Pete Shelley RIP
 

Another legend from my youth is gone.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7kfJ9qmP7o

Damn. He had the big jams. R.I.P.

Man, this hurts.
Always BIG love for The Buzzcocks.
One of the best live shows I've ever seen.

I saw them once.

Damn. I don't have a history with them or anything but Singles Going Steady is a top 10 punk or pop album.

Their run of singles in the late 70s is hard to beat

Definitely. One song in particular from that album ("Something's Gone Wrong Again") has been a persistent earworm for me since 1979. Every time I've broken an egg yoke while frying an egg over the past 39 years, the line "tried to fry an egg, broke the yoke, no joke" pops into my head every ****ing time.
Damn you, Pete Shelley. :laughing:

aww no the Buzzcocks were the best. I love how vulnerable the lyrics could be, didn't happen much in early punk as far as I know

Did you at least get to see them?

His bitch ass listened from the parking lot lol

I'll bet "forcibly removed" deserves quotation marks.

I failed one of those tests before. It must be what black people feel like every day.

I like that analysis of Something's Gone Wrong Again. That fits perfectly for my day so far.
All trips we take where we get a rental car, part of the playlist is always about
7 hours/150 tunes of Buzzcocks mixed in - usually sung/screamed loudly by the
both of us while speeding down the highway.

oh so bed(((

Devoto might be a better front man and Magazine might be a better band than the Buzzcocks but the Buzzcocks were better fronted by Shelley

Bed indeed.

Spiral Scratch is the **** but there's like two albums or something that have touched on the pop majesty of Singles Going Steady.

The hooks on Singles put the Ramones to shame tbh.

At least hook vs. hook definitely. Like not even a contest.

The Ramones had mammoth hooks but the Buzzcocks had the kind of hooks that glitter and flash and expand beyond horizons in your mind.

What Do I Get? ---> I Don't Mind ---> Love You More ---> Ever Fallen in Love

This is hard to do 'cause I could come up with another 4 easily,
but these are the ones that always stop me from whatever I'm
doing to scream along with them.

Ever Fallen In Love...;
What Do I Get?;
Everybody's Happy Nowadays;
I Believe (the long version)

But my four were tracks 2, 3, 4, and 5 on the album. Like, all you have to do is hit play and get that ****.

I'm telling you - that album is soooooo great - really nice to have all of that together on one LP or disc,
but even tho you could get all of those great singles 40 years ago (!), the full albums have some really
amazing stuff there too. The lyrics for "I Believe" are still stunningly cunning after all these long years.
Glorious CDs kept me from playing the singles until they died and glorious digital storage lets me play,
literally, a day's worth at a time.

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In these times of contention, it's not my intention to make things plain
I'm looking through mirrors to catch the reflection that can't be mine
I'm losing control now, I'll just have to slow down a thought or two
I can't feel the future and I'm not even certain that there is a past
I believe in the worker's revolution
And I believe in the final solution
I believe in, I believe in
I believe in the shape of things to come
And I believe, I'm not the only one
Yes, I believe in, I believe in
When I poison my system, I take thoughts and twist them into shapes
I'm reachin' my nadir and I haven't an idea of what to do
I'm painting by numbers but can't find the colors that fill you in
I'm not even knowing if I'm coming or going, if to end or begin
I believe in the immaculate conception
And I believe in the resurrection
And I believe in, I believe in
I believe in the elixir of youth
And I believe in the absolute truth
Yes I believe in, I believe in
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
I've fallen from favor while tryin' to savor experience
I'm seein' things clearly but it has quite nearly blown my mind
It's the aim of existence to offer resistance to the flow of time
Everything is and that is why, it is will be the line
I believe in perpetual motion
And I believe in perfect devotion
I believe in, I believe in
I believe in the things I've never had
And I believe in my mum and my dad
And I believe in, I believe in
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
I'm skippin' the pages of a book that takes ages for the foreword to end
Triangular cover concealing another aspect from view
My relative motion is just an illusion from stopping too fast
The essence of being these feelings I'm feeling, I just want them to last
I believe in original sin
And I believe what I believe in
Yes I believe in, I believe in
I believe in the web of fate
And I believe, I'm goin' to be late
So I'll be leavin', what I believe in
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore
There is no love in this world anymore

"A Different Kind of Tension" is an extremely close second to "Singles Going Steady" as my favorite Buzzcocks album.
Neither of those albums ever lose any of their brilliance, no matter how many times I hear them.

You’re embarrassing yourself

Don't be a moron. I mean any more than usual.