2000 Great Songs #1251: What Do I Get?
I think this is the 4th Buzzcocks single I've posted ( one ... two ... three ... yep!) off their 1979 Singles Going Steady collection, to this day one of the most sublime greatest hits packages ever conceived (albeit one rendered a bit obsolete by subsequent collections, which also captured later work). Can't think of anything new to say I haven't said about those others--just another banger that helps serve as the blueprint for everything deemed "pop-punk" or "punk-pop" in the decades since. Live 1977: Live 2009. R.I.P. Pete Shelley! Dub cover from The Members: Prozac cover:
