Crap, 4, after recalling ex New Model Army bassist Jason Harris, briefly with the Damned to raise a bit of cash, summing them up as the "Grand Dames of Cabaret Punk." Fits them nicely, methinks.

I like Machine Gun Etiquette too, but mainly because I have a perverse Algy Ward fetish. I've got all his crap with Tank to boot, but I'm not proud of that either.

This is the thread I was looking for. I think that I have always liked all their phases, at least through 1985. Not Crap by any means.

Easily my favorite first-generation English punk band back in the day, probably because they were more discernibly "rock & roll" than their contemporaries, but they were also much faster. Brian James and Rat Scabies were both monsters. They had very tightly constructed songs, and I'm sure I'm not the only one out there who heard "I Feel Alright" before "1970."

When I joined Malignant Growth, they gave me a live cassette from which to learn their songs. The set opened with four Damned covers in a row. Even at fifteen and never having been in a band before, I knew that if you were gonna cover four songs by the same band, you'd better not do them all in a row--and you certainly wouldn't want to open your set that way.

The funniest part was that on the Growth's version of "Neat Neat Neat," Kenny Ogle always sang, "Neat, neat, neat, neat." I guess he figured that if three was good, four was better.

I tired of "New Rose" and "Neat Neat Neat" fairly quickly, but "Born to Kill" was always a blast to play.

Sure, they turned horrible, but still. Anyone who votes crap, I am coming to slash your face with my copy of that Stiff singles comp.

Who can hate Damned Damned Damned?

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote: I'm sure I'm not the only one out there who heard "I Feel Alright" before "1970.".

No, no you're not.

And

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote: When I joined Malignant Growth

What a great band!

I found myself totally loving Music For Pleasure a couple years ago. It's so lovingly cock-rock!!

Also, does anyone have the Damned Damned Damned anniversary edition multi-CD set? Haven't heard it yet, but it looks interesting.

Not Crap, from what I've heard.
Anybody here read Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail? Not Crap either.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:They had very tightly constructed songs, and I'm sure I'm not the only one out there who heard "I Feel Alright" before "1970."

i was in a band that covered it and the version that was played for me was "I Feel Alright"...so back in high school i was playing that song before i'd ever heard The Stooges...

Crass called them "Major Label Puppets", but they weren't crap at all.