[kj] [OT] Damned Jugg re-releases

[gingoblin at easynet.co.uk]

At 19:22 27/05/2009 +0100, you wrote:

>Anything :

>

>http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anything-Damned/dp/B001PMLKJW/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=m

>usic&qid=1243448163&sr=8-5

>

>Phantasmagoria :

>

>http://www.amazon.co.uk/Phantasmagoria-Damned/dp/B001PMLKK6/ref=pd_sim_m_h__

>1

>

>They're not box sets, but they are cheap, 2-disc jobbies with a reasonable

>selection of extra tracks (although not an exhaustive representation of the

>contemporaneous singles tracks, as the liner notes state). I'm quite pleased

>with them, in any case. Not my favourite Damned period, but they're good,

>solid albums.

>

>Oh - and does anyone have a Not Of This Earth / I'm All Right Jack & The

>Beanstalk rip I could blag or download, please? Can't find my CD, and you

>know how it is when you want to listen to something in particular...

>

>Darren

>Hungerford, UK



Pity they're all previously released extras... though Thanks For The Night 
may be something different... both the single and Peel session have 
Sensible playing guitar so it seems a bit out of place on the Anything CD. 
Never heard of a Vanian/Scabies/Jugg/Merrick version though. There are 
Anything demos, but possibly not up to release standard.  There's some good 
moments on both albums, but the production of Anything is a bit too much 
for me- had to turn it off last time I attempted a play.  It was only 
really three-quarters finished as an album.

Alex in NYC wrote:
"The PHANTASMAGORIA one is worth it for their live cover of "Pretty
Vacant" (originally the b-side of the "Is it a Dream?" twelve inch)."

There was a pretty good Curtain Call on there too. And a not so good Wild 
Thing! Still, Rat must show he can play guitar too!

Oliver wrote:
" But I did used to have a "DAMNED with SOCIAL DISTORTION @ the Hollywood 
Paladium" gig/subway poster from 1986 on my wall, when I was growing. 
Sadly, I threw it away. I hate myself sometimes."

Hey I had that poster too!  I went one better than throwing it away 
though... it burnt along with the rest of my bedroom many years 
ago!  Oops!  Have seen it on Ebay a couple of times though, so more are out 
there.  The scrapbook you got was great!  Part two covering 79/80 was even 
better!

Some of my Damned writings as a wee laddie (that's LADDIE, not LADY!) are 
here : http://www.gingoblins.com/sugarandspite/intro.htm

Dave in Edinburgh