Limited Edition

I was a bit surprised to find this as I didn't know it existed.
This is not the line up of the first LP. No Geordie or Jah Wobble instead a Steven Seibold (who?) fills in on guitar and bass doing a fairly good Geordie and Wobble impression.
Martin Atkins is on drums doing what he does best..and , personally, I could just listen to Atkins just drum.
Chris Connelly on vocals doing a good job. I really like his lyrics which sometimes get over looked.
This album is not as strong as the first one but is worth a listen.
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At the risk of repeating what others have said, this album has grown on me to the extent that i felt like writing something. I've had it for about a year and listened to it in different moods and times of day.

Leaving aside my qualms about using the damage manuals name and reputation to sell this CD (i only really bought it for the bonus track originally) this is a worthy album and i suppose the Damage Manual name is a fair indicator of the musical styles.
Right, getting the bad stuff out of the way first: what is going on with the cheesy lyrics on tracks 1,7 & 8?
Chris Connelly is a class act so i just don't understand how he's slipped into a rock cliche but it is only 3 tracks out of 11 which isn't a bad batting average by anyones standards
i guess he could have been trying to sound ironic but it doesn't come off and lets face it, cheese is cheese!

The Killing Joke comparisons other reviewers have made are fair IMO . If you love KJ but don't like how Jaz (Vocals) now sounds on the last few albums this may stave off withdrawal symptoms for a while.

Surprisingly Martin Atkins seems to have heeded the criticism of his production on the early damage manual releases, I guess we have Steven Seibold to thank for that, its far less intrusive and there really aren't any flaws i can find on that front.
Steven Seibold does a good job on Bass & Guitars obviously he's no Geordie Walker but Geordie has been so badly recorded of late that even he isn't Geordie Walker any more!

leaving aside the 3 cheese fests i mentioned, Connelly vocals are vastly improved since the first album, less mannered and more natural this time, no Bowie or Lydon impressions on this CD

The PiL influence is pretty much absent this time around (apart from the bonus remix of "Expand")

Track 10 is what i bought it for, its billed as the "can remix", but more accurately its an Irmin & Kumo Remix. (I'm used to Atkins name dropping marketing tricks by now)

its stunning, everything you'd expect from Irmin & Kumo, i like to describe their sound as the sort of sound you'd hear if a pirate radio station broke through BBC Radio 3 on your car radio.

Wobbles Gigantic bass is way upfront and is the foundation of the track. theres the usual seemingly random but utterly inspired Piano from Irmin. Connellys Vox are mixed back and cleverly processed to form a background texture. theres also some wonderfully juicy early-Pil-type synth lurking in the mix.

to drift way off on a tangent for a moment i always wondered if Bowies Outside album was directly inspired/influenced by Irmin and Kumo or whether it was just the combination of Garsons Piano + Drum & Bass beats, if you see what I mean?

anyway to sum up, its a while since i've been pleasantly surprised by a cd in the way this i was by this one and even if you only want the Irim & Kumo Track its selling for £3! go on, take a chance!

in the unlikely event of another Damage manual album of new original material i would definitely give it a chance