175. Boredom by The Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks - Boredom. Rare 1980 good quality ...

When I went over to the UK I spent a lot of time looking through record shops looking for all those classic singles I had missed out on. The two I really were after was Teenage kicks and this song Boredom. I used to hear on 3RR and a girl I knew had it but I couldn't get myself a copy anywhere in Melbourne. And I find it in Blackpool in a store on the South Shore. Fantastic!  After this single the Buzzcocks lost Howard Devoto but kept making brillaint single after brilliant single. This song never turns up on compilations or greatest hits packages so it's a particular treasure. I've got a little box of vinyl singles which are really incedibly important to me. This is in it.
I think of how easy it is to track down a much loved song nowadays. This one took me 2 years to find.

Yeah - well - I say what I mean

I say what comes to my mind

I never get around to things

I live a straight - straight line

You know me - I'm acting dumb

you know the scene - very humdrum

boredom - boredom

I'm living in this movie

but it doesn't move me

I'm the man that's waiting for the phone to ring

Hear it ring-a-ding-a-f***ing-ding

You know me ...

You see there's nothing behind me

I'm already a has-been

my future ain't what it was

well I think I know the words that I mean

You know me ...

B'dum - b'dum

I've taken this extravagant journey

so it seems to me

I just came from nowhere

and I'm going straight back there

You know me ...

So I'm living in this movie

but it doesn't move me

so tell me who are you trying to arouse?

get your hands out of my trousers

You know me ...