The strange path we follow down youtube has led me to this.....B side to Promises (I'm working on singles bought memory here) and better than the Magazine version. My memory is that the riff was in a song not used by either Devoto or Shelley when they parted, so both claimed it and worked it. Great...if only Status Quo had thought of this!
Thats fine scoobiedog1, I'm glad to hear you've got your own opinion. I wish more people didn't just follow what others have said. Differ all you like, you've got your own brain. Enjoy !
It's such a great riff, it would've been a shame to use it in just one song. I simply don't know if Shot by Both Sides or this one take advantage, they both share such a fantastic sound.
Shelley & Devoto wrote this together, before the latter walked away from Buzzcocks. Magazine did their version with Devoto's lyrics and vocal melody, Buzzcocks with Shelley's. I guess they agreed to share the chord sequence and riff. Hence the similarity.
@mperrotti76: No that's not true. See the explanation by CocksureJudy above, plus my reply to it. This is the true story, as documented in books and encyclopedias, AND confirmed to me by Pete Shelley himself, when I interviewed him.
@beAloneonTheStreet hand on heart: maybe the best gig I have ever attended! they were loud (really bleeding ears loud!), raw but immaculate musicianship... the whole evening (including The Dollyrots opening) was life-changing! I was front & centre the whole show. I only knew a handful of songs before the show but 4 days on I can tell you that they have a major new fan now - better late than never!!!
@beAloneonTheStreet They've been going since about 1975/76. I'm sure a quick look up on wiki would confirm it. The crowd was a real mix. I'm 37 and there were people 20 years younger and 20 years old than me! Great vibe too!
We just had an EP review saying our singer sounds like Pete Shelley, particularly in The Beat Generation. If anyone wants to let us know what they think, and if they like us, it would be much appreciated. Ta
i think it´s partly Devoto´s song and Lipstick and Shot By Both Sides are almost identical. Some of their later releases were already played live in 76/77........
i hace to ask you as well:how is it possible to get 1908 favorites,does youtube count in years of membership,for me the limit (after over a month)is 650.not that i´m that greedy,but....
you´re subscribed and i hope u take a sincere look into my channel.today i was inside a Swedish channel which dealt mostly with older or newer in-action-vids of Swedish panzers(??).as we germans can only read & understand some flamish or dutch; and swedish-except some oasis-words like arbeitslös
...so that Swedish sounds & reads to us like Dutch on Acid. i would also like to know,what it could mean,if these guys inside the swedish-army-panzer-vid-forums rant about "anglosaxar" aggression(??) on gotland and is it really true that swedish panzers are so frightening that "no country wanted to attack sweden for the last 100 years"? to comfort u: we have a bavarian comedian here (Gerhart Polt)who´s that good in ur language,he does comedy lectures in public in stockholm.
no - he rants about the Vibrators, look for "London Girls" and stuff like that here under "Vibrators". Great band, produced by Chris Spedding, who even had his hands inside early pistols stuff (SPUNK bootleg).
Hehe, <3 "Shot on Both Sides" riff during the chorus.
furiousfingers27 3 days ago
top music!!!...aaarrrrgghh the memories!!...
sortofsorted 3 months ago
The strange path we follow down youtube has led me to this.....B side to Promises (I'm working on singles bought memory here) and better than the Magazine version. My memory is that the riff was in a song not used by either Devoto or Shelley when they parted, so both claimed it and worked it. Great...if only Status Quo had thought of this!
IdleAl 3 months ago
Thats fine scoobiedog1, I'm glad to hear you've got your own opinion. I wish more people didn't just follow what others have said. Differ all you like, you've got your own brain. Enjoy !
decaysvegan 4 months ago
why this was never relised as a side i will never know a classic tune
woodlewoo1234 4 months ago
They just don't get any better than this !
decaysvegan 5 months ago
@decaysvegan i beg to differ, i prefer devotos' take on this riff!
scobiedog1 4 months ago
B-Side ? It was better than "Harmony In My Head".
Double A-side !
MrSKINFLICK 9 months ago
It's such a great riff, it would've been a shame to use it in just one song. I simply don't know if Shot by Both Sides or this one take advantage, they both share such a fantastic sound.
Vitriden 1 year ago
<3333333333333333
poppytait 1 year ago
Shelley & Devoto wrote this together, before the latter walked away from Buzzcocks. Magazine did their version with Devoto's lyrics and vocal melody, Buzzcocks with Shelley's. I guess they agreed to share the chord sequence and riff. Hence the similarity.
ralphhorace 1 year ago 2
brill
pilchio 1 year ago
You can hear shot by both sides by Magazine on this excellent Buzzcocks song. Not sure if it was lifted or not. Still a mint song, mint band.
uraldneprvw 1 year ago
My favorite Buzzcocks song ever!
My favorite punk band ever!
doetim 1 year ago
SHOT
BY BOTH SIDES
MovingThroughKashmir 1 year ago
Buzzcocks comes from a local Manchester tv shows advertisement. "what's the buzz, cocks?" Meaning "What's new, young fashionable men?"
mperrotti76 1 year ago
@mperrotti76: No that's not true. See the explanation by CocksureJudy above, plus my reply to it. This is the true story, as documented in books and encyclopedias, AND confirmed to me by Pete Shelley himself, when I interviewed him.
GLOatYT 1 year ago
the interplay between the kick drum, bass and guitar during the verse parts is just incredible
serpikris 1 year ago
incredible song! I'm seeing them for the first time on May 19th!
3cheekymonkeys 1 year ago
@3cheekymonkeys hey...what was it like???lucky you :P
beAloneonTheStreet 1 year ago
@beAloneonTheStreet hand on heart: maybe the best gig I have ever attended! they were loud (really bleeding ears loud!), raw but immaculate musicianship... the whole evening (including The Dollyrots opening) was life-changing! I was front & centre the whole show. I only knew a handful of songs before the show but 4 days on I can tell you that they have a major new fan now - better late than never!!!
3cheekymonkeys 1 year ago
@3cheekymonkeys heh,yeah,better (:
great,man..how long have they been playing?and yeah,what really interests me,the rest of the crowd,was it young or their age or...?
I'd fucking love to see them live
beAloneonTheStreet 1 year ago
@beAloneonTheStreet They've been going since about 1975/76. I'm sure a quick look up on wiki would confirm it. The crowd was a real mix. I'm 37 and there were people 20 years younger and 20 years old than me! Great vibe too!
3cheekymonkeys 1 year ago
@3cheekymonkeys hah,no,I meant how long were they playing that night...and yeah,about the crowd...I thought so.cool
beAloneonTheStreet 1 year ago
buzzcocks are playing june 5 saturday at club nokia!!!
batbrat83 1 year ago
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TheRanTanWaltz 2 years ago
Everyone hear "Ako Ako" by a Bosnian band called Crvena Jabuka. The solo is almost identical
idolfan06 2 years ago
Buzzcock comes from a tv series in the 70s called rock follies. A character used to always say give us a buzz cock meaning Phone me.
meeamonn1 2 years ago
so amazing its on here thanks
pikachops 2 years ago 2
According to the liners notes from SGS this was released in Nov. '78
Charlesvermont1966 2 years ago
love this song x
drinksmokefuckfightt 2 years ago
so, let me get this right; shelley wrote the music and howard devoto the lyrics?
biggayone 3 years ago
very good song
christophe76382 3 years ago
"Buzzcocks" comes from the slogan "Get a buzz,cock!" which some of the band members had read in a magazine or a newspaper ;)
CocksureJudy 3 years ago 10
The slogan wasn't a slogan. It was the name of a TV serie.
Can someone confirm this?
Reint25 2 years ago
Speaking of Magazine...Compare the riff in this song with the one in "Shot By Both Sides" by Magazine...
ZLUGGO 2 years ago 2
@ZLUGGO
Howard Devoto of magazine was a founder member of Buzzcocks, hence the riff.
solina2008 2 years ago
@solina2008
Yes- I know that. Cheers.
ZLUGGO 2 years ago
i think it´s partly Devoto´s song and Lipstick and Shot By Both Sides are almost identical. Some of their later releases were already played live in 76/77........
MrSKINFLICK 2 years ago
@MrSKINFLICK
Yes. Thanks.
ZLUGGO 2 years ago
i hace to ask you as well:how is it possible to get 1908 favorites,does youtube count in years of membership,for me the limit (after over a month)is 650.not that i´m that greedy,but....
you´re subscribed and i hope u take a sincere look into my channel.today i was inside a Swedish channel which dealt mostly with older or newer in-action-vids of Swedish panzers(??).as we germans can only read & understand some flamish or dutch; and swedish-except some oasis-words like arbeitslös
MrSKINFLICK 2 years ago
@MrSKINFLICK
Well, do you have a problem with me?
ZLUGGO 2 years ago
...so that Swedish sounds & reads to us like Dutch on Acid. i would also like to know,what it could mean,if these guys inside the swedish-army-panzer-vid-forums rant about "anglosaxar" aggression(??) on gotland and is it really true that swedish panzers are so frightening that "no country wanted to attack sweden for the last 100 years"? to comfort u: we have a bavarian comedian here (Gerhart Polt)who´s that good in ur language,he does comedy lectures in public in stockholm.
MrSKINFLICK 2 years ago
@MrSKINFLICK
I' m against war and military stuff.
ZLUGGO 2 years ago
thats a mastercard moment there, a german not interested in that........ priceless
robbocop1 1 year ago
@robbocop1
Well, I' m Swedish...
ZLUGGO 1 year ago
@CocksureJudy: Yeah, in Time Out, a London tv mag. It concerned a then new music show, Rock Follies.
GLOatYT 1 year ago
@CocksureJudy
It's actually "It's the buzz, cocks!" ( :
earlsimonon 1 year ago
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@CocksureJudy
It's actually "It's the buzz, cocks!" ( :
earlsimonon 1 year ago
@CocksureJudy ...it was a review of 'rock follies' in a magazine, the last line was 'does that give you a buzz cocks?'
scobiedog1 4 months ago
What exactly is a buzzcock?
keelan111 3 years ago
"Cock" was an old english term meaning youth.
neoaltro 3 years ago
shit more like a vibrator..alot of punk bands named thereselves with that shit..but there probably right about the slogan too
tyikiki101 2 years ago
@tyikiki101
The Dickies?
ZLUGGO 2 years ago
no - he rants about the Vibrators, look for "London Girls" and stuff like that here under "Vibrators". Great band, produced by Chris Spedding, who even had his hands inside early pistols stuff (SPUNK bootleg).
MrSKINFLICK 2 years ago
@MrSKINFLICK
I know. I've seen them live.
ZLUGGO 2 years ago
@ZLUGGO lol i saw them with the adicts a couple times....but no i think i'm thinking of the band the vibrators lol
tyikiki101 1 year ago
@tyikiki101
Was that supposed to be funny?
ZLUGGO 1 year ago
one of my favorite buzzcocks songs
missbraindamage 3 years ago
Greeeeaaat song!!
The best song they made... Five Stars!!
WynkleR 3 years ago 2
i love this song oh when u kiss me does the lipstick on your lips stick on my face ....great song ....long live the buzzcocks
TheCure39 3 years ago 16
Originalboland said "Written by Pete Shelley".
Written by Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto together, that's why this song and Shot by Both Sides by Magazine have the same guitar riff.
Criterion99 3 years ago
I can't believe I never worked this out! And I love both songs! It's so clear when someone points it out!
timlee19 3 years ago
Awright- Who put cottage cheese in my shoes ??? *squish squish squish* dang, no wonder mice have been following me around
gwddd 3 years ago
great song dude
sgtbeatle60 3 years ago 2