Buzzcocks (album)
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| Released | 18 March 2003 | |||
| Recorded | March and August 2002 | |||
| Studio | Southern, London | |||
| Genre | Pop-punk | |||
| Length | 34:52 | |||
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| Producer | Tony Barber | |||
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Buzzcocks is the seventh studio album by English pop-punk band Buzzcocks. It was released on 18 March 2003 by record label Merge in the US and Cherry Red in the UK.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Blender | [3] |
| Robert Christgau |  [4] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+[5] |
| Neumu | 8/10[6] |
| Pitchfork | 6.7/10[7] |
| PopMatters | favourable[8] |
| Stylus Magazine | F[9] |
Buzzcocks has received a mixed-to-favourable response from critics. AllMusic opined, "If Buzzcocks doesn't reinvent this band, it does give their approach a bit of an overhaul, and the results make for an album which holds onto their strengths while lending a more mature perspective to their work; hard to imagine Rancid having anything this interesting up their sleeve twenty-seven years down the line from their first recording."[2] Entertainment Weekly's review was favourable, writing "it's nice to hear that middle age hasn't diminished the songwriting skills of original 'Cocks Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle."[5]
Stylus Magazine, on the other hand, gave the album their lowest possible score of F, opining that the album sounds like "third-generation Green Day".[9]
Track listing
- "Jerk" (Pete Shelley) – 2:21
- "Keep On" (Shelley) – 3:19
- "Wake Up Call" (Steve Diggle) – 3:19
- "Friends" (Shelley) – 2:57
- "Driving You Insane" (Diggle) – 2:24
- "Morning After" (Shelley) – 2:34
- "Sick City Sometimes" (Diggle) – 2:59
- "Stars" (Howard Devoto, Shelley) – 2:46
- "Certain Move" (Diggle) – 3:02
- "Lester Sands" (Devoto, Shelley) – 2:47
- "Up for the Crack" (Diggle) – 2:23
- "Useless" (Shelley) – 4:01
