Closer, the band's 1980 sophomore album released two months after the death of lead singer Ian Curtis, continued where the first album left off, with "Heart And Soul", "Isolation", and "Twenty Four Hours".
This 1979 collection of the Buzzcocks first 8 UK singles is a masterpiece of Pop Punk: high tension chainsaw guitars churn beneath front man Pete Shelley's dry, sly lyrics of love ventured and, mostly, lost.
Little Girl Blue documents Nina Simone's unparalleled and idiosyncratic musical persona at a particularly vibrant, formative stage, and helped launch her on a trajectory with more than its share of personal and professional trials and triumphs.