The Damned - Damned Damned Damned

While The Sex Pistols will always have a prominent place in the story of U.K. punk, The Damned did nearly everything first, including the first single, the smoking "New Rose," and the first album, namely this stone classic of rock & roll fire. At just half an hour long, Damned Damned Damned is a permanent testimony to original guitarist Brian James' songwriting (ten of the 12 tracks are his) and the band's take-no-prisoners aesthetic. Starting with Captain Sensible's sharp bassline for "Neat Neat Neat," which rapidly explodes into a full band thrash, The Damned left rhetoric for the theoreticians and political posing for The Clash. Read More