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Best Of The Damned
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Damned Damned Damned
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Featured comment (1/1) by LeeRatbag on 2002-08-24
This is, to me, what punk rock was always meant to sound like: frantic, speed-addled and fun. Aside from the songs everyone knows (New Rose/Neat Neat Neat), there are some criminally overlooked gems on here. Feel The Pain comes on like Alice Cooper on a budget of ten pence; See Her Tonite whizzes past in a euphoric rush, leaving its hook embedded in your brain; Fan Club is wonderfully sarcastic; and Stab Yor Back is brilliantly pointless. The sound enclosed on this album is utter chaos - Captain Sensible's basslines rampage all over the shop, while Rat Scabies' drum assault calls to mind a bomb detonating in a kitchen cupboard. The whole thing is held together, more-or-less, by the Thundersalike guitaring of Brian James and the as-yet undeveloped feral howl of Dave Vanian.
A flawed masterpiece.
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Grave Disorder
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Featured comment (1/2) by LeeRatbag on 2002-08-24
Few people would have bet that sixteen years after Captain Sensible's departure from the Damned, he would make up with Dave Vanian and put out a brand new studio album. Even fewer people would have put money on it being THIS GOOD...let's be blunt about this, Grave Disorder is an astounding album. There have been personnel changes: Rat Scabies is gone, though ex English Dogs bloke Pinch is a fine replacement, while ex-Sisters bassist Patricia Morrison (Vanian's wife!) completes the rhythm section, but the essential Damnedness of the band shines through.
The production is crystal clear and more powerful than ever heard before on a Damned record, the performances are exemplary, and the songwriting is razor-sharp throughout; the album as a whole borrows from every period of the band's history - there's stupid punk (Looking For Action), clever punk (Democracy?, She), quasi-goth (Absinthe, Beauty Of The Beast) and some ironic social comment (Amen, W). Oh, and songs about Michael Jackson and John Lennon.
The Damned have never sounded better. Not bad for a bunch of old guys, eh?
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Light at the End of the Tunnel
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Featured comment (1/2) by LeeRatbag on 2002-08-24
Interesting and wide-ranging compilation, biased towards the then-current MCA period (the more "gothic" sounding stuff) but featuring a good cross section of Damned classics. A good starting point, but by no means definitive. Extremely informative sleeve notes, including a Pete Frame Family Tree. CD version includes the stunning 18-minute epic Curtain Call as an extra track.
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Live Anthology
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Marvellous
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Molten Lager [Live]
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Music For Pleasure
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Phantasmagoria
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Featured comment (1/1) by LeeRatbag on 2002-08-24
Bit of an odd one, this. A major departure from the Damned's trademark punkery, this album still provokes furious debate among Damned fans to this day. Boasting a darker yet more accessible sound, Phantasmagoria was the start of the Damned's "gothic" phase. Many people found the new sound, the frilly-shirted image, Vanian's long hair and the absence of Captain Sensible (replaced by Roman Jugg) difficult to stomach, but the album brought them a huge number of new fans too.
Best tracks: the majestic Street Of Dreams, the 'Madness-meets-the-Addams-Family' quirkiness of Grimly Fiendish, and the haunting Shadow Of Love.
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Strawberries
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The Black Album
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Featured comment (1/1) by 1sickpuppy on 2003-09-28
Blimey, I can't believe that no-one has commented on this (The Damned's finest album) yet. This album is the direct predecessor of Grave Disorder containing punky thrash alongs to epic masterpieces with a smattering of Sensible whimsy thrown in for good measure. Originally available as a double LP with the awesome Curtain Call occupying the whole of side 4 but eventualll repackaged as a single LP with the extra sides made available elswhere (Live at Shepperton and the B side of White Rabbit). Buy this before you die.
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The Sessions of the Damned
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