The next one is well-known; it's from Buzzcocks' "Spiral Scratch" EP, and I think that that recording and "Time's Up" definitely were their best. Not that what they did afterwards was bad. No, I like quite a few of their later songs, like "Harmony in my Head", and I do have "Product". Quite a few songs still were good. But it didn't have that we're-sixteen-we-cannot-sing-and-we-cannot-play-but-we-do-it-anyway-because-we-want-to flair anymore. Yeah, I know they weren't sixteen at the time of "Spiral Scratch", and they weren't even eighteen, but nevermind. They sounded like they were. This schoolboyishness I think is something I missed on Sex Pistols' "Nevermind the Bollocks..." because it's something I like about the British punk explosion. Maybe it's also that it sort of too much met every cliche of the punk explosion, which it quite naturally did because it, well, started it, but hey, I got into the whole punk rock story from the "wrong" edge with the Dead Kennedys. And after that, I heard the Buzzcocks' "Singles Going Steady" and pretty much at the same time X-Ray Spex. Later on Wire's great "Pink Flag". So the Sex Pistols came at the end and didn't impress me too much. Hell, I know how "Anarchy in the UK" goes, what more can you ask for?
Here's "Breakdown" from Buzzcocks' "Spiral Scratch".