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Buzzcocks - Love Bites

Label: United Artists Records
Catalog#: 1C 064-61 896
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 1978
Genre: Rock
Style: New Wave, Punk

Tracklist:

A1 Real World
A2 Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't 've?)
A3 Operators Manual
A4 Nostalgia
A5 Just Lust
A6 Sixteen Again

B1 Walking Distance
B2 Love Is Lies
B3 Nothing Left
B4 E.S.P.
B5 Late For The Train


Notes:

Recorded at Olympic Studios, Barnes.
GEMA
LC 0379

Discogs Url: http://www.discogs.com/Buzzcocks-Love-Bites/release/1846935
Wikipedia Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Bites_%28album%29

Review by Ned Raggett

More musically accomplished, more obsessively self-questioning, and with equally energetic yet sometimes gloomy performances, Love Bites finds the Buzzcocks coming into their own. With Devoto and his influence now fully worked out of the band's system, Shelley is the clearly predominant voice, with the exception of Diggle's first lead vocal on an album track, the semi-acoustic, perversely sprightly "Love is Lies." Though the song received even further acclaim on Singles Going Steady, "Ever Fallen in Love," for many the band's signature song, appears here. With its note-perfect blend of romance gone wrong, a weirdly catchy, treated lead guitar line, and Shelley's wounded singing deserves its instant classic status, but it's only one of many highlights. The opening "Real World" is one of the band's strongest: a chunky, forceful yet crisp band performance leads into a strong Shelley lyric about unrequited love and life. "Nostalgia"'s strikingly mature, inventive lyrics about where one's life can lead, and the sometimes charging, sometimes quietly tense, heartbroken "Nothing Left" are two other standouts. The group's well-seasoned abilities, the members' increasing reach and Martin Rushent's excellent production make Love Bites shine. The Garvey/Maher rhythm section is especially fine; Maher's fills and similar small but significant touches take the music to an even higher level. His undisputed highlight is the terribly underrated concluding instrumental "Late for the Train." Originally done for a John Peel radio session and rerecorded with even more a dramatic sweep here, it gives the group's motorik/Krautrock new power. Not far behind it is "E.S.P.," a strong rock burn that only fades out at the end very slowly and subtly. [i]allmusicguide[/i]


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Vacuum cleaned LP>
Shure M97xE>
Dual CS 505-3>
Handcrafted low capacitance custom cables, teflon® insulated & silver-plated coaxial conductors>
Kenwood C1 Custom Revision I>
- Phono Stage input capacitors replaced by Polypropylen/Styroflex types
- All electrolytic capacitors in signal chain replaced by foil capacitors
- Electrolytic capacitors not mounted by manufacturer onto the RIAA stage power Supply refitted (Philips NOS types)
- Old JRC OpAmps replaced by Burr Brown and Analog Devices OpAmps resp.
Handcrafted low capacitance custom cables, polyethylene insulated twinaxial conductors>
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HDD
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Wavelab 6.11 (Algorithmix Pro, Waves x-hum)
Adobe Audition 3
ClickRepair 3/0
Trader´s Little Helper (FLAC)
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Date of rip: 2010-09-03
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