[kj] OT: The Damned

[melinda grant]

milindas top 5 damned songs ;)
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From: vassifer at earthlink.net
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:21:50 -0400
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: The Damned

Alex in NYC's top 5 Damned songs:
1. "See Her Tonight"2. "Pretty Vacant/Wild Thing" (live) (b-side of the "Is It a Dream?" 12")3. "Neat Neat Neat" 4. "Anti-Pope"5. "Alone Again Or" (Love cover)
Alex in NYC




On Apr 24, 2010, at 2:51 PM, jpwhkj at aol.com wrote: Jamie's top 5 Damned songs:   1. Is It A Dream (Peel session version) 2. History of the World part one 3. The Limit Club 4. Melody Lee 5. Plan 9 Channel 7
 
   
 
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  I haven't weighed in on this until now, but DAMNED DAMNED DAMNED and MACHINE GUN ETIQUETTE are both entirely unimpeachable. Did they make some patchy albums after that? Certainly, but those two are flawless in my book. 
  Alex in NYC 
  
  
  On Apr 24, 2010, at 9:50 AM, jpwhkj at aol.com wrote:   Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of Damned Damned Damned, and bits of MFP.  But are they great albums?  Personally, I don't think so.  (And yes, I'm aware of period, etc etc.)   Conversely, the breadth of songs and talent on display in MGE, TBA, and Straweberries (and the Friday the 13th EP, and the many singles, b-sides, etc) was a game-changer for punk.  And as somebody else has just said, the first Lords album is an absolute blinder as well (albeit nothing like as original as MGE etc).  So for me the departure of James was fantastic news: the Damned were a different - and much better - band without him, and I enjoyed him more in the Lords than in the Damned.   Jamie
 
   
 
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 Jamie had the audacity to write: 
 
 "The Damned were a fairly average early punk band for DDD and MFP, and then James fucked off and did great things with the Lords, and the Damned came into their own as one of the most original, talented, and adventurous punk bands.  Now that's what I call win-win."
 
 
 
 Me:
 
 Dude. (Yes, I am an American, so I can say that.)
 
 Bryan James or not, pretty much everything The Damned did until 1982 is flawless. Flawless. This includes 1978's _Music for Pleasure_, as far as I am concerned, as well as, yes, their near-perfect, post-Bryan James masterpiece, _Machingeun Etiquette_, probably their greatest overall LP. (I first heard MG on cassette with the "Lemmy on bass" 'bonus tracks' put on, but they were  NOT as listed bonus tracks, so that always made me think Lemmy had been in The Damned briefly!)
 
 Whether Bryan James was in the mix or not, I think The Damned were pretty much flawless up until _Strawberries_. Especially when you consider the time period/musical historica context/sociological blah blah blah, etc. :)
 
 -0liver
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