The Buzzcocks will be spending 2010 remembering the past. Yep, like everyone else these days, the legendary English rock band will be reissuing some of its old studio efforts. On February 9th, Mute Records will offer expanded re-releases of the Buzzcocks’ first three albums, 1978’s Another Music in a Different Kitchen, 1978’s Love Bites, and 1979’s A Different Kind of Tension. The reissues will feature previously unreleased tracks, John Peel sessions, associated singles, demos, backing tracks, and live versions. Here’s how it all breaks down:

Another Music in a Different Kitchen will contain the full original album with the relevant John Peel sessions and another disc of various out-takes and the full live show recorded at the Electric Circus in October 1977: the venue’s last night and the moment when Buzzcocks began to go national.

Love Bites is the second disc covering the associated singles: “Love You More” and “Promises”, and two Peel sessions as well as thirteen demos from summer 1978. Also included will be a full concert from the Lesser Free Trade Hall in June 1978.

This new edition of A Different Kind of Tension promises to pull together all the associated singles — five to be exact, including Parts 1–3 recorded with Martin Hannett and later collected on an American mini-album – as well as the last track the group recorded in their first incarnation: “I Look Alone”. What’s more, there is a whole disc of demos from the period, including several rarities like “The Drive System”, “Jesus Made Me Feel Guilty”, and Paddy Garvey’s heart-rending “Run Away From Home”. The set is rounded off with four BBC recordings from the period, including an early outing for “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays”.

For a further breakdown, check out the complete tracklist below. Then, breathe.

A Different Kind Of Tension Tracklist:
CD 1:
01. Paradise
02. Sitting ‘round At Home
03. You Say You Don’t Love Me
04. You Know You Can’t Help It
05. Mad Mad Judy
06. Raison D’Etre
07. I Don’t Know What To Do With My Life
08. Money
09. Hollow Inside
10. A Different Kind Of Tension
11. I Believe
12. Radio Nine

Associated Singles:
13. Everybody’s Happy Nowadays
14. Why Can’t I Touch It
15. Harmony In My Head
16. Something’s Gone Wrong Again

CD 2:
Associated Singles:
01. Are Everything
02. Why She’s A Girl From The Chainstore
03. Airwaves Dream
04. Strange Thing
05. What Do You Know?
06. Running Free
07. I Look Alone

Demos:
8. You Say You Don’t Love Me (Demo)
9. I Don’t Know What To Do With My Life (Demo)
10. Harmony In My Head (Demo) *
11. I Don’t Know (Demo)
12. Run Away From Home (Demo)
13. The Drive System (Demo)
14. Mad Mad Judy (Demo) *
15. Jesus Made Me Feel Guilty (Demo)
16. Something’s Gone Wrong Again (backing track) *
17. You Know You Can’t Help It
18. I Believe July 1979 Indigo Arrow-Chronology

BBC Sessions:
19. Everybody’s Happy Nowadays (John Peel Show 18/10/78 TX 23/10/78)
20. I Don’t Know What To Do With My Life (John Peel Show 5/21/79 TX 5/28/79)
21. Mad Mad Judy (John Peel Show 5/21/79 TX 5/28/79)
22. Hollow Inside (John Peel Show 5/21/79 TX 5/28/79)

* = previously unreleased

Another Music In A Different Kitchen Tracklist:
CD 1:
01. Fast Cars
02. No Reply
03. You Tear Me Up
04. Get On Our Own
05. Love Battery
06. Sixteen
07. I Don’t Mind
08. Fiction Romance
09. Autonomy
10. I Need
11. Moving Away From The Pulsebeat

Associated Singles:
12. Orgasm Addict
13. Whatever Happened To…?
14. What Do I Get
15. Oh Shit

BBC Session:
16. Fast Cars (2.15) (John Peel Show 9/7/77 TX 9/19/77)
17. (Moving Away From The) Pulsebeat (4.40) (John Peel Show 9/7/77 TX 9/19/77)
18. What Do I Get (2.50) (John Peel Show 9/7/77 TX 9/19/77)

CD 2:
1. Boredom (demo)
2. Fast Cars (demo)
3. No Reply (demo)
4. You Tear Me Up (demo) *
5. Get On Our Own (demo) *
6. Sixteen (demo)
7. I Don’t Mind (demo) *
8. Fiction Romance (demo)
9. Autonomy (demo)
10. I Need (demo)
11. Orgasm Addict (demo) *
12. What Do I Get (demo) *
13. Whatever Happened To…? (demo)
14. Oh Shit (demo)

LIVE AT THE ELECTRIC CIRCUS:
15. Fast Cars (live) *
16. Fiction Romance (live) *
17. Boredom (live) *
18. Sixteen (live) *
19. You Tear Me Up (live) *
20. Orgasm Addict (live) *
21. Moving Away From The Pulsebeat (live) *
22. Love Battery *
23. Time’s Up

* = previously unreleased

Love Bites Tracklist:
CD 1:
01. Real World
02. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t‘ve)
03. Operators Manual
04. Nostalgia
05. Just Lust
06. Sixteen Again
07. Walking Distance
08. Love is Lies
09. Nothing Left
10. E.S.P.
11. Late For The Train

Associated singles:
12. Love You More
13. Noise Annoys
14. Promises
15. Lipstick

BBC Sessions:
16. Noise Annoys (2.55) (John Peel Show 4/10/78 TX 4/17/78)
17. Walking Distance (2.00) (John Peel Show 4/10/78 TX 4/17/78)
18. Late For The Train (5.10) (John Peel Show 4/10/78 TX 4/17/78)
19. Promises (2.29) (John Peel Show 10/18/78 TX 10/23/78)
20. Lipstick (2.40) (John Peel Show 10/18/78 TX 10/23/78)
21. Sixteen Again (3.14) (John Peel Show 10/18/78 TX 10/23/78)
22. E.S.P. (John Peel Show 5/21/79 TX 5/28/79)

CD 2:
1. Love Is Life (Lies) (demo) *
2. Just Lust (demo)
3. Operatoros Manual (demo) *
4. Ever Fallen In Love (demo) *
5. Nothing Left (demo) *
6. Sixteen Again (demo) *
7. Raison D’etre (demo) *
8. Real World *
9. Nostalgia (demo) *
10 .S.P (demo)
11. Lipstick (demo)
12. Children (Promises) (demo)
13. Mother Of Turds (demo)

LIVE AT LESSER FREE TRADE HALL 7/21/1978 (previously unreleased):
14. Breakdown *
15. What Do I Get *
16. I Don’t Mind *
17. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t ‘ve) *
18. Noise Annoys *
19. Nothing Left *
20. Get On Our Own *
21. Love You More *
22. Fiction Romance *
23. Autonomy *

* = previously unreleased

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