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Track Listings
| 1. Love Song | |||
| 2. Noise Noise Noise | |||
| 3. Suicide | |||
| 4. Smash It Up | |||
| 5. Burglar | |||
| 6. I Just Can't Be Happy Today | |||
| 7. Ballroom Blitz - Motordamn | |||
| 8. Turkey Song | |||
| 9. White Rabbit | |||
| 10. Rabid (Over You) | |||
| 11. Seagulls | |||
| 12. The History Of The World Part 1 | |||
| 13. I Believe The Impossible | |||
| 14. Sugar & Spite | |||
| 15. There Ain't No Sanity Clause | |||
| 16. Hit Or Miss | |||
| 17. Looking At You (Live) | |||
| 18. Teenage Dream (Live) | |||
| 19. Anti-Pope | |||
| 20. Over The Top - Motordamn | |||
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CD Description
* A brand new compilation featuring the A- and B-sides of all the band's Chiswick singles. Includes four tracks new to CD.
* When the time came to re-press the long-standing "The Best Of The Damned" (CDDAM 1), the pressing plant informed Ace/Chiswick Records that, unfortunately, the films had been lost! So it was decided to make a completely new CD and thus we have "The Damned: The Chiswick Singles - And Another Thing....."
* Overseen by the producer of the band's Chiswick releases, Roger Armstrong, the package comes with brand new high-end transfers from the original master tapes - the Damned have never sounded better. An extensive trawl through box after box of means that the booklet features a lavishly illustrated package including rare photographs and tons of memorabilia.
Product Description
Ace remaster of all the Chiswick singles As and Bs, EP cuts, plus unreleased track Teenage Dream. 24 tracks
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Glad to see all these tracks on one disc. This provides a master class in how to create the perfect single. All of the A sides here should have been huge hits. Inventive , creative and imaginative but also great fun I have fond memories of listening to the vinyl versions of all of these. How wonderful as well to have the full "Friday The 13th" ep available on cd again. "Limit Club" is a stone cold classic. One of the greatest periods from one of the greatest bands.If you don't own a Damned album this would be the ideal place to start.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The Damned - The Chiswick Singles... And Another Thing (Ace)
The Damned were only signed to Chiswick Records for a couple of years, but it was a successful collaboration, resulting in two albums, the exceptional "Machine Gun Etiquette" and the ambitious but flawed punk-prog epic, "The Black Album". The singles from the period, collected here (with extras) show a band more than willing to experiment, and a group of individuals all mixing different influences into the pot.
Kicking off with their Chiswick debut "Love Song", who can forget the manic pop thrill of Algy Ward's planet rumbling bass intro as first witnessed on Top Of The Pops (circa 1979), as Dave Vanian distorts and disfigures the traditional love song into something brilliantly perverse and intentionally hilarious. Typical line: "I'll be the rubbish, you'll be the bin". "Smash It Up" (banned by the Beeb, of course) encouraged just that, "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" and "The History Of The World (Pt 1)" indicated they were at their pop songwriting peak, and "There Ain't No Sanity Clause" is simply the best punk Christmas song ever.
The b-sides throw up some long mislaid gems. "Noise Noise Noise" is fabulously rough `n' ready, but instantly loveable. Their cover of The Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz" unmistakably features Lemmy on bass and not forgetting the just plain brilliant "Rabid Over You". Add to those many delights the CD debut of the complete "Friday The 13th" EP, and you've another fantastic and essential Damned release from Ace. Well-done chaps!
The Damned were only signed to Chiswick Records for a couple of years, but it was a successful collaboration, resulting in two albums, the exceptional "Machine Gun Etiquette" and the ambitious but flawed punk-prog epic, "The Black Album". The singles from the period, collected here (with extras) show a band more than willing to experiment, and a group of individuals all mixing different influences into the pot.
Kicking off with their Chiswick debut "Love Song", who can forget the manic pop thrill of Algy Ward's planet rumbling bass intro as first witnessed on Top Of The Pops (circa 1979), as Dave Vanian distorts and disfigures the traditional love song into something brilliantly perverse and intentionally hilarious. Typical line: "I'll be the rubbish, you'll be the bin". "Smash It Up" (banned by the Beeb, of course) encouraged just that, "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" and "The History Of The World (Pt 1)" indicated they were at their pop songwriting peak, and "There Ain't No Sanity Clause" is simply the best punk Christmas song ever.
The b-sides throw up some long mislaid gems. "Noise Noise Noise" is fabulously rough `n' ready, but instantly loveable. Their cover of The Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz" unmistakably features Lemmy on bass and not forgetting the just plain brilliant "Rabid Over You". Add to those many delights the CD debut of the complete "Friday The 13th" EP, and you've another fantastic and essential Damned release from Ace. Well-done chaps!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Finally a complete release with all the different versions plus, the cherry on the cake, the complete Friday The Thirteenth EP. At last the vocal version of Billy Bad Breaks, the fabulous Limit Club and the Mick Jagger cover Citadel. Me and my 3 year old daughter Alice have been bouncing around the room instead of doing anything useful. Bliss.
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Another Great Damned CD!
This was a Christmas present for my husband who is possibly the Damned's greatest fan! He told me it was excellent and had some singles on it that he didn't have (amazing)!
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. W. Simkin
Missing
Great collection ...... but where's "I'm So Bored" extra track on Lively Arts release. Almost complete. Some of the tracks available on expanded editions.
Published 3 months ago by swbr18037
A must have for any Damned fans
A great collection of Damned Chiswick classics in a beautifully packaged case containing a 28 page booklet crammed with memorabilia and photographs. Read more
Published 3 months ago by F. KEW
REALLY DAMNED GOOD
superb cd of all there chiswick label output, this was the period i got into the band 79ish and MGE was 1 of the greatest punk albums ever sound is excellent and artwork and... Read more
Published 4 months ago by K. Fotheringham
The Damned CD
The Damned CD. Exactly as advertised. Good condition and sent in quick time. Seller is a very good Amazon dealer
Published 7 months ago by BobDev
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