More than just a punk rock band, the British Buzzcocks, born in Manchester in
1976, created a unique style somewhere between arty rock and cold wave, and
delivered several early classics including "Orgasm Addict", "What Do I Get?" and
"Ever Fallen in Love", scattered between the EP Spiral Scratch (1977) and the
trilogy of albums Another Music in a Different Kitchen and Love Bites (1978),
then A Different Kind of Tension (1979). Emboldened by this status, the punk
scene's first independent band, which briefly featured singer Howard Devoto
(later Magazine), broke up in 1981 before ...