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Ace wrote:She's also had lunch with a Resident.

...whose name was?

Wine nut was probably Vanian, yeah? I drank with him in Detroit before a show and he was sipping brandy out of a giant snifter. It was just so perfect.

Good riffs and sense of humor: NC.

wuuuuu uuuuuu smash it up!

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Not Crap

fancyjamtime wrote:

Ace wrote:She's also had lunch with a Resident.

...whose name was?

that would be giving away to much, wouldn't it?

actually, i have no clue. i just know it was a she.

fancyjamtime wrote:

Ace wrote:She's also had lunch with a Resident.

...whose name was?

Wine nut was probably Vanian, yeah? I drank with him in Detroit before a show and he was sipping brandy out of a giant snifter. It was just so perfect.

I would guess, just by his persona, that is was Vanian.

fancyjamtime wrote:

Edd Tastyhead wrote:The quality of the first two albums is gonna have to make me vote not crap though.

...because "Machine Gun Etiquette" was crap, right?

I didn't say that, I said those first two albums are the ones that moved me the most. Machine Gun is alright though it didn't really grab me and I'm not sure I've heard Strawberries. Which tracks are on that one?

Strawberries has "Gun Fury", "Generals", "Stranger on the Town", "Dozen Girls", "Bad Time for Bonzo", "The Dog" but most importantly "Ignite", which is probably my favorite Damned song.

"Don't Bother Me", the closer, is a great piss off to everybody. Chock full of the original Damned attitude.

I'd say that it's my favorite Damned disc. The mellower stuff was less "goth" to me than, say, "Odessey and Oracle" era Zombies ("The Pleasure and the Pain" and "Life Goes On").

People gave it a lot of shit, saying it was "toothless". Fuck that. It wasn't as explosive as the first couple of songs on "Machine Gun Etiquette" granted but it was still chock full of great stuff. I have the edition with the pig shit on the back and a strawberry scented insert.

"Life Goes On" was on that one, the song Killing Joke ripped off for "Eighties" so that Nirvana could rip off for "Come As You Are". To be fair, the bass line in all cases is a fairly obvious one. I prefer Vanian's vocal line to the other two anyway.

chuckk wrote:

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

Crass were just jealous because The Damned could actually play.

Crass made better music.

big_dave wrote:

chuckk wrote:

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

Crass were just jealous because The Damned could actually play.

Crass made better music.

Then they might have wanted to leave some recorded evidence of that.

Fuck it, I'm gonna take to sipping brandy out of a giant snifter before shows.

Not Crap.