Trade Test Transmissions

Trade Test Transmissions
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Studio album by Buzzcocks
Released	2 June 1993 (1993-06-02)
Genre	Pop punk
Label	Castle (UK), Caroline (USA)
Producer	Ralph Ruppert
Buzzcocks chronology
A Different Kind of Tension (1979)A Different Kind of Tension1979 Trade Test Transmissions (1993) All Set (1996)All Set1996

Trade Test Transmissions is the fourth studio album by English pop punk band Buzzcocks. It was released on 2 June 1993 by record label Castle and was their first release in fourteen years, following up 1979's A Different Kind of Tension.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Robert Christgau
Entertainment Weekly	A–
Pitchfork	6.9/10

Trade Test Transmissions has been generally well received by critics.

Jason Crock of Pitchfork was generally favourable, though writing "the album remains a strictly diehards-only affair." CMJ later qualified it as "a superb record which oddly got lost in the shuffle".

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Pete Shelley, except as noted.

1. Unlisted track
2. "Do It"
3. "Innocent"
4. "TTT"
5. "Isolation" (Steve Diggle)
6. "Smile"
7. "Last to Know"
8. "When Love Turns Around" (Diggle)
9. "Never Gonna Give It Up"
10. "Energy" (Diggle)
11. "Palm of Your Hand"
12. "Alive Tonight" (Diggle)
13. "Who'll Help Me to Forget?"
14. "Unthinkable" (Diggle)
15. "Crystal Night"
16. "369"

Personnel

Buzzcocks

• Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals
• Steve Diggle – guitar, vocals
• Tony Barber – bass
• Philip Barker – drums

Technical

• Ralph Ruppert – production

External links

• Trade Test Transmissions at Discogs (list of releases)