Shelly's songs bristle with raw punk energy and some hillarious lyrics (particularly "Orgasm Addict"). However if you're looking for the Buzzcock's early work with Howard Devoto you will be disappointed as almost all the songs featured are Shelly compositions. The single "Boredom" is also conspicuous by its abscence. This collection is still a thoroughly enjoyable introduction to the work of the Buzzcock's however and as such I thoroughly recommend it.... Read review

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Advantages: Catch pop hooks and melodys
Disadvantages: A few bad B-sides

...The Buzzcocks are one of the first bands to mix the rage of punk with the catching choruses and melodys more commenly found in pop. They are with out a dout in my mind the first UK punk-pop band. Singles Going Steady is an album of the Buzzcocks eight singles and a bunch B-sides. All filled with catchy hooks, melodies, punk rage, blasting guitars, loopy bass lines, hard-hitting drums, and high-pitch wailing vocals. There is no way you can listen to this CD without one of there songs being stuck in your head. Just about all the songs on this album are about love and sex. Some of the B-side tracks arn't as catch or as abrasive as the others but this don't really take anything from the album as a whole.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Tracks, playing, approach
Disadvantages: No no no

...Oh those Buzzcocks! Those wonderful, amazing Buzzcocks with their infectiously, danceable pop hits and their fey little image. After they burst on the scene with the Spiral Scratch EP on Manchester's independent New Hormones label they looked like they might lose their way when the serious songster Howard Devoto split to form Magazine, but despite the short term presence of the mammoth and ill suited bassist Garth, they got back on track when Stev Garvey took over on bass and Steve Diggle took the other guitar part alongside Pete Shelley. The Singles, Going STeady album is their greatest hits, plus their B sides and it's dripping with nostalgia from first track to the last - Oh Shit, Orgasm Addict, What Do I Get, Ever Fallen In Love, Something's Gone Wrong Again, Harmony In My Head, this is all heady, dizzy stuff, the stuff that teenage... Read review

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