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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

This was fun. Pioneers. Loved it.

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.

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.

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

Gets tiresome after a while.

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

RAD!!

This is slick - love the sound, more melodic punk than normal, even if their vocals sound like too much of a Johnny Rotten/Sex Pistols ripoff. Loved the tempo, loved the riffs. Brings you in right from the start with Fast Cars and No Reply and they close awesomely with Moving Away from the Pulsebeat (drums really prominent on this last one). The one thing these guys don't do is political lyrics - it's more cheeky relationship stuff. Maybe that's why they're considered pop punk as much as punk. I can see where the US pop punk scene built off this (thinking Offspring). But I like that scene and I can't get enough of this full sound. Sixteen, I Don't Mind, Fiction Romance, Autonomy - what a sequence to close out side A and usher in side B (other than the fact those last two have very similar sounding intros). A definite 4 but I'm going higher because I liked it more and more each time and these guys are pioneers.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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."

God I fucking love punk. Favorite track: Autonomy

I’m surprised by how good this is.

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.

Hell yeah.

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

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.

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

Prime punk

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Good

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

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

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

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

A fine spiral scratch from a great band

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

# 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.

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

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

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

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

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

i said i like punk

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

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

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

High energy Brit punk. Personally I love it

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.

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

I'm a sucker for proto punk.

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

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.

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.

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.

Good enough for John Peel good enough for me

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

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.

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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

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

needs more listening - angry first album

loud, punk. Quick and fun.

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

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

Sex pistols ish

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

A bit clean and musical for pure punk, haha. Very enjoyable.

I really liked the energy of this record. I like Pete Shelley's solo output, so not surprised that I liked the vocals on this.

pretty solid punk album. definitely in the era of that first wave of british punk acts, but decidedly different than contemporaries like the sex pistols. the energy is fun, but the song mix here wasn't totally my favorite. don't get me wrong, there's some good stuff. it just didn't totally blow me away. also the weird bleep bloop scale at the end of "moving away from the pulsebeat." bleep bloop bleep bloop bleep bloop bleep bloop. odd. but mostly enjoyable.

Punk with some inventive guitar riffs/chord progressions. Strong rhythm section, too. The singer is pretty typical punk, but I probably have causality reversed - looks like Pete Shelley influenced a lot of punk bands with his style. Overall, it's a rocking album. Favorite tracks: Fast Cars (good rocking opener, although somewhat silly lyrics), I Don't Mind (sounds a little glam), Fiction Romance (liked the driving beat on this one), Autonomy (almost New Wave?).

Définitivement parmi les meilleurs albums de punk que j'ai eu dans cette liste, surtout si on parles des premiers albums qui ont façonné la scène. C'était accrocheur sans être quétaine, abrasif sans couper dans la musicalité. L'humour et les commentaires sociaux étaient super bien fait. Vraiment à part quelques passages qui m'ont laissé plus sur ma faim, ça reste un album que je vais devoir garder en rotation. 9/10

86% Best: You Tear Me Up; Get On Our Own; I Don't Mind; Fiction Romance; Autonomy; I Need; Moving Away from the Pulsebeat Must-Hear? Sure

Good work boyos

It's the Buzzcocks, you cannot go wrong!

Solid!

Great album. Fantastic early punk, and you can hear how they influenced so many other bands

A well loved album. Really, a singles collection is what feels right for Buzzcocks. Happily, all of their albums sound like they are made up of 100% singles. Probably my favourite punk band and pretty much the beginning and the end of pop punk.