{"id":630,"date":"2011-10-25T05:18:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2018-12-07T08:45:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T13:45:47","slug":"album-review-the-buzzcocks-what-do-i-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/25\/album-review-the-buzzcocks-what-do-i-get\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Buzzcocks &#8211; What Do I Get?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/buzzcocks_what_do_i_get.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>The CD+DVD package <em>What Do I Get?<\/em> documents the reunited <strong>Buzzcocks<\/strong> on a live date at Shepherds Bush Empire in 2003. And if the title is a question, the answer is simple: a barrage of ear-bashing punk, catchy melodies played at amphetamine-fueled speed before an adoring, pogo-ing crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The hits are all here, and while the DVD shows that original Buzzcocks <strong>Pete Shelley<\/strong> and <strong>Steve Diggle<\/strong> (both on guitar) have aged a bit since the heyday of 1977&#8217;s \u201cOrgasm Addict,\u201d to the ears they haven&#8217;t changed much. The songs tumble into one another a la <strong>The Ramones<\/strong>, but there&#8217;s a ferocity (and lack of those Noo Yawkers&#8217; cartoonish element) and sense of danger to these songs. Even when they&#8217;re singing about love(!), Shelley and Diggle convey menace. While <strong>John (Rotten) Lydon<\/strong> felt compelled to let us know \u201cWe mean it, man,\u201d sincerity is <em>never<\/em> in question with the Buzzcocks.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on one&#8217;s constitution, this live set will wind you up or leave you drained. Or, quite possibly, both. As edited on both the album and the audiovisual document, the band doesn&#8217;t leave enough time between songs for the audience to register approval; thus it must be done <em>during<\/em> the songs. The set is paced maniacally, with the hits and near-hits (\u201cI Believe,\u201d \u201cYou Say You Don&#8217;t Love Me,\u201d \u201cEver Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldn&#8217;t Have?\u201d) placed toward the second half of the show.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s something of an endurance test to get through the DVD: the film runs more than three and half hours, rarely letting up in intensity. Obviously, there&#8217;s material on the DVD that&#8217;s not on the CD, but it&#8217;s more of the same. That&#8217;s certainly a good \u2013 if not great \u2013 thing if you like the wall of roaring instrumentation and yelping that characterizes the Buzzcocks. Clearly, <em>What Do I Get?<\/em> is not for the faint of heart. But for those receptive to real-deal UK punk played in a we-really-do-mean-it-man fashion, <em>What Do I Get?<\/em> is unbeatable. Pop tunes at 100mph rarely get as good as this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CD+DVD package What Do I Get? documents the reunited Buzzcocks on a live date at Shepherds Bush Empire in 2003. And if the title is a question, the answer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15751,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/15751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}