The Buzzcocks

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 2003

First Recording: 1977

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

The Buzzcocks
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
Rolling Stone 500 Albums
Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys
500 Songs That Shaped Rock & Roll

Inducted into Rock Hall Projected in 2024 (ranked #239) .

R.S. Top 500 Albums (?)RankVersion
Singles Going Steady2502020
Singles Going Steady3602012

R.S. Top 500 Songs (?)RankVersion
Ever Fallen in Love (1977)2762021

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Another Music in a Different Kitchen (1978)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Orgasm Addict (1977)
Ever Fallen in Love (1978)
What Do I Get (1978)

The Buzzcocks @ Wikipedia

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The RnRHOF is heavily America-centric, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the Buzzcocks are not inducted. What a shame.

Posted by Marth on Monday, 01/21/2013 @ 18:16pm


Eventually, they will make it. But it might take a shameful six or eight or ten years. For better or worse, I bet they make it in before their punk peers though.

Posted by Paul K on Tuesday, 01/22/2013 @ 14:51pm


Deserving, but a lack of success/recognition in the U.S. hurts their cause. A real shame, because I think they're the most fun of the original UK punk bands to listen to.

Posted by Sunking278 on Wednesday, 04/24/2013 @ 06:21am


Now the Buzzcocks are in the running for the best Manchester band second to only the Smiths (whom will be inducted or I will personally beat the shit out of Jann Wenner). They ordered their contemporaries to stop putting safety pins in their ears and start learning to play. This eventually was detrimental to the punk genre but the Buzzcocks were brilliant nonetheless.

Posted by jdog on Tuesday, 12/15/2015 @ 14:38pm


RIP Pete Shelley (4/17/1955-12/6/2018)

Posted by Aaron O'Donnell on Thursday, 12/6/2018 @ 16:57pm


Peaceful journeys, Mr. Shelley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOtsnyb5ldo

Posted by DarinRG on Thursday, 12/6/2018 @ 22:17pm


Wow, Pete's passing was quite unexpected. Have a good time rockin' on up there, man.

Posted by Jason Dagotto on Thursday, 12/6/2018 @ 22:56pm


R.I.P. Pete Shelley, now these guys NEED to get inducted. 3 arguably classic albums, and one of the greatest compilations of all time (Singles Going Steady is one of the best and most consistant punk albums of all time). Songs like “Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve), Orgasm Addict, Everybody’s Happy Nowadays, What Do I Get, Promises, and many more defined a generation and the entire punk era. There is no denying Buzzcocks’ influence, even on bands like Nirvana, who they opened for in the 90s. Let these guys in right now.

Posted by Tyler Partnow on Monday, 01/28/2019 @ 10:54am


I'm not sure how long it's going to take, but I feel like it's probable that The Buzzcocks will be inducted one of these days. They're a lot bigger in the U.K. than the US, which doesn't help them, but they really had such an influence on punk, especially pop punk. If we have later bands like Green Day, we should absolutely have The Buzzcocks.

Posted by Quinn on Friday, 05/24/2019 @ 17:12pm


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