Another Music In A Different Kitchen

These cocks really do be buzzin 😳

What a beast of a punk album. Full of joyful energy, aggressive attitude, biting intelligence, and succinct social commentary, this is everything you want your punk music to be. One of the best. Nothing to hate, everything to love.

I can't believe that for all these years the BBC has been telling me to Never Mind these guys! Fun Brit Punk from the absolute height of the Brit Punk era. Crusty in all the best ways.

“Another Music in a Different Kitchen” by Buzzcocks (1978) Never heard this album or group. There’s a lot wrong with this album. Lead vocals barely carry the cookie cutter melodies, performed (and I use that term loosely) with a tone that repels. Drums fail to maintain tempo, and bass is robotic. Guitar work is on the lower end of the garage spectrum. Lyrics are adolescent, with numerous errors in grammar, syntax, and usage. This is not intelligent music. I can imagine that some young and very inexperienced ears were attracted to the ‘rebelliousness’ of the sound and marketing, so this album might be nostalgic for some, but when those listeners are dead, this ‘music’ will be too. 1/5

based and cockpilled 10/10, never knew I’d listen to a song like Ogasm Addict from a band named Buzzcocks

70s punk is known for being angry and anarchic, but I have always found Buzzcocks to be so full of joy. This is ridiculously uplifting, they sound as though they are having so much fun and that is always infectious. This album is relentless, it doesn't stop for breath all the way through, and it leaves me with a big smile on my face. Good stuff.

Can someone help me with a tech issue. This app seems to have corrupted and now offers up albums that's only use is as a psychological weapon at Guantanamo bay. Do I need a patch or something to stop this as my wife says the sledgehammer is possibly an over reaction.

They really will put any old British album on this list, huh?

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This band sounds like I would've heard one of their songs in School of Rock as a 3rd grader and then make them my whole personality.

Buzzcocks summed up the mission statement of punk right in the exact middle of this album: "I hate modern music/Disco, boogie, pop/They go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on/How I wish they would stop." This shit rocks. Best track: Sixteen

Boy you just didn’t need much musical ability to make Brit punk. Only the last track was interesting to me. The rest you can literally skip to any point in any track and it sounds the same. Not for me.

I feel like I'm grateful to early punk rock for everything that came after it, but I don't really _like_ it that much.

I'm not a fan of early punk because its only cohesion is the aesthetic of just being noisy, everything else is just random and without nuance. I feel like AI could write punk rock very easily.

It's the Buzzcocks, impossible to not like. One of the early pop punk bands who did it right. A series of short awesome and catchy tracks with enjoyable vocals and solos. It's a lot of fun, with some neat post-punk and neo-psychedelia tricks. I actually really like the addition of those last 4 singles, even though the placement is kinda weird after the dramatic finish of "Moving Away from the Pulsebeat." The intro track was great, the next few were kinda forgettable, but it grabbed my attention with "Sixteen" to the end. Overall pretty fantastic album and great introduction to the Buzzcocks, although I much pretty their famous compilation "Singles Going Steady."

Gets tiresome after a while.

A phenomenal punk album. Great riffs, solos, catchy melodies and a great run time.

This is a great punk record which keeps the aesthetic - snarling lyrics, in your face electric guitars over a thumping drum and bass rhythm section - but adds depth with the songwriting and structure. Really accomplished and entertaining.

This was fun. Pioneers. Loved it.

In the US in the 1980s, you could only get two Buzzcocks records: the compilation Singles Going Steady and A Different Kind of Tension, their final album (or so we thought at the time). They both were in heavy rotation and we hungered for more. The guitar player in our band (who also gave us our excellent name: The Jalapeno Tabernacle Choir) knew someone who possessed an import copy of their first ep Spiral Scratch and we got to hear it once and we tried desperately to memorize "Boredom" so we could play it later. Did not work out so great. That was all we knew of these guys but we loved them. You heard about this album Another Music In A Different Kitchen, but no one in America actually got to hear it. What makes the Buzzcocks so great and possibly the most influential of the original punk bands is the two guitar attack leading a monster band sound whose power and energy somehow miraculously survives the studio recording process. That sound is something to behold and today is a great day to crank it up and introduce it to your neighbors! Sprinkle on top Pete Shelley's bad romances explained in three minute songs and you've got the paragons of power pop. And I am pleased to report that the boys are striking on all cylinders here! I got spoiled growing up on their singles compilation where every track is a banger and it makes the songwriting on this sound uneven by comparison but that's not fair. This is more of a proper album, with ebbs and flows and even the callback of borrowing the opening riff from "Boredom" to bookend the album, and it's a great ride. The sequencing follows what you could imagine to be a live set. Well paced and helps make this feel like more than the sum of its parts. So if you'll excuse me, I think my neighbors need to hear this one a couple more times today...

I went to secondary school just as punk arose in the UK. I loved Buzzcocks - "Ever Fallen in Love..", "Orgasm Addict", "What Do I Get?" - and had the Singles, Going Steady collection, but I don't know if I ever listened to this album before. None of the singles I know are on it, and it is excellent. Buzzcocks were always on the poppier side of punk rock and this album is full of short, fast, melodic, pop songs (and one long Krautrock-inspired closer). It's fun despite, or maybe partly because of, the recurring lyrical themes of unrequited love and sexual frustration.

What a pleasure to hear this album again. When I want to hear the Buzzies I usually just throw on Singles Going Steady. I guess I always thought of them as being a singles band. But this, their debut album, proves that theory wrong. I listened to the original vinyl eleven tracks and 36 minutes of joy. Fast Cars is a brilliant, breakneck opening track. No Reply ( the title of a Fab4 classic)opens with a repeating ring-tone that Blondie would copy later in 1978 on Hanging On The Telephone. Pete Shelley almost yodels his way through Get On Our Own. Sixteen ends Side One with the conclusion that only older folk could possibly enjoy disco - No disco / No being twenty wo wo wo one. Every track on Side 2 is great, particularly Fiction Romance & Autonomy. Even the almost 6-minute long closer, Moving Away From The Pulsebeat, is terrific. Essentially an instrumental (only 2 sung verses), it gives the band a chance to go for it, and the guitarists & drummer John Maher don’t disappoint. I did eventually see the band at The Marquee Club in Sydney in early 1990. They were terrific. My clear memory of that night is that the support act, Falling Joys, were so much louder than Buzzcocks. I don’t think volume was necessary. They were a pop band. But they were a great pop band.

An all round good punk listen. Nice short songs which make the album very fast paced. I can’t really say anything bad about it honestly. Good album, would recommend.

Very impressed with this record. Tight, melodic and fun punk, favorite tracks are probably sixteen and autonomy.

Great record. These guys are like the sex pistols if the sex pistols were less political, more horny (love battery, goddamn), and way more musically talented. Punchy, surprising guitar riffs and phenomenal drums

8/10 Straight forward old school punk and I have nothing bad to say about it. 5-1-2025

This is straight up Skate Punk. Like, I'm pretty sure the Buzzcocks could headline Warped Tour. This isn't an insult, honestly, this album kinda rules. It's snotty, bratty, and feels like some kind of proto-pop-punk that's somehow simultaneously 20 and 50 years ahead of its time. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite hit where I want it to give it a 5, but goddamn I'd never heard of the Buzzcocks before and now my mind is blown by them. I wish I could put a bonus mark on albums that I just want to demarcate as representative of why I'm doing this project, because this is definitely one of them.

The vocals on the first track turned me off a bit, but things quickly improved after that one. Before I knew it I was longing for a crowd I could mosh with! Good energy for pogo-ing around the house. Fiction Romance is the highlight track for me.

One of the greatest rhyme schemes in all music from Fast Cars: "Sooner or later, you gotta listen to Ralph Nader I don't want to cause a fuss, but fast cars are so dangerous!" I have a deep and abiding love for The Buzzcocks. This album is a burst of youthful energy like no other. There's some really interesting musical complexity that you won't notice on first listen, or if you have a bias. Things like little key changes, long bridge sections leading into the solo, double guitar attacks, vocal harmonies that ground the tunes in the British Invasion. Goes fast, chews up everything in its path, spits it out. Nihilism for the rejected lover music, more intimate than a lot of other punk from that era.

Heard Before? Only the tracks from "Singles Going Steady". Notes: - there's virtually no variety here, just the same limited elements shuffled slightly from song to song, with bare-bones production. - that said I'm a sucker for all the elements: tinny guitar, busy basslines, rinky-tinky drums and snide vocals. - short, tightly structured songs with often amusing lyrics kept me engaged on the second and third listens. Verdict: Ground zero of pop punk. Have fun or else. Listen Again? I'll probably stick with "Singles Going Steady" but I'm very glad I finally heard this one.

Solid, excellent punk rock album!

This is my kind of punk. A straight jam. There are some scathing reviews of this album by some people participating on this list. It's fine those people don't get this but like, shut up?

Pretty good. This was the best punk era.

Grupo esencial, su disco Singles Going Steady es imprescindible. Están al nivel de los Clash o Jam, menos reconocidos pero igualmente muy influyentes. Ya sin Devoto , tomó el mando Shelley y de ahí hacia la eternidad. De este mismo año es Love Bites que incluye su famosa Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've). Aquí destacan I don´t mind, con el punto justo de melodía y fuerza, al estilo de otros ilustres como los Undertones. Punkies como eran , no incluían sencillos en sus discos, así que se quedaron fuera cosas como Orgasm Addict o What Do I Get?, que luego entrarían en reediciones en CD.

This album was not interesting to me. The songs sounded similar throughout the album. There was a lot of guitar but not in an interesting way, and the vocals weren't pulling me in either. Nothing to be upset about here, but nothing to be excited about. 5/10

Pretty run of the mill

Quite possibly the least sonically interesting album that's been provided thus far. It's not even bad enough to hate; it doesn't provide a single shred of evidence that any creative talent is on display. Incredibly dorky and pedestrian. Fast Cars, No Reply, and I Need feel like songs you'd hear written by a high school garageband. Damn, those cars do be fast & annoying, I guess. Very insightful stuff. If it's British and from the 70s, I guess it automatically gets a spot on the list. At the very least, I suppose it's pithy.

Punk rock if it were written by a 13 year old

No. 291/1001 Fast Cars 3/5 No Reply 2/5 You Tear Me Up 2/5 Get On Our Own 2/5 Love Battery 3/5 Sixteen 2/5 I Don't Mind 3/5 Fiction Romance 2/5 Autonomy 3/5 I Need 3/5 Moving Away From the Pulsebeat 2/5 Orgasm Addict 2/5 What Happened To..? 3/5 What Do I Get? 3/5 Oh Shit 2/5 Average: 2,47 Don't like their style of punk.

Is this the same song on repeat 10 times? Not 11 because the last song actually sounds different than the rest

god no. Hated it. 1

Lead vocals were absolutely awful. Made listening to this album a challenge. His tone was just so off putting, as for the rest, not much to say to be honest.

Just some damn good 70's punk, all in all. 4.5 bumped up to 5.

I’m at a 4.5 that I’ll bump up to a 5. I guess it’s time to mind the Buzzcocks then. I didn’t really know what to expect going in, but I’m pleased with what’s here – highly energetic power pop / post-punk, with an occasional ska lean at times, yet feeling like a tamed down Sex Pistols with more of a Beatles-driven influence behind it. One’s enjoyment of this album will boil down to a tolerance for repetition; normally, mine is a bit low, but most of the tracks here tend to find ways to shake that repetition up so that it never gets too overly stale. For the most part, it succeeds, save for the singular miss of “Fiction Romance”, which barely went anywhere for its entire runtime. This album’s biggest strength in avoiding feeling too repetitive is the pace of most of the first 10 tracks; just 3 of them are longer than 2:45, so it all moves quickly. Even the last track, “Moving Away from the Pulsebeat” doesn’t really feel like it’s 7 minutes long, since half of it is just an extended drum / guitar solo that plays out the album in a jam session. Lots of love songs, obviously (and weirdly enough, more valid car hate), but the simplicity makes the tracks work for me. Yeah, “Love Battery” is just a double entendre about his dick for 2 minutes, but when you supplement that with a really energetic instrumental, it’s a lot easier to just rock the fuck out to the music once the meaning becomes overly clear. That’s why “Fiction Romance” didn’t work for me; the meaning was clear in a single verse, but the instrumental went nowhere. It’s the only track that really fumbles that formula, as the rest all clicked for me. Hence, a 4.5 that I’ll bump up to a 5 – the floor here is obviously a 3, especially if you catch the “Sexless Pistols” vibe & find this to just be worse. I don’t think it’s as good as “Never Mind the Bollocks”, but it’s not trying to be that album, at least not in totality. It’s a slightly more friendly take on a similar style, and one that manages to rock out all the same if you buy into what they’re selling. I happened to like it, and I think it earns its spot on the list.

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LOve! Excelelnt old punk

Fun, high energy, hooky pop punk. It's consistently good the whole way through the album so I could have picked a number of songs for my playlist but I went with No Reply and I Don't Mind.

After the ground-breaking Spiral Scratch and the departure of Howard Devoto, Buzzcocks bounced back with this excellent album of pop-infused punk. It's a great listen from start to finish. Its follow-up, Love Bites, is maybe even better.

The first pop punk album? And also one of the best? Count me in! It’s a shame that What Do I Get didn’t feature

Exactly perfect album to get on Mother's Day. Short and sweet, I listened thru 6 or 7 times with coffee and dogs while the sun rose. I've always enjoyed the DIY, anti-establishment, nonconformity ethos of punk rock and this album delivers that. No skip tracks on this album.

Cracking debut, sharp production, songs that just you the face. A swift progression from the punk scene of '77

Snotty chef’s kiss! Still somehow underrated.

Outstanding stuff, great fun and iconic to boot!

Really great to hear the Buzzcocks without hearing Ever Fallen In Love which is a masterful song but they wrote so many other fantastic buzzsaw pop songs, as evident here. Fast Cars, You Tear Me Up, Fiction Romance, I Don't Mind, Autonomy - that's nearly the whole album are all wonderful.

I mean It's the Buzzcocks they're my favorite punk band of all time, enough said. 10/10

I love the Buzzcocks, classic early punk. Great album, no notes!

This is my type of punk. Brimming with attitude, catchy but not over-exaggerated, intelligent but not overstated, and quintessentially British in its cynicism. Instrumentally, it's more than just four chords and the truth as well, with songs often stretching to breaking point as the album advances, in a manner that the likes of Subhumans would later inherit. I've got a couple of Buzzcocks releases in my collection, however this one eludes me. That won't remain the case for much longer.

honestly i think the buzzcocks r very likely the most Likable of the british punk bands. they have very little in the way of Political Ambitions on here (at least not in a Direct way...sexual politics are still politics!), and while punk snottiness/bitterness isnt my fave thing in the world, idk, something ab it rly clicks for me here. maybe its just the pure Sweaty Expression of everything in high octane ways, sorta cartoonish but also emotionally real? or maybe its just that the music rules mercilessly man, like their ability to pack so much musicality into these spaces is so good. recently i did a one-sentence writeup of Group Sex...not to Explain The Joke but basically as a Form Matching Content sorta idea...and despite that record being a lot more Hardcore i think the connection i made there to Minimalism is pretty important. esp because while this record has thrashing, economic pop songs, it also manages to cram in the occasional left-field structural idea that emphasizes the Hypnotic qualities all the more. one song has a cool instrumental coda, and it feels like ur warning shot before the honestly Incredible big jam that closes out the record. repetition, and material Worth Repeating, ect ect, this is an awsom album

Banging, 2x opnieuw geluisterd want de vibes waren aan. Weinig variatie in de toon van de nummers zelf maar dat hoeft wmb bij dit genre ook niet. Nog even getwijfeld tussen 4 of 5 sterren want ik denk niet dat het een perfect album is maarja toen het klaar was wou ik meer horen dus ik denk dat ik er niet omheen kan

More music from my youth! There are great albums that can bring back memories that one might wish to forget. This one isn’t that. Loved blasting this album, blazing down the highway, top down, home in the rear view, the world like a blank slate thru my Ray-Bans. Glory days!

Punk rock sexiness

Really love this ‘pack of animal’!

This band was shamefully overlooked. They were great.

Hey this is some fun punk.

The first couple of tracks didn't move me much, but from "Love Battery" onwards, I think it's pretty awesome. Definitely good enough for five stars.

I'm a sucker for punk music, and this album delivers. It's a bit on the pop side of things, but stay's mostly true to the genre. It's the type of album you put on for a summer road trip on the Pacific Coast Highway. ...If only I lived in California. Anyway, good stuff. Hard to pick just one song for the playlist, So I'll add two: "I Don't Mind" and " You Tear Me Up".

So much fun. Great Ralph Nader shout out

Very solid punk album - amongst the best of the genre. I was tempted to knock it down for not having any knockout singles, but 4 would definitely be harsh.

Im a fierce critic of British music from this time, but punk wouldn’t be what it is today if it weren’t for the Buzzcocks. This is their best album, too.

This is sort of the reverse (or maybe inverse?) of The Hives situation. With the Hives, only a British writer would put Your New Favourite Band (note the spelling), a very good compilation of album tracks, over Veni Vidi Vicious, a great album. With Buzzcocks, only a Brit would put Another Music in a Different Kitchen, a great album, in over Singles Going Steady, a superlative compilation of non-album singles. The saving grace, in this case, is that even if both Buzzcocks releases were in this list, I would probably still be giving AMIADK a 5, because they were that fucking good at their peak.

And I thought only had one or maybe 2 songs worth listening to. Aparently I was wrong.

This album makes me feel like I'm moshing in someones basement in the best way possible

I complain about bad weeks where I get 2-3 instrumental albums, but man, this has been a really good week for discovering music. Mercury Dev, Vauxhall and I, the Undertones second album and now the Buzzcocks. I am excited now but I know there are more instrumental and electronica dance records around the corner. I had never been exposed to the Buzzcocks and their music, but I have heard Another Music in a Different Kitchen is not their best album. This book tends to lean towards putting an influential band's first album in the book, so I probably should not be shocked. I got some Cheap Trick vibes from their sound, which I am not sure I expected. I really enjoyed the mix of punk and power-pop that is part of their sound. The Buzzcocks sound like the Sex Pistols fronting Television. I found both of those bands through this project. I'll have to remember this as I listen to a 2-hour trance album next week.

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Sweet

I still don’t know if they are pink or post punk. What I do know is this album was probably the dividing line. Still sounds so fresh today

HAHAHAHA.... YES... YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Perfectly cooked

Cool and fun. This is a Punk masterpiece in under 45 mins.

Everytime I get into a song it ends. I know it was normal then but a 2 min track just isn’t enough anymore. I actually loved it though

Perfect! Punk as it is!

Prototypical pop punk

This was great. Punk is best when its raw but fun, imo. Will return to this one for sure.

sure

Absolutely brilliant. Fun and enjoyable, punk as it's supposed to be. I love it!

My kind of music. Fantastic album. Fast cars is a banger.

Buzzcocks were the joyful in their punk and were probably the most fun of the big punk names

I get why this is like the holy scripture for every punk band in the 90s. All it’s missing is stronger, more distorted vocals and this is just every Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtrack band. The production is phenomenal for a 70s punk release, shout out Martin Rushent. I love it, I think it’s pretty perfect. The only things that would make it stronger either didn’t exist mechanically or stylistically yet. I also aced while listening to this so +1.

Brilliant stuff

Always loved the energetic fun and fresh sound, always raises my spirits.

Brilliant bouncy bop. Punk at its most musical.

The first pop-punk record? Whatever you want to call it, this album is near perfect.

That was a breath of fresh air.

Amazing punk album!

Another Music In a Different Kitchen is the first studio album from the Buzzcocks. The band were comprised of Sex Pistols fans, and tried to create a similar sound. Their music was more melodic and less political than the Pistols, and the result is a more accessible version of punk. Another Music In a Different Kitche is full of catchy, energetic songs that created a different side of punk than the Sex Pistols developed - one that is closer to pop than most of early punk.

Best pop punk band ever and a great album

I fucking love this band. This not my favorite record of theirs. But Fiction Romance is a badass ass motherfucker. And the fact that they worked Ralph Nader into a punk song about driver safety, tickles my heart to no end.

It’s brilliant. John Maher is an absolute animal.

Frantic, energetic and fun. This album makes you wanna party and drive fast cars

The Buzzcocks are smart and clean punk rock. This album shows them at the beginning, but in full stride.