#BUZZCOCKS Love Bites

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

FACES IN NEW WAVE & POWER POP IN THE SUPER-SEVENTIES -- THE UNDERGROUND TURNS ACCESSIBLE.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on UK punk rock band BUZZCOCKS (during the band's "Another Music..."/Love Bites" line-up), posing with vocalist Debbie Harry during BLONDIE's 1978 European Tour, on September 4, 1978, Nijmegen, Holland. 📸: Chris Stein (BLONDIE guitarist).

1978 BUZZCOCKS line-up:

Pete Shelley – lead guitar, lead vocals

Steve Diggle – rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Steve Garvey – bass guitar

John Maher – drums, percussion

Source: https://devorahostrov.blogspot.com/2017/07/while-buzzcocks-toured-usa-in-support.html, various, etc...

[lisamarie-vee]

[saramencken]

Buzzcocks. Garth Smith (bass), John Maher (drums), Pete Shelly (vocals, guitar), Steve Diggle (guitar). Manchester, 1977

Image : Caroline Coon

[l33ap]

Buzzcocks Ever Fallen In Love... (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) + Just Lust, 7" (1978)

[loveydoveyidiot]

Ever fallen in love, in love with someone

You shouldn't have fallen in love with

[gianlucacrugnola]

Buzzcocks - Love Bites

Essenziale. Love Bites, secondo esplosivo album in sei mesi, questo lo spazio temporale dal debutto Another Music In A Different Kitchen, così i Buzzcocks seminali ancor prima che famosi pubblicando due album intensi, istantanei, classici da subito della scena di Manchester. La tracklist di Love Bites contiene quella che storicamente si può considerare una delle canzoni pop – punk definitive,…

[punkrockhistory]

'46 years ago today

Love Bites is the second studio album by English punk rock band Buzzcocks, released on this day in 1978 featuring the single 'Ever Fallen In Love'

[mischief-lies-and-stories]

Loki Episode 1 Reactions (Less Coherent Edition)

It's been two and a half years, y'all, and what a start to the new season it was. (I've seen mixed reviews in the tag, but personally the initial reaction is I loved it.) What I apparently forgot in those two years, however, is that my in-the-moment reactions notes are not very coherent. So I apologize in advance if you aren't sure what part the note refers to. I'm going to make another post tomorrow with some more coherent thoughts around the episode and some predictions about the season in general (I'm also going to be rewatching the episode later so that might lend more clarity to the next post as well). I also cut out a chunk of my reactions that were just me screaming a character's name when they showed up, unless it makes sense for the next note to leave it in (and there were a lot of these, since it's been two and a half years since I've seen my friends).

Obligatory spoiler warning if you weren't already expecting them. Prepare for some wildness. I've bracketed [ ] some brief clarifying post-ep notes (not everywhere though).

I'm obnoxious, I'm watching the entire recap.

The editing of this recap is interesting.

The bleak theme is worrying. I don't like it. But I do love the color scheme of the logo.

SYLVIE???!!!

CASEY!!!

Okay hopefully that wasn't Sylvie.

Someone give this boi [Loki] a nap. He's had a very very very long day and it's only getting longer.

What the fuck is happening.

X-5 you've got the haircut of a cop, I've decided I don't like you.

Man, I hope we fix this time-slipping in this episode, it's stressing me out too fucking much.

Oh motherfuck. This is driving me insane. This is Sisyphean torture. [I don't remember what specifically I was referring to, so I don't remember if this is an accurate description.]

OH MY GOD I LOVE LIZ CARR I HOPE SHE STICKS AROUND [Man, Liz Carr is just hopping from franchise to franchise this summer. She's in Loki, Good Omens, The Witcher)

OH SHIT. Renslayer and Kang. If they kiss on tape I'm marking it on the Bingo.

I DESPERATELY want to know what B-15's backstory is. She's a fantastic character and I want to know how she used this personality on the timeline.

Keep that Hitler youth-looking fuck away from my girl!

Oh my god, I'm going to be watching this conversation in the hall between Loki and Mobius over and over, because I love every part of it. The panicking, the teasing, the touching, the making each other feel better. Just the entire debriefing, reuniting conversation is EVERYTHING to me right now.

"In order to do that I need a Loki Who Remains." I love this

"I have no memory of having my memory wiped." Mobius. This is Catherine Tate on Nevermind the Buzzcocks telling David Tennant "I don't know songs I've never heard of" solidarity [I understand I'm making obscure 13+ year old references but this quote lives in my head rent free]

Ugh I HATE time travel. But it makes sense why his name is OB now. Also his door is a circle.

OB IF YOU KILL LOKI I WILL END YOUR CUTE BESPECTACLED FACE FASTER THAN YOU CAN SAY "No...wait."

OB IF YOU KILL MOBIUS I WILL PERSONALLY FLAY THE SKIN FROM YOUR OWN BONES

Mobius writing "skin" into the dust on the computer lololololol

WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING JUST LET LOKI CONFESS

OB I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS IF ONE OF THESE BOYS EVEN SEEMS TO DIE AT THE END OF THIS EP

HOW IS HE GONNA HOOF IT BACK IF HE CAN BARELY CRAWL [I started getting really stressed at this point. It's pretty much caps lock from here on out.]

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD WE'RE GONNA END THIS EPISODE WITH MO BITING IT AND THEN LOKI FIXES IT IN EP TWO AND BRINGS HIM BACK

OR LOKI BITES IT AND THE OTHER WAY HAPPENS

THERE'S ELEVEN MINUTES LEFT BUT I DON'T TRUST MARVEL NOT TO MAKE ELEVEN MINUTES OF CREDITS

MARVEL DON'T MAKE ME CHECK OFF THE CRYING BOX [on the Bingo Card] ON EPISODE ONE

MARVEL

I WON'T BE ABLE TO SLEEP

MARVEL

LOKI

MOBIUS

LOKI

MOBIUS

SYLVIE MY DARLING MY PERFECT LOVE THANK YOU OH MY GOD

How wild is it that Loki comes flying back from the jaws of death itself and saves Mobius from getting his skin ripped off and they land on the floor of the TVA in each other's arms, and the first thing Loki does is bring up his ex-girlfriend [I wouldn't classify Sylvie as this, but I'm being tongue-in-cheek, and Mobius did accuse Loki of falling for himself in season 1, so]

OKAY BUT I WAS RIGHT THAT WAS SYLVIE AT THE BEGINNING [Before you reply, remember I can't respond to those, and also I forgot that was the past and at the end Loki's in the future. HOWEVER, I do still think that was Sylvie at the beginning.]

SHE IS IN BROXTON HELL YEAH WHOEVER FIGURED THAT OUT (I don't remember who that was) FOUR FOR YOU HOLY SHIT

Oh Sylvie :(((

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I HEARD WE SECURED THOSE EUROPEAN SUPPORT SLOTS WITH BLONDIE!"

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on BUZZCOCKS drummer John Maher (then age 18!) photographed with his arm around Debbie Harry of BLONDIE, whom BUZZCOCKS supported in Belgium on September 6, 1978. 📸: Chris Stein.

JOHN MAHER: "When I was 16 I had a Debbie Harry poster on my bedroom door. Two years later, we had our arms around each other!

Sharing those pics of Debbie and me hugging each other generated quite a reaction. I still find it hard to believe it actually happened. I was so excited when I heard we secured those European support slots with Blondie! I was eighteen. I’d never been outside the UK before.  The night before the first show, I was like a kid at Christmas. Despite the hours of travelling, I was absolutely wide awake when we arrived in Amsterdam. I remember going for a beer with our manager Richard Boon and tour manager Pete Monks. We sat outdoors, drinking foreign lager on a warm summer night. I was literally giddy with excitement. Richard and Pete were laughing at me. I asked them what was wrong. Richard told me I was experiencing "culture shock." I didn’t know what he meant. I was high on the whole experience of being somewhere other than Manchester, drinking lager outdoors in an exotic European city, knowing I would meet Debbie Harry and Clem Burke in less than 24 hours!"

-- LOUDER THAN WAR, "Nostalgia For An Age Yet To Come: ex-BUZZCOCKS current PENETRATION drummer John Maher interviewed by Ged Babey," published August 31, 2015

Source: https://louderthanwar.com/nostalgia-age-yet-come-ex-buzzcocks-current-penetration-drummer-john-maher-interviewed-ged-babey & X.

[disco-tea]

Hi! Okay so I saw you also ship Hellcheer and yay! Cuz I thought of a hellcheer inspired au for Buffy and Spike and I think you might appreciate it?

So, this would be like, the Buffy we met before she became the slayer (she's a cheerleader and in her cheer outfit). So she hasn't been chosen just yet, but it's coming and she's like starting to see weird things (demons and vamps) but hasn't had to fight yet. But obvi she feels like she's losing it. So she goes to the local drug dealer cuz she just thinks she's crazy and she needs to calm down somehow. Enter Spike (starts off human), who is the local drug dealer lol. But he's not in high school. She's a senior so she's 18 and he's like 25. (Also side note but he has a band too, singer/guitar/songwriter with his bestie Oz on backup vocals/guitar and human Clem on drums lol). And so she's never done drugs she's nervous and Spike looks scary obvi. But then this is where the picnic scene comes in (she's scared cuz of the visions and he's suspicious but then can tell she's really scared, she doesn't want him to leave, he gets her to relax and smile) and then she goes to his trailer and she feels safe with him, he keeps making her smile and laugh. They get to have some moments before! Okay they do get to smoke a bit of weed and it's Buffy's first time (I think it should be her first time) like she's not super high but she's relaxed and still knows what she's doing. So Spike puts a record on, Buzzcocks (I do think Buffy would like them) and it's "Ever Fallen in Love (with someone you shouldn't've)" cuz, yeah lol. And like maybe they're kinda head banging jumping around (cheesy lol) but you know the lyrics, and they kinda slow down and they looking into each others eyes and maybe they're loosely holding each other not realizing it and kinda swaying and it finishes and then they kiss for the first time. And then Giles comes and tells her she's the slayer and some dangerous vamps are coming for her.

It's Angel (no soul) and Dru. They came to get the jump on Buffy. (Idk why but I don't see Darla in this) Dru bites him and is his sire, Spike is obvi drawn to her. But Spike is still loyal to Buffy on some level. So he's def like gray morally speaking in this from the get-go.

(And it's so devastating for Buffy. She thinks she's crazy and then she meets someone she'd never talk to otherwise and they vibe so well and then she finds out she's the fucking slayer. And then he turns into a vamp. And she's going to blame herself.)

(Also let's pretend vamps turn instantly) and that's why she hesitates with staking him and he gets away with Dru and Angel. And then he joins the dark side blah blah. So they have this history, and then kinda like an in season 2 there's end of the world thing Angel is trying to do so it's reluctant teaming up but they know and like each other and it's tense and it's weird and there's UST. So of course Buffy's like, oh I can't want to like him he's a vamp now blah blah but then they're working together and she's like, he's so like the Spike I knew?? Like he acts like how he did before sometimes. And then yeah they can't keep apart duh lol.

Sorry it's like super long😅😅😅 but anyways I think it's such a fun au for them? And also hellcheering was too fun to resist! Lol

Sorry it took me so long to reply, I keep forgetting to check my inbox. I’ll admit I never really thought of a hellcheer AU for them even though their archetypes are similar/adjacent. This is v fun! I especially love the idea of Spike and Oz and human!clem in a band, that sounds so fun.

[viir-tanadhal]

now that it's almost June I thought I'd catalog the albums I've listened to the first time in full so far this year

soul mining - the the

infected - the the

mind bomb - the the

dusk - the the

in the city - the jam

this is the modern world - the jam

all mod cons - the jam

setting sons - the jam

sound affects - the jam

the gift - the jam

parallel lines - blondie

eat to the beat - blondie

station to station - david bowie

rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars - david bowie

aladdin sane - david bowie

you can't hide your love forever - orange juice

rip it up - orange juice

eden - everything but the girl

high land, hard rain - aztec camera

talking heads 77 - talking heads

remain in light - talking heads

make it big - wham!

love bites - buzzcocks

marquee moon - television

quick step + side kick - thompson twins

script of the bridge - the chameleons

waiting - fun boy three

communards - the communards

homosapien - pete shelley

xl-1 - pete shelley

heaven and the sea - pete shelley

lola vs powerman and the moneygoround - the kinks

suede - suede

dog man star - suede

coming up - suede

transformer - lou reed

the lexicon of love - abc

heaven or las vegas - cocteau twins

ocean rain - echo and the bunnymen

jubilee - japanese breakfast

what's your pleasure - jessie ware

dare! - the human league

some of these were misses for me but a good number are albums I would consider now some of my favorites of all time so :)

[sexchangedotcom]

ask game — 11 !

11. What is your favorite album of each decade?

im only doing 1960s-2000s bc thats what ive listened enough to to be able to form a proper opinion on !! i also cant pick just one bc thats torture but im gonna try my best

60s- the velvet underground and nico's self titled

70s- electric warrior by t rex or loaded by the velvet underground or love bites by buzzcocks i cant choose

80s- DEFINITELY cant choose a favourite here but i love disintegration by the cure and the queen is dead by the smiths and so many others but i cant pick a favourite and if i try ill cry

90s- this is hardcore by pulp

00s- up the bracket by the libertines

[lapatatecosmique-ttrpg]

Voici sa playlist Spotify et Deezer !

C'est une des rares playlist que j'ai nommé vis-à-vis de son surnom tout simplement car elle est plus connus sous son surnom que sous son véritable nom.

[ Img : POV : you're a drummer, a tattoo artist and recently a superhero || A playlist of my ttrpg character (oc) from Champions ]

Sa playlist est... compliquer... et je dirait même en construction validé...

Amanda est une jeune fille énergique, rayonnante et qui fait partie d'un groupe de punk-rock ou punk (je n'ai pas réussis à me positionner sur leurs style musical) en tant que batteur. Sa playlist réunis donc son caractère, mais également les morceaux jouer en concert.

Chelsa Dagger - The Fratellis

Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves

She's A Rainbow - The Rolling Stones

Rhythm Doesn't Make You A Dancer - Jon Fratelli

Save the Planet, You Dumb Shit - Joe & The Shitboys

C'mon Get Happy - David Cassidy

You're on Fire - They Might Be Giants

Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness) - The Raconteurs

Sunday Driver - The Raconteurs

All Day and All of the Night - The Kinks

Black Betty - Ram Jam

Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes

Fell In Love With A Girl - The White Stripes

Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair - Arctic Monkeys

Lost Cause - Black Pistol Fire

Who Do You Love - Dorothy

Ever Fallen in Love (WIth Someone You Shouldn't've ?) - Buzzcocks

You Really Got Me - The Kinks

Les Cactus - The Last Shadow Puppets

Born To Be Wild - Steppnwolf

I Get Around - The Beach Boys

A-Punk - Vampire Weekend

Jek It Out - Caesars

Dancing with Mysel - Billy Idol, Generation X

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham !

Love Shack - The B-52's

Teach Me To Fight - Yonaka

We Will Rock You - Queen

Another One Bites The Dust - Queen

J'y ai globalement mis toutes les musiques qui me mettent la pêche ! : )

[backstreets]

1, 12 and 32!

First LP you ever bought?

Rock of the Westies by Elton John it was $5 and I was obsessed by how cheesy the cover was

Record you listen to the most?

My electric warrior vinyl has really copped it over the years…. i love you marc ❤️

Do you own any color vinyl?

yes!! most recently the new weyes blood album in a wicked purple colour. also a yellow and green split dye version of pet sounds that i love. A few others but those are my favourites! (oh and the white version of love bites by buzzcocks is also stunning)

[orpheusdrinkinga40inadeathbasket]

Many of the Buzzcocks’ songs alluded generously to Shelley’s queerness. “Noise annoys,” from 1978’s Love Bites, calls out to “pretty girls / pretty boys,” an echo of David Bowie’s undivided “pretty things.” In “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve),” Shelley bemoans the pain of a deviant affection: “You disturb my natural emotions,” he sings, relishing his s’s in a flamboyant display, meaning either that love has ruptured his default aloofness or that a particular attraction has rerouted his supposedly natural heterosexuality. The latter interpretation has more textual support. “We won’t be together much longer / Unless we realize that we are the same,” he continues, as if begging the object of his interest to stop denying their mutual deviance and give in to their attraction.  Shelley’s tormented lyrics on “Ever Fallen in Love” play against the song’s outwardly triumphant arrangement. Steve Diggle’s lead guitar rings out like a victory bell between lines throughout the verse, while the quick tempo and vocal melody of the chorus insinuates a love successfully pursued. The song’s sheer exuberance and irresistible catchiness was enough for it to land, as a sanitized cover, on the Shrek 2 soundtrack. On the surface, it’s bright enough for children to pick up on its glee. In the lyrics, the Buzzcocks stage a queer emotional conflict. The taboo relationship is at its root a joyful one: mutual, playful, and rewarding. But Shelley enters it knowing full well the danger of doing so. The “shouldn’t’ve” weighs heavy on the rest of the lyrics, even though he pronounces it so quickly and sloppily it can easily be heard as a “should’ve,” like he’s trying to slur out the negative in the center of the contraction. The excitement of the speaker is matched only by his anxiety, and the two twirl together until they’re nearly indistinguishable. Shelley gets away with the forbidden in the broad daylight of a punk song, where deviants can parade around without a second glance.

Sasha Geffen, Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary