The Buzzcocks are one of the most prolific groups English of the first wave Punk - New wave (1977).

Biography

Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto is the two founders of the group. Devoto leaves the group in February 1977 before the recording of the first album and founds the group Magazine. The first album Another Music in has Different Kitchen is a emblematic success of the movement, short, nervous, incisive pieces. The following albums preserve same controlled energy.

The style of Buzzcocks seems an attempt successful to reconcile the spirit and the creativity of the pop British (The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who…) with the urgency, energy, the C it yourself and minimalism of the punk-rock'n'roll.

The sound of Buzzcocks is at the same time varied and very recognizable: guitars " cristallines" (it is the punk one) amplified by lamps; low ambitious and humble at the same time, a battery always in support in spite of a a little sometimes constant set of cymbals. The song is with the endorsement, and beyond: it is the guitarist who sings.

After a separation in 1981, the group is reformed in 1989. It continues to turn and leaves regularly the discs, inevitably disappointing compared to their great time, but of a touching fidelity to the punk spirit, and with sometimes some nuggets (Innocent on Trade Test Transmission, several songs of Flat Pack Philosophy)

Members of the group

Original members

  • Howard Devoto (Howard Trafford): song,
  • Pete Shelley (Peter McNeish): guitar, song
  • Steve Diggle: low, then guitar
  • John Maher: battery
  • Garth: low

Other members

  • Tony To bore, low
  • Philip Barker, battery

Dicography

Albums

Individual

  • Time' S Up EP (1976)
  • Spiral Scratch EP (1977)
  • Orgasm Addict (October 1977)
  • What Do I Get (February 1978)
  • I Don' T Mind (April 1978)
  • Love You More (July 1978)
  • Ever Fallen In Coils? (September 1978)
  • Promises (November 1978)
  • Everybody' S Happy Nowadays (March 1979)
  • Harmony In My Head (July 1979)
  • You Say You Don' T Coils to Me (1979)
  • I Believe (1979)

Compilations

  • Singles Going Steady 1977-1979 (1979)
  • Operators Manual (1991)
  • The Supplements Individual Anthology (2004)

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