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From Under Pete Shelley's Basement Stairs

Michael Kulikowski | Knoxville, TN | 02/14/2000

(3 out of 5 stars)

"As modern Buzzcocks product continues to appear at the rate of two live albums for every studio job, we here get another bucketload of demos that have presumably been sitting around at Pete Shelley's for years. Some of it's good, e.g. the demo of Boredom and the raging take on I Don't Know What to Do With My Life. Some of it's astonishingly funny in a Max Splodge kind of way: see Mother of Turds. But most of it is alternative versions of songs you already have in better versions. Educational, especially for the evolution of songs like Promises which Steve Diggle sings here making up the words as he goes, but inessential save for the fanatic."

Raw Punk Pop

Michael Kulikowski | 12/16/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"BUZZCOCKS are a band that traded off alot of their grit and energy for impressive but slightly numbing studio polish. This collection of demos, outtakes and alternate versions from 77 - 81 restores the band to a punk level of spontanaiety and restores the balance between their power pop chops and DIY clatter. Highest Recommedation."