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Operator's Manual: Buzzcocks Best

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{{Infobox album

| name = Operators Manual

| type = Compilation album

| artist = Buzzcocks

| cover = Buzzcocks - Operators Manual LP album cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = 12 November 1991

| recorded = 1976−1979

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Punk rock

| length = 78:18

| label = I.R.S.

| producer = Martin Rushent

| prev_title = A Different Kind of Tension

| prev_year = 1979

| next_title = Trade Test Transmissions

| next_year = 1993

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/operators-manual-mw0000270028|title=Operators Manual - Buzzcocks | Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic}}

| rev2 = Robert Christgau

| rev2Score = A{{Cite web|url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1393&name=Buzzcocks|title=Robert Christgau: CG: Buzzcocks|website=robertchristgau.com}}

|rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=2 |page=96}}

| rev5 = Q

| rev5Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

| rev6 = The New Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev6Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&q=Operator%27s+Manual%3A+Buzzcocks+Best&pg=PA125|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|first1=Nathan|last1=Brackett|first2=Christian David|last2=Hoard|date=October 18, 2004|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9780743201698|via=Google Books}}

|rev7 = Spin Alternative Record Guide

|rev7score = 9/10{{cite book |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |date=1995 |publisher=Vintage Books |page=65}}

}}

Operators Manual: Buzzcocks Best is a compilation album by English punk rock band Buzzcocks.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/20/bestof.three/|title=CNN.com - The best of the best-ofs - Dec 21, 2004|website=www.cnn.com}} It was released in 1991 by I.R.S. Records.{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzcocks.com/operators-manual-buzzcocks-best|title=Operator's Manual: Buzzcocks Best|website=Buzzcocks}}

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "a concise 25-track career condensation."{{Cite web|url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=buzzcocks|title=TrouserPress.com :: Buzzcocks|website=www.trouserpress.com}}

Track listing

  1. "Orgasm Addict" (Howard Devoto, Pete Shelley) – 2:01
  2. "What Do I Get?" (Shelley) – 2:56
  3. "I Don't Mind" (Shelley) – 2:19
  4. "Autonomy" (Steve Diggle) – 3:50
  5. "Fast Cars" (Devoto, Diggle, Shelley) – 2:31
  6. "Get on Our Own" (Shelley) – 2:31
  7. "Sixteen" (Diggle) – 3:46
  8. "Fiction Romance" (Shelley) – 4:34
  9. "Love You More" (Shelley) – 1:50
  10. "Noise Annoys" (Shelley) – 2:52
  11. "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" (Shelley) – 2:42
  12. "Operators Manual" (Shelley) – 3:34
  13. "Nostalgia" (Shelley) – 2:55
  14. "Walking Distance" (Garvey) – 2:02
  15. "Nothing Left" (Shelley) – 4:28
  16. "ESP" (Shelley) – 4:39
  17. "Promises" (Diggle, Shelley) – 2:36
  18. "Lipstick" (Diggle, Shelley) – 2:38
  19. "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" (Shelley)– 3:12
  20. "Harmony in My Head" (Diggle) – 3:09
  21. "You Say You Don't Love Me" (Shelley) – 2:54
  22. "I Don't Know What to Do with My Life" (Shelley) – 2:44
  23. "I Believe" (Shelley) – 7:07
  24. "Are Everything" (Shelley) – 3:36
  25. "Radio Nine" (Shelley) – 0:43

:Track 24, "Are Everything", produced by Martin Hannett

Personnel

;Buzzcocks

References

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Category:1991 compilation albums

Category:Buzzcocks albums

Category:Albums produced by Martin Rushent

Category:I.R.S. Records compilation albums

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