10 Best Two-Album Wonders In Rock Music History
8. Buzzcocks
If you're going to talk about the history of popular music from Manchester, England, then you'd better have some notes on Buzzcocks.
Formed in 1976, this punk project took the fast-paced, hard-hitting musical elements of the genre and combined them with more moderate pop sensibilities.
Essentially, they became one of the first pop punk bands, which means we have them to thank for Blink-182. Or curse them, depending on how you feel about Tom DeLonge.
Buzzcocks' recording career got underway with the album Another Music in a Different Kitchen in 1978. Despite its terrible grammar, people liked it a lot, with the single I Don't Mind doing well on the UK charts.
Love Bites became the band's second consecutive top 20 album later that same year. It's also the album that contains Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've), aka that song from Shrek 2.
1979's A Different Kind of Tension did alright, but didn't reach the same heights as its two ancestors. Buzzcocks didn't release another album until 1993, by which point their momentum was all but gone.
Still, if you ask some people, two hit albums is two too many for a punk band.