Better Damned album: Damned Damned Damned or Machingun Etiquette

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They're both pretty good in my opinion, DDD was more straightforward, but you can't deny the value of "Antipope" and "Love Song".

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 22 December 2002 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

DDD is the definitive Damned album, only because it was so blunt and direct (and didn't it pre-date all the other British Punk bands' albums?) Magnificent if only for "Neat Neat Neat" and "New Rose," to say nothing of the their cover of "1970," and...er...."Fish."

MACHINE GUN ETTIQUETE, while brilliant, sounds like a totally different band, really. By comparison, its production value is massive, and it found the band stretching out its stylistic scope considerably. Tracks like "Love Song," "Noise Noise Noise," and "Anti-Pope" might've easily fit onto DDD (despite the latter track's worryingly "jammy" tendency), but more conceptually realized pieces like "Plan 9 Channel 7" and "These Hands" were completely new in the band's increasingly campy trajectory. Also, the band seems to have musically improved by leaps and bounds (witness the instrumental passages in the intro's of "Melody Lee" and "Smash It Up".)

Still, both albums are fucking gorgeous, and I abjectly loathe anyone who disagrees.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 22 December 2002 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

MGE is the one I listen to. Other than New Rose and Neat Neat Neat, DDD doesn't really do it for me. Though I guess I can see why it's "important." Gah. "Important."

― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Sunday, 22 December 2002 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i was about to say "alex in nyc to thread!!"

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 22 December 2002 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Still, both albums are fucking gorgeous

Quite right.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 December 2002 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I vote for MGE but DDD has the better album cover.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 23 December 2002 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

It has to be Damned Damned Damned, if only because Algy Ward was such a complete tosser.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 23 December 2002 10:01 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven years pass...

bass player in the damned would have been a pretty sweet gig

― j., Thursday, 14 August 2014 18:06 (eleven years ago)

eight years pass...

bass player in the damned would have been a pretty sweet gig

sadly Algy Ward left us today.

I saw him with Tank supporting Motorhead on the Iron Fist tour. They ruled.

― stirmonster, Monday, 22 May 2023 22:00 (three years ago)

Being on MGE alone immortalizes him. "Hey man, what's happening?" *cue bass rumble*

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 05:06 (three years ago)

It has to be Damned Damned Damned, if only because Algy Ward was such a complete tosser.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 23 December 2002 10:01 (twenty years ago) bookmarkflaglink

RIP

― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 06:34 (three years ago)

Algy Ward also played on 2nd and 3rd Saints albums

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 20:14 (three years ago)

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