Another Music in a Different Kitchen

Infobox Album |
Name = Another Music in a Different Kitchen
Type = Studio Album
Artist = Buzzcocks


Released = 10 March 1978
Recorded = December 1977 - January 1978, Olympic Studios
Genre = Punk rock
Length = 44:24 (CD)
Label = United Artists
Producer = Martin Rushent
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:85rz287c05ja link]
*ARTISTdirect Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,59701,00.html link]
Last album =
This album = "Another Music in a Different Kitchen" (1978)
Next album = "Love Bites" (1978)

"Another Music in a Different Kitchen" was the Buzzcocks' first album, released in 1978 and including the hit single "I Don't Mind", which reached #55 in the UK chart in May 1978. The corresponding CD was released in March 1994 on the same record label. This was the second line-up of the Buzzcocks, with Pete Shelley singing, following the departure of original leader Howard Devoto. The third track, You Tear Me Up, is one of the earliest examples of the D-beat punk subgenre.

"It's all very surreal and Dada," says Pete Shelley, "All those elements that we were exploring back then. The first Buzzcocks album title was a kind of cut-up of the title of one of [Linder Sterling|Linder [Sterling] 's other pieces of art. We called it Another Music In A Different Kitchen which partially came from a Linder piece called Housewives Choosing Their Own Juices In A Different Kitchen." [ [http://shotbybothsides.com/q_100a.htm | Best 100 Record Covers | Unofficial website of Magazine et al. | ShotByBothSides.com | ] ]

Album Artwork

Another Linder Sterling piece portraying a salad bowl filled with eyes was originally intended for the front cover, however guitarist Steve Diggle and drummer John Maher deemed the image too unsettling to use. [ [http://shotbybothsides.com/q_100a.htm | Best 100 Record Covers | Unofficial website of Magazine et al. | ShotByBothSides.com | ] ]

Track listing

#"Fast Cars" (Howard Devoto, Diggle, Shelley) - 2:26
#"No Reply" (Shelley) - 2:16
#"You Tear Me Up" (Devoto, Shelley) - 2:27
#"Get on Your Own" (Shelley) - 2:26
#"Love Battery" (Devoto, Shelley) - 2:09
#"Sixteen" (Shelley) - 3:38
#"I Don't Mind" (Shelley) - 2:18
#"Fiction Romance" (Shelley) - 4:27
#"Autonomy" (Diggle) - 3:43
#"I Need" (Diggle, Shelley) - 2:43
#"Moving Away from the Pulsebeat" (Shelley) - 7:06
#"Orgasm Addict" (Devoto, Shelley) - 2:01*
#"Whatever Happened To...?" (Dial, Shelley) - 2:14*
#"What Do I Get?" (Shelley) - 2:55*
#"Oh Shit" (Shelley) - 1:35*

Stars indicate tracks on the CD reissue.

Personnel

*Pete Shelley - vocals, guitar
*Steve Diggle - guitar, vocals
*Steve Garvey - bass guitar
* John Maher - drums, vocals
*Martin Rushent - producer
*Doug Bennet - engineer

Vinyl Information

*A blue vinyl version was re-released around 1986.
*The original UK vinyl is issued with a black cardboard inner sleeve.
*The initial few thousand copies of the UK vinyl came in a matching silver-grey outer 'shopping bag'.

Cover Versions

*The album's second track, "No Reply", was covered by SS Decontrol on their 1983 EP "Get It Away".
*Influential Seattle band, The Fastbacks recorded "Whatever Happened to..?" on their 1991 single "My Letters" released by sub pop.
*The track "Autonomy" was covered by the pop punk band The Offspring on the single Want You Bad.

References