Another Music In A Different Kitchen

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.

These cocks really do be buzzin 😳

“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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

This was fun. Pioneers. Loved it.

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."

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.

Sexless Pistols 🔫🔫

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.

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.

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

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

Gets tiresome after a while.

I’m gonna be honest, I got a little confused when I saw this pop up. Name your band Buzzcocks, and you should expect me to be somewhat skeptical of what I’m about to listen to. But I’m always down for a little late 70’s punk music, so I set that initial skepticism aside. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that this is a fantastic punk album. I haven’t listened to much music that is just straight punk rock, but the one big one I have heard is the Sex Pistols debut. And I was by no means blown away by that album. This, on the other hand, feels more punk than that album ever was. Mind you, this only came out a year after Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols. This is cleaner, more exciting, more interesting, and simply better punk music. Sex Pistols felt like they didn’t know what they wanted to be. They were trying to appeal to an audience they didn’t know how to appeal to. This group makes it clear what they intend for their album to sound like, and they do a damn fine job at it. This is written and formatted in the perfect way for a punk album. Short album, short track list, mostly short songs. It doesn’t feel bloated, and they don’t try their hands at any super experimental ideas, aside from one part at the end of Sixteen, but even that doesn’t feel out of place. They knew what they were capable of creating, and just stuck with it. Vocalist Pete Shelley has just the right amount of youth in his voice, and every riff hits. This really should have been the poster child for punk music moving forward. Rating: 9/10

Power pop/punk perfection. Spent the afternoon with this on repeat, what more do you need

It's Buzzcocks. What else can you ask for?!

Listening to this, I realized that this is just about exactly what I want from a punk rock album. Still not my favorite genre, but this one rules. Favorite tracks: "Get On Our Own" and "I Don't Mind."

Good enough for John Peel good enough for me

Fast and frantic punk rock with pop hooks and great lyrics.

I got into the Buzzcocks way late, but better late than never. Love this band. My kind of punk. 4.5 stars.

5 out of 5. Really happy to see the Buzzcocks on here. Not as strong as, say, Singles Going Steady but I Don't Mind and Fast Cars are classics.

God I fucking love punk. Favorite track: Autonomy

Exactement mon genre, j'ai écouté deux fois de suite.

Of all the original punk bands, Buzzcocks wrote the absolute best singles, that's just a fact. Apart from the Damned's New Rose. So, none of those singles are included here because it's those days when you did that. There's still some great thrusting bangers here, but initially I was itching for the hits. Then side b kicks in and you know why they let the album stand on its own, fantastic. Will be giving it repeat listens.

Probably my favorite of the first wave UK punk crop. Smart, funny, fast as hell, and hooks for days. There will never be another Buzzcocks

Hell yeah.

Fast clever punk songs. Maybe the first 'pop' punk. A really fun and enjoyable listen.

As another reviewer noted, despite the classic punk lyrics railing against society and manufactured music (disco in their eyes), the Buzzcocks sound like they're having a ton of fun. This music is driving, frenetic, and hits all the British punk hallmarks. Of course the instrumentation and progressions are simplistic, this is punk we're talking about. They have a knack for melody as well that borders on a pop sensibility. 'I Don't Mind' could have been made by mid-nineties pop punk bands and sounded perfectly in place.

"Another Music in a Different Kitchen" is the first studio album by English punk rock band Buzzcocks. This album had the third line-up on the band after the departure of the original lead vocalist Howard Devoto who was replaced on vocals by lead guitarist Pete Shelley. Besides Shelley, other band members included Steve Diggle (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Steve Garvey (bass) and John Maher (drums, percussion). The album was produced by Martin Reshent. The opener "Fast Cars" has to have a fast start and it does. Rhythm guitar and an echoing lead guitar. Shelley has that Johnny Rotten sneer down too. No one expected you to lead the album off with a song mentioning safety advocate Ralph Nader. The band rolls through some more melodic fast paced punk songs and closes Side A with "Sixteen." Machine-like militaristic guitars and drums. A hypnotic riff and beat. Of course, you end a side in chaos and with a song expressing hate on modern music. On Side B, the band really brings the melodic power pop punk. The only single "I Don't Mind" has a rockin' beat and catchy, melodic guitars. It's definitely the most pop song on the album. The protagonist has low self-esteem and is paranoid about losing his girlfriend since he's not worthy. A prevalent guitar leads "Autonomy." A nice up and down the scales, very catchy. He wants to be free from control. A drum intro begins the album closer "Moving Away from the Pulsebeat." A Bo Diddly guitar riff. A searing guitar solo on this seven-minute long song. Quite the finish. This album has fast, punk, melodic songs. Side A has the faster, more hardcore punk songs. Side B showcases their melodic, catchy side. I heard their influences especially thinking of Hüsker Dü. Their compilation album "Singles Going Steady" is probably the est place to start with this band but this album is also worthy of a listen with really no bad songs.

If you like punk, you must hear the Buzzcocks. More accomplished musicians than most of their punk peers, the Buzzcocks are pure energy.

Good

This album did not originally release with its singles, and it didn't need to. This is a strong and fucking awesome punk record. I'm sure any Brit who ever thoughr about starting a band was super inspired by this

I LOVE old British punk, so this was right up my alley.

Awesome raw British punk album. Will never get tired of their sound.

Sex pistols ish

I'm an unabashed fan of pop-punk. And I don't think you can be a pop-punk fan without at least appreciating that the Buzzcocks might have done it first. Good collection of fun and fast songs. And a lot more fun than the angry punk of the time (which I'm also a fan of!)

I’m genuinely trying to think of something negative to say about this album, and I’ve got nothing. This is everything that a Punk album should be: fast, furious, and funny. It’s not as political as other British Punk, but there’s something to be said about presenting the ordinary social lives of young people and how dissatisfying it is, as a companion to the more explicitly angry political commentary that The Clash of The Pistols were representing. Also, to clear up some confusion, the story about their name is that ‘cock’ is another way of saying ‘mate’ and there was apparently a headline in a music mag that the band read about the excitement of playing on stage titled ‘It’s the buzz, cock!’ Yes, it must’ve partially been picked because cock is an inherently funny word, but there is also a non filthy meaning behind it

needs more listening - angry first album

loud, punk. Quick and fun.

Such a great album, Buzzcocks don't get nearly the recognition that they should.

A fine spiral scratch from a great band

# Playlist track - Fast Cars # Notes - Never heard of them before. - Top notch punk! - Really surprised with the tracks on the album having 30-50k plays on Spotify.

5 Buzzcocks are definitely one of my favorite English punk bands. There’s something about the pace and production of this music that is almost addictive to listen to. This album has almost all of my favorites by Buzzcocks, too. This is the kind of album that reminds me of exactly why I love punk music.

I love 'cocks. I am very glad to see this album on the list, it generally seems to go a bit under the radar comparative to the other early punk classics. It's probably my second favourite album of the first 1977/1978 wave (since you are asking, the first is always going to be The Clash by The mortherfucking Clash).

Enjoyable, and I didn't even get as far as the killer tracks when listening yesterday.

Ooo, an excellent 70's punk album! I'd heard of Buzzcocks but not really listened to much of their work, but I absolutely love this. It has that real loud, anti-establishment and anarchistic feel that punk is known for, but it feels so joyful at the same time, and you can tell that they had fun with this. An amazing record. Favourite: No Reply

Super punky, a great big ball of angsty energy. I like!

i said i like punk

The thing I love about Buzzcocks is that they actually kind of gave a shit about what they were making punk songs about. Their sarcastic tone comes across loud and clear, and their songs are much more musically complex than their contemporaries while being just as fast and aggressive. Going into this album, it was already one of my all time favorite punk albums, so it's a five in my book. I also love that the tracks lead into each other, which is a really weird thing for a punk band to do as that was more of a high production/progressive rock kind of thing to do. Buzzcocks were way ahead of the curve. Orgasm Addict has always been kind of an underrated classic. Highlights: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15.

Oh, yeah, this hits the spot. I saw the Buzzcocks at Selina's in early 1990. I though they were soooooo old (Pete Shelley was 34 at the time), but they really tore it up. They blasted out a blistering set of melodic punk with an energy level that 19 year old me found hard to keep up with. If I am going to listen to the Buzzcocks, I usually listen to the compilation Singles Going Steady, because the Buzzcocks had a great way with singles, so I am not familiar with this, their first full album (except Fast Cars and I Don't Mind). But, wow, all killer, no filler on this album. I love the energy, and there are some cracking tunes. This goes on my \"must buy\" list. The reissue version that I listened to had Orgasm Addict and What Do I Get as bonus tracks, which really pushed this in 5 star territory for me.

Never heard of this album before. Really interesting and good listen

Completely satisfying album: it's got the punk, it's got the tunes, it's got sophistication. And I don't mind is simply irresistable.

Love it

This bassist is incredible. Track 1 was a great starter track. Track 2 starts with a Pink Floyd Vibe with the phone ringing. AWESOME guitar riff. Track 3 has another awesome guitar part. Side B starts off strong lyrically. Great riffs. fun listen

A classic Buzzcocks album, writing credits for Shelley, Diggle and even a couple of Devoto / Shelley songs. Obviously 5 stars.

High energy Brit punk. Personally I love it

Interessante sound! Herkenbare punk, maar enkele originele insteken in sommige nummers. Ik vond dit een erg aangename verrassing!

Short and English, like a lot of the best punk, with all the best Buzzcocks songs that no-one knows

This is just super fun and incredibly high energy. Short and sweet and I unexpectedly loved it

Op Spotify tref ik de 2018 remastered versie en ik verwacht dat ze dat goed uitkomt. Waarschijnlijk vond ik het origineel schel en vervelend, maar zo is 'ie wel lekker hoor. Punk, lekker to the point zoals het hoort, nog enigszins muzikaal, een lekker dikke baslijn eronder. De Britse zanger levert precies genoeg zonder echt te irriteren. Doet denken aan Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 en dat is altijd goed. Ik vind dit niet perfect, maar ik ga toch gewoon een 5 uitdelen. Dit is gewoon een lekkere snack tussen alle culturele onzinalbums door.

Buzzcocks are am underated band thats one of the best to ever to play punk. Not many have done it better even afterwards. This is a masterpiece of its genere. This was recorded in 1977. This sound was hard, fresh, raw and they did it first amd better.

I’m surprised by how good this is.

I'm a sucker for proto punk.

I liked this much more than I remembered. I didn't like it much the first time I heard it and I always thought Love Bites and Singles Going Steady were much better. I still do, but I revisited this album and it turns out it's actually great too.

First time listener to Buzzcocks, and damn, this record is just fantastic. Love the production, the songs are so good. Not even got any favourites - just the entire record. Brilliant.

Prime punk

Great energy, simple songs. "All you need is a mouthful..." -well said.

Honestly? Shockingly good Punk. I was not familiar with the group, but they will go into regular rotation!

The more I listened to this album the more I enjoyed it. It could be the soundtrack to a John Waters film.

The best thing to come out of Bolton other than the Mighty Wanderers.

When I was about 15 at school I went round to a friend's. We played bass and keyboards for a bit, then he showed me a dirt motorbike he had. As he was 14 all he could do was ride it round the garden. I had a music sheet book of Another Music In A Different Kitchen that was his, and never gave it back. Ebayed it for a healthy sum thirty years later. The album? By the band who were the first band I ever saw live. Just perfect. The sleeve, the title...everything that was exciting about music when I was 15. Still sounds amazing.

This was a great album. Very punk, very 70’s!

LOVE this band. Managed to catch them in concert a few years before Pete Shelley died. All those years after this album came out, they were still killing it onstage.

I was a teenager when this album was released and it spoke volumes to me. Outstanding album.

What a set of songs. A thrilling slab of punk pop brilliance, showing that 'only' three chords could still be fun. Pretty much a perfect album from beginning to end: the lyrics, the melodies, the voice, the sound. Peerless.

With Buzzcocks beautiful blend of posi punk and British wit we get a truly fantastic debut. Creating a sound they'd later perfect and a brand that would last for over 4 decades. Their roots are here and those roots are checker boarded and ready to take the dance floor. As much a pop band as punk would get to that point.

TAs South Lawn - James, Jackie, Helen, Andy, and crew all times

that punk rock spirit and crappy sound we all love

Great! Easy listening, solid guitars and a great tempo end to end

Classic punk rock but with a bit more sheen and production to it which I love.

Great energy

Classic post punk power pop from the mancs

Energetic. Not a fan of the vocals but they don't detract from the music that much.

Catchy and energetic punk music. Most of these poppy songs still hold up, save for maybe Fiction Romance and Moving Away from the Pulsebeat. Favourite tracks: I Don't Mind, What Do I Get? and Oh Shit. 3.5/5

This is the debut studio album from Buzzcocks. I've heard the band name before, but never listened to any of their music. This summer I listened to an episode of The Ongoing History of New Music Podcast where Alan Cross, the host, was talking about the beginnings of punk rock. In the UK, Buzzcocks were very important in the increase in popularity or this genre. They were right up there with The Sex Pistols and The Clash. Pete Shelley, unlike those other two bands I just mentioned, wrote more polished material, and the music played by the band felt more thought out. It was still hard and fast, but it at least had a direction. This album covered topics that adolescents considered important, such as sex, romance, and hating things (lol). There is one song where Shelley, I believe, is referring to his cock as a "love battery".... "I got this crazy current that slips through my underwear, and when it really connects, I come and go everywhere". Overall, a great album, and an interesting look at the beginnings of punk in the UK. Favourite songs: Love Battery, You Tear Me Up, Get On Our Own, I Don't Mind, Fast Cars, No Reply Least favourite songs: Sixteen, Moving Away From The Pulsebeat (a 7 minute punk song is just wrong) 4/5

Buzzcocks are unfairly known as a "singles band" but this album is a showcase for the bands talent and influences. It succeeds as an album from production to musicality to songwriting.

Above average early punk for me. More melodic. Song structure. Understandable lyrics. I get it.

Great band. Catchy melodies. Pete Shelley was a hell of a singer.

Best track = I Don't Mind

Better than some of the other old punk.

Awesome