VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2008! 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'...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. When it comes to The Damned, people just can't control their wallets and rightfully so because everything about this truly seminal punk band (think about Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible's wardrobe) contains the genes of future developments in pop music. Therefore it is pure ear satisfaction as you get to listen to the band as punk as ever, and with a hint of new wave style in the 1982 live tracks featured.

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The demos that would become Southern Gentlemen -- the first full album from North Carolina's Gideon Smith & the Dixie Damned -- were purportedly laid down in the hallowed setting of Memphis' Sun Studios using vintage equipment breathed upon by the King himself. Whether this be truth or fable, one has to admire main man Smith for having both the foresight and the balls to conjure such a mystical/historical backdrop for an LP that defies easy categorization. In fact, it dares imagine what {$Elvis...   [ read more ]

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