Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Yeah this was the punk sound coming out of England at the time. These guys were one of the better ones. They do it well with thrashing guitars and basic loud drum beats and a singer who shouts it loud n proud.

Back when I went through my punk stage in my late teens and early 20s, I really gravitated toward the Buzzcocks. They had the rawness of punk, but I personally think they were one of the first bands to really show us that pop-punk could actually exist. Their guitars were aggressive but often bright, wiry, melodic, and tightly interlocking rather than relying entirely on thick power chords. Unfortunately, the direction pop-punk eventually went in turned out to almost be a complete embarrassment, in my opinion. But either way, the Buzzcocks really deserve credit for playing their role in helping punk splinter off into all the different directions it did around this point in time.

Essential. 5/5.

Man, that is so good. High-speed pop melodies with perfectly crunching buzzing chugging guitar sounds. "Moving Away from the Pulsebeat" is the song that totally blew me away: punk epic. I was familiar with Singles Going Steady, unfortunately excluded from this list on a "compilation" technicality, and I didn't expect the "album" album to keep up with that classic, but it really does. Singles Going Steady is the one on my list, but I'd probably list this too. 4.5/5.

Pre Listen: Hrgggg, the album cover is giving me the vibes 'The most boring English rock band you could imagine.' I've been on a bit of a losing streak with the albums, so much boring bleh. Hoping my expectations will be dashed, but they are low regardless. Notable Tracks: Fast Cars - Ugh, yeah, couldn't have been more dead on with my assessment based on album cover. Sometimes, first impressions are correct, and you really should judge the a book by it's cover. No Reply - Hey that's the telephone tone from the Pink Floyd Album. Sixteen - Least favorite track. They trapped bro inside of an electrical signal and kept playing. They should help him out, cause he sounds like shit. I Don't Mind - Least bad song. Got a hint of Beatles influence on it I think. Post Listen: Yeah, about what expected. Pity. Bri*ish "People" making ""Music"". I hate punk. Repetitive, loud, with the worst vocalists you've ever heard. I'd describe this band's main vocalist as sounding like something of a little squirt, quite annoying, like an elf. He keeps saying how much he hates things, I wonder how he'd feel if I made a whole album about how much I hate this. The drums were meh, had a garage quality to them. Guitar was mostly boring, but had the most highlights out of anything on here. Many albums like this on here, British propaganda pieces no one outside of their weird little isle has ever heard of. Buzzcocks can buzz off. 2/5

Some interesting songs, but a dull album nonetheless. It lacks the spark of other Buzzcocks' records.

Not my favorite, but had some solid moments.

For a band with so many catchy pop singles, they have some really great album tracks here. I love the intensely mechanical drumming. I really used to like this band a lot in high school and don’t listen as much anymore, but this was a fun one to go back to because it feels creative and a bit less angsty than their other stuff.

Quick, tight album with some fun surprises. Fantastic energy. This kind of thing is so easy for me to listen to on repeat. It makes me feel goooood!

Review - never listened to a full Buzzcocks album. It was ok. Decent punk of it's era. You Tear Me Up has a proto-hardcore vibe. Not the most interesting punk music ever made but worth a listen I suppose. Score - 5.5/10 Need to listen? YES

Very enjoyable punk album from the Buzzcocks. 4 stars

Three stars seems right. I wanted more of what they weren't giving me and less of what they were. But overall it wasn't bad

Not all punk rock albums are great. This one passes the sniff test.

3.0

Fast and catchy and what more could you ask for.

uhh yeah she can buzz on my cock It was good. Not a lot to say. I liked the one that was just beeping at the end it felt like I was going to have a panic attack. Favorite was sixteen

i liked the music i think his voice just pissed me off.

YOU'RE SHIT!!! I liked this lil punk number quite a bit. It was diverse and crass and had some fun moments.

Didn't massively enjoy this. It might have been a bigger deal when it came out but it feels quite tame by today's standards.

This was alright. I'm not super into punk, but this was a little fresher than I expect from late 70s punk. There were definitely some bright points and some really tight/cool grooves going on here, but it wasn't my favorite. I can see why they were influential. Three stars.

Mwah ik merk dat ik 60/70 moe ben ofzo? Als dat kan… priem plaatje, beetje nietszeggend ofzo? Niet helemaal mijn feel

Toen ik dit aanklikte zat ik te balen, want in mijn app zag ik weer punk staan, maar deze kon ik eigenlijk wel goed hebben. Punk is steevast mijn laagst beoordeelde genre Het nummer sixteen vond ik wel leuk zelfs. Het was een meevaller voor het genre daarvoor krijgt het van mij 3 sterretjes

Verspilt weinig tijd. Charme zit in het poppy geluid en kleine onderwerpen ipv politiek oid. Niet zo pretentieus. De zanger is een beetje soft en niet schel of agressief wat het wat toegankelijker maakt. Ik wil eigenlijk dat je ook echt halve sterren kan geven. 4 is te veel en 3 eigenlijk te weinig. 3.5

Ik weet niet wat er precies aan de hand is en of dat door de challenge komt, maar ik heb gemerkt dat ik het punkgenre iets beter kan verdragen. Ik merkte dat al bij The Ramones. Misschien komt het doordat de liedjes (en de albums) over het algemeen wat korter zijn, maar ze hebben zeker ook iets catchys. Toegegeven: ik werd op den duur wel een beetje moe van de sound, alsmaar die distortion en dezelfde energie/bpm. Ik dacht bij t eerste nummer dat de rest van t album ook wel voorspelbaar en weinig verrassend zou zijn, totdat I Don’t Mind kwam. Het leek even alsof het album was opgehouden en autoplay ineens een ander album had uitgekozen. Ik zag dat I Don’t Mind ook het meest beluisterde nummer was, dus ik ben blijkbaar niet de enige. De tweede helft van het album vind ik sterker. De zang vind ik trouwens wel geinig.

Music for people that hate fast cars. 1/10

Hubiera sido muy divertido vivir esta música en los clubs.

I prefer punk a little more angry, but this isn't bad. 2.5/5

It's true, punk doesn't need talent

Pretty solid punk rock.

Not the worst punk! Melodic, interesting composotions and witty vocals

70s British punk is basically catnip to me. purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

This one was very boring. Same old beats tempos and guitar strumming along.

My album right before this was " Damaged" by Black Flag so I think that might have skewed my opinion on this. This album lacks a certain edge that I like in my punk music, I will give it another listen in a few days after this list gives me something like a dance or pop album.

Wow. I never knew until now that I didn't like punk rock

I have heard Singles Going Steady by The Buzzcocks which is a compilation album of their UK singles and is pretty good but didn't get to listen to their first studio album yet. Another Music In A Different Kitchen is classic brit punk from the early days and it got everything I love this genre for. The aggressive fast paced guitars and drums, the energy loaded basslines and the not giving a fuck vocals with the rebellious lyrics. While all this feels angry and aggressive as punk from the days mostly did and they are mad angry at modern music you still come out with a good mood it delivers fun and energy for sure. Now is this the most diverse album I have heard in my life? Of course it's far away from that but I don't believe every album needs (or can be able) to be on the level of an experimental punk masterpiece like London Calling for example. This is a record full of catchy mostly shorter songs that won't let you get near boredom anytime. It works good as the piece it is without greater variety. Just classic punk, very entertaining I loved Another Music In A Different Kitchen for its simplicity. 3,7/5

I guess it's not bad but I have no love for it.

Hunh, my first Buzzcocks album, I love these guys! Fast Cars sounds like Buzzcocks when you say it real fast so I was confused yeah give me that scratch guitar driving beat. No reply sounds like a vocalist with a similar style, or maybe I'm thinking another buzzcocks song. Love battery has some nifty guitar descending harmonics on it. I noticed some post-production effects in earlier tracks which I don't normally associate with punk music. Not out of place, just noticing. Sixteen has an almost militaristic feel with that kind of drum pattern. Straightforward melody that doesn't soar very direct. And a 3/4 pattern to boot. Military waltz. Chaos ending again with effects devolving. Sure, back on track take us home. I wish they would stop exactly modern music that drags on and on with that kind of ending to the song. Alanis. I don't mind brings this album back on track. It's been waffling like they are stretching and trying different things. Why Can't I Touch It, that's what I'm looking for! Heaven forbid they do something different. Fiction Romance back again to the chugging machine that rocks! Maybe the 2nd half of the album wins out. Autonomy with the controlled slow down towards the end. I love that move when the band is unified and goes togther. Moving away from the pulsebeat is a departure of your 2-3 minute tune. A foray into jam songs in a punk styling. Interesting. Pure wankery. Repeated vamps that go nowhere and now onto some ascending 8 bit sounding steps into whatever. What do I get I would put at the closer, tight lyrics, straight ahead tune, let's see what the producer had in mind. I would have flipped the last two songs. So, much as I love punk in general this is a 3 right now. A second listen putting away my notes to see. This is very much a three for me.

My favourites were Fast Cars and I Don't Mind, I really disliked Sixteen and Autonomy. The rhythm section sounded quite thin for the whole album, I like punk music but don't listen a lot and here there wasn't enough variety for me to want to listen to a while album of it. It felt a lot longer than 36 minutes to me.

Boring Brit shit

Also pretty fun, some great energy that makes it fun to listen to. This is how British music is at its best.

Another album that could be used for that montage of me riding a jet-powered sled down a mining pit. This one does have nicer guitars and vocals. So out with the cramps and in with this one.

Zodra de zang invalt, weet je dat dit een lange zit wordt, ook al is het maar 35 minuten. Het eerste nummer herhaalt enkel maar dat ze een hekel hebben aan snelle auto's, wat kan mij dat nou verrotten! Ga je moeder pesten, denk je dan. Desondanks krijg ik er ook weer geen koppijn van, sterker nog, gaandeweg wordt het beter. 'Fiction romance' klinkt zowaar als muziek, evenals het laatste nummer, al is dat ook omdat ze daar grotendeels hun mond houden. De slechtere nummers zorgen dan voor het eindcijfer.

Nu heb ik zelf ook weinig met snelle auto's. Dat kan ik inspreken en AI er een simpel muziekje onder laten zetten. Maar dat maakt mij nog geen muzikant. We mogen blij zijn dat deze lui die AI nog niet ter beschikking hadden. Want de muziek heeft nu al zo weinig aandacht gekregen dat ik in het verlengde van het album eigenlijk maar één zin wilde typen. Soms is zo'n standaard simpel repeterend gitaartje wel uit te zitten, zoals bij Fiction Romance. En een nummer als Autonomy heeft zelf een extra lijntje en opbouw. Dus vooruit, dan maak ik er ook iets meer van. Maar ik zal in lijn van het album niet naar een voldoende streven.

De kleine broertjes van de Sex Pistols. Ik ken de naam wel, maar als ik de tracklist bekijk, zie ik geen bekende tracks. Mijn Brabantse luistermaat zou dat huismerk noemen, maar hij waardeerde dit zowaar met 5 sterren, dus ik ben benieuwd. We krijgen punkrock te horen zoals Sex Pistols die ook wel maakte. Er zit een goed tempo in, uiteraard, en de muzikanten verstaan hun vak naar behoren. Ik luister dit wel met plezier, ondanks de typische Britse verveelde zang. Maar die naam, Buzzcocks, die ken ik toch wel? Niet van Bob Geldof, want dat zijn de Boomtown Rats (toegegeven, die naam moest ik opzoeken). Ah, hun hitje was Ever Fallen in Love. Blijkbaar stond dat op het tweede album, maar ja, de snobs geilen uiteraard op debuutalbums. Ik kijk er niet meer van op. Ik heb me er hoe dan ook prima mee vermaakt, we knallen er vrolijk 4 sterretjes tegenaan.

It was a decent enough punk album for being nearly 50 years old. It was short and didn't drag along. Not one of the better punk albums I have heard but it also wasn't absolute trash. I would rate it at 6/10, so 3 stars it gets.

Great punk rock pioneers and generally a fun listen.

Solid rock/punk. A consistent album, even if it's not my favourite. Liked Songs Added: Fiction Romance

Never been a fan of Punk.

607/1089 - I like "Ever Fallen in Love (with Someone You Shouldn't've) " so excited to see what this is. Pretty good! I like the aggressive slapback delay on the voice and the songs have fun stuff going on under the surface.

Probably a 4 but because it is the only Buzzcocks on the list I have to give it a 5.

Amazing

good stuff

Pretty good album - music broadly up my street, although a bit samey. I'd listen again.

It didn't really leave any mark on me. Proto-pop punk I guess?

Pretty quintessential English punk rock sound. Really defined that sound around that time with sex pistols and the clash. I kinda out this in that section of music, although still below those two bands.

Generally I've never really gotten into the early punk stuff all that much. I either prefer the more experimental fields of post-punk or some proper hardcore punk (preferably Finnish or Japanese) but this was actually really good. I'm in a good mood today so hey, let's make it a full five starts, why not.

Brimful of Asha!good solid punk

Slightly enoying, but also punk.

The aural equivalent of a donut - an immediate sugar rush, but ultimately no real substance. Gains an extra mark however for making me laugh with the "Boredom" intro/outro.

Let me start this review with two anecdotes that are, in a roundabout way, connected. A good friend of mine, a few years older than me and, like me, a serious music lover, used to cause endless confusion in our conversations because he called what I would call hardcore (punk) simply *punk*. Bands like the Dead Kennedys, for example. Exactly where the boundary lies, nobody really knows, but the fact remains that most hardcore is **American**. Look at the albums on this list: the aforementioned Dead Kennedys, the vegan quasi-terrorists of Minor Threat, Black Flag, and the already discussed Circle Jerks and Bad Brains. I may be forgetting one or two. Punk, on the other hand, is primarily an **English** phenomenon. In fact, more English than British. And that hardcore grew out of punk is pretty obvious, as we'll see in a moment. When I was a kid, the local library had a book that fascinated my sister and me: a largely photographic book about the punk explosion of around 1977. I devoured it. I loved the photographs, and the music, which I barely knew, seemed incredibly intriguing. Remember, we're talking about the late eighties here. There was no online music. You were completely dependent on the radio and, if you were lucky, the LP collection of that same library. Two photographs from that book have always stuck with me. One was of Eater, who had actually released proper records while their members were about fourteen years old. The other was of the Stranglers' Hugh Cornwell, because he had a — already rare by the time I saw the book — *telephone-cable* guitar lead. One of those curly things you could stretch out. As I write this, I realise for the first time that I was looking at a book that made the punk explosion seem like some kind of Stone Age, barely ten years after it had happened. Now it's fifty years ago. Mon dieu. Anyway, the point is that I have absolutely no recollection of the Buzzcocks appearing in that book. I remember the Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello, the Damned, the Stranglers, Eater, and a whole bunch of others, but not the Buzzcocks. They must have been in there somewhere, but they don't really feel like part of the English punk movement to me. And after listening to this debut album, I understand that feeling rather better. It's a strange album, because it sounds as though **three different bands** are at work. The entire A-side is basically a prototype for the hardcore that would emerge a few years later. Very fast, relentlessly monotonous tempo, shrill high-pitched vocals and similarly aggressive — and obviously distorted — guitars, played with the kind of energy you'd expect from people who had just accidentally discovered a boot full of speed. As an aside, that is perhaps not entirely coincidental given that there is another genre called hardcore. Anyway. This music sounds **American**. And honestly, I don't think it's particularly great. There are hardly any memorable songs on the whole side. Then Side B suddenly starts with **“I Don't Mind,”** and it's a completely different story. This is prototype **English punk**. A kind of modernised rock 'n' roll, still with a touch of aggression and very few aesthetic inhibitions, but also with irresistible **poppy** melodies. Basically singalongs. The change in style is audible in the production too: it sounds as though it was recorded in a different session, with considerably better sound. The CD version of the album — which I'm officially not using as my reference point here — also contains the Buzzcocks songs I had already encountered since 1987 on compilation albums: the infantile debut single **“Orgasm Addict”** and **“What Do I Get?”**. Both fit perfectly into this punk-pop idiom. But then, in the two by far best songs on the album, a **third** version of the Buzzcocks appears. The — and I don't think this is an exaggeration — phenomenal **“Autonomy”** and the closing track **“Moving Away from the Pulsebeat,”** which even has a sort of hidden track tagged onto the end, complete with synthesizer sounds, sound like a band that has been listening with great enthusiasm to the English progressive-rock bands of the seventies. Tempo changes. Long instrumental passages. Something resembling guitar solos. Suddenly, this is actually rather sophisticated music. And those two tracks drag the average quality of the album considerably upwards. Side A doesn't do much for me, Side B quite a bit more, and then there are those two absolute highlights. There's also another proto-hardcore number, **“I Need,”** lurking somewhere in between. Phew. I think the Buzzcocks deserve a substantial place in music history regardless of those two tracks. And whether or not I remember them from that old punk photo book is obviously irrelevant to that. But it doesn't determine my rating. I have to enjoy the music. Or not. A six for Side A and a well-deserved ten for the highlights gives us an eight overall. I really ought to find that book in some vintage book bin somewhere and check whether the Buzzcocks are actually in it. One final observation: **35 minutes and 39 seconds.** My God, how wonderful. I've already started listening to the next album, a completely deranged, megalomaniacal monster lasting **2 hours, 34 minutes and 49 seconds**. Of which about twenty minutes are interesting. Geez.

This is a very emotional and aggressive album in the best way. Listening to it felt full of early punk energy from start to finish. The riffs are heavy and fast, the lyrics are sharp, and the whole record carries a raw urgency that still hits hard. The band captures everything good about that first wave of punk without sounding limited by it. There is real feeling in the performances, and the songs move with speed and focus. Nothing feels dragged out or overly polished. It stays direct and full of attitude. The production by Martin Rushent is clean enough to let the energy come through clearly while still keeping a rough edge. The guitars cut sharply, the rhythm section drives hard, and the vocals sit right in the middle of the mix. It sounds alive and immediate. Another Music in a Different Kitchen remains a strong early punk album. Emotional, aggressive and full of the best qualities of that era.

I wish I was there for this era. I was juvenile enough to enjoy the 80s, mature enough to soak up the 90s, and wise enough to go backwards after that. Sure I can listen to this now, but to be there when it emerged and evolved.. I just missed it. Great sound from a great era.

4/10

Really stoked that this isn't the popular music we have to listen to today Best Song: Fast Cars Rating: 6.5/10 Stars: 3

Favorite track(s): Fast Cars, I Don't Mind, Fiction Romance, Autonomy, I Need,

I’m just going to keep this simple: I can see why the Buzzcocks didn’t take off and have a very well-known career.

A perfectly good and listenable punk rock album, not really much more to say about it beyond that to be honest. I won't complain about having to listen to this, in fact the only this there really is to complain about here is that an album as unremarkable as this is taking up space on a finite list of albums with countless glaring ommissions. Punk rock is a pretty well represented genre here, so this one is by no means essential, even though it is stil decent. Just yet another example of an album I wish were replaced with something more important. But considering there is literally nothing wrong with the actual music itself, it's hard to complain too much.

If I don't have much to say they'll be nothing here

Fantastic early British punk. Buzz-saw guitars, good vocals and drums, a lot to like here. Not a lot of their bigger hits on this album, but there is still plenty of good stuff to explore. Probably the best track for me is Autonomy.

It's not bad, but all sounds a bit samey

Nice post punk, or is it punk tunes but none stood out from all the thrashing guitars.

This was pretty good, but it suffers from what a lot of punk albums suffer from: the songs start to sound very similar, so the whole thing kind of runs together. It also sounds a lot like other punk bands from the era. There’s nothing particularly wrong with it, but there’s nothing overly special about the sound either. It’s a solid punk album, but I’m not sure what makes it stand out.

A punk album I can listen to from start to finish always gets a 5.

Vanhaa punkerorokkia. Ei se toimi.

Ihan menevää pop punkkia, ei suurempaa sanottavaa. Ei liikuttanut itseä suuremmin, vähän ehkä kerkesi lyhyenkin levyn aikana kyllästymään, mutta tulipahan kuunneltua.

Raw and unpolished but pretty good. I can hear how bands like this laid the blueprints for later British indie rock bands.

Ok

An excellent listen

A great album, with very simple sound and catchy songs. Vocals verging on the annoying.

Very clean sound, albeit lyrics a bit naff. Enjoyed that.

Didn’t enjoy listening to this.

Good stuff.

A wee bit angry.

I only really know ‘Everyone’s happy nowadays’ and ‘Ever fallen in love’ by the Buzzcocks and I’m not really sure why I’ve never ventured deeper into their back catalogue, so this is an intriguing prospect. I spoke too soon as there is nothing interesting about this album. It is fine, but nothing really excels are lifts this above the mundane.

Aside from their big hit, which was not on this album, I have never knowingly listened to Buzzcocks. This, however, sounded exactly as I expected to - which is to say, it was (mostly) quick and punky. Which is fine, just not really my thing.

They just sound like they're having a great time, so I also end up having fun. I'm not going to say that it's the most accomplished or complex of records, but it scratches an itch in my brain. Sixteen is the most enjoyable track and stands out from the crowd for me. The beepy boops that finish Pulsebeat/the album are weird though. Really a 3.5 but I'm rounding up. 4/5

Dude this (to me) sucked hard. Like I'm assuming they were probably a cornerstone in punk rock or something of the like, but holy hell. Nothing more to say really

Punk, not too harsh

6/10

Fun!

Old school punk in the vein of sex pistols era, it was good, the guitar tones and production seemed very modern, but overall.. meh?

Another Music in a Different Kitchen is an album that i got really close to 5 starring but it just missed the mark. I have never heard of this band prior to doing this list but they still ended up sounding exactly like i expected them to sound. The music on offer is legitimately great as the guitars are hard and heavy exactly like i would expect them to be and exactly the way i like even when the last track got a bit on the weird side. The main thing dragging this album down from a 5 though is the vocals, they got incredibly grating pretty early on and while they weren't a complete dealbreaker for me, they still were enough to prevent me from 5 starring the album. Best Song: Fast Cars Worst Song: I Need

I like a lot of early British punk but Buzzcocks never really did much for me. This album didn't change my mind either. It all just felt quite safe and a bit samey. I'm not saying Another Music in a Different Kitchen was bad. It's okay, but I don't think I'll be listening to more than Ever Fallen In Love and What Do I Get from Buzzcocks again.

Not for me. 1/5

I don’t lnow

Punk

Early punk vibe

Another decent but not great punk album. I think if I was more into it as a genre this would get a higher rating.

Always assumed Buzzcocks made ‘catchy but kind of lame’ pop for Shrek soundtracks because of Ever Fallen in Love. This was cooler and more edgy than I was expecting. Proto-Pixies at times, Proto-Strokes at others. I think I’d prefer it with a different vocalist though.

this was pretty fun album and actually the album tracks are a lot more interetresting and complex arranges than the single and better known tracks