Trade Test Transmissions

This article is about the Buzzcocks album. For the test transmissions by the BBC, see Trade test colour films.

Trade Test Transmissions
Studio album by
Buzzcocks
Released2 June 1993 (1993-06-02)
RecordedMarch–April 1993[1]
StudioEastcote Studios, London
GenrePop punk[2][3]
Length47:58
LabelEssential (UK), Caroline (USA)
ProducerRalph P. Ruppert
Buzzcocks chronology
Operator's Manual: Buzzcocks Best
(1991) 		Trade Test Transmissions
(1993) 		All Set
(1996)
Singles from Trade Test Transmissions
  1. "Innocent"
    Released: May 1993
  2. "Do It"
    Released: August 1993
  3. "Isolation"
    Released: 1995[4]

Trade Test Transmissions is the fourth studio album by English pop punk band Buzzcocks. It was released on 2 June 1993 by record label Castle Communications[5] on their sub-label Essential Records[6] and was the band's first release in fourteen years, following up 1979's A Different Kind of Tension. The music was quite different from their earlier material with nods to the power pop scene popular at the time.

  1. ^ McGartland 2017, p. 196.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Christgau was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference EW was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ McGartland 2017, p. 307.
  5. ^ Kot, Greg (19 November 1993). "Buzzcocks: Noisy Music To Hum". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  6. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Concise (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958.