Name: Love Bites
Brand: Buzzcocks

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

REWIGLP127

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Standard Heavyweight Black Vinyl with 8 Page Booklet and Download.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-01-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0887830012713

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Buzzcocks

Genre GB

Punk / Hardcore

Label GB

Domino

More musically accomplished, more obsessively self-questioning, and with equally energetic yet sometimes gloomy performances, Love Bites from 1978 finds Buzzcocks coming into their own. With Howard Devoto and his influence now fully worked out of the band's system, Pete Shelley is the clearly predominant voice, with the exception of Steve 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, it 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. Lovingly restored and re-mastered from the original ¼” tapes for the first time and come packaged in the original Malcolm Garrett designed sleeves with a booklet containing unseen images and extensive liner notes by famed writer, broadcaster, music journalist and cultural commentator Jon Savage.

CD - Housed in Printed card outer sleeve with Printed inner wallet and 36 page “perfect bound” booklet.

LP - Standard Heavyweight Black Vinyl with 8 Page Booklet and Download.

LP+ - Limited Heavyweight White Vinyl with 8 Page Booklet and Download. First Copies Come with Buzzcocks Carrier Bag.

Love Bites

Music GB