To all you kids out there who feel sad you missed my generation- don't be as long as you listen to and appreciate the music it will live on forever after all how many adverts use old punk and new wave songs - and they said it would never last...
Being born, like I was, in 1959 was perfect for a music lover ! I got the tail end of the 60's(Beatles, The Move,etc)the whole of the 70's,(The Stooges, Hawkwind, Zappa, Beefheart) and was still only 17 when punk hit, and 28 when AcidHouse/techno blew my mind ! When you hear the type of shit kids are hit with these days I feel more and more fortunate to be born when I was and have the chance to see all those great bands in their heyday !
I was born in 1957 and I feel EXACTLY the same as you. I grew up hearing the Beatles, Four Tops, Hendrix, etc, became an adult during the Pistols, Pere Ubu, Dead Boys, Gary Numan, etc. I saw The Clash on their first US tour. I saw Dead Kennedys, Devo, Patti Smith, Iggy in 1977, etc etc. It was a great time to be young.
A rare clip indeed. I've still got my original 45...bought it when it first came out early 1977. I'd already seen The Damned and The Adverts AND The Jam....What a great time for us brand new punks that was!
Completely missed the best verse out of the song with my favourite existentialist lyric of all time 'I just came from nowhere, and I'm going straight back there'.
the end of punk bands like this was in their start coz you just can't get any better! so blessed to live in the day playing subbuteo, with this banging out on the turntable.
Don't think anyone knows and it really doesn't matter...but for the record this show was filmed in Boston and the audio comes from a totally different show recorded in Philadelphia...you can see a second clip from that Boston show "What do I get" here www.kinodv.net/movies/moviepages/BuzzcocksWhatDoIGet.html
Magnificent. Full of energy and blows the Spiral Scratch version away. Awesome from Pete Shelley on vocals. Must be one of his finest performances. Brilliant.
None of this would’ve happened without the original. The energy of a live performance and polish of subsequent, tight gigging all helps to elevate this later version. Howard’s vocal relates the topic manifold, Pete’s vibrant delivery is entirely his; so personal preference decides that choice rather one being better than the other.
i went to see the buzzcocks in erics liverpool in 1977 and now my mate works for them and i went to see them last week in blackburn and nothing has changed they were fucking brilliant!!!!!!
Pete Shelley co-wrote with Howard the sound track to my school years a little known very early Buzzcocks song Boredom. A definite classic but not on any anthologies but I love it with the great lyric "Now I'm living in a movie which doesn't move me. I'm the one waiting for the phone to ring, ring a ring a f**king ding. RIP
That's brilliant but it's so long after they recorded "boredom" that it's become a set staple. "Boredom" doesn't mean much by 1980. Great clip though, never seen this. Pete Shelley RIP
Go boy! this band is perfect for being a teenager. Forget all 90s and later Green Day-type bands.This is the real thing. By the way they had a song called "Sixteen again". Check out more names like the aussies Hard-Ons, Meanies. Also The Weirdos, The Screamers, Germs, early Black Flag and Redd Kross...the list is long, investigate and enjoy.
That Green Blink 41 stuff blows but there were and still are lots of great bands from the 1990s and onwards. But yeah it's hard to beat mid-70s - early-80s punk.
Just like 👍 👌 living in the Bloody Boring UK 🇬🇧 😴 Today 😅 and for many a Bloody Year too 👍 😀 😴 👏 😅 😆 🤣 😂 😹 MEOW OH Yeah Baby and Especially if I listen 🎶 to the usual Crap that passes as Music 🎶 🎵 these days too 😊 as 💯 it's just pure Plagiarism it seems to me anyways ❤️ 😅 which is why I LOVE ❤️ this happy little tune ❤️ 💖 💙 ♥️ 💕 💗 😊 🎉🎉
I SO AGREE that this blows away the Spiral Scratch version. THANK YOU FOR POSTING !! It's interesting that they still played this in '80, (it's been a long time, but didn't they use this as the intro to "Fast Cars" ??)
As an old punk Green Day are an excellent band and if they believe their music is a new type of punk for a new generation then really it's no different to Sid always wanting to be Eddie Cochran - you take what you can from your heroes and you go your own way with it that is how punk started in the first place - musical evolution and long may it continue otherwise music dies and that would be the real crime...
Holy schlit! I was at this show! I feel SO old right now! LOL!
I was at this show. Can't believe it's been 35 years (November 1980).
Lucky man. It must have been some gig
The best guitar solo ever!
2 notes played in the shortest space of time imaginable!
Yup, two notes for thirty-two bars. And for those not paying attention at the back, we'll do it again.
@@waz3128 who knows you "smell like teen spirirt" two notes
It's a bit too prog for me hahaha
To all you kids out there who feel sad you missed my generation- don't be as long as you listen to and appreciate the music it will live on forever after all how many adverts use old punk and new wave songs - and they said it would never last...
Being born, like I was, in 1959 was perfect for a music lover ! I got the tail end of the 60's(Beatles, The Move,etc)the whole of the 70's,(The Stooges, Hawkwind, Zappa, Beefheart) and was still only 17 when punk hit, and 28 when AcidHouse/techno blew my mind ! When you hear the type of shit kids are hit with these days I feel more and more fortunate to be born when I was and have the chance to see all those great bands in their heyday !
Same destiny, j'm 59 today !!
I can totally relate 78 and 79 were the most exciting years for music I was born in 1958
I was born in 1957 and I feel EXACTLY the same as you. I grew up hearing the Beatles, Four Tops, Hendrix, etc, became an adult during the Pistols, Pere Ubu, Dead Boys, Gary Numan, etc. I saw The Clash on their first US tour. I saw Dead Kennedys, Devo, Patti Smith, Iggy in 1977, etc etc. It was a great time to be young.
I was at this show. Incredible! RIP Pete Shelley ❤️
That is the best version.
Blighty. The gift that keeps on giving.
40 years ago today... holy fuck. I was there...
Drums are amazing. Everything about it is amazing.
A rare clip indeed. I've still got my original 45...bought it when it first came out early 1977. I'd already seen The Damned and The Adverts AND The Jam....What a great time for us brand new punks that was!
RIP Pete Shelley, 12/06/2018
Can't get any punkier than this. Bdum Bdum !!
Buzzcocks were so under rated back in the day but they were my favorite band ❤❤❤
definitely one of the best bands ever and one of the greatest songs ever written
Completely missed the best verse out of the song with my favourite existentialist lyric of all time 'I just came from nowhere, and I'm going straight back there'.
Pure Energy. Saw them in 79. Love this recording and Spiral Scratch and Howard's Magazine version too. Classic UK Punk!
Me too, 1979 at Metro, Plymouth !!!
December 1980 , literally 4 months before original line up broke up. Its amazing Shelley could still put in as much energy into this song .
Absoulutely FAB. Only saw Buzzcocks once in Newcastle UK - but they were supported by Joy Division with Ian Curtis.
BEST ever gig.
Hell yeah ❤️
I'm the guy in the front row with the white t-shirt.
I was somewhere behind you; seeing them live was one of my punk bucket list shows -- don't think I stopped dancing the entire show!
You lucky bastard!
Lucky 😭😭
I’m also here at this show in the front couple rows
Lucky you! Saw em in Chi Town back in our day!
An unforgettable slice of our history.
my favorite version of the song!
You never get bored hearing this track! Brilliant!
basically the Buzzcock's best song in my opinion
me and my friends obsessed over Spiral scratch in the 1990's, I remember it from the 70's.
Brilliant brilliant video thank for posting. Saw them at Newcastle City Hall 79 / 80 ?? Joy Division supporting. Best ever gig :-)
The greatest Punk Rock song of them all.
That 2 note solo is punk. Thanks for the upload.
passion, attitude and normal preoccupations , no straightened teeth, autocues and shite.
the best punk song ever written
by the best punk band ever
the end of punk bands like this was in their start coz you just can't get any better! so blessed to live in the day playing subbuteo, with this banging out on the turntable.
WHEW !!!! FUCK YEAH wish i was there.
best guitar solo ever
Never get tired of watching this absolutely awesome im dancing round me front room
I got two smashed toes in the pit to this song on Friday at the Manc Apollo. They were fucking brilliant!!
Yes .....superb!
Don't think anyone knows and it really doesn't matter...but for the record this show was filmed in Boston and the audio comes from a totally different show recorded in Philadelphia...you can see a second clip from that Boston show "What do I get" here www.kinodv.net/movies/moviepages/BuzzcocksWhatDoIGet.html
Killer riff!
best punk band in my opinion
Great band saw them in Falmouth Cornwall October 2016 they were still brilliant! RIP Pete
Just how fucking brilliant is this footage ?
These guys were tight! This is even better than the version they had on the e.p.
Outstanding, and very English.
Man I wish there was more footage from this show!!!
R.I.P. Mr Shelley.....😞
I can't believe this, the spiral scratch EP has been my fav for christ knows how long - power to you for posting this, gobsmacked
THIS is TRUE punk! Thanks a million for posting! ::)
EXCELLENT version!!!!!
Magnificent. Full of energy and blows the Spiral Scratch version away. Awesome from Pete Shelley on vocals. Must be one of his finest performances. Brilliant.
Must have been polished up after the gig in the studio - but yeah, you are bang on. Best version I have heard.
I like Devotos vocals better for this song
None of this would’ve happened without the original. The energy of a live performance and polish of subsequent, tight gigging all helps to elevate this later version. Howard’s vocal relates the topic manifold, Pete’s vibrant delivery is entirely his; so personal preference decides that choice rather one being better than the other.
so happy I was at this show!
the best of the best!
i went to see the buzzcocks in erics liverpool in 1977 and now my mate works for them and i went to see them last week in blackburn and nothing has changed they were fucking brilliant!!!!!!
I saw them around 1980 and Toya Wilcox was supporting them.
I had the spiral scratch ep. It sounded like a rough demo, which gave it raw, in your face energy. Over production would have ruined it
@BestCanKeanRob2 Haha it was one of the first records I ever owned and I still have my copy too.
Pete Shelley co-wrote with Howard the sound track to my school years a little known very early Buzzcocks song Boredom. A definite classic but not on any anthologies but I love it with the great lyric "Now I'm living in a movie which doesn't move me. I'm the one waiting for the phone to ring, ring a ring a f**king ding. RIP
That's brilliant but it's so long after they recorded "boredom" that it's become a set staple. "Boredom" doesn't mean much by 1980. Great clip though, never seen this. Pete Shelley RIP
brilliant .the people of our little islands know how to do it!
They were amazing when I saw them live. I got a bloody nose in the pit during this song.
There is NO LOVE in THIS world ANYMORER.I.P Pete Gone BUT Never Forgotten
This made me chuckle hard.
Not seen this before,Brilliant!!!!
They are bloody good, that's why.
Thanks for posting this!!
Simply outstanding video
The Adrian Mole of punk.
RIP you fucking legend.
perfect guitar solo works even better over the key change!
YES ...
Wow - it's on fire!!!
Brilliant!
SAW EM IN 77/78 WONDERFUL STUFF,OH WHERES MY TIME MACHINE
Love This !!!
Brilliance.
brilliant!!!
FAB.
Brilliant, this is a truly punk!!!
Thanks for the post!!!
brilliant great times
Buzzcocks ftw.
purrrfect
Superb.
LOL at Steve's weird march-dance....
saw them in 1978 and they never sounded as good as this top vid!
Go boy! this band is perfect for being a teenager. Forget all 90s and later Green Day-type bands.This is the real thing. By the way they had a song called "Sixteen again". Check out more names like the aussies Hard-Ons, Meanies. Also The Weirdos, The Screamers, Germs, early Black Flag and Redd Kross...the list is long, investigate and enjoy.
That Green Blink 41 stuff blows but there were and still are lots of great bands from the 1990s and onwards. But yeah it's hard to beat mid-70s - early-80s punk.
Howard Devoto sang on the Spiral Scratch version. This is really good though.
Classic!!
Hi Pete! Better where u r, believe me. B- dom, B-dom...😉🏴☠️🍒
favorite buzzcocks song
wow brilliant post thank you!
HOLY SHIT!!!
Know the feeling!
sounds so fresh. ring a ring a f*****g ding!
Works for me
great‼︎
Just like 👍 👌 living in the Bloody Boring UK 🇬🇧 😴 Today 😅 and for many a Bloody Year too 👍 😀 😴 👏 😅 😆 🤣 😂 😹 MEOW OH Yeah Baby and Especially if I listen 🎶 to the usual Crap that passes as Music 🎶 🎵 these days too 😊 as 💯 it's just pure Plagiarism it seems to me anyways ❤️ 😅 which is why I LOVE ❤️ this happy little tune ❤️ 💖 💙 ♥️ 💕 💗 😊 🎉🎉
great
this is cool
I SO AGREE that this blows away the Spiral Scratch version. THANK YOU FOR POSTING !! It's interesting that they still played this in '80, (it's been a long time, but didn't they use this as the intro to "Fast Cars" ??)
No it does not.
As an old punk Green Day are an excellent band and if they believe their music is a new type of punk for a new generation then really it's no different to Sid always wanting to be Eddie Cochran - you take what you can from your heroes and you go your own way with it that is how punk started in the first place - musical evolution and long may it continue otherwise music dies and that would be the real crime...
An awesome version, no doubt, but better than "Spiral Scratch" ? NO CHANCE !
Five stars!
way cool.