Track Listing

1. Love Song
2. Machine Gun Etiquette
3. I Just Can't Be Happy Today
4. Melody Lee
5. Anti Pope
6. These Hands
7. Plan 9 Channel 7
8. Noise Noise Noise
9. Looking At You
10. Liar
11. Smash It Up
12. Smash It Up

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62934 in Music
• Released on: 2007-07-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .7 pounds

CD Description
Two years after their debut and a year after they'd split up, the Damned became the first punk band to make a comeback.Their timing was great; two years being a very long time onthe UK music scene, a "second wave" of punk was getting underway. The Damned shocked critics and fans alike by releasing an album as good as their first, DAMNED DAMNED DAMNED. Kicking off with the cynical "Love Song," MACHINE GUN ETIQUETTEis a reflection of the best that late '70s punk could offer. Driving Rat Scabies beats, a little guitar mastery, and some '60's flashbacks (witness the percussion on "Anti Pope"--surely there's a Stones classic in their somewhere?). Catch the pretty piano intro on "Melody Lee" which morphs into punk perfection, while in contrast "Noise Noise Noise" is reminiscent of Buzzcock's "Noise Annoys," with kicking drums. Covers include MC5's "Looking at You," The Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz" (with Motorhead's Lemmy on bass), and a strange versionof Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit."

Customer Reviews

Great album, shame about the packaging
Classic album, well worth the money, buut not in a proper box and packaging a bit cheap and nasty.