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Trade Test Transmissions

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Producer
  
Ralph Ruppert

Artist
  
Buzzcocks

Label
  
Caroline Records

Trade Test Transmissions (1993)
  
All Set (1996)

Release date
  
2 June 1993

Genres
  
Punk rock, Pop punk

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Released
  
2 June 1993 (1993-06-02)

Recorded
  
Eastcote Studios, Kensal Road, London

Similar
  
All Set, Flat‑Pack Philosophy, A Different Kind of Tension, Love Bites, Operator's Manual: Buzzcock

Trade Test Transmissions is the fourth studio album by English pop punk band Buzzcocks. It was released on 2 June 1993 by record label Castle and was their first release in fourteen years, following up 1979's A Different Kind of Tension.

Contents

Reception

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." CMJ later qualified it as "a superb record which oddly got lost in the shuffle".

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Pete Shelley, except as noted.

  1. Unlisted track
  2. "Do It"
  3. "Innocent"
  4. "TTT"
  5. "Isolation" (Steve Diggle)
  6. "Smile"
  7. "Last to Know"
  8. "When Love Turns Around" (Steve Diggle)
  9. "Never Gonna Give It Up"
  10. "Energy" (Steve Diggle)
  11. "Palm of Your Hand"
  12. "Alive Tonight" (Steve Diggle)
  13. "Who'll Help Me to Forget?"
  14. "Unthinkable" (Steve Diggle)
  15. "Crystal Night"
  16. "369"

Personnel

  • Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals
  • Steve Diggle – guitar, vocals
  • Tony Barber – bass
  • Philip Barker – drums
  • Ralph Ruppert – production
  • Ingo Vauk, Philip Bagenal - engineers
  • Malcolm Garrett - album design
  • Pete Towndrow - photography

    • Songs

    1Do It3:04
    2Innocent3:34
    3T T T3:18

    References

    Trade Test Transmissions Wikipedia
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