Buzzcocks - Different Kind of Tension (Spec)
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Artist: BuzzcocksEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import, Special Edition
CD Release Date: 2008-10-28
Music Label: EMI France
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Paradise
- Sitting Round at Home
- You Say You Don't Love Me
- You Know You Can't Help It
- Mad Mad Judy
- Raison d'Etre
- I Don't Know What to Do with My Life
- Money
- Hollow Inside
- A Different Kind of Tension
- I Believe
- Radio Nine
- Everybody's Happy Nowadays
- Why Can't I Touch It?
- Harmony in My Head
- Something's Gone Wrong Again
- Are Everything
- Why She's a Girl from the Chainstore
- Airwaves Dream
- Strange Thing
- What Do You Know?
- Running Free
- I Look Alone
- You Say You Don't Love Me [Demo Version]
- I Don't Know What to Do with My Life [Demo Version]
- Harmony in My Mind [#][Demo Version]
- I Don't Know [Demo Version]
- Run Away from Home [Demo Version]
- The Drive System [Demo Version]
- Mad Mad Judy [#][Demo Version]
- Jesus Made Me Feel Guilty [Demo Version]
- Something's Gone Wrong Again [#][Instrumental][Demo Version]
Music reviews of Different Kind of Tension (Spec)
Music Review: I Believe What I Believe In
Rating: 4 Stars
It's nice to see this classic album given a deserved re-release, especially as it's (yet another) two-disc deluxe edition. The album has had a welcome remaster and included unreleased demos and live tracks.
This was the original line-ups last album. Released in September 1979, it shows that the band were heading in a new direction.
Although behind the scenes, the band were slowly falling apart, their recorded offerings were still of the highest quality.
Side one is shared between Shelley and Diggle. Pete offers us the catchy "Paradise", the gorgeous "You Say You Don't Love Me" and it's b-side "Raison D'etre". Steve gives us some of his best and strangest material to date, the great "You Know You Can't Help It", complete with dodgy lyrics, "Sitting Round At Home" and the insane "Mad Mad Judy".
This album really comes alive on side two. I've always thought of side two as Pete Shelley's Depression Suite. Pete was obviously starting to go a bit barmy around this time, though his songwriting was going from strength to strength. "I Don't KNow What To Do With My Life" starts the whole proceedings off. Next we get "Money" with it's almost Funky Drummer rhythm. This segues into "Hollow Inside", which if isn't written by a manic depressive then I'll eat my hat! The title track is just, though I don't really mean "just" a list of opposites sung by Shelley. He even goes all Kraftwerk on us at one point with a use of a vocoder, though it's hardly Man Machine, so Ralf and Florian didn't have to worry too much. Next comes the albums Tour De Force, the fantastic "I Believe". A seven minute wonder which includes some of Pete's finest lyrics. His pain clear at the end with a monologue of "there is no love in this world anymore".
Finally, we get the fifty second "Radio Nine", a brief radio transmission where we hear "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" and "Why Can't I Touch It" through the static.
My tip for the day: just don't play it when you're feeling down.
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A Different Kind of Tension pulls together all the associated singles - five of them, including Parts 1-3 recorded with Martin Hannet and later collected on an American mini-album - as well as the last track the group recored in their first incarnation: "I Look Alone". As an added bonus, there is a whole disc of demos from the period, including several hard to find songs like "The Drive System", "Jesus Made Me Feel Guilty", and Paddy Garvey's heart-rending "Run Away From Home". The set is rounded off with four BBC Recordings from the period, including an early outing for "Everybody's Happy Nowadays". This Key song set the tone for this much Misunderstood period in Buzzcocks' history.Alternative Rock CDs
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