Another Music in a Different Kitchen

Another Music in a Different Kitchen
Studio album by Buzzcocks
Released	10 March 1978
Recorded	December 1977 – January 1978, Olympic Studios, London
Genre	Punk rock
Length	44:24 (CD)
Label	United Artists (original UK release) I.R.S. (1994 USA CD release with Love Bites) Nettwerk (2001 USA CD re-release)
Producer	Martin Rushent
Buzzcocks chronology
Another Music in a Different Kitchen (1978) Love Bites (1978)

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Another Music in a Different Kitchen was Buzzcocks' first album, released in 1978 and including the hit single "I Don't Mind", which reached #55 in the United Kingdom singles chart in May 1978. The corresponding CD was released in March 1994 on the same record label. This was the second line-up of Buzzcocks, with Pete Shelley singing, following the departure of original leader Howard Devoto.

"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]'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".

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.

Track listing

1. "Fast Cars" (Howard Devoto, Steve Diggle, Pete Shelley) – 2:26
2. "No Reply" (Shelley) – 2:16
3. "You Tear Me Up" (Devoto, Shelley) – 2:27
4. "Get on Our Own" (Shelley) – 2:26
5. "Love Battery" (Devoto, Shelley) – 2:09
6. "Sixteen" (Shelley) – 3:38
7. "I Don't Mind" (Shelley) – 2:18
8. "Fiction Romance" (Shelley) – 4:27
9. "Autonomy" (Diggle) – 3:43
10. "I Need" (Diggle, Shelley) – 2:43
11. "Moving Away from the Pulsebeat" (Shelley) – 7:06

Personnel

Pete Shelley – vocals, guitar Steve Diggle – guitar, vocals Steve Garvey – bass guitar John Maher – drums, vocals

Martin Rushent – producer Doug Bennet – engineer Malcolm Garrett – artwork

Vinyl information

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

The album was originally conceived with the track "I Need" on side one; but after a test pressing was made, the group felt the song should appear on the second side. A mix-up occurred at the pressing plant and, as a consequence, some early copies of the album contained no "I Need" at all.

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".