Going Steady

Going Steady

Track Listings
1. Analogy of a Black Man
2. Ego Trippin'
3. Use Me Again
4. Stone Cold Hustler
5. Attitude Problem
6. Nasty Girls
7. Going Steady
8. New Breed
9. Mac Daddy
10. Anyway U Want It
11. Purple Haze

Singles Going Steady
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Question marks in song titles are a good thing
  • A classic collection from overlooked punk greats
  • Cuz You're an Orgasm Addict!!!
  • I just want a lover like any other. what do I get?
  • BUZZCOCKS Singles Going Steady
 Singles Going Steady
Buzzcocks
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000QGE
Release Date: 1992-07-14

Tracks:

  1. Orgasm Addict
  2. What Do I Get?
  3. I Don't Mind
  4. Love You More
  5. Ever Fallen In Love?
  6. Promises
  7. Everybody's Happy Nowadays
  8. Harmony In My Head
  9. What Ever Happened To?
  10. Oh Shit!
  11. Autonomy
  12. Noise Annoys
  13. Just Lust
  14. Lipstick
  15. Why Can't I Touch It?
  16. Something's Gone Wrong Again

Amazon.com

With a name designed to shock, and song titles like "Oh Shit?" and "Orgasm Addict" the Buzzcocks were proud proponents of British late-'70s punk rock. But in retrospect, it's easier to see what else they accomplished--some of the catchiest, most provocative pop singles ever. Pete Shelley expressed heartbreak and frustration ("Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with?" goes one catchy chorus) without falling victim to lovey-dovey cliches. This definitive 1979 collection nicely captures the Manchester quartet's tight melodies, economic writing and appropriately fast pace. --Steve Knopper

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Question marks in song titles are a good thing .......2007-07-14

The Buzzcocks are the perfect mesh of punk and pop, a cleaned up version of the grittier Sex Pistols, but still pretty bratty themselves. Pete Shelley's voice has a melodic, high-register flair. He sounds downright desperate and pleading on songs like "What do I Get?" and "Ever Fallen in Love?," but it's OK because the chunky music that surrounds him is so easy on the ears. For every teenage angst-ridden fireball like "Orgasm Addict" and "Oh S*@#!," the Buzzcocks churn out more substantial, riff-driven tunes like "Autonomy," "Why Can't I Touch It?" and "Something's Gone Wrong Again." The quick-and-to-the-point "I Don't Mind" displays the best attributes of this band: a gritty guitar riff, indecipherable lyrics that seem to hint at a jaded romantic experience, and a swirling sing-along chorus that's completely addictive. "Ever Fallen in Love?" might be the Buzzcock's best-known song, and it's the one that attracted me to the band in the first place. Shelley's vocals come across as genuinely perplexed, hurt and questioning, but once again, the chorus of the song is so disgustingly saccharin and ultra-catchy, you can't help but mouth the words and bob your head in time with the music.

Shelley bemoans the lighthearted, overly satisfied outlook he observes from people in society on "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" (heard incessantly in some recent TV commercial, unfortunately), the irony being that his song is one of the most cheerful-sounding ditties ever put to tape. "Harmony in My Head," written by Steve Diggle, kind of reminds me of a Roger Waters-sung Pink Floyd tune on steroids. The irony here, of course, is that Waters couldn't write or sing a decent harmony himself if it was hand-delivered from Kurt Cobain via Heaven.

Shelley's ranting on "What Ever Happened to?," "Oh S*@#," "Noise Annoys" and "Just Lust" are true punk rock gems, infinitely better and more genuine than what studio-polished bands like Green Day and its ilk were doing years later. "Singles Going Steady" ends with "Why Can't I Touch It?" and "Something's Gone Wrong Again," respectively, two epic songs for a band whose songs usually cut off around the three-minute mark, on average. "Touch It" (6:32) is a mid-tempo tune with cool lyrics, a great riff and smooth groove, an almost danceable track. Unlike the rest of these songs, it lingers for a while. "Something's Gone Wrong" (4:29) ends the CD on a more urgent, troubled note, and, like all these songs, makes you want to discover more of the Buzzcocks' music.

5 out of 5 stars A classic collection from overlooked punk greats.......2007-01-10

Tight, sparse tunes, pissed off cockney vocals and barbed wire guitars make this a great look back at a seminal British punk band. A must have for fans of the genre.
DaveR

5 out of 5 stars Cuz You're an Orgasm Addict!!!.......2006-07-15

The first song "Orgasm Addict" is in my opinion the best. "Love you More" and "Running Free" are also faves of mine. I find the ones most other reviewers rave about arent nearly as good. As a whole, this album is essential to any rock/punk collection. It comes in at #358 on the RS500.. Enjoy

5 out of 5 stars I just want a lover like any other. what do I get? .......2006-01-06

Amazing Buzzcocks collection. One guy posted that the sound quality was lacking but I think it sounds just fine. I play this album all the time. Everyone should have these classics in their collection. Definitely 5 stars, these are timeless late-70s pop/punk gems.

5 out of 5 stars BUZZCOCKS Singles Going Steady.......2005-10-09

I loved it in the 80's and it's just as good now, if not better!
Singles Going Steady
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Great introduction to a great band
  • Improve on perfection?
  • Modified perfection
  • The Greatest Singles Album of All Time Just Got Better
 Singles Going Steady
Buzzcocks
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005MAGA
Release Date: 2001-08-27

Tracks:

  1. Orgasm Addict
  2. What Do I Get?
  3. I Don't Mind
  4. Love You More
  5. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)?
  6. Promises
  7. Everybody's Happy Nowadays
  8. Harmony In My Head
  9. You Say Don't Love Me
  10. Are Everything
  11. Strange Thing
  12. Running Free
  13. Whatever Happened To...?
  14. Oh Shit!
  15. Autonomy
  16. Noise Annoys
  17. Just Lust
  18. Lipstick
  19. Why Can't I Touch It?
  20. Something's Gone Wrong Again
  21. Raison D'etre
  22. Why She's The Girl From The Chainstore
  23. Airwaves Dream
  24. What Do You Know

Album Description

Import Re-Mastered reissue of the classic 1979 compilation features 24 tracks including 8 bonus tracks, 'You Say You Don't Love Me', 'Are Everything', 'Strange Thing', 'Running Free', 'Raison D'etre', 'Why She's A Girl From The Chainstore', 'Airwaves Dream' & 'What Do You Know'. EMI. 2001.

Album Details

Digitally remastered and expanded collection of the best of Pete Shelley, Steve Diggle and their mates. A compendium of both the single A-sides and B-sides, it now has 24 great tracks.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great introduction to a great band.......2006-08-14

Singles Going Steady is a great compilation of songs that span the most important years of this band's career. There are a ton of solid songs on this CD (24), which, when bought used, makes it a steal. This is a major staple worth jamming into your music library. It's also a great introduction to Buzzcocks music if you've never heard much of their stuff before. You can really hear the influence these guys have had on younger bands that try to copy the punk/post-punk sound. But of course, Buzzcocks do it better every time.

4 out of 5 stars Improve on perfection?.......2006-03-22

It would be hard to give "Singles Going Steady" anything less than 5 stars, ever. In any context.

This remaster is, in most cases, excellent. The sound quality is generally better -- but I kept my old, unremastered copy too, if that tells you anything. The new mix is thicker, but I like the rawness of the original mix just as well for high-volume listening.

A few of the bonus tracks sap the energy from the original release. But a few of the bonus tracks nest like litter-mates with this already awesome collection of non-album singles.

Get this album one way or another -- whether this souped-up version or the older, clankier (but just as pleasing) version.

And the "Spiral Scratch" EP too.

4 out of 5 stars Modified perfection.......2003-10-01

The US version of "Singles Going Steady" is my all-time favorite album, and all the tracks on the US version are included here (the 16 non-bonus tracks). The eight original A-sides are pure punk pop perfection, proving our lovelorn hero Pete Shelley was the most talented songwriter of the punk generation. The Buzzcocks had three winning aspects to all of their singles: (1) bright, bristling energy, delivered at a 100 mph pace courtesy of virtuoso drummer John Maher; (2) killer hooks from the twin guitar attack of Shelley and Steve Diggle; (3) sensitivity and sincerity to their lyrics. No other punk band can really claim to beat the Buzzcocks at any one of these three keys to success. I mean, just try and picture Johnny Rotten singing, "So why would I cry if you ever left me?/Maybe 'cause you're all I'm living for", with Sid Vicious providing beautiful harmonies in the background. Well, that's precisely what Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle did, without ever sounding remotely whimpy. It's hard to pick highlights, but the well-recognized classics "What Do I Get?" ("I only get sleepless niiiights!") and "Ever Fallen in Love?" ("...with someone you shouldn't've fallen in love with") will serve nicely, as will the more obscure gems "I Don't Mind" and the ferocious "Harmony in My Head", the only song Steve Diggle gets to sing on (aside from bonus tracks).

And, surprise surprise, the original eight B-sides are every bit as good. They show the Buzzcocks branching out a bit into new directions, but they always manage to drive home great songs, like the harshly melodic punk epic "Autonomy", the bitter rockabilly of "Just Lust" ("There's bed in your eyes, but there's nothing to trust...just lust."), and the Cole Porter-esque "Lipstick" ("Does the lipstick on your lip stick on my face?"), along with any other you'd care to pick.

So if it has all that, why only four stars? Well, it's the bonus tracks. If you're going to add material to a masterwork, the supplementals need to be as brilliant as the original material, otherwise the work will suffer as a whole. And that's just what happened here. Parts 1-3 suffer from absolutely deplorable production (thank heavy drug use for that...just say "no", kids), with the vocals buried at the bottom of the mix. And beyond that, the songs are weaker, too. The band was breaking apart at this point and as a result the creative focus was wandering quite a bit.

You DO get two bona fide classics: Shelley's wistful "You Say You Don't Love Me", and Diggle's fiery character sketch "Why She's a Girl from the Chainstore", the only track from Parts 1-3 where the production isn't bad enough to ruin the song. Each of these sound just fine next to other classics like "Love You More" and "Everybody's Happy Nowadays". But the other six tracks range from pretty good (Diggle's "Running Free", which could have been a classic if not for vocals-at-the-bottom junkie production and, believe it or not, the excessive use of cheesy keyboards...in a Buzzcocks song!) to absolutely unlistenable (Shelley's terrible "Are Everything", easily beating out "Hollow Inside" as the worst Buzzcocks song of all time...to give you an idea of how bad it is, Heaven 17 covered it.)

This CD is not a bad purchase at all. It's got the complete Buzzcocks UK 7" singles discography. And as the Buzzcocks rank with the Beatles when it comes to singles bands, this is a great album. But the more enjoyable listen is unquestionably the more compact US version, which is why I must give the UK version 4 stars.

5 out of 5 stars The Greatest Singles Album of All Time Just Got Better.......2003-09-23

The Buzzcocks' Singles Going Steady not only boasts superior sound, but now includes two singles from 1979's "A Different Kind of Tension" ("You Say You Don't Love Me" and "Raison D'Etre"), and 1980's "Parts 1,2,3" EP. Superior melodic pop - some of Shelley's and Diggle's finest work. Essential to any undertanding of UK punk and pop music of the late 70's early 80's.
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        24. Dying Everyday
        25. Walk a Mile for You
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        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • another wicked olskool album
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        5 out of 5 stars another wicked olskool album.......2006-09-16

        this is steadys 4th album and of course its dope just like ALL his other albums,with rhymes by steady,cool,lg,etc you no what too expect.just put it on and let the beats bounce throo you,cop it, great album....

        5 out of 5 stars The Hilltop.......2005-12-06

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          		Singles Going Steady
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          Manufacturer: A&M
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B00009KU6A
          Release Date: 2006-01-06

          Tracks:

          1. Orgasm Addict
          2. What Do I Get?
          3. I Don't Mind
          4. Love You More
          5. Ever Fallen in Love?
          6. Promises
          7. Everybody's Happy Nowadays
          8. Harmony in My Head
          9. Whatever Happened To?
          10. Oh Shit!
          11. Autonomy
          12. Noise Annoys
          13. Just Lust
          14. Lipstick
          15. Why Can't I Touch It?
          16. Something's Gone Wrong Again
          Going Steady & Holidays
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            Going Steady , and Holidays
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            ASIN: B00005YWSS
            Release Date: 2002-03-06
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              Going Steady
              Manufacturer: Libra
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              Singles Going Steady
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