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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. New Rose | |||
| 2. Help | |||
| 3. Neat Neat Neat | |||
| 4. See Her Tonite | |||
| 5. Fan Club | |||
| 6. I Fall | |||
| 7. I Feel Alright | |||
| 8. Feel The Pain | |||
| 9. Stretcher Case | |||
| 10. Problem Child | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. The History Of The World (Part 1) | |||
| 2. Wait For The Blackout | |||
| 3. Drinking About My Baby | |||
| 4. Silly Kids Games | |||
| 5. Curtain Call | |||
| 6. Lovely Money | |||
| 7. Dozien Girls | |||
| 8. Life Goes On | |||
| 9. Under The Floor Again | |||
| 10. Generals | |||
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Smash It Up revisits the decade-long career of the Damned, who famously hitched a ride on the early Sex Pistols bandwagon and then beat them to releasing the first UK punk single, a crazed little beat ditty called "New Rose", in November 1976. Based visually around Dave Vanian's (aka Dave Letts) proto-goth vampire trappings and Captain Sensible's (aka Ray Burns) tutu-wearing wackiness, and musically around Rat Scabies's (aka Chris Miller) Keith Moon-like drum mania and Brian James's (aka Brian Robertson) high-speed thrash guitar, they followed up with the even better "Neat Neat Neat", a punk high point. Artistically, it was also The Damned's, as James left, Sensible moved to guitar, and they embarked upon a career of pub-metal anthems and cabaret punk nostalgia. The critics ignored them, but the hits kept on coming, including "Love Song", "Smash It Up" and their biggest, a ludicrous cover of the Paul and Barry Ryan's 1960s MOR hit "Eloise", which reached No. 3 in January 1986. They spilt the following year, leaving behind a legacy of making a little go a long, long way, the salient parts of which are all included on this two-CD, 35-track set. --Garry Mulholland
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2CD set, in a SLIPCASE. Fantastic 35-track compilation spanning 1976 to 1987.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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This is the Damned album that all fans should have especially if they are more into the old styles of Punk with more resmblance to that of The Clash and Sham 69 to name a couple, which is definitley more to my liking. With great songs like New Rose,Smash it up, Neat Neat Neat and Love Song that break through into your head like a demon that just won't go away.Great guitar work and vocals that help echo the words "Pure Punk" and it is nothing less...The Damned hepled bring Classic Punk kicking and screaming into many peoples lives, and this double Cd covering probably the best years of this fantastic band is a definite Must Buy for the "Punk Obsessed".
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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As already mentioned, if you have to buy one Damned album, this is the one you want. It covers the group's portfolio as well as any one work can from the primitive New Rose thrash to the wonderfully camp Eloise. As the sleeve notes say, it's hard to credit that these two tracks come from the same band which makes the collection all the more important.
There are a couple of ditties that I'd never heard of, including In Dulce Decorum and Curtain Call and I feel much better person for having heard them. There is also one surprising ommission - I Think I'm Wonderful - a track that I reckon sums up the group better than any other they ever did - better even than Smash It Up itself. So I downloaded that one track from Amazon MP3 downloads and added it to the album myself.
Go Get 'Em Floyd!
There are a couple of ditties that I'd never heard of, including In Dulce Decorum and Curtain Call and I feel much better person for having heard them. There is also one surprising ommission - I Think I'm Wonderful - a track that I reckon sums up the group better than any other they ever did - better even than Smash It Up itself. So I downloaded that one track from Amazon MP3 downloads and added it to the album myself.
Go Get 'Em Floyd!
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not all there!
Well, firstly ignore Garry Mulholland's 'review', it's just factually incorrect and rose-tinted towards the fashion 'punks' i.e Malcolm McLaren's Sex Pistols. Read more
Published 6 months ago by zarkbark
Forever Damned.
From the spoken opening "is she really going out with him?" by Dave Vanian folowed by Rat Scabies crashing drums on "New Rose" to the later Gothic/ Psychedelic era, this album is a... Read more
Published on 2 Aug 2009 by Mr. David J. Garrett
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