Picked this single up in a bargain bin for 25 cents not long after it came out. I was very much into the Buzzcocks and Howard Devoto being their lead singer and leaving the band just when they became kind of famous was both strange and intrigueing to me. The Buzzcocks releasing Orgasm Addict put me off at first. Bit of a gimmick record. Magazine releasing this song was much more impressive. However the Buzzcocks went on to release track after brilliant track while I found Magazine a bit sporadic.
It was almost as if the two bands were a dividing wall in conversations. If you were cool you liked Magazine. Buzzcocks were pop punk. Magazine was the onset of post punk. Me I was forming a mod band with leanings towards the Undertones. I knew then I was never going to be post punk cool. No matter what my inspirations. No matter how many Joy Division records I bought. I did buy myself a long black coat which I thought made me look mysterious. I loved that coat. I wrapped myself in it and made my way to the heart of the crowd. The crowd were probably watching The Church at the Jump Club.
The song stills sounds great and I never tire of it. Actually the Magazine stuff sounds even better to my ears now than it did then.
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