Buzzcocks and VHS>DVD

On and off over the past year I've been attempting to tranfer my vast VHS collection (most of it music related stuff) onto DVD. I did a bunch when I first got this cool "2 in 1" machine, then I got overwhelmed and stopped for about 6 months.
But if getting sick is good for something, it's resuming projects you never have time for.
And I've since been running with the project, because if winter is good for one thing, it's not wanting to be around people and finding ways to spend time alone. This is perfect for that.
Last night I did one that was "The Making of Sgt. pepper" and the movie "Magical Mystery Tour" (is it a movie? It's only 60 minutes. But it was the source of Death Cab For Cutie's name.). Both of which I taped off VH1 about 8 years ago.
Today I did a nice one--Buzzcocks(video collection), Joy Division (live stuff), The Smiths (vid collection). Manchester, music capital of the UK for a little while.

So, yeah. The Buzzcocks were so, so good. Each of their singles between 1978-80 being as good as the best Kinks or Beatles single of the mid 60's. They've been touring again since the mid 90's and releasing albums, though I haven't heard any of the new ones. And in their heyday, they were very cool looking. Not punk at all. They looked like every other Lower East Side hipster this minute. Bed head, tight sweater, big collar.

So, BBC legend John Peel died this summer and there's a charity single out now. The song is the Buzzcocks 1978 classic "Ever Fallen In Love (with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with)". The artists include the song's author Pete Shelley, newer hipsters like The Futureheads (awesome) AND--this is wwwweird---Roger Daltry, Robert Plant and Elton John (all mortal enemies of the punks way back then). Singing on a Buzzcocks song? Well, I guess when your songs are on car commercials ("What Do I Get") everyone's just one big happy family.
It made me think of the funny part in the video I was watching where Pete Shelley talks about how after their first Top of the Pops appearance, he went back home and was washing his socks in the sink, thinking, "surely someone should be washing me socks now that I'm a star".