[kj] Damned Damned Damned

[Alexander Smith]

Whoops, that should've been Slawson - ah whatever.

Like what you like. Personally, I like a lot of Duran Duran, Soft  
Cell and even Thomas Dolby.  Sue me.

Alex in NYC


On Mar 3, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Alexander Smith wrote:


>

> You knock the Damned but defend Jason & the Scorchers?

>

> THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE YOU AWAY, JASON -- YOU'RE NOT AT ALL WELL IN  

> THE HEAD!

>

> Alex in NYC

>

>

> On Mar 3, 2007, at 12:30 AM, GREG SLAWSON wrote:

>

>> 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.

>>

>>

>> 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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