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Buzzcocks – Boredom (3:05)

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Recorded in December 1976, Boredom announces punk’s rebellion against the status quo while templating a strident musical minimalism (the guitar solo consisting of two notes repeated 66 times, ending with a single modulated seventh.) At the same time the lyrics already show boredom with punk itself (“You know the scene is very humdrum” and “I’m already a has-been!”) - indeed Howard Devoto left the band on the eve of the record’s release, saying “I get bored very easily and that boredom can act as a catalyst for me to suddenly conceive and execute a new vocation.” He added that punk rock had already become restrictive and stereotyped.

Richard Boon, the band’s manager, asserts that “Boredom” was a satirical song.

The song was placed at Number 11 in Mojo magazine’s list of “100 Punk Scorchers” in 2001.

Orange Juice mentioned “Boredom”, used a line from it and adapted the guitar solo on their 1982 single “Rip It Up.”
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  • Spiral Scratch
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  • A Different Compilation
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  • French
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  • Time’s Up
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  • hanginchili

    Apollo Manchester next week, should be interesting!

    last week

  • HD1969

    Schöner geiler klassischer Punk

    March 2012

  • lorendefect

    Da dum da dum

    November 2011

  • teh1234

    Best guitar solo. Ever.

    October 2011

  • lilacmerveille

    as soon as I listen to this my boredom is gone

    September 2011

  • pabloidz

    I love this tune, even though my favourite song (Rip It Up, by Orange Juice) says that "my favourite song's entitled Boredom"

    August 2011

  • ladyemero

    Spiral Scratch is just wonderful.... B'dum B'dum [3]

    August 2011

  • shamatha-x

    B'dum B'dum [2]

    April 2011

  • wolbekoms

    wat ne geile mucke

    March 2011

  • ganggreenrat

    whoredom

    February 2011

  • femme-rouge

    (L)

    February 2011

  • lisztophobia

    "want the version from Spiral Scratch." yeah... last.fm has a lot of problems with different versions getting mixed up. the buzzcocks being no exception to that rule. howard devoto's original rendition of "boredom" was awesome and easily the best recording of the song. pete shelley's early live versions of "boredom" are also good. but pete's voice has gotten deeper over the years, to the point where it find it distracting & difficult to listen to, when i hear the buzzcocks doing new performances of their old songs.

    January 2011

  • ParadiseCove

    B'DUM-B'DUM !!!

    January 2011

  • hanginchili

    Pure quality!

    January 2011

  • Hellraiser917

    Classic Punk Tune!

    December 2010

  • ianboutle

    One of the best songs I have ever heard.

    May 2010

  • pisartist

    Bordom truely sucks except this!

    May 2010

  • iamrta

    life.

    April 2010

  • BillSwansea

    One of the greatest songs of all time.

    March 2010

  • fabbo_hannes

    Grand!

    March 2010
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