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2008 — UK. CD —. Album, Reissue, Remastered. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2001 CD release of "The Best Of Pete Shelley" on Discogs.
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Mar 18, 2003 · Best of Pete Shelley [EMI] by Pete Shelley released in 2003. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
The Best of Pete Shelley, a Compilation of songs by Pete Shelley. Released 7 November 2001 on EMI (catalog no. TOCP-64147; CD). Genres: New Wave, Synthpop.
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Buzzcocks’ first major-label single didn’t do the fledgling band’s punk credentials any harm when it was banned by the BBC. Clad in a striking sleeve designed by Malcolm Garratt using images created by Ludus singer Linder, the United Artists 7-inch delivered is a furiously funny blast of subversion, about the radio-unfriendly topic of masturbation....
Buzzcocks’ third single entered the Top 40 at No 37, kicking off the golden run of hit singles which eventually saw the band – as Shelley told me in July– “on Top of the Pops every couple of weeks”. A trademark rush of buzzsaw guitars and wonderful melodic and harmonic construction, What Do I Get? continues the band’s emergence as something far ric...
The song which landed them on Top of the Pops. Shelley is “in love again” (wasn’t he always?) from the opening line, and here he sounds full of hope: “This time’s true, I’m sure.” The killer chord change/hookline arrives at the precise moment that doubts creep in – “Don’t wanna end up like no nine-day wonder (oh-oh) / I’ve been hurt so many times b...
The pure pop masterpiece by which, above all others, Shelley will be remembered. This No 12 hit began life in, all of places, a guest house in Edinburgh, where the young Buzzcock was watching Guys and Dolls on TV when a line leapt out: “Have you ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn’t’ve?” Struck by inspiration, Shelley penned the song the n...
The fourth track on the band’s second album Love Bites sees Shelley, then just 23, effectively singing his own epitaph. A typical young man’s thoughts about the future and a fantasy of time travel collide as Shelley ponders: “I wonder what it will be like in days gone by … about the future I only can reminisce”. The line “Sometimes there’s a song i...
Although Joy Divisionare seen as the definitive exponents of late 1970s Manchester’s darkness, Buzzcocks certainly had their moments, such as this classic from Love Bites. The guitars develop from the memorable intro riff into something relentless, urbane and brooding. Here, Shelley is so desperate to win someone’s attention that he considers telek...
If Buzzcocks’ catalogue suggests that that Shelley’s life was one romantic disaster after another, the regular disappointments certainly fired his creativity. This hit single is another sublime collision of agony and tuneful ecstasy. Lyrically, as the disentanglements and abandonment pile up, he loses faith in love itself. “I was so tired of being ...
By 1979 music and fashions were changing rapidly, punk was being discarded for post-punk and machine pop and so Buzzcocks’ third album A Different Kind of Tension saw a more experimental edge to the band’s trademark guitar pop. This, though, is yet another unrequited love song. “You say you don’t love me / Well that’s alright with me ’cause I’m in ...
With Buzzcocks’ folding (Shelley would reform them in 1989 for the excellent Trade Test Transmissions, and helm the band until his death), Shelley embraced his radicalism and returned to the electronic music he had quietly explored since 1974. His first solo single – which in its full length, club 12-inch version was some 10 minutes long – was a pi...
Jan 23, 2007 · Number of discs : 1. Best Sellers Rank: #705,241 in CDs & Vinyl ( See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl) #662 in British Punk. #7,012 in New Wave. #261,213 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl) Customer Reviews: 4.7 8 ratings.
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Nov 7, 2001 · Listen free to Pete Shelley – The Best of Pete Shelley (Telephone Operator, (Millions Of People) No One Like You and more). 16 tracks (). Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.
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