Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady

Voted (somewhat appropriately) the sixteenth best LP of the seventies by Pitchfork in 2004, Singles Going Steady in a former life was never even a proper album. It was instead a September 1979 ‘sampler’ that their US label, Liberty, chose to release domestically on the cusp of their first US Tour. Before long, though, it would take on a life of its own as a greatest hits of sorts, being issued in their homeland on vinyl in 1981 before, inevitably, appearing on (a long deleted) CD - before being reissued in bloated, avoid-at-all-costs form by EMI in 2001. ‘Twas never meant to be thus...