[kj] OT: The Damned

[bongo]

had a big drive today and was having trouble keeping my eyes open... NEW
ROSE comes on the car stereo and instant alertness! fan.fucking.tastic. epic
song.


"due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been
postponed indefinitely..."


On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Leigh Newton <angrytomhanks at yahoo.com>wrote:


>  I'd say they get a "get-out-of-jail-free" card for life just based on New

> Rose alone. Never mind Neat, Neat, Neat, Born to Kill, Fan Club....

>

> Leigh

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

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> *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, 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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> -----Original Message-----

> From: B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>

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> Sent: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 2:49

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

>

> 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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