Buzzcocks - In A Different Kitchen: Special Edition

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CD Album (2)
Disc 1
1.     Fast Cars (1996 Digital Remaster)
2.     No Reply (1996 Digital Remaster)
3.     You Tear Me Up (1996 Digital Remaster)
4.     Get On Our Own (1996 Digital Remaster)
5.     Love Battery (1996 Digital Remaster)
6.     Sixteen (1996 Digital Remaster)
7.     I Don't Mind (1996 Digital Remaster)
8.     Fiction Romance (1996 Digital Remaster)
9.     Autonomy (1996 Digital Remaster)
10.     I Need (1996 Digital Remaster)
11.     Moving Away From The Pulsebeat (1996 Digital Remaster)
12.     Orgasm Addict (1996 Digital Remaster)
13.     Whatever Happened To...? (1996 Digital Remaster)
14.     What Do I Get? (1996 Digital Remaster)
15.     Oh Shit (1996 Digital Remaster)
16.     Fast Cars (John Peel Show 19/9/77)
17.     (Moving Away From The) Pulsebeat (John Peel Show 19/9/77)
18.     What Do I Get (John Peel Show 19/9/77)
Disc 2
1.     Boredom (Demo)
2.     Fast Cars (Demo)
3.     No Reply (Demo)
4.     You Tear Me Up (Demo)
5.     Get On Our Own (Demo)
6.     Sixteen (Demo)
7.     I Don't Mind (Demo)
8.     Fiction Romance (Demo)
9.     Autonomy (Demo)
10.     I Need (Demo)
11.     Orgasm Addict (Demo)
12.     What Do I Get (Demo)
13.     Whatever Happened To...? (Demo)
14.     Oh Shit (Demo)
15.     Fast Cars (Live)
16.     Fiction Romance (Live)
17.     Boredom (Live)
18.     Sixteen (Live)
19.     You Tear Me Up (Live)
20.     Orgasm Addict (Live)
21.     Moving Away From The Pulsebeat (Live)
22.     Love Battery (Live)
23.     Time's Up (Live) (2008 Digital Remaster)

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.