Trade Test Transmissions
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Trade Test Transmissions is the fourth studio album by English pop-punk band Buzzcocks. It was released on 14 June 1993 by record label Castle Communications[1] on their sub-label Essential Records[2] and was the band's first release in fourteen years, following up 1979's A Different Kind of Tension. The music was quite different from their earlier material with nods to the power pop scene popular at the time.
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | StarStarStarFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[3] |
| Chicago Tribune | StarStarStarHalf starFile:Star empty.svg[4] |
| Robert Christgau | (choice cut)[5] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A−[6] |
| Pitchfork | 6.9/10[7] |
| PopMatters | 6/10[8] |
Trade Test Transmissions has been generally well received by critics.
Jason Crock of Pitchfork was generally favourable, though writing "the album remains a strictly diehards-only affair."[7] CMJ later qualified it as "a superb record which oddly got lost in the shuffle".[9]
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Pete Shelley, except as noted.
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Personnel
Adapted from the album liner notes.[10]
- Buzzcocks
- Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals
- Steve Diggle – guitar, vocals
- Tony Barber – bass *credited as Tony Arber in CD sleeve booklet
- Philip Barker – drums
- Technical
- Ralph P. Ruppert – production
- Ingo Vauk, Philip Bagenal – mixing engineers
- Graeme Durham – mastering
- Malcolm Garrett – album design
- Pete Towndrow – photography
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kot, Greg (19 November 1993). "Buzzcocks: Noisy Music To Hum". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Larkin, Colin (2011). Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Concise (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Raggett, Ned. "Trade Test Transmissions – Buzzcocks | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kot, Greg (14 November 1993). "Joyful Noises". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: CG: Buzzcocks". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brod, Doug (19 November 1993). "[Trade Test Transmissions review]". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Crock, Jason (17 April 2005). "Buzzcocks: Trade Test Transmissions | Album Reviews | Pitchfork". Pitchfork. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Soulsby, Nick (27 May 2020). "Buzzcocks' 1993 Comeback 'Trade Test Transmissions' Showed Punk's Great Survivors' Consistency". PopMatters. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stegall, Tim (March 1996). "Reviews". CMJ New Music Monthly: 34. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Buzzcocks (1993). Trade Test Transmissions (Album liner notes). Essential Records. ESSCD 195.
Sources
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McGartland, Tony (2017). Buzzcocks: The Complete History. London: Music Press. ISBN 978-1786062741.
External links
- Trade Test Transmissions at Discogs (list of releases)
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