Magazine - Burst (live)

[chrom8]

The only band that could be weirder than Blue oyster cult without trying.

[jonflynn1]

Magic. Such memories. So alive. Such beauty. Fragile. Power. Sexy. Genius. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

Now what would have been wrong with these geniuses headlining at Glastonbury, instead of the shit we were served up, one of whom wouldn't even exist without the path furrowed by Devoto and his men!

[cordwainer7]

Amazing! Thank you!

[stevemangler1]

Perfect songs ... the way it should be .

You just don't hear the likes of '70's era Stranglers , Hawkwind , Alex Harvey , Ian Dury , Roxy + Bowie + Iggy etc ... Magical times and the best in Rock history .

[tSKiLove1]

I've always thought of Magazine as kind of a new wave Roxy music (not to diminish either band). Anybody else hear the connection?

[junkmale2000]

@tSKiLove1 They were called 'Punk Floyd' at the time by the music press

[ulfgar26]

amazing . you cant beat that.

[VL1302]

classic

[andreaprodan]

I belong to that small legion of listeners who seem to always prefer the jewels whithin the album , to the 'hits'. BURST has been one of my all-time favourites by ANY band. It was love at first hearing.

Thankyou for delivering this version to us all.

[bumfarto1]

Brilliant brilliant track. Thank you.

[AlphabetSoupCircus]

tantalizingly lame. ahaha :D

[TalkToTheBody]

Now this is exactly how they looked when I saw them in 79, oh what days and hear them now and they are just the same. RIP John McGeoch

[4578a]

In another year they got a lot better.

[ploopyism]

mcgeogh and keith levine two genuininely innovative guitarists both have influenced many ,

magazine with devoto can seem pompous but its magnificently pompous . lads from scunny believe it or not .

[samuraiinCfede]

Grandiose!

[heavydutydudes]

THE MOST

[windmills20]

damn. this has got some real nihilistic validity to it. we will all forget ourselves... later or sooner we'll grow out of our shells

[kniphofia]

Absolutely mesmerising!

[francis1739]

Too Good & Far To Under Rated.

[AsparagusSpears]

I love this song. I keep expecting to get bored of it since I bought "Real Life" like 6 months ago, but it is just too good.

[mankchester9]

they will never leave our thought's or will there music

[pete200669]

Excellent song, I remember listening to it a lot after splitting up with a girlfriend.

[incurableparanoiac]

Wow- this is exactly the song that kept me going through the same. This whole record is the soundtrack to that whole unfortunate period of my life- probably why I can't stand to listen to it much these days, ha.

[FrancoDamn]

Martin Jackson: An underrated drummer

John McGeoch was using a fender guitar on this vid ¿no?

[foff4strings]

Yeah, John's using a Fender Stratocaster on this. I saw him use the same guitar when Magazine played 'Give Me Everything'on the OGWT (A British TV music show). Most of the time in Magazine he used a Yamaha SG1000. I'm pretty sure that Martin Jackson ended up in Swing Out Sister a few years later.

[FrancoDamn]

John had a blues influence, so it isn't strange he used a strat while other punk and post-punk bands were using les pauls, telecasters, sgs (Gibson and Yamaha), rickenbackers, jaguars and jazzmasters. I think few guitarists in that genres used Strats (like Stevie Shears of early Ultravox). Or am i not right?

[foff4strings]

Got to agree with you on that. I can't think of many UK guitarist from that new wave/ punk era who used Strats. the bloke in the UK Subs used one occasionally and the guitarist with Generation X and that's all I can think of. Strats were more common in American bands like Television (Richard Lloyd), Talking Heads (David Byrne, who also played a Mustang) and Blondie (Chris Stein).

[FrancoDamn]

Now i understand why See No Evil and the other songs from Marquee Moon sounded a bluesy/country, very pre-punk.

[FrancoDamn]

I recently learned Andy Gill of Gang of Four used it for the Entertainment! album.

[TalkToTheBody]

@FrancoDamn very rare to see McGeoch play Strats in the more mature days of Magazine as he was more seen with his Tobacco Sunburst Yamaha SG1000

[sham64andahalf]

Perfect!

[incurableparanoiac]

magazine is one of those bands that is just TOO good...flies right over most people's heads

[azaliasnail]

all-time conquerors !!

[mikewildblood]

one of the best bands ever from any genre of music - so sad that hardly anyone listened to them - just shows what a load of sheep the average person is - following the crowd. devoto epitomised his own "dont give a fuck" attitude by quitting music cos he couldn't make a decent living - sad also - but this is real life. music made in heaven by a music god

[demo4eva]

good song lisson to this song alot

[jas944]

Awesome stuff, and you're right about the Julian reference :)

[emt333sd]

the best and most underated band ever see where Julian Cope got his inspiration for mike climbing on trampoline. If you are reading Howard why not reform for the hardcore fans with one more gig

[maltamod]

This is wondeful. It goes to show you what a depraved mess modern music and culture is that an artist as intelligent and charismatic as Howard Devoto is so underrated

[asphodeline]

Oh good, I didn't find a video of this song on YouTube before, and it's one of my favourite Magazine songs. You've made me happy.

[dutylux]

glad to help!

[metallicafan08]

You're going to forget yourself, in your happiness