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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Neat Neat Neat | |||
| 2. Fan Club | |||
| 3. I Fall | |||
| 4. Born To Kill | |||
| 5. Stab Your Back | |||
| 6. Feel The Pain | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. I Fall | |||
| 2. See Her Tonite | |||
| 3. Feel The Pain | |||
| 4. Help | |||
| 5. Stab Your Back | |||
| 6. Neat Neat Neat | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. 1 Of The 2 | |||
| 2. New Rose | |||
| 3. Alone | |||
| 4. Help | |||
| 5. Fan Club | |||
| 6. I Feel Alright | |||
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Product Description
Deluxe Edition : 2007 expanded 3CD set of the first punk LP w/bonus demos, John Peel sessions and a full unreleased 1976 live set
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Damned's undirected blast of energy screamed the virtues of mindlessness and paradoxically provided belief. Rumbling into view in 77, indecipherable lyrics, intense guitar energy, burning a deep hole in any 16 year old groove. A gang of special Bash St kids, dosed on dexies, handed a road map for personal anarchy. Or was that us?
The Dammed were hated by the press, too unruly, with nothing to say about the states of the world. All they communicated was a state of mind. Nihilism induced by a high energy sugar rush. The constant gigging brought their virus to the backwaters and so they infected the shires beyond the London shrines; Vortex, 100 Club, Hope and Anchor, Marquee.
Incorporating Stooges, bits of Stones, a large slice of Pistols, Ramones, MC5 and of course themselves. First wave was always more aware of the outside musical world. Only aferwards the corridors became narrower and narrower.
For the firstly annnoited before it all became formula, the Damned were catalysts for something new; kicking open doors, ushering in a period of intensity, blinding flares exploding into a deserted musical sky, the signal for change. These tracks, album and demos; are the starting pistol for change rather than the Sex Pistols quivering anger.This did not make the foundations of everything held dear shiver and shake.
Providing a space for like minded to meet each other in pre facebook times; swop addresses, sleep on floors, exchange body fluids, memories, beers and anything else illicit. Across the UK and Europe a friendly damned fan equals a night of excess.
Just remember, people still clung onto other forms of music whilst punk swept the nation, sad, very sad. What do they tell their kids?
This CD package incorporates the first incarceration with Brian James' bending guitar shapes. The second album, produced by Nick "Ferrari" Mason, generally perceived as naff, a relic for the hardcore fan had some highlights. MFP, misnamed, as it was never a treat is generally as bad as it ever was. The Damned embraced Prog. They misjudged the barometer, lost their fans and broke into pieces.
This wraps the speed rush of the 1st with a cull of the best of the 2nd; stretcher case, problem child, don't cry wolf. The other bits are demos but the groove was already cut into the debut.
The 3CD's are historical documents but they don't beat the battered vinyl copy of the 30 year old album.
The Dammed were hated by the press, too unruly, with nothing to say about the states of the world. All they communicated was a state of mind. Nihilism induced by a high energy sugar rush. The constant gigging brought their virus to the backwaters and so they infected the shires beyond the London shrines; Vortex, 100 Club, Hope and Anchor, Marquee.
Incorporating Stooges, bits of Stones, a large slice of Pistols, Ramones, MC5 and of course themselves. First wave was always more aware of the outside musical world. Only aferwards the corridors became narrower and narrower.
For the firstly annnoited before it all became formula, the Damned were catalysts for something new; kicking open doors, ushering in a period of intensity, blinding flares exploding into a deserted musical sky, the signal for change. These tracks, album and demos; are the starting pistol for change rather than the Sex Pistols quivering anger.This did not make the foundations of everything held dear shiver and shake.
Providing a space for like minded to meet each other in pre facebook times; swop addresses, sleep on floors, exchange body fluids, memories, beers and anything else illicit. Across the UK and Europe a friendly damned fan equals a night of excess.
Just remember, people still clung onto other forms of music whilst punk swept the nation, sad, very sad. What do they tell their kids?
This CD package incorporates the first incarceration with Brian James' bending guitar shapes. The second album, produced by Nick "Ferrari" Mason, generally perceived as naff, a relic for the hardcore fan had some highlights. MFP, misnamed, as it was never a treat is generally as bad as it ever was. The Damned embraced Prog. They misjudged the barometer, lost their fans and broke into pieces.
This wraps the speed rush of the 1st with a cull of the best of the 2nd; stretcher case, problem child, don't cry wolf. The other bits are demos but the groove was already cut into the debut.
The 3CD's are historical documents but they don't beat the battered vinyl copy of the 30 year old album.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The Damned have gone down in the history of British popular music as the band that released the first ever 'Punk Rock' record. This was New Rose, a slice of 45 rpm anarchy, commencing with Rat Scabies' trademark drum volleying, and concluding with a demolition of The Beatles' Help.
Their brand of Stooges-inspired, amphetamine-driven rock never quite matched the comet-like trajectory of the Sex Pistols (and while The Damned may have won the race to be committed to vinyl, it was the latter who had actually kick-started the London punk scene many months beforehand). Their stage appearances were far more theatrical than the political posturing of The Clash - bassist Captain Sensible wasn't averse to appearing in nurse uniforms, Scabies in Bay City Roller flares, while singer Dave Vanian seemed weirdly influenced by Carry On Screaming. But their debut album, Damned Damned Damned, is a fantastic adrenaline rush that hasn't dated one iota.
Recorded at Pathway Studio on returning from the Pistols' abortive Anarchy Tour with The Clash and Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, the album was produced by respected singer/songwriter Nick Lowe, Stiff's in-house producer (who went on to work with Elvis Costello).
Like their US predecessors, The Ramones, the tracks collide with furious intensity. The one charge the rock establishment consistently leveled at the impudent young punks of 1976/1977 was their inability to play properly, as if rock music as an art form should have been reduced to a contest in technical ability. In any case, James makes a mockery of this: his exhilarating solos sound as if the strings must be white-hot to the touch. For the rhythm section, Sensible pounds out the bass riffs with equally nihilistic fervour while Rat Scabies' assaults his drumkit. Over all this Dave Vanian hooks the listener with the impudence of lyrics like Born to Kill, So Messed Up, or Neat Neat Neat, the frenetic follow-up to New Rose.
The only time the four-piece prise their foot off the accelerator is for the atmospheric, doom-laden, Feel the Pain. But by the album's conclusion, a rollercoaster rendition of The Stooges' 1970 (re-invented as Feel Alright), any semblance of musical discipline deteriorates into chaos and feedback.
Damned Damned Damned is not for the faint-hearted. Its three-chord riots are as far removed from the MTV-friendly riffs of today's Fratellis as it was the bouffanted sexist bores who were temporarily wiped off the face of the airwaves by Punk in the 70's. Over three decades old, it still contains more rock n' roll energy in 31 minutes 32 seconds than Franz Ferdinand will muster in a lifetime of jangling their pristine Fender Telecasters. The album exemplifies the way the original wave of Punk distilled energy inyo vinyl, temporarily sweeping everything from its path; before it disappeared up its own arse in self-parody and studded biker jackets. Raw but masterful.
Their brand of Stooges-inspired, amphetamine-driven rock never quite matched the comet-like trajectory of the Sex Pistols (and while The Damned may have won the race to be committed to vinyl, it was the latter who had actually kick-started the London punk scene many months beforehand). Their stage appearances were far more theatrical than the political posturing of The Clash - bassist Captain Sensible wasn't averse to appearing in nurse uniforms, Scabies in Bay City Roller flares, while singer Dave Vanian seemed weirdly influenced by Carry On Screaming. But their debut album, Damned Damned Damned, is a fantastic adrenaline rush that hasn't dated one iota.
Recorded at Pathway Studio on returning from the Pistols' abortive Anarchy Tour with The Clash and Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, the album was produced by respected singer/songwriter Nick Lowe, Stiff's in-house producer (who went on to work with Elvis Costello).
Like their US predecessors, The Ramones, the tracks collide with furious intensity. The one charge the rock establishment consistently leveled at the impudent young punks of 1976/1977 was their inability to play properly, as if rock music as an art form should have been reduced to a contest in technical ability. In any case, James makes a mockery of this: his exhilarating solos sound as if the strings must be white-hot to the touch. For the rhythm section, Sensible pounds out the bass riffs with equally nihilistic fervour while Rat Scabies' assaults his drumkit. Over all this Dave Vanian hooks the listener with the impudence of lyrics like Born to Kill, So Messed Up, or Neat Neat Neat, the frenetic follow-up to New Rose.
The only time the four-piece prise their foot off the accelerator is for the atmospheric, doom-laden, Feel the Pain. But by the album's conclusion, a rollercoaster rendition of The Stooges' 1970 (re-invented as Feel Alright), any semblance of musical discipline deteriorates into chaos and feedback.
Damned Damned Damned is not for the faint-hearted. Its three-chord riots are as far removed from the MTV-friendly riffs of today's Fratellis as it was the bouffanted sexist bores who were temporarily wiped off the face of the airwaves by Punk in the 70's. Over three decades old, it still contains more rock n' roll energy in 31 minutes 32 seconds than Franz Ferdinand will muster in a lifetime of jangling their pristine Fender Telecasters. The album exemplifies the way the original wave of Punk distilled energy inyo vinyl, temporarily sweeping everything from its path; before it disappeared up its own arse in self-parody and studded biker jackets. Raw but masterful.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
quite simply the best punk album ever produced by the best punk band in the world .the music is fast ,loud and to the point,is that punk was mean't be be?
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