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Trade Test Transmissions

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Lead Performance: Buzzcocks; Genre: Punk

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By Doug Brod

Buzzcocks Trade Test Transmissions (Caroline) On their first studio album in more than a decade, these seminal punk poppers dispatch 17 cleverly articulated bursts of horny longing and alienation that sound as if they could have been recorded during the band's late-'70s heyday. More surprisingly, tracks like ''Palm of Your Hand'' and ''Isolation'' accomplish a seemingly impossible feat: They make the nostalgic seem relevant. A- -Doug Brod

Posted Nov 19, 1993

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