Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension: Special Edition

CD Album (2)
Component 1
1.       Paradise (2008 Digital Remaster)
2.       Sitting 'round At Home (2008 Digital Remaster)
3.       You Say You Don't Love Me (2008 Digital Remaster)
4.       You Know You Can't Help It (2008 Digital Remaster)
5.       Mad, Mad Judy (2008 Digital Remaster)
6.       Raison D'Etre (2008 Digital Remaster)
7.       I Don't Know What To Do With My Life (2008 Digital Remaster)
8.       Money (2008 Digital Remaster)
9.       Hollow Inside (2008 Digital Remaster)
10.       A Different Kind Of Tension (2008 Digital Remaster)
11.       I Believe (2008 Digital Remaster)
12.       Radio Nine (2008 Digital Remaster)
13.       Everybody's Happy Nowadays (2001 Digital Remaster)
14.       Why Can't I Touch It? (2001 Digital Remaster)
15.       Harmony In My Head (2001 Digital Remaster)
16.       Something's Gone Wrong Again (2001 Digital Remaster)
Component 2
1.       Are Everything (2001 Digital Remaster)
2.       Why She's A Girl From The Chainstore (2001 Digital Remaster)
3.       Airwaves Dream (2001 Digital Remaster)
4.       Strange Thing (2001 Digital Remaster)
5.       What Do You Know (2001 Digital Remaster)
6.       Running Free (2001 Digital Remaster)
7.       I Look Alone (2003 Digital Remaster)
8.       You Say You Don't Love Me (Demo)
9.       I Don't Know What To Do With My Life (Demo)
10.       Harmony In My Head (Demo)
11.       I Don't Know (Demo)
12.       Run Away From Home (Demo)
13.       The Drive System (Demo)
14.       Mad Mad Judy (Demo)
15.       Jesus Made Me Feel Guilty (Demo)
16.       Something's Gone Wrong Again (Backing Track)
17.       You Know You Can't Help It (Demo)
18.       I Believe (Demo)
19.       Everybody's Happy Nowadays (John Peel Show 23/10/78)
20.       I Don't Know What To Do With My Life (John Peel Show 28/5/79)
21.       Mad Mad Judy (John Peel 28/5/79)
22.       Hollow Inside (John Peel 28/5/79)



The original Buzzcocks’ albums from 1978/9 plus previously unreleased tracks, Peel sessions, associated singles, demos, backing tracks, live versions, the list is endless…

Buzzcocks’ first album, Another Music in a Different Kitchen, was released almost exactly thirty years ago. It is a major punk landmark and a great record to boot. It’s full of fire, wit, speed, philosophical lyrics and gender explorations, as well the sly psychedelia that always made Buzzcocks stand out from the pack.
This disc contains the full Another Music in a Different Kitchen album with the relevant John Peel session and another disc of various out-takes and the full live show recorded at the Electric Circus in October 1977: the venue’s last night and the moment when Buzzcocks began to go national.

Love Bites is the second reissue of the classic seventies Buzzcocks recordings. It covers the group’s second album Love Bites, the associated singles: “Love You More” and “Promises”, and two Peel sessions from the time as well as thirteen demos from summer 1978. As an added bonus, there is the full concert from the Lesser Free Trade Hall in June 1978, an exercise in instant nostalgia filmed by Granada TV under the guidance of Tony Wilson.

1978 was an extraordinary year for the group. They released two albums, five singles – all of them hits, with two in the top twenty – and toured relentlessly. One of those singles, “Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve?)” is now acknowledged as a pop classic, and – as one of the 142 45s kept in John Peel’s box of boxes – was chosen as the song to represent the DJ in the tribute record released after his death in November 2005.

A Different Kind of Tension pulls together all the associated singles – five of them, including Parts 1–3 recorded with Martin Hannett and later collected on an American mini-album – as well as the last track the group recorded in their first incarnation: “I Look Alone”.

As an added bonus, there is a whole disc of demos from the period, including several hard to find songs like “The Drive System”, “Jesus Made Me Feel Guilty”, and Paddy Garvey’s heart-rending “Run Away From Home”. The set is rounded off with four BBC recordings from the period, including an early outing for “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays”. This key song set the tone for this much misunderstood period in Buzzcocks’ history.

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