Buzzcocks / Magazine

 

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Manchunian melodic post punk band that featured the biting lyrical talents of Pete Shelley and initially Howard Devoto who went on to form Magazine.

 

ALL MUSIC GUIDE BUZZCOCKS

 

ALL MUSIC GUIDE MAGAZINE

 

Key Compiliation: Singles Going Steady (2001 CD reissue of 1979 Best of with extra tracks)

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Career Defining Song:

Ever Fallen In Love? (1978 UK#12)

Some Other Key Songs:

 

Buzzcocks - Breakdown (1977 from Spiral Scratch EP, UK#31 in 1979)

 

Magazine - Shot By Both Sides (1978 UK#41)

 

Buzzcocks - Promises (1978 UK#20)

 

Pete Shelley - Homosapien (1981)

 

Were any of you fans of this tuneful punk rock band & the work of Pete Shelley & Howard Devoto?

I was a big fan of the Buzzcocks, realled like their stuff, like "What do I get", "Promises" and "Ever fallen in love".

 

Can't honestly remember anything by Magazine. Only thing I didn't like was Pete Shelley's sort of wining singing voice.

loved them!

 

they were a fantastic group, melodic, fast, hard, but poignant. possibly the best group to emerge from the punk scene and godfathers to many 'indie' groups that followed directly in their wake.

Absolutely love the Buzzcocks, i went to see them a few weeks ago in Manchester and they were absolutely fantastic.

 

I must admit Magazine passed me by back in the day but i've recently been listening to their albums and albeit vastly different to the Buzzcocks sound, they are starting to grow on me, especially such songs as "The Light Pours Out Of Me and Touch & Go, i'm enjoying them enough to have purchased tickets for this coming Saturdays show in Manchester

 

Buzzcocks still my fave tho'

I love the Buzzcocks, had their singles back in the day and the string of singles they released in 1978 were all top notch, B sides included.

 

I liked Magazine, had two singles by them Shot By Both Sides (which has the same progression as Lipstick by The Buzzcocks, B side to Promises), the other a song from 1981, About The Weather.

 

One of my all time favourite guitarists, John McGeoch, co-founded Magazine, along with Howard Devoto, in 1977 and was co-writer for many of their songs. Disillusioned with the band, mainly because of the lack of success, he left to join Siouxsie and the Banshees in early 1980 and helped guide them into their greatest period of commercial success. It's his guitar work that makes songs like Happy House, Christine, Israel and the stupendous Spellbound such brilliant songs. He also appeared on the debut Visage album along with two other Magazine members. After leaving Siouxsie and the Banshees he joined PIL before all but retiring as a musician and training to become a nurse! Sadly he died in 2004 aged only 48.

Edited February 10, 200916 yr by Robbie

I love the Buzzcocks, had their singles back in the day and the string of singles they released in 1978 were all top notch, B sides included.

 

I liked Magazine, had two singles by them Shot By Both Sides (which has the same progression as Lipstick by The Buzzcocks, B side to Promises), the other a song from 1981, About The Weather.

 

One of my all time favourite guitarists, John McGeoch, co-founded Magazine, along with Howard Devoto, in 1977 and was co-writer for many of their songs. Disillusioned with the band, mainly because of the lack of success, he left to join Siouxsie and the Banshees in early 1980 and helped guide them into their greatest period of commercial success. It's his guitar work that makes songs like Happy House, Christine, Israel and the stupendous Spellbound such brilliant songs. He also appeared on the debut Visage album along with two other Magazine members. After leaving Siouxsie and the Banshees he joined PIL before all but retiring as a musician and training to become a nurse! Sadly he died in 2004 aged only 48.

 

thanks for that info m8... sad news though...