Buzzcocks - Time's Up

Original Release Date

1977

Release Information

UK LP 1977 (Voto - LYN 5333). Bootleg
UK LP 2000 (The Grey Area of Mute - SCRATCH 2)

A1 Boredom
A2 Tear Me Up
A3 Can't Control
A4 Orgasm Addict
A5 Friends Of Mine
B1 Drop In The Ocean
B2 Breakdown
B3 Love Battery
B4 Time's Up
B5 Love Everybody
B6 Boredom

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UK CD 2000 (The Grey Area of Mute - SCRATCH 2 CD)

1 You Tear Me Up 2:40
2 Breakdown 2:09
3 Friends Of Mine 2:23
4 Orgasm Addict 2:14
5 Boredom 3:06
6 Time's Up 3:18
7 Lester Sands (Drop In The Ocean) 2:34
8 Love Battery 2:25
9 I Can't Control Myself 3:12
10 I Love You, You Big Dummy 1:24
11 Don't Mess Me 'round 2:38
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Chart Placings

None

Credits

CD:

Pete Shelley - Starway guitar
John Maher - drums
Howard Devoto - vocals
Steve Diggle - bass

No-remix demos. All recorded live. No dubs. Revolution Studio, Manchester. Engineer Andy MacPherson. One afternoon
October 1976, 4 Track, Cost: "about £45"

LIner notes: Richard Boon, Greil Marcus

Reviews & Opinions

JULIAN COPE, HEAD HERITAGE: 'Time's Up' is, in the humble opinion of your writer, not only the best record ever to bear the Buzzcocks' name, it is the most authentic, shambolic and thrilling LP of the entire first wave of punk and, just possibly, the finest unofficial album ever released by anybody, ever. What makes 'Time's Up' so great... is not just the quality and delivery of its songs, but the overall sound and feel of a great PUNK band at its primal best going all out for thrills and fun. At no point in the subsequent careers of any of its protagonists was this primitive edge and vibrancy ever in such evidence, and it pains me to admit that many of the qualities of the Buzzcocks' official output - even 'Another Music' - pass me by thirty years on. Those slickly-engineered records have dated badly, but this sulphate-ridden gem still shines on in its cheap and glorious way. This is 1976 in a bottle: ragged and real punk rock at its most mesmerising and original, and - than than anything else - the Buzzcocks at their early peak.

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UK LP 1977 (Voto - LYN 5333). Bootleg. Click here for more

UK LP 2000 (The Grey Area of Mute - SCRATCH 2)

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