The release of 30 celebrates that many years since the Buzzcocks first release, Another Music in a Different Kitchen. In 1978, their arrival solidified the punk movement begun in earnest with The Sex Pistols just a year before, but while The Sex Pistols exemplified the gritty, rebellious side of the genre, Buzzcocks were the prototypes of pop-punk, setting the stage for all of the good and the bad that was to come later. As punk came, went, and metamorphosed, so did the careers of the original Buzzcocks. Howard Devoto, later of Magazine, left the band after just their first single, and as their solid seventies line-up went their different ways after the band first called it quits in 1981, Buzzcocks started up again with two new members in 1993 with Trade Test Transmissions, and haven’t let up since....