[kj] Damned Damned Damned

[Peter Moltesen]

I think that when they reformed for Machine Gun Etiquette they wanted to
move on from punk - lets face it, MGE has so much more to it than just punk
influences - pop, psychedelia, etc etc. It would have been easy just to
knock out another album of 2 minute pantomime punk singalongs, but it had
already been done so time to move on and try something
different......admittedly with mixed results sometimes.

 

It took a little while, but I really love the Black Album, Curtain Call
included :o) although with a couple of exceptions you'd be hard pressed to
call it 'punk' by any definition. Strawberries was a bit more mixed - but
still some good tunes like Ignite, and another one which Killing Joke (and
maybe Kurt Cobain) obviously liked ;o))) and Phantamagoria and Anything have
been discussed already 

 

Peter

 

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of GREG SLAWSON
Sent: 03 March 2007 05:30
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] Damned Damned Damned

 

Oh yeah, and please don't come my house an d knife me, but most overrated
punk band:

The Dammed! I don't really know there music apart from the "hits", but have
seen them twice--around 83 and around 2002--and could never figure out what
the fuss was about. Sound like a 2nd or 3rd rate pub/pop/punk band w/o lots
of good songs. They were tight and put on a good show (more interesting than
the Buzzcocks, for example, who have much much better material but aren't
anything special live..) but I don't put them in the same league as the
Clash, Ramones. Buzzcocks,  Stiff Little Fingers, etc.


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From:  "Peter Moltesen" <sneakypete at uwclub.net>
Reply-To:  "A list about all things Killing Joke (the
band!)"<gathering at misera.net>
To:  "'A list about all things Killing Joke (the
band!)'"<gathering at misera.net>
Subject:  Re: [kj] Damned Damned Damned
Date:  Fri, 2 Mar 2007 21:30:35 -0000

>Oliver

>

> >I have a 12" interview picture disc of The Damned -- no songs, just a

> >long interview. One side is a head shot of Vanian, Phantasmagoria-era,

> >and the flipside is a shot of the band when they were a five piece,

> >Music for Pleasure_ era, w/ Lu Edmonds in it. Great photo, not-so-great

> >interview.

>

>not seen that - at least I don't remember it !

>there were a whole load of those interview discs which appeared in the mid

>to late eighties, and I kind of lost interest in the Damned when they

>released 'Anything'.....and apart from seeing a couple of the reunion shows

>in the early nineties, it wasn't rekindled until I heard Grave Disorder

>

> >I used to have The Damned Scrapbook, Part1 (ever heard of that? Like a

> >bunch of photocopies of old articles, etc. about them)

>

>I've a feeling my mate Mark has a copy of that....Mark played bass for the

>legendary Johnny Moped for a while - he knew some of the luminaries of the

>Croydon punk scene, including Captain.

>

>Peter

>

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