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 years ago) link
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 years ago) link
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 years ago) link
eleven years pass...
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 (one week ago) link
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 (one week ago) link