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The Buzzcocks, Singles Going Steady (United Artists) This collection of eight early Buzzcocks’ singles (both A & B sides) turns out to be a delightful lesson in allying pop melodies to terse chord crashers, all overlaid with Pete Shelley’s romantic disillusion. Side One with its assembly of great A sides (from “What Do I Get?" to “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays”) is predictably the better side, but Side Two provides several unexpected goodies including a clue to the origin of Magazine’s “Shot By Both Sides”. AD The Damned, Machine Gun Etiquette, (EMI) The Damned at the end of 1976 beat the Sex Pistols to the punch with punk classics like “New Rose” and “Neat Neat Neat”. They were just what the doctor ordered back then, but from those white hot beginnings the Damned cooled off fast. MGE is their third album and with the exception of the buzz of “Love Song” and the rarefied rock of “Smash It Up” the band come on like punk who have sold their lot to heavy metal. Shame GK
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Rip It Up, Issue 33, 1 April 1980, Page 13
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174IN BRIEF Rip It Up, Issue 33, 1 April 1980, Page 13
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