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Different Kind Of Tension, A (CD)

By: Buzzcocks (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Different Kind Of Tension, A (CD) Album By Buzzcocks (Artist)
1   Paradise  
2   Sitting 'Round At Home  
3   You Say You Don't Love Me  
4   You Know You Can't Help It  
5   Mad Mad Judy  
6   Raison D'Etre  
7   I Don't Know What To Do With My Life  
8   Money  
9   Hollow Inside  
10   Different Kind Of Tension  
11   I Believe  
12   Radio Nine  
13   Everybody's Happy Nowadays  
14   Why Can't I Touch It  
15   Harmony In My Head  
16   Something's Gone Wrong Again  
 
DISC 2 for Different Kind Of Tension, A (CD) Album By Buzzcocks (Artist)
1   Are Everything  
2   Why She's A Girl From The Chainstore  
3   Airwaves Dream  
4   Strange Thing  
5   What Do You Know  
6   Running Free  
7   I Look Alone  
8   You Say You Don't Love Me (demo)  
9   I Don't Know What To Do With My Life (demo)  
10   Harmony In My Head (demo)  
11   I Don't Know (demo)  
12   Run Away From Home (demo)  
13   Drive System (demo)  
14   Mad Mad Judy (demo)  
15   Jesus Made Me Feel Guilty (demo)  
16   Something's Gone Wrong Again (backing track)  
17   You Know You Can't Help It (demo)  
18   I Believe (demo)  
19   Everybody's Happy Nowadays (John Peel show 23/10/1978)  
20   I Don't Know What To Do With My Life (John Peel show 28/5/1979)  
21   Mad Mad Judy (John Peel show 28/5/1979)  
22   Hollow Inside (John Peel show 28/5/1979)  
 

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Review

Q (5/02 SE, p.135) - Included in Q's "100 Best Punk Albums" - "...This album contains the glorious epitome of Pete Shelley's fathomlessly wistful take on affairs of the heart..."

Review

Q (5/02 SE, p.135) - Included in Q's "100 Best Punk Albums" - "...This album contains the glorious epitome of Pete Shelley's fathomlessly wistful take on affairs of the heart..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "It hardly chimed with the times but, fragmented and seemingly without direction, A DIFFERENT KIND OF TENSION now resembles a punk-era THE WHITE ALBUM."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.88) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The sparkling innocence was replaced by a darker poignancy and self-doubt, but he music was no less compelling..."

Product note

The Buzzcocks: Pete Shelley (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Steve Diggle (vocals, guitar); Steve Garvey (bass); John Maher (drums).
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
The Buzzcocks' third record builds on the snappy songcraft, buzzsaw precision, and powerful punk-pop energy of their first two albums. "Paradise," the opening track, shows Pete Shelley hadn't lost any ground in penning memorably hooky gems that have the tunefulness of 1960s pop, the fierce bite of punk, and the nervous, push-pull feel of New Wave all at once. "You Say You Don't Love Me" and "Raison d'Etre" follow suit, while "I Don't Know What to Do with My Life" pursues classic punk themes of alienation and self-doubt.
There is plenty of energy here, like the straight-up, pogo-inducing tempo of "Mad Mad Judy," but A DIFFERENT KIND OF TENSION also shows the British band expanding its horizons. The distinctly post-punk-sounding "Hollow Inside," which takes a cue from fellow Manchester pioneers Joy Division, works a haunting, arpeggiated guitar line and an ominous repeated lyric that Shelley sings as a kind of drone. The title track, too, with its disquieting rhythms, phased guitar, and electronically manipulated voice snippets, is one of the group's most progressive statements. Energetic, cleanly executed, and bristling with fresh ideas, TENSION is an important addition to the catalogue of this seminal band.

Title Note

The Buzzcocks: Pete Shelley (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Steve Diggle (vocals, guitar); Steve Garvey (bass); John Maher (drums).

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

The Buzzcocks' third record builds on the snappy songcraft, buzzsaw precision, and powerful punk-pop energy of their first two albums. "Paradise," the opening track, shows Pete Shelley hadn't lost any ground in penning memorably hooky gems that have the tunefulness of 1960s pop, the fierce bite of punk, and the nervous, push-pull feel of New Wave all at once. "You Say You Don't Love Me" and "Raison d'Etre" follow suit, while "I Don't Know What to Do with My Life" pursues classic punk themes of alienation and self-doubt.

There is plenty of energy here, like the straight-up, pogo-inducing tempo of "Mad Mad Judy," but A DIFFERENT KIND OF TENSION also shows the British band expanding its horizons. The distinctly post-punk-sounding "Hollow Inside," which takes a cue from fellow Manchester pioneers Joy Division, works a haunting, arpeggiated guitar line and an ominous repeated lyric that Shelley sings as a kind of drone. The title track, too, with its disquieting rhythms, phased guitar, and electronically manipulated voice snippets, is one of the group's most progressive statements. Energetic, cleanly executed, and bristling with fresh ideas, TENSION is an important addition to the catalogue of this seminal band.

Album Description

The Buzzcocks' third record builds on the snappy songcraft, buzzsaw precision, and powerful punk-pop energy of their first two albums. "Paradise," the opening track, shows Pete Shelley hadn't lost any ground in penning memorably hooky gems that have the tunefulness of 1960s pop, the fierce bite of punk, and the nervous, push-pull feel of New Wave all at once. "You Say You Don't Love Me" and "Raison d'Etre" follow suit, while "I Don't Know What to Do with My Life" pursues classic punk themes of alienation and self-doubt.
There is plenty of energy here, like the straight-up, pogo-inducing tempo of "Mad Mad Judy," but A DIFFERENT KIND OF TENSION also shows the British band expanding its horizons. The distinctly post-punk-sounding "Hollow Inside," which takes a cue from fellow Manchester pioneers Joy Division, works a haunting, arpeggiated guitar line and an ominous repeated lyric that Shelley sings as a kind of drone. The title track, too, with its disquieting rhythms, phased guitar, and electronically manipulated voice snippets, is one of the group's most progressive statements. Energetic, cleanly executed, and bristling with fresh ideas, TENSION is an important addition to the catalogue of this seminal band.

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