Love Bites
by Buzzcocks
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Buzzcocks bestography
Love Bites is ranked 3rd best out of 22 albums by Buzzcocks on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Buzzcocks is Singles Going Steady which is ranked number 1108 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,573.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Love Bites track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Love Bites rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 83/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Squonk007 | Top 37 Music Albums of 1978 | 6/37 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Liedzeit | Top 100 Music Albums of 1978 | 48/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Squonk007 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 53/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1978 | 88/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 82/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Larcx13 | Top 18 Music Albums of 1978 | 3/18 | 4 |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 75/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | Steve_Emmett | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 9/40 | 77 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 71 Music Albums of 1978 | 55/71 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 117 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 419 | |||
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Love Bites ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/20/2026 04:59 | Larcx13 | 2,852 | 74/100 |
| ! | 05/13/2026 15:33 | Steve_Emmett | 122 | 67/100 |
| ! | 05/09/2026 17:20 |  AAL2014 | 4,309 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.4/100, a mean average of 75.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.
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Love Bites forum mentions
neilgee 06/28/2025 21:45 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) dihansse 10/24/2020 20:07 in My discoveries per year neilgee 08/31/2019 22:44 in What album are you listening to right now?Love Bites comments
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dihansse 03/09/2021 20:39 | #267133 | TOP COMMENT
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Of course everybody refers to their first album as their best but in my opinion this album is nearly as good; not only because it has their best track (Ever Fallen In Love) but also because all the other ones are top Buzzcocks as well (with Operators Manual as the second best). (Edited)
xMUSICSNOBx 06/16/2016 16:48 | #168910 | TOP COMMENT
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Honestly failed to hold my attention. Overlong. The first few tracks are good. But I was bored by the end. Still, the melodies are really nice. And they play very well together.
Except for Real World and sixteen Again, not a really memorable album... and the instrumental tracks are too long. (Edited)
Not their best but I do love ESP and of course the classic 'Ever Fallen In Love...'
Goliath 11/18/2018 11:29 | #225118 | TOP COMMENT
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Not a patch on Another Music in a Different Kitchen, only tracks 2 and 4 stand out.
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