'Love Bites' is the second studio album by English punk rock band Buzzcocks. It was released in September 1978, and the album peaked at number 13 on the UK Albums Chart at the time of its release, making 'Love Bites' their highest-charting album.
In early September 1978, the lead off single from the album was released: 'Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have)' was in part personally inspired (by Francis Cookson) but it quickly became Buzzcocks' biggest ever hit, reaching number 12 in autumn 1978 and ranked as number 1 in 'Tracks of the year' by the NME.
Since then, it has become the group's signature tune - covered by artists as diverse as Nouvelle Vague and Fine Young Cannibals, who took it to number 9. In 2005 a cover featuring Roger Daltrey, David Gilmour, Peter Hook, Robert Plant and Pete Shelley was released as a tribute to the late DJ John Peel. 'Love Bites' quickly followed. As Shelley explained at the time: "On Another Music, on the first side it was all the things that the first singles had been leading up to. It's very compact. The second side is different and there's a lot of directions that could be followed on it. If you were to take the second side of 'Another Music' and the first side of 'Love Bites' and put them together people'd say it was a concept album. It's almost like we planned like a serial in a magazine where they always leave just enough to keep you interested in what's going to follow up in the next one."
Tracklisting
Side A:
1. Real World
2. Ever Fallen In Love
3. Operators Manual
4. Nostalgia
5. Just Lust
6. Sixteen Again
Side B:
1. Walking Distance
2. Love Is Lies
3. Nothing Left
4. E.S.P.
5. Late for the Train
