Damned
Damned, Damned, Damned (30Th Anniversary Expanded Edition)
Label ©  Castle
Release Year  2007
Length  2:17:55
Genre  Punk
Personal Star Rating [1-5]  
  Ref#  D-0084
Bitrate  ~207 Kbps
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    Track Listing:
      CD1:
      1.  
      		 Neat Neat Neat  
       2:43  
      2.  
      		 Fan Club  
       2:57  
      3.  
      		 I Fall  
       2:06  
      4.  
      		 Born To Kill  
       2:37  
      5.  
      		 Stab Yor Back  
       1:00  
      6.  
      		 Feel The Pain  
       3:36  
      7.  
      		 New Rose  
       2:44  
      8.  
      		 Fish  
       1:39  
      9.  
      		 See Her Tonite  
       2:29  
      10.  
      		 1 Of The 2  
       3:08  
      11.  
      		 So Messed Up  
       1:51  
      12.  
      		 I Feel Alright  
       4:27  
      CD2:
      1.  
      		 I Fall (Demo, June 1976)  
       2:56  
      2.  
      		 See Her Tonite (Demo, June 1976)  
       2:40  
      3.  
      		 Feel The Pain (Demo, June 1976)  
       5:11  
      4.  
      		 Help (Stiff B-Side, October 1976)  
       1:43  
      5.  
      		 Stab Yor Back (Peel Session, 30/11/76)  
       0:59  
      6.  
      		 Neat Neat Neat (Peel Session, 30/11/76)  
       2:39  
      7.  
      		 New Rose (Peel Session, 30/11/76)  
       2:40  
      8.  
      		 So Messed Up (Peel Session, 30/11/76)  
       2:28  
      9.  
      		 I Fall (Peel Session, 30/11/76)  
       2:11  
      10.  
      		 Singalongascabies (Stiff B-Side, February 1977)  
       1:00  
      11.  
      		 Fan Club (Peel Session, 5/5/77)  
       3:03  
      12.  
      		 Feel The Pain (Peel Session, 5/5/77)  
       3:33  
      13.  
      		 Stretcher Case Baby (Peel Session, 5/5/77)  
       1:48  
      14.  
      		 Sick Of Being Sick (Peel Session, 5/5/77)  
       2:29  
      15.  
      		 I Feel Alright (In Concert, 19/5/77)  
       4:49  
      16.  
      		 Born To Kill (In Concert, 19/5/77)  
       3:01  
      17.  
      		 Sick Of Being Sick (In Concert, 19/5/77)  
       2:50  
      18.  
      		 Neat Neat Neat (In Concert, 19/5/77)  
       2:57  
      19.  
      		 Fan Club (In Concert, 19/5/77)  
       2:55  
      20.  
      		 Stretcher Case Baby (In Concert, 19/5/77)  
       2:26  
      21.  
      		 Help (In Concert, 19/5/77)  
       1:32  
      22.  
      		 Stab Yor Back (In Concert, 19/5/77)  
       1:02  
      23.  
      		 So Messed Up (In Concert, 19/5/77)  
       2:35  
      24.  
      		 New Rose (In Concert, 19/5/77)  
       3:26  
      25.  
      		 Stretcher Case Baby (Stiff Single, July 1977)  
       2:14  
      26.  
      		 Sick Of Being Sick (Stiff Single, July 1977)  
       1:59  
      CD3:
      1.  
      		 1 Of The 2  
       3:42  
      2.  
      		 New Rose  
       2:57  
      3.  
      		 Alone  
       3:50  
      4.  
      		 Help  
       1:47  
      5.  
      		 Fan Club  
       3:01  
      6.  
      		 I Feel Alright  
       4:20  
      7.  
      		 Feel The Pain  
       4:46  
      8.  
      		 Fish  
       1:50  
      9.  
      		 Circles  
       4:42  
      10.  
      		 See Her Tonite  
       2:51  
      11.  
      		 I Fall  
       3:08  
      12.  
      		 So Messed Up  
       2:38  
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      Release Notes:
      February 2007 marked the 30th anniversary of the original release of DAMNED DAMNED DAMNED, the first PUNK album ever issued. This Expanded Edition, compiled & annotated by Punk aficianado Kieron Tyler, with foreword by The Damned?s Rat Scabies, has two Bonus Discs. Disc 2 comprises various contemporaneous demo?s, singles, John Peel radio sessions, and a full Live set. Disc 3 features a previously-unreleased Live set, recorded at the 100 Club in July 1976, believed to be the first major gig ever to showcase two Punk bands (The Sex Pistols shared the bill).


      Review by Mark DemingIf you like punk rock at all, you pretty much have to have a soft spot for the Damned's epochal 1976 debut album Damned Damned Damned, one of the masterstroke releases of the first wave of British punk which still sounds fresh, exciting and brilliantly snotty three decades after it was released. But if you love Damned Damned Damned, well, this remastered and lavishly expanded edition will bring a broken-toothed grin to your face in no time flat. This three-disc set (yes, three discs!) opens with the original album, which seems to have hardly dated a bit. For all the group's manic energy, the playing is sharp and muscular, Dave Vanian's vocals are powerful enough to make his histrionics work, Rat Scabies' drumming holds the band tight, Captain Sensible's bass provides a solid foundation for the melodies and Brian James' guitar wails with primitive force. The songs still communicate, and the band's lack of an upfront political or social agenda means these songs aren't chained to their era the way the early Clash, Sex Pistols or Stiff Little Fingers discs are, great as they may be. Disc two serves up 26 demos, B-sides, non-LP single tracks and radio recordings, which equals nearly everything the band recorded during their first year of operations. The two John Peel sessions and a ten-song BBC live concert will delight anyone with a fondness for the band's first era, and you may want to give "Singalong Scabies" ("Stab Yor Back" minus its vocal track) a spin at your next karaoke party. And Disc three features a lo-fi recording of one of the Damned's first public gigs, a set recorded in London during the 100 Club's first Punk Rock Festival in the summer of 1977. The recording quality is only fair, and the audience doesn't seem to be too enthusiastic, but the Damned give their all, and the show is both exciting and historically priceless. The set comes with a 16-page booklet packed with photos and featuring an excellent historical essay from Kieron Tyler. [The 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition of Damned Damned Damned not only adds plenty of fine music and historical perspective to one of the great album of the British punk scene, it actually improves on the fine box set Play It at Your Sister, which covers most of the same territory before sinking into the disappointment of the group's misbegotten second album, Music for Pleasure; this is simply essential stuff, and rock & roll fun at its most dangerous.]
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