Buzzcocks "Breakdown" 1976

[skoi45]

Hurra,mehr geht nicht ! its in Favoriets now !

[byebyefeather]

I think I should probably go back to the shrink

[kbinco]

Is this their first song?

[GeraldineMcK]

Breakdown is great boredom's better

[ianroute661]

To lazygazzer, there is footage of the Pistols show. I was at the gig and remember this guy filming with an old cine camera. Its all silent footage. I wondered for years what ever came of it and then You tube came along.

[loudhvx]

Ah yes, Howard, the Nowhere Wolf of Pain. Great post!

[lazygazzzer]

I'm so impressed that somebody took a camera along to this legendary gig. Next up the Pistols - was there any film left????????

really great post

[eyeworks88]

@lazygazzzer They footage from the Pistol's performance at the show in the film '24 Hour Party People'.

[ianroute661]

This is brill, legend

[squatters1]

@MARMARR1 Its only the lead singer, Howard, thats frm a well-to-do background, the rest of them were poor Lancashire lads & the drummer was only 16 & still in school. Know peoples back stories before you slag them, & how r they cockneys when they're from Manchester?

[nachowill95]

someone knows the chords for this song? i know that starts in E

[phillomx5]

Hey Man!! I got Spiral Scratch EP in my vinyl as well as many other beautiful vinyls!! I will die before I give up my coloured vinyls!!

[slepper98]

Fantastic. One of the favourites. Never get tired of it.

[peaceman1234567]

They did this mini album but the rest was crap though,suck cocks.

[peaceman1234567]

Best manc tune

[blondegolden]

that is awsome buzzcocks are my favorite band

[purpleblue808]

fuck im tired but i cant get myslef to sleep because im up listening to these guys

[axiserve]

Yeah

[sunra3000]

NE'ER MIND BULLOCKS BUZZCOCKS WERE DA QUEENS!

[SteadfastCycles77]

Who came first, them or SLF? I do have this record and it is still one of the best.

[KiDRiOt87]

@SteadfastCycles77 Buzzcocks were around earlier. They recorded this song on their EP Spiral Scratch in late '76. Stiff Little Fingers didn't form 'til '77.

[benjaminrichardshoop]

HOWARD DEVOTO IS GOD

[fatriff]

As much as I love this song, the more I watch this video the more I think the video sucks big time.. They should be going ape shit!!

[haddockcheese]

@fatriff

looks like the video is super 8 cut together with original song. for me, its good to see this as i forgot hd left and ps took over vocals. plus its so good to see very early footage like this. well done the cameraperson

[fatriff]

This is the greatest song on youtube!! It rips the shit out of everything! It stands out head and shoulders above anything from the last 5-10 years even.

[danrenwick]

That's the campest guitar smashing ever.

[arcicaa]

Goddamn kings

[Carolclave1]

Great stuff.Incidently theres a new cafe in Beckenham Kent called Friends of mine.

I can see why they didnt call it Boredom or Breakdown!

Ps Google for a great interview with phil hampson engineer on the legendary Spiral Scratch ep

Mike Barry

[lioii]

Ian Curtis was at this gig...

[psykoosi]

"So I hear that two is company for me it’s plenty trouble

Though my double thoughts are clearer now that I am seeing double

I’m gonna breakdown", Howard, you are my hero.

[vealshanker]

been listening to these guys for decades and i'm STILL discovering...

[carpenteroak]

Fuckin love this

[historiantruerocker]

@Eldermooth Well... Chile is a catholic country, like all Latinamerica. And public education, with a few exceptions, it's like shit. Third world, my friend. Born catholic here it's like born with head, hands, arms, legs and feets. It's so normal. Hahahahahahaha... I don't have any trauma of that, it's simply life. Greetings, my friend. Long live Buzzcocks!!!!!!!!!!

[nobbilc]

Rare clip indeed !!

[JANER64]

at their best with Deveto

[kacakajmaka69]

!!!

[brambledown1]

also seen shelley on his own at THE DAMNEDS 10th anniversary gig in finsbury park summer of 86 as always what a guy .............

[joy2559]

the band discography says that the buzzcocks formed in febraury of 1976, this was long before they saw the sex pistols at the lesser trade hall.

[lazygazzzer]

@joy2559 Shelley and Devoto were kicking about thinking they were going to be in a band and trying to put together the beginnings of songs. They read something about the Sex Pistols in the NME and decided to borrow a van and drive down to London. They saw them play in some backwater community hall and were knocked out. They got talking to Malcolm McClaren and exchanged phone numbers. A few months later they booked the Lesser Free Trade hall and put on the first Sex Pistols gig outside London

[joy2559]

total quality , long before the pistols, this proves the pistols did not event punk!

[schwinglow]

@joy2559 Buzzcocks formed after seeing the Pistols in london, then being invited to arrange for them to play in Manchester. Please do research before adding comments.

[MrSiddeney]

@joy2559 well the pistols stole a lot of their style image from new york dolls, mc5, iggy e.t.c, but Malcolm promoted the term punk and homogenized the scene..... in essence they were the first band to be called punk

[aivopark]

Summer of 76 was like A PUSSY...good.

[LITTLEWINNIES]

pink pants.

[brambledown1]

spiral scratch 2nd single i ever bought and i was hooked on the buzzcocks first was problem child by the damned and i worshiped them lol

[helenkrump]

@brambledown1 My first punk record was Damned Damned Damned, I wore that record out. Spiral Scratch is one of the great records of the era (I'm freaking ancient now and being nostalgic this evening.)

[pussypop100]

@helenkrump ey im 51 and still listen to the songs of our youth we were so lucky to be there my son is 20 he lovesz punk music at least i did something good with him

[helenkrump]

@pussypop100 I didn't listen to the music again until youtube (last punk concert, a one off, and nostalgic even then, I went to was 21 years ago.) I was active in the LA Punk scene from '76-78, and I came away from the scene with a lot of emotional baggage, but there has been enough time and distance for me to appreciate the music again--especially the British stuff which is what got me into punk in the first place.

[historiantruerocker]

You're a great person!!!!

My dad (who has the same age than you) introduce me in progressive and classic '60s and '70s Rock. Now I'm a huge fan of Classic Rock, Classic Progressive Rock, Punk and Hardcore and all kinds of Metal from '70s to '80s. Fuck the '90s and '00.

I'm 27 years old. The good music keeps alive eternally with people like you, you're son, my dad and me.

Sory for my shitty english. I'm chilean and I didn't raised in a british school, but in a catholic school.

[TomTremayne]

@historiantruerocker - You're a credit to your generation!

[fatriff]

This song kicks ass!! I've never pressed repeat so much on a punk song not even sex pistols ones.

[caquintet]

Proper Punk...Lol

[punkrockenpunk]

diggle on bass he was a guitarist and they needed a bassist

[carnelloe]

If you have'nt got their 1976 Spiral Scratch EP in your collection, then you're one record short.

[3cheekymonkeys]

@carnelloe duly noted.

[sp4172]

I will go one step further, If you don't have Spiral Scratch, then don't you know anything about the Buzzcocks

[norvegicusbass]

@sp4172

lol I am the official biographer of the band ( two books and an anthology of their back book listings ) but I dont own a copy

[haddockcheese]

@carnelloe

ive got their 1980 re-issue...does that count?

[carnelloe]

@haddockcheese Don't worry, mine is the 1991 re-issue , lol

[Sbaxter1000]

@carnelloe SSome rat fuck stole my Spiral Scratchg EP... Even if it was a re ish i was pissed. Wouldn't mind layin my hands on a 70's copy... hmmmm

[gasattack99]

@carnelloe

 got it!!

[wonderlin1]

@carnelloe Thank you very much for the tip - I'm sure it is great = as is everything they did!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How can you remember this, or did you recently discover it?

[PoserExposer]

@carnelloe this is totally spot on as a statement.Both sides are all killer,no filler! Get a copy in your collection ASAP..you need this record more than your knees.

[tradskin69spfc]

O Howard Devoto cantava muito, mas, Pete Shelley arrebenta! BUZZCOCKS É FODA!!!!!!

[galforlive]

punk

[ganmit]

SENSACIONAL

[couscoustv]

Absolutely superb.

[jangenk]

got a little breakdown yes be'cos i'm 46.... f**ck

[modette69er]

@jangenk That is class mate... im just behind you.. hang on in there:)

[MrWarszawa]

the best along with boredom.....

[stownsend7]

Very driving, wouldn't you say? How do you have Ram Jam 'Black Betty' with all this Punk?? Interesting.

[norvegicusbass]

If you look carefully you can see me in the audience I am wearing black and have my hair all spikey like

[runtburger2]

your 29-30 so it is not you is it

[norvegicusbass]

I am forty three I just couldnt be arsed to do my correct date of birth on my profile

[xreddragonx]

Then you would have been like 10 at the time. Still doesn't seem to add up.

[brambledown1]

@norvegicusbass how many people have said that over the years on album covers featuring audiences mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm think it was tho cos i had spikey hair aswell lol

[Mronebetterday]

Gold.

[punkrockenpunk]

i kno alot of people that say the buzzcocks aint punk but if u ask me they dont have a punk image but by god their sound is really punk and the way they perform is they where always a fukn great band

[kellymonster77]

"punk" didn't have an imagine when the buzzcocks did this song. It was quite litterally about attitude back then, something that becomes so cliched these days, lol

[snailsongs]

This is a great video, and I hope the audio is available somewhere too.

[mgrelecki]

one of the GREATEST BANDS EVER

[guitardude545454]

If you download the program "spotify" they have this track and others recorded in 1976 in Manchester live.

[Sidetrack32]

truly timless!! good good old  free and youthful drunk memories!!

[andy7666]

The Buzzcocks were before my time but I actually heard them with this line up first. It was a song on one of those dodgy "Best of Punk" collections - I didn't realise until later it was Mr Deveto. I like both eras - got a full album with live Deveto stuff and demos recently, I really like Magazine.

[Babyhowdy233]

So long and lithe was Pete back in the days..utterly shaggable!!! :D

[mancman21562]

Top drawer,,,,,,,

[aivopark]

Chills up my spine, when I listen to this! Singing is in it`s own level.

[FreezeMaster84]

Cool Song, but bad Syncronisation.

[govermentufo]

good band

[schizokiller]

Geil!

[dadswizz]

check out "spiral scratch" then magazine, howard devoto. .

[videosbillard]

Heureusement que Devoto a quitté le groupe, avec sa voix de Johnny Rotten du pauvre. Avec Pete au chant, ça a été le meilleur groupe de l'époque - et à mon avis le meilleur groupe de tous les temps

[ronnykroon66]

OLD SKOOL !!! I stil love it

Ron.

[revcrash]

Is Spiral Scratch EP the best thing they ever did ?

[andeatittoo]

I think so.

I love it.

Time's up.

my dj name is revv.

[deichbeat]

naaaaaaaaaaaaaa..............i­ts brilliant and different to the later stuff they did without desoto..

but the love bites is also brilliant..

[jks2]

huh i see pete playing 2 diferent guitars there. a suburst teisco and the starway with the broken off top eastwood w=made a few copys of the starway even with the broken off top! who knows what bass that is?

[melitoce]

Hayman bass.

[jks2]

thanks mate!

[oghgo]

Hahahahaha I like the Who's like ending. Definitely these bands were making the happening.

[jago544643]

yea i hear what you are saying it was around 76 at start but took off late 76 early 77

[johnwally]

sweeet

[wontgetfooledagain1]

Best Devoto-era song, and definitely ranks in my top five fave as far as the Buzzcocks go.

And of course the sound is awesome, its the studio take put to live footage.

Still love it tho. :-D

[vilan]

awesome sound

[nblumer]

Glad someone posted this with the '76 date. Debunks this puzzling but growing myth that punk was a late 70s movement - it was the early to mid 70s all the way - just that mainstream yuppie record execs were asleep at the switch until the Pistols imploded.

[Reint25]

There's also a misunderstanding that Buzzcocks were a band from the 'second wave of the punk movement'. Which is also rubbish of course.

[valhooligan68]

quality got original spiral scratch i gotta breakdown yeah

[veganswines]

amazing song. great!!!!!!!

[8otven]

When I was 6, my parents loved that:D

And i became punk because that (and Clash:D)

[falamita]

man his voice sounds liek a nerd. watch promises"way better"

[Scrotemeister]

Pity it's a dubover. I'd LOVE to hear the Free Trade Hall gig itself. Amazing video.

[thisistadass369]

no sound exists from the gig

[skinnyskaller]

man what a terrible noize..this is BRILLIANT!

[racinfancali]

i love it!

[aaronthewolf]

classic

[Flokmeister]

man what a terrible noize.. this is dreadful..

[VDGG94ki]

Thats the spirit!

[labambawatusi]

your ears are BROKEN!

[CoalMiningPolak]

Not nearly as good as your favorites - Milli Vanilli and Daft Punk...

[Flokmeister]

Glad you agree.. :P

[jago544643]

yep this is a great track and before buzzcocks got famous and even better with a different singer

[marakas0]

'Breakdown' by Buzzcocks is one of the best punk songs I ever heard.

[pfishy69]

Proof if needed Howard Devoto invented Lip Sync tecnique .

[ellycat]

Spiral Scratch original worth a few bob.

[Menace1979]

One of the things ever!!!

[deahanco]

punk at its best - first time round

[Wehategod]

The Buzzcocks are a great band and Breakdown is a great song.

[siarung]

devoto leaving the buzzcocks was the smartest,cleverest career moves EVER. when the "history of rock" is finally written,Devoto and Magazine will get a chapter all to themselves,buzzcocks will be a footnote

Ps and this is from someone who loves the Buzzcocks

[jazmyneclash]

bullshit. i don't even really like the buzzcocks, and i call bullshit

[garagerockermadrid]

don't agree at all, the Buzzcocks were the freshest punk band. The icing on the cake of British punk.

[siarung]

hey, read again

i said "i love the buzzcocks"

you had to in manchester 1976/77 it was the law

[doggonads]

I was atounded after seeing them recently cos they are better now than they ever were and Diggle thoroughly enjoys himself. Will definately chek out there tour schedules.

[beatbands1966]

Howard MissedtheBoato

[rollagasper]

I don't think so. He quit right when Buzzcocks started generating some buzz. I think he was aware of the growing popularity but decided to follow his artistic goals rather than fame/money goals.

[missrepo]

Howard Devoto, he's a wild cat .. i dig him..

[missrepo]

Fucken fantastic!!!! Peace :))

[Babyhowdy233]

WOW! What a RARE treat! THANKS so much for posting this!

[dodger555]

I met Pete in 1980/81. I used to have the original "Spiral Scratch" single. I've no idea where that went? I was too fucked up in those days. It was great! :)

[majorsnag]

Good to see this, original band..fuckin excellent

[lounginaddict]

breakdowns a dope ass song

[charliesmilton]

shut it...punk

[jks2]

much better then those emo pussy's

[peppermintwardrobe]

man the guy on guitar looks fuckin awesome. way ahead of his time. buzzcocks are awesome :)

[blozzy22]

You mean Pete Shelley!

[majorsnag]

The whole band where way out front.

[balamdead]

chido!!! yeahhh!!!!

[sginzburg]

4 guys from Manchester? Peter Shelley's from Leigh near Warrington, Devoto from Scunthorpe! Saw them in Crewe last Friday, fantastic music but Pete looked like he would cry if he had to play his classics one more time. Glad he did though, the little fat B!

[creeker275]

agreed

[SHMUJEW]

very mancunian

[jks2]

never saw punk on a teisco guitar!

[autre78000]

salut, cool la vidéo.

[aivopark]

I think, the world can never understand how many great bands came from England from this era.

[breakfastrollman]

This lot are playing just down the road in Crewe on May 2nd, supported by my bro's band. check them out at youtube.com/highwiredmusic, they're alrite....

[SIHELL]

OH FUCK YEAH

[keg64]

great stuff ,the best

[kiwimarke]

fucking fantastic

[punkkay123]

howard or shelley??who's better?

[Linuxpunk90]

Personally I love Pete Shelley the most, best voice and lyrics I know of, but of course Devoto's awesome as well.

[Babyhowdy233]

My sentiments exactly, Linuxpunk90! :D

[marcfedak]

And Steve Diggle's songs are pretty good too.

[fredomars]

Buzzcocks - first album "Time's Up" from 1977 but with Howard Devoto is the best of Buzzcocks!!!!!

[rollagasper]

I agree. I'm crazy about Spiral Scratch and Time's Up, but I can't really stand their later stuff (mostly has to do with Shelly's singing). The Buzzcocks ceased to be germane when Devoto left.

[fredomars]

Buzzcocks - first album "Time's Up" from 1977 but with Howard Devoto is the best of Buzzcocks!!!!!

[fightcl79]

cool

[fightcl79]

씨발..조쿠나.

[GoodPieToGoGo]

buzzcocks is probably my favorite punk band

[lucastrinkler]

well wheres howard devoto?

[SEYMORDICK]

who do you think is singing?

[rollagasper]

Can't you tell by the iconic hairline?

[schizophrenia65000]

bought spiral scratch in 77 when i was 15

thanks for posting

well cut vid- i wonder what the orig sound was like?

cheers

[jamesandrew2000]

Saw them live in Chicago in the late 80s. Funny to see a theater full of 40 something dads singing along with glee.

[charliesmilton]

Actually, I bought my 1st punk album in 1977 when I was 14 it was "the clash" album. I heard spiral sratch ep (this songs on it), about 2 years later, i think on john peel's show.

[charliesmilton]

No? I meant I'll still like it 30 years from now when I'm 74!

[theonlytruepunk]

Me too!

[grr9000]

Bought the bootleg in 77, probably the first punk record I bought.

[lasfinisimas]

Do you still have it?