[kj] Damned Damned Damned

[Alexander Smith]

Nah, I've got ANYTHING on compact disc.

Alex in NYC

On Mar 4, 2007, at 3:59 PM, MALCOLM ARGYLE wrote:


> Have to agree with you on this, i love Strawberries its a great  

> album. Having said that the only album of theirs i could never get  

> on with was Anything apart from the title track, alone again or and  

> In dulce decorum, its strange that this one to my knowledge has  

> never appeared on cd yet!. A special mention has to go to Grave  

> Disorder which is up there with the best of them IMO and im  

> probably going to get panned for this but i allways liked  

> Phantasmagoria :-)

>

> Malc

>

> gingoblin at easynet.co.uk wrote:

> Oh I can't have this!! The Damned were still great in 1983, if  

> unable to

> get new stuff together cos of (mainly) Sensible being busy with his  

> solo

> stuff. Paul Gray had also left, but his replacement Bryn Merrick  

> was more

> than capable of playing the parts. I have lots of live tapes from  

> '83 and

> there ain't a bad one amongst 'em.

>

> 1982's Strawberries is an out and out Damned classic. Perhaps too

> poppy-psych for some folks, but the likes of Stranger On The Town,  

> Ignite,

> Generals, Under The Floor Again are great! And I mention the Friday  

> 13th

> EP again 'cos it's the stepping stone between The Black Album and

> Strawberries and thus is simply splendid stuff!

>

> Opinions eh? What can't we all just THINK THE SAME? ;-)

>

> However, I have a hard time accepting the fact that Damned Damned  

> Damned,

> Machine Gun Etiquette, The Black Album and Strawberries are  

> anything less

> than essentials.

>

> I don't know if 2002 was a particularly bad year for the band  

> either...

> they'd got a decent drummer back (after the aptly-named Gary  

> Dreadful),

> they were doing new stuff... still had Patricia Morrison though, who

> couldn't play Damned-bass to save her life!

>

> But we're in agreement about Vanian sometimes over-embellishing the  

> songs

> these days!

>

> Dave

>

>

>

>

> At 23:51 02/03/2007 -0600, you wrote:

> >1983 and 2002 were NOT good years for The Damned. Don't judge'em  

> on those

> >dates. Like Killing Joke, the quality varies dramatically over the  

> aeons

> >and countless lineup changes.

> >

> >Just as I really dislike Killing Joke from 1986-1989, between  

> Night Time

> >and Extremities, so I do not like anything The Damned made 1980.  

> Pre-1980

> >The Damned is the shit. The Black Album from 1980 has its moments  

> but that

> >was the beginning of the end, sorry to say, as far as I am concerned.

> >Nothing they've released after it has really impressed me. Okay,  

> except

> >MAYBE the Friday the13th EP which someone mentioned. But it's  

> mostly 1979

> >and backwards where The Damned are the good band I think of.

> >

> >They have made a lot of bad image, music, and career choices since  

> then.

> >Vanian is now going the aging Roy Orbison route, a self-trained  

> crooner

> >who I think embellishes songs way too much now, singing a completely

> >different style than he did on the 1st LP. So when the new Damned  

> try to

> >play their old songs, it doesn't sound the same at all. Also, 1983  

> was the

> >year Strawberries came out, not an album I like except like 2 songs.

> >

> >-Oliver

> >

> >

> >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.

> >

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