[kj] OT: The Damned

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The Ever-Revolving Top-Five :

Plan 9 Channel 7
The Limit Club
Curtain Call
Under The Floor Again
History Of The World Part One

and hovering about just outside the top five :

Dr.Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Life Goes On
Wait For The Blackout
Lively Arts
Rabid Over You
Stranger On The Town
I Believe The Impossible








At 14:51 24/04/2010 -0400, you 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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>-----Original Message-----

>From: Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>

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>Sent: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:10

>Subject: Re: [kj] OT: The Damned

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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, <mailto:jpwhkj at aol.com>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

>>

>>

>>

>>-----Original Message-----

>>From: B. Oliver Sheppard 

>><<mailto:bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>

>>To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) 

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>>Sent: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 2:49

>>Subject: Re: [kj] OT: The Damned

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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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