[kj] OT: The Damned (was: Top 50 of 2000-2010)

[Darren A. Peace]

I have to point out that Lu's on MFP, not MGE. Also, is Lemmy on MGE?  
I know there's the Ballroom Blitz b-side.

Darren
Hungerford, UK



On 22 Apr 2010, at 17:25, "B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net 
 > wrote:


> This is my breakdown of what w're talking about. An asterisk next to  

> a song title indicates a song that, AFAIK, they never playeed aftr  

> 1978 or 1979, no matter what. (FYI: The Damned were my "gateway  

> drug" into punk in my arly teens so I began collecting alls orts of  

> shit about them since them, always loved them way more than the Sex  

> Pistols or Clash, etc.):

>

> 1.  _Damned, Damned, Damned_ LP from 1976/1977 ("1976" since some  

> songs are from that year) - wholly written by Bryan James, yet The  

> Damned will play many songs off this LP to this day.

>

> 2. 1977 Stretcher Case Baby" b/w "Sick of Being Sick" 45, also  

> wholly written by Bryan James. STill sorta playd by Th Damned today.

>

> 3. 1978 _Music for Pleasure_ LP, amazing punk rock album/document,  

> yet also wholly written by Bryan James except Dave Vanian gets a "co- 

> writing" song crdit for the song "Your ys" off said LP. At this  

> point most members of The Damned wantd to write their own songs and  

> were sick of James. They broke up and "disowned" this LP thanks to  

> James's dictatorial control.

>

> 4. 1979 - The Damned, but MINUS Bryan James, reform for a few lives  

> shows as "The Doomed."

>

> 5. 1979 - All ex-members of The Damned reform properly as "Th  

> Damned," but kick Bryan James out, and bring it Algy Ward of The  

> Saints as well as Lu Edmonds of PiL, to make what would becom the  

> amazing 1979 punk masterpiece _Machinegun Etiquette_ which even  

> featured Lemmy of Motorhead on bass in a few songs. This was the  

> result of pnt up songwriting ability other members had, but which  

> James had repressed, for the 1st two Damned LPs.

>

> 6. Bryan James went into Lords of the New Church....

>

> So....

>

> To this day, AFAIK, The Damned refuse to play any songs off _Music  

> for Pleasure_ because they were getting sick of being treated like  

> James's robots at that time. That's the impression I have from  

> interviews. This is a tad unfortunate since that LP -- _Music for  

> Pleasure_ -- from an outsider's perspective, does contain a lot of  

> amazing songs. ("Money," "Politics," "Don't Cry Wolf," etc.") Oh  

> well. :/

>

> -0liver

>

>

> On 4/22/10 5:30 AM, gingoblin at easynet.co.uk wrote:

>> Yeah, it's been a while since they played anything off MFP (I'd say  

>> Stretcher Case is more a single, that happened to be on MFP!).  

>> Problem Child in about 1979 would be the last time.

>

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