1977 - Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen (Special Edition 2013)

1977 - Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen (Special Edition 2013) (Flac)

Another Music In a Different Kitchen, the band’s first full-length, is as smart, streamlined and seamless as punk rock debuts go. More upbeat and hyperactive than The Sex Pistols, and much more pop-oriented than arty contemporaries such as Wire, The Buzzcocks mastered early on the art of witty, aggressive two-minute punk-pop bangers. Having been released during a time when singles were often released separately from albums, there are few Singles Going Steady gems to be found on Another Music, save for the chugging standout “Autonomy” and tuneful anthem “I Don’t Mind.” Yet it’s part of that separation that makes Another Music such an essential addition, as each of its 11 tracks is utterly fresh and fantastic, from the fierce riffs in opener “Fast Cars” (and its repetition of the two-note solo from early single “Boredom”) to the nervy, motorik grooves of “Fiction Romance,” and its intensifying coda. Frontman Pete Shelley’s articulate humor abounds, as he throws out hilarious lines like “All this slurping and sucking…it’s putting me off my food!” And the group saves their biggest surprise for the end, hammering out a Can-inspired epic in the seven-minute “Moving Away from the Pulsebeat.”

Fantastic as the original, 11-track album is, Mute’s reissue packs on so many extras that the collection more than doubles the length of the first issue. Long-adored and famous singles “Orgasm Addict,” “What Do I Get?” and “What Ever Happened To…?” immediately follow the album, as does a Peel Session with two of the album’s tracks and yet another version of “What Do I Get?” Meanwhile, more than half of the second disc is made up of demo versions of 14 of their classic tracks, beginning with Spiral Scratch standout “Boredom.” Many of these are actually being released for the first time, including a surprisingly loud vocal take of “You Tear Me Up” and a near-professional sounding “Get On Our Own” that only pales in comparison to the original by mere decimal margins.

Closing out the second disc the furious “Live at the Electric Circus” recording, which is not only intense and loud, but surprisingly crisp in fidelity. It’s a blazing way to close out an expansive and exhaustive look at the band’s first album and singles that surrounded it. It’s a bit mind blowing to think all this was recorded not just in one year, but that it would be accompanied by yet another blistering full-length later that same year! Admittedly, this is a lot of music for one sitting, and only a small part of Mute’s insanely extensive reissue collections. But if Another Music In a Different Kitchen is an essential purchase, and believe me, it is, then it’s that much more of a treat to have basically everything else the band did in the first half of 1978 in the same package. (Treble)

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