Mine too mate. Not a week past in the last 40 +years that I haven’t listened to this track When John peel first played it on his show. Pre release it destroyed me. Absolutely amazing .I was 15 I’m 57 now and it’s still in my top 5
Yeah and mine. Something in us that was crystallised in a year or two. I like stuff from the sixties and early seventies and stuff from the eighties and nineties but there is a period of a couple of years that define me.
Bought this in my local Woolworths when i was 17. Nobody else did through as it was only a minor hit. I was a massive Stranglers fan and this sounded like an angry Hugh Cornwell ripping his way through a Stranglers song ! I hit 50 this month week and still think it`s fantastic.
Clint Davies more over looked then. even 6music normally plays other Buzzcocks tunes. And back in 79 the great british public were more interested in cliff and abba.
YES IT IS Stereogrim !! Steve Diggle is an incredible songwriter . Fast Cars and Autonomy are also great songs by Diggle . I been fan of them for just over 20 years and counting
+GottnyGrapes Diggle an incredible songwriter? He wrote a few good tunes as a Buzzcock, but Pete Shelley wrote dozens and dozens of great songs as a Buzzcock. Are you Steve Diggle's nephew or something?
stereogrIm I think maybe the best bands are always underrated,, as they are so unique. ,,, The buzzcocks are a fantastic band. And they Still sound superb today , so the shite bands like. Duran Duran etc are always overrated ,, The likes of the buzzcocks , the damned. Etc Are just far too good for. The typical ears of the squares & the boring set ,,, so it means the elite group of people who are fans of the genius bands are far and few between , unfortunately ,as there is not too many of us who have a great ear for great music
I am a progressive rock fan since I was 9... but then I also got into punk!!! I love them equally and people often ask me how I can love both for they are the opposites haha! I think that punk and prog were the rock genres with most indipendence and personality! Totally out of the schemes!!!
One of my favorite songs from my favorite punk band of all time!!! These guys wrote the most beautiful and catchiest punk melodies in music history! No other punk band comes close!
Shook Steve's hand last night after gig here in Lyon; they still giving it 100%, it was mental, people throwing themselves around, had a great night! You cannot beat live performances.
few years ago they have played in belgrade, serbia... although they are oldies, still have amazing attitude and energy on scene...thanx god for bands like they are...
this was the buzzcocks moving on. That Steve bloke is a bit of a genius too. Saw the Buzzcocks live in 2006, and he still has the attitude of a teenager. Good on you Steve!
Just watched the Buzzcocks and From the Jam at the Cambridge corn exchange tonight. Wholly crap, donkeys years gone by since these guys were smashing it and it was still one of the best gigs I’ve been too. Felt like I’d been teleported back in time to the late 70s. A night of total attitude and brilliant brilliant music. Loved every second of it.
Great catchy guitar riffs the Buzzcocks came up with. I had all their singles, and can't believe how fresh they still sound, hearing them again on UA-cam.
The crowd is so lifeless and the very definition of tepid. Growing up in the frontier of Northern Michigan, amid miners and lumberjacks, nothing inspired me more on my drive to school than the Buzzcocks. I wish there existed a clean and re-mastered Boredom track. The track I have sounds bleached.
+Michael Westfall Then again, it's a TV show. Probably didn't want it too wild as it distracts from the band miming to their song. American Bandstand was the same - I remember John Lydon pulling people off the bleachers trying to get them to dance while he pointedly avoided trying to look like he was singing - closing his mouth, tapping the equipment with the dead mic, etc.
This track is absolutely awesome,,,,many other less played tracks were absolutely awesome and totally underrated……could name so many,but ESP,is the ULTIMATE in my mind. Love you Pete Shelly ❤
Awesome video and good Soundquality. Thanx a 1ooo times for posting....what a tribute to one of the best songs and Bands ever! Punkrock could only killed by constant Happyness...
+mick reynolds The Buzzcocks played in a different division to the Stranglers. Not saying it was "better", but I preferred it. Pete Shelley should be knighted for his services to the 70's and 80's. Much sympathy with comments about the paedo Savile - but imho some kind of Orwellian ministry of truth expunging would be wrong. Leave it all there, lest we forget?
This harmony has actually been in my head for the past 40 years!
Mine too mate. Not a week past in the last 40 +years that I haven’t listened to this track
When John peel first played it on his show. Pre release it destroyed me. Absolutely amazing .I was 15 I’m 57 now and it’s still in my top 5
@@markriley322 It was stuck there, but for some reason, I could never find a copy of it, until recently.
@@Dr.JamesA.Wright1 almost right reason .glad that you got sorting 😃
Moi aussi! Ich auch! And I love it!
Yeah and mine. Something in us that was crystallised in a year or two.
I like stuff from the sixties and early seventies and stuff from the eighties and nineties but there is a period of a couple of years that define me.
One of the most underrated rock tunes of all time.
@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 Bullshit mate !
Punk was all about fighting yuppy Greed ! : )
This was always my favorite Buzzcocks song. Will never get old.
Just love Diggle's posing and posturing as he's finally got his chance to sing!!
+ricardo torero Good observation. It's a good thing that he was posturing to a corker of a song!
R.I.P. Pete, Thanks for all the great tunes.
Indeed, but harmony is actually a diggle song.
beleive a diggle song,giggle giggle
Yes great song by Diggle, but Pete's fantastic voice coming in on the chorus.
Bought this in my local Woolworths when i was 17. Nobody else did through as it was only a minor hit. I was a massive Stranglers fan and this sounded like an angry Hugh Cornwell ripping his way through a Stranglers song ! I hit 50 this month week and still think it`s fantastic.
Happy belated birthday! 🍰
I hope you made it to 61 and you're still blasting this like you were 17!!!
You have impeccable taste sir
Such a great mix of melody and punk energy. A classic.
Another underrated Buzzcocks classic
why underrated? not by those who care mate. lifes little ironys seem so obvious now!!
Clint Davies more over looked then. even 6music normally plays other Buzzcocks tunes. And back in 79 the great british public were more interested in cliff and abba.
YES IT IS Stereogrim !!
Steve Diggle is an incredible songwriter . Fast Cars and Autonomy are also great songs by Diggle . I been fan of them for just over 20 years and counting
+GottnyGrapes Diggle an incredible songwriter? He wrote a few good tunes as a Buzzcock, but Pete Shelley wrote dozens and dozens of great songs as a Buzzcock. Are you Steve Diggle's nephew or something?
stereogrIm I think maybe the best bands are always underrated,, as they are so unique. ,,, The buzzcocks are a fantastic band. And they Still sound superb today , so the shite bands like. Duran Duran etc are always overrated ,, The likes of the buzzcocks , the damned. Etc Are just far too good for. The typical ears of the squares & the boring set ,,, so it means the elite group of people who are fans of the genius bands are far and few between , unfortunately ,as there is not too many of us who have a great ear for great music
A great, great song. How can anyone not be into punk....
BEST punk record of all time
@@clintdavies491 nah
I am a progressive rock fan since I was 9... but then I also got into punk!!! I love them equally and people often ask me how I can love both for they are the opposites haha! I think that punk and prog were the rock genres with most indipendence and personality! Totally out of the schemes!!!
Punk ? David Bowie is all you need, pick any decade.
@@bardo0007 Yet you're listening to this....
One of my favorite songs from my favorite punk band of all time!!!
These guys wrote the most beautiful and catchiest punk melodies in music history! No other punk band comes close!
criminally underrated
Listen to promises
Shelley’s presence on the guitar in this song is awesome!
Shook Steve's hand last night after gig here in Lyon; they still giving it 100%, it was mental, people throwing themselves around, had a great night! You cannot beat live performances.
RIP Pete Shelley - a little bit of my youth has now gone :( Great Diggle vocals on this one
RIP pete shelly xxxxxxx
I'm in love with Steve Diggle and I have no shame about that. If just I was born much, much earlier... :')
One of the best punk rock songs ever. No flaws, just a perfect harmony
Steve just brings a whole new dimension to the band when he takes over vocals.
Pete Shelley RIP. Thanks for expressing how I felt at twenty so well, way back in 1979.
Great dude
happy 60th mate, how did Punks get to be 60!!! all the best I'm 50 plus now myself ..
@@heighwaysonthewing punk till I die
I'm 57 & still play this loud, no other way classic
I always totally loved this single and still do. A fantastic blast of proper original punk rock!
what an amazing song.
One of the best songs ever written.
few years ago they have played in belgrade, serbia... although they are oldies, still have amazing attitude and energy on scene...thanx god for bands like they are...
diggle was wearing the exact same outfit when I saw the buzzcocks last night some 40 years after this was filmed.
I hope he had washed it.
Jimmy doing the devil hand sign right at the beginning???love this band and what a tune.
I absolutely love this song it was one of there best records I still go mad when I play it now rest in peace Pete
My Gawd what a great band... It was a privilege to be a kid when they and all the other Ace New Wave Bands showed up in the late 70's... :)
this was the buzzcocks moving on. That Steve bloke is a bit of a genius too. Saw the Buzzcocks live in 2006, and he still has the attitude of a teenager. Good on you Steve!
Best punk band ever. This song rocks
One of the best punk 80's bands ever.
HErmoso ese punk todo melodioso y unico ..gracias Pete,gracias Buzzcocks R.I.P
Singles Going Steady should be on everyone's playlist. Brilliance.
so sad Pete's passing today 12-5-18. 63 years young. Thank you Peter! You've done well.
Pete looks so good with that 5 o’clock shadow, damn
I think this tune holds up as the best of their catalogue of great music tbh ...strange it wasn't seen that way at the time as i remember
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Good grief.. the Buzzers were fucking magnificent.
Of course!
Yes still are 👍🏻🇬🇧
Favorite Buzzcocks song, Diggle's voice is awesome!!!
One of the very best groups of their generation.
And one of their best songs ever 5*
I always liked his singing in this - one of the best buzzcocks songs
One of my fave Buzzcocks tracks. I like how Steve Diggle grimaces whenever he sings!
My favorite band ❤️
They always wrote great lyrics, an awesome band
Saw them in Jaqs, Aberdare on Thursday. Outstanding. Lots of memories.
I like the aggressive looking singing on this. Definitely a fave Buzzcocks!
Rest in peace Pete. You were so underappreciated
diggle rocks!!!
Clint Davies not as good as every body happy now a days
Glad someone else actually knows who sigs this!
freaking great band! im froma Argentina and i was when they came for thir 30st anniversary
it was a trip back to 70`s
i'm a young boy but this song is timeless!!!
Under rated? Are you kidding? One of the best punk band ever and still gigging.
Charming song. Sophisticated punk band. Under-rated but not forgotten
An often forgotten punk song. Great stuff!
Just watched the Buzzcocks and From the Jam at the Cambridge corn exchange tonight.
Wholly crap, donkeys years gone by since these guys were smashing it and it was still one of the best gigs I’ve been too. Felt like I’d been teleported back in time to the late 70s.
A night of total attitude and brilliant brilliant music.
Loved every second of it.
Rest in peace, Mr. Shelley. And thank you.
Why the fuck is nobody dancing to one of the best tunes ever?????
Great catchy guitar riffs the Buzzcocks came up with. I had all their singles, and can't believe how fresh they still sound, hearing them again on UA-cam.
Best buzzcocks song
Brilliant, underrated single from a top band.
Pete with a beard : yes !!
I love this song. It just gets better with every listen
A very underappreciated band.. Back in thier early days almost every song was a hit.
god damn i could listen to this track over and over
one of the greatest rock songs of all time- the audience is in a coma
Happy birthday Pete. Thanks heaps for your Presence. 🙏🎁🎂
Was back stage wiv theese Great GUys in newcastle in about 1990 briliant gig and night
Real shame it wasn't a big hit as I think this is one of the best Buzzcock's songs
When music had soul and passion.
First group i was properly into saw them live at the hummingbird brum in 89 still luv the songs now after all these years
Magnificent.
Cobain's favourite Buzzcocks song
I didn't know that . Thanks for this piece of trivia
*****
ouch!?
he loved them.
fuck cobain...glad he's dead, society is better off. :)
not!
didn't know that. Also my favorite Buzzcock song
A great song from an important band. Too bad it was cut short at the end. Thanks for posting.
definitely one of my favorite songs. brings great memories.
Ahhh! Harmony to my ears and heart!
indeed..best punk rock band ever
thats one direction i think you mean.
They are great. The Jam is pretty serious too. These are some talented and serious young men, and they shaped my life and I love them
Was my fav
classic!!
Amazing track !!!
Early days with Howard Devoto were great. And then they became a pop band on top the pops 🥺😞
Most of the punk groups of that time could hardly play their instruments, but not the Buzzcocks. They had some real chops.The drummer is so solid.
i remember when this first came out, people were saying shelley's voice had broke
@TheClassicalSymphony its Steve Diggle singing on this song, not Pete Shelly
Thought the bass player sang this one
@TheClassicalSymphony Idiot
Isn't this Steve Diggle?
@TheClassicalSymphony Newsflash, people don't 'turn' gay. He's openly bisexual and so are his lyrics. It's a nice change from all the macho bullshit.
como me levantan estas rolaaaas
Absolutely brilliant song! And in your face with a side order of melody.
Allways...Harmony in my head...BUZZCOCKS...
The crowd is so lifeless and the very definition of tepid. Growing up in the frontier of Northern Michigan, amid miners and lumberjacks, nothing inspired me more on my drive to school than the Buzzcocks. I wish there existed a clean and re-mastered Boredom track. The track I have sounds bleached.
+Michael Westfall Then again, it's a TV show. Probably didn't want it too wild as it distracts from the band miming to their song. American Bandstand was the same - I remember John Lydon pulling people off the bleachers trying to get them to dance while he pointedly avoided trying to look like he was singing - closing his mouth, tapping the equipment with the dead mic, etc.
Michael Westfall dems 2018 brutha
Ah, the crowd is On Top Of The Pops, with a paedophile hosting. I'd feel lifeless too.
It's Top of the Pops, they probably came to see something different.
@@deancommissioning Yep, and they got it!
Just saw them in Long Beach and they sound better than ever...AMAZING BAND!!!
LOVE it!
Cheers me up immensly!
R.I.P. Pete!!
RIP Pete.
Que banda!! Lpm!
This track is absolutely awesome,,,,many other less played tracks were absolutely awesome and totally underrated……could name so many,but ESP,is the ULTIMATE in my mind. Love you Pete Shelly ❤
R.I.P Pete xxx
Always thought Shelley did the melodic chorus, never realised he was such a consummate guitarist either. Shows ya all I know ffs
Awesome video and good Soundquality.
Thanx a 1ooo times for posting....what a tribute to one of the best songs and Bands ever!
Punkrock could only killed by constant Happyness...
the best song of the days
How’s the view from HELL Jimmy?
punk forever !
Fuck i miss this band. Just did a flight with vodka and Buzzcocks and damn this band never for the respect they deserved. Thanks lads.
You are very fortunate. I grew up in the wrong era. I was only about 2 years old in 1978
Don't let it get me down I'm long in the tooth ! ! ! !
Could almost be a Stranglers song
mick reynolds One of the ones with JJ on lead vocals.
Yeah ,top band still, Nobby Nolevel
+mick reynolds
The Buzzcocks played in a different division to the Stranglers. Not saying it was "better", but I preferred it. Pete Shelley should be knighted for his services to the 70's and 80's.
Much sympathy with comments about the paedo Savile - but imho some kind of Orwellian ministry of truth expunging would be wrong. Leave it all there, lest we forget?
Yeah, it sounds very Stranglerish.
Yeah mostly because of that roaring bassline
1979 - present: still have this harmony in my head!
Rip Shelley this was anthem for me growing up in the punk scene 💚