What Is The Best Song By Buzzcocks

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26th Dec 2025

Fox’s Recommendations

One of punks most perfect singles, bittersweet melody, and lyrics that tune romance into panic. All wrapped up in one song. It’s short, it’s punchy and addictively replayable! Imagine if The Beatle had been on lots and lots of coffee induced anxiety and you get the Buzzcocks.

Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) (All Rights Are Retained By Buzzcocks)

This is low key hilarious if you listen to the lyrics. Yet it also masks despair and the bouncy melody that hides emptiness inside. This joy in misery is almost the DNA that became pop-punk.

Buzzcocks – What Do I Get? (All Rights Are Retained By Buzzcocks)

Fox’s Wildcard

This song was actually sung by guitarist Steve Diggle, and legend has it he smokes 20 cigarettes in order to get that gritty vocal tone. The guitars are also much thicker than their other songs. It is the darker side of the Buzzcock’s catalogue. Honestly this showcases to me the sound of a band evolving quicker than the scene they had already helped to create.

Buzzcocks – Harmony In My Head (All Rights Are Retained By Buzzcocks)

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One response to “What Is The Best Song By Buzzcocks”

Mike

26th Dec 2025

“Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)” (1978).

Why that one stands above the rest:

• It rewired punk. Buzzcocks took punk’s speed and snarl and injected it with melody, vulnerability, and romantic obsession—basically inventing the blueprint for pop-punk and power-pop-with-teeth.

• Emotion over slogans. Instead of politics or nihilism, it was about confused love and self-sabotage. That was radical at the time.

• Endless influence. You can draw a straight line from this song to bands like The Jam, The Smiths, Hüsker Dü, Green Day, Blink-182, and even emo-adjacent acts decades later.

• Still hits. It hasn’t aged into nostalgia—it still sounds urgent, awkward, and human.

If we’re talking other key contenders, depending on what angle you mean:

• “Orgasm Addict” – arguably more punk-shock influential; sexually explicit, fast, confrontational.

• “What Do I Get?” – the clearest early statement of punk-meets-pop craftsmanship.

• “Harmony in My Head” – heavier, darker, almost proto-post-punk.

But if history had to keep one Buzzcocks song, the one that changed the most minds and bands?

👉 “Ever Fallen in Love…”
Punk learned how to feel because of it.

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