Once upon a time Buzzcocks used to sing about love, better than anybody else as it happened. Two decades later, their love batteries have all but corroded and instead we've hangovers ("Morning After") and metropolitan psychosis ("Sick City Sometimes") over the kind of guttural guitars you'd expect from their bastard American offspring.
It's not all punk cliché, though—you get two Howard Devoto-penned relics for a start ("Stars", written for Shelley/Devoto's 2002 Buzzkunst reunion, and 1976's "Lester Sands", originally included on the Time's Up bootleg recently issued by Mute)—while both Shelley's "Friends" and Diggle's "Certain Move" have that classic Buzzcocks melodic surge.
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It's not all punk cliché, though—you get two Howard Devoto-penned relics for a start ("Stars", written for Shelley/Devoto's 2002 Buzzkunst reunion, and 1976's "Lester Sands", originally included on the Time's Up bootleg recently issued by Mute)—while both Shelley's "Friends" and Diggle's "Certain Move" have that classic Buzzcocks melodic surge.
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