BuzzcocksBest Buzzcocks Albums Ranked

Singles Going Steady (Deluxe Version)

pitchfork

9.4

“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit a punk classic, a paragon of songwriting about the pain and joy of love.”

Time's Up

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8.2

“The Buzzcocks’ newly reissued demo Time’s Up is an invaluable document of punk snarls and yelps. Likewise, the more polished Spiral Scratch was at least as important to punk as the Sex Pistols’ rise.”

A Different Kind of Tension (Special Edition)

rollingstone

8.0

“The Buzzcocks are likely the consummate New Wave singles band. Last year's Singles Going Steady, a compilation of sixteen sweet-and-sour pop vignettes that made up this English group's official American debut, boasted as many pithy hooks and punchy backbeats as Elton John managed in a decade — and the Buzzcocks whipped theirs out in a little over eighteen months.   These guys have a problem, thoug”

“What kind of punk-rock band is this? The booklet to Product, a terrific box-set retrospective, tells of the Buzzcocks taking LSD in the recording studio, and some of the songs clock in at six and seven minutes. If this is the kind of behavior Johnny Rotten would have called "hippie-ish" and Joe Strummer would have […]”

Flat-Pack Philosophy (Expanded Edition)

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7.2

“Latest record of new material from the firm of Shelley & Diggle finds the punk veterans still trading in both effortless hooks and hard-luck romanticism.”

Buzzcocks (Expanded Edition)

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6.7

“A small gasp escaped from between Phillip Straw's endearingly crooked teeth. "Do you really think Pitchfork will like it, sir? Why, where are the extended metaphors?" "Well, I was going to pretend to be a reviewer from a time before Spiral Scratch who'd been visited by this time-travelling Billie Joe Armstrong replicant." "Can *we* be your extended metaphor, sir?" piped in diminutive Noel St. Jo”