[kj] Damned Damned Damned

[Alexander Smith]

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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