Top singles from the past…
17 March 2020
Band: The Damned
Single: Smash It Up
B-side: Burglar
Released: 28 September 1979
Album: Machine Gun Etiquette
The band’s third LP
Score: #35 in the UK
Here’s the original clip…
THE DAMNED: Facebook
Great magazine covers from the past…
DAVE VANIAN
The Damned
19 March 1977
NME
3 January 2020
Band: The Damned
Song: Eloise – cover of British pop singer Barry Ryan‘s 1968 hit
B-side: Temptation
Released: 27 January 1986
Score: It peaked at #3 in the UK
The Damned didn’t turn the song into a punk anthem,
on the contrary, it sounded sweeter than the original.
But they looked cool on Top Of The Pops, 34 years ago…
THE DAMNED: Facebook
Here’s the original 1968 version sung by Barry Ryan, but written by his twin brother Paul…
The Damned‘s frontman Dave Vanian about the optimistic power of music…
Weekly series of five rolling ripsnorters to go completely bananas to this summer…
This week we unleash five classic punk sledgehammers to bang your head to…
1. ‘No Fun’ by The Stooges
(Self-titled debut LP – 1969)
2. ‘New Rose’ by THE DAMNED
(Album: Damned Damned Damned – 1977)
3. ‘Bodies’ by SEX PISTOLS
(Album: Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols – 1977)
4. ‘Janie Jones’ by THE CLASH
(From self-titled Debut LP – 1977)
5. ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ by RAMONES
(From self-titled debut LP – 1976)
All 40 Summer Bangers so far
collected here on Spotify…
See/hear you next week, music junkies…
Bad cover, bad music
Band: THE DAMNED
Album: MUSIC FOR PLEASURE
Released: November 1977
Why bad artwork: because it’s just totally arty farty.
It’s 1977, folks, the year punk exploded, the same year
the cover of the band’s debut ‘Damned Damned Damned‘
(released 9 months earlier) was smashing fun. So why try
to look stupidly smart suddenly is beyond my understanding…
Great cover, great music
Knockouts from the past…
3 April 2019
‘Smash It Up‘ by THE DAMNED
‘Smash It Up‘ was released as a single on 28 September 1979. A track from their Machine Gun Etiquette LP of the same year, listed weirdly as ‘Smash It Up (Part II)‘. B-side: Burglar. The Damned wanted to smash the hippie culture. If you feel the irresistible urge to smash something too, than now is the time, folks…
THE DAMNED: Biography – Facebook
The best of the past…
Every week Turn Up The Volume jumps into the past! Relive 25 Crackers and
3 Top Albums per year/per week. Here’s the first year punk showed up: 1976.
Here’s the 25 KILLER TRACKS selection…
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Here are 3 TOP ALBUMS…
– Self-titled RAMONES debut LP –
Stream here…
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– Self-titled BLONDIE debut LP –
Stream here…
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– ‘Stupidity‘ – Live LP by DR. FEELGOOD –
Stream here…
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Dave Vanian about recording the new The Damned LP under pressure with Tony Visconti
Here’s the THE DAMNED‘s
new album ‘EVIL SPIRITS’…
