Buzzcocks- Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve?)

WHO: Buzzcocks

WHAT: Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve?) (Just Lust)

WHEN: 1978

LABEL: United Artists UP 36455

Recycling. That’s where my addiction to 45’s stems from. Recycling crap LPs that no one would listen to into handy bowls that no one would use. Deciding that we should at least listen to the music we were destroying, we got the radiogram and I started to buy records to keep and listen to instead of ones to melt down.  I know what you’re thinking, that its sacrilege to destroy records. I promise that I’ve not destroyed anything (that I think is) good, and I’ve saved more from the scrapheap than I’ve melted. Honest.

Its not just records I recycle. I like to recycle the junk mail that comes through the door with those handy bin bags attached that say things like “Thank You For Your Donation”. They also say “Collection Monday”, but that’s wrong. Our bins are collected on a Wednesday. I’m that environmentally friendly that I also recycle the comments, opinion and jokes that I find online and re-package it as my own. Speaking of which….

Buzzcocks are a punk band from Bolton, fronted by Pete Shelley. They had some success in the late seventies before disbanding in 1981 (later reforming many times after 1989). They were the first band to prove Fermat’s last theorem (citation needed).

THE A SIDE

I don’t know where I first heard this one. But it’s a classic. This was their biggest hit reaching 12 in the UK charts. It’s an excellent pop tune with a great sing along chorus. Written by Pete Shelley and, according to my sources (Wikipedia, so it must be true), inspired from a line he heard while watching the musical Guys and Dolls, which must make it the best tune whose title came from a musical.

This has been covered by lots of people, never as successfully as the original I think. One of these covers was even on the soundtrack of that cinematic classic “Shrek 2”. I think the best version I’ve heard (apart from the original of course) is this one by French band “Nouvelle Vague”.

THE B SIDE

A good tune “JustLust”, a rawer punkier tune than the A-side. Alan Dial the bands former manager is credited alongside Shelley as writer of this track. It was on the same album as the A-side, “Love Bites”.

”Lipstick” The B-side to the next single “Promises” has the same guitar part as “Shot by Both Sides” by former Buzzcocks member Howard Devoto’s subsequent band Magazine. Not that it has anything to do with this tune, but interesting none the less. Well maybe not interesting, but true. Well maybe not true but….

THE VINYL

No cover, apart from a yellowing paper replacement. It has been listened to a few times as evidenced by the scratches. Nothing too bad, it plays fine, but you couldn’t describe it as being in mint condition. Maybe pre-loved, that’s what they call second hand cars nowadays. Pre loved. Sounds a bit mucky, “ Pre loved Ford Sierra for sale, one careful owner, cleaned inside and out, new flange recently fitted £100 ono”. Change the words “Ford Sierra” with “Blow up doll” and you’ll see what I mean.

MY VERDICT

It’s good this. Unlike this post.