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{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
Name = Damned Damned Damned |
Type = [[Album]] |
Artist = [[The Damned]] |
Cover = Damned - Damned damned damned album cover.jpg |
Released = {{flagicon|UK}} [[February 18]], [[1977]]<br/>{{Flagicon|USA}} [[April 16]], [[1977]] <ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:p9q8b5p4tsqj~T1 | accessdate = 2007-06-06 | author = [[Ned Raggett]]| title = allmusic Damned Damned Damned >> review | publisher = allmusic.com | date = }}</ref> |
Recorded = Pathway Studio (London) <br> (September 1976 / December 1976 - January 1977) |
Genre = [[Punk rock]]|
Length = 31:32 |
Label = [[Stiff Records]] |
Producer = [[Nick Lowe]] |
Reviews = '''Original Album'''
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|2=Review by Chris Jones<br>Publication date: [[April 18]], [[2007]]<br>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/f2f9/ External link]<ref name="BBC">{{cite web | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/f2f9/ | accessdate = 2008-05-19 | author = Chris Jones| title = BBC - Classic Pop/Rock Review - The Damned, Damned Damned Damned | publisher = bbc.co.uk | date = }}</ref>}}
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|2=Review by ''Q'' staff<br>Publication date: May, 2002<br><ref name="Buy">{{cite web | url = http://www.buy.com/prod/Damned_Damned_Damned/q/loc/109/63964154.html | accessdate = 2007-06-06 | author = Unknown| title = Buy.com - Damned Damned Damned - Professional Reviews| publisher = buy.com | date = }}</ref>}}
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|2=Review by ''Uncut'' staff<br>Publication date: August, 2002<br><ref name="Buy" />}}
'''30th Anniversy Expanded Edition'''
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|1=[[Allmusic]] {{Rating-5|5}}
|2=Review by Mark Deming<br>Publication date: Unknown<br>[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hvfyxzu5ldhe External link]<ref name="Allmusic2">{{cite web | url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hvfyxzu5ldhe | accessdate = 2008-05-19 | author = Mark Deming| title = allmusic ((( Damned Damned Damned [30th Anniversary Expanded Edition] > Overview ))) | publisher = allmusic.com | date = }}</ref>}}
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|1=[[PopMatters]] {{Rating-10|9}}
|2=Review by Michael Keefe<br>Publication date: June 26, 2007<br>[http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/42909/the-damned-damned-damned-damned/ External link]<ref name="PopMatters">{{cite web | url =http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/42909/the-damned-damned-damned-damned/ | accessdate = 2008-05-19 | author = Michael Keefe| title = Great Great Great| publisher = popmatters.com | date = June 26, 2007}}</ref>}}|
Last album = |
This album = '''''Damned Damned Damned'''''<br>(1977) |
Next album = ''[[Music for Pleasure (album)|Music for Pleasure]]''<br>(1977) |
| Misc =
{{Singles
| Name = <br>Damned Damned Damned
| Type = studio
| single 1 = [[New Rose]]
| single 1 date = [[October 22]], [[1976]]
| single 2 = [[Neat Neat Neat]]
| single 2 date = [[February 18]], [[1977]]
}}
}}
'''''Damned Damned Damned''''' is the debut [[album]] by [[United Kingdom|British]] [[punk rock]] band [[The Damned]], released in [[February 18]], [[1977]]. Produced by [[Nick Lowe]], it was released on the label [[Stiff Records]]. The musical styles of ''Damned Damned Damned'' were based on the new punk rock sound as heard on the previous single "[[New Rose]]". Unlike their British contempoaries [[The Clash]] and [[The Sex Pistols]], ''Damned Damned Damned'' is not a political album. ''Damned Damned Damned'' also marks first full-length album released by a [[United Kingdom|UK]] punk group.<ref name="Allmusic"/><ref name="Buy"/>
''Damned Damned Damned'' and it's singles failed to chart in the US. The album receives very high praise from modern day critics with [[Ned Raggett]] of [[Allmusic]] commenting that the record is "a stone classic of rock & roll fire".<ref name="Allmusic"/>
==Background==
After the success of "[[New Rose]]" and a tour with [[The Sex Pistols]], [[The Heartbreakers]], and [[The Clash]], the band went into [[Pathway Studio]] to record the album ''Damned Damned Damned'' with [[record producer|producer]] [[Nick Lowe]] who recorded "New Rose" with them. Following ten days of recording, the mix was completed on [[January 15]], [[1977]], the day the master tapes were compiled.<ref name="Linear Notes">''Damned Damned Damned'' (1977; Vinyl album, [[Sanctuary Records]], [[Get Back Records]], 2002).</ref>
''Damned Damned Damned'' was issued by [[Stiff Records]] on [[February 18]], [[1977]] which was also member [[Brian James (musician)|Brian James]]' birthday.<ref name="Linear Notes"/>
===Album cover===
The album cover features the four members of the band who have been hit by [[pies]]. Brian James recalls "that was organised by this photographer called [[Peter Kodick|Peter]], [[Stiff records|Stiff]] had assigned him to do the thing. They though it was a jolly wheeze to surprise us with a few cream cakes, little knowing that we would relish it, get into to it and enjoy the whole experience". After the photo session, Damned member [[Captain Sensible]] noted "...I had more pie on my face than any of the other buggers and on the back of the sleeve I had my back to the picture, so I went down a photo booth and got some pictures, cut one out and said 'put that on there.' So I would have something to show my relatives, because I didn't think we'd be invited to make another album."<ref name="Linear Notes"/>
Stiff records had another problem where initial copies of the album were printed with a photo of [[Eddie & the Hot Rods]] on the back of the album cover, rather than The Damned playing at [[The Roxy Club]]. As of 2002, this rare print of this album fetches around [[Pound (currency)|£]]50 in the UK.<ref name="Linear Notes"/>
==Reception==
The [[United Kingdom|British]] press has had mostly positive notes for the album. In 2002, [[Q Magazine|Q]] included ''Damned Damned Damned'' in its "100 Best Punk Albums" list, declaring it "...One of the nastiest, most ragged and downright funniest record of the era..."<ref name="Buy"/> while in 2003, the album ranked #3 in [[Mojo]]'s "Top 50 Punk Albums" citing the album as "...Fast and furious, a fabulous snapshot of punk's earliest, subterranean days...".<ref name="Buy"/>
The American press has also looked upon the album kindly, [[Ned Raggett]] at [[Allmusic]] gave the album their highest rating of five stars, declaring "''Damned Damned Damned'' is and remains rock at its messy, wonderful best."<ref name="Allmusic"/> The website [[Pitchfork Media]] also positively noted the album in a negative review of The Damned's 2001 album ''[[Grave Disorder]]'' stating "I won't lie to you: the Damned's new album isn't very good. In fact, the Damned have only ever recorded a few albums that were-- for instance, their debut or 1979's ''[[Machine Gun Etiquette]]''"...."<ref name="PitchforkMedia">{{cite web | url = http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16851-grave-disorder | accessdate = 2007-06-06 | author = Joe Tangari| title = Damned - Grave Disorder - Pitchfork Review| publisher = pitchforkmedia.com | date = }}</ref>
==Track listing==
The final song on the album titled "I Feel Alright" is a cover of "1970" by [[The Stooges]].
{{tracklist
| all_writing = [[Brian James (musician)|Brian James]], except where noted
| title1 = [[Neat Neat Neat]]
| length1 = 2:46
| title2 = Fan Club
| length2 = 3:00
| title3 = I Fall
| length3 = 2:08
| title4 = Born to Kill
| note5 =
| length4 = 2:37
| title5 = Stab Your Back
| note5 = [[Rat Scabies]]
| length5 = 1:03
| title6 = Feel the Pain
| note6 =
| length6 = 3:37
| title7 = [[New Rose]]
| note7 =
| length7 = 2:44
| title8 = Fish
| note8 =
| length8 = 1:38
| title9 = See Her Tonight
| note9 =
| length9 = 2:29
| title10 = 1 of the 2
| note10 =
| length10 = 3:10
| title11 = So Messed Up
| note11 =
| length11 = 1:55
| title12 = I Feel Alright
| note12 = [[Dave Alexander (The Stooges)|David Alexander]], [[Ron Asheton]], [[Iggy Pop]]
| length12 = 4:26
}}
===30th Anniversary Expanded Edition===
[[Image:Damneddamneddamned30.jpg|thumb|right|The 30th Annivery edition album cover.]]
On [[April 3]], [[2007]], [[Castle Music]] released a three-disc [[box set]] version of the album. Disc two serves up 26 demos, [[B-sides]], non-LP single tracks and radio recordings, which equals nearly everything the band recorded during their first year of operations. Disc three features a lo-fi recording of one of the Damned's first public gigs, a set recorded in [[London]] during the [[100 Club]]'s first [[100 Club Punk Festival|Punk Rock Festival]] in the summer of 1976.
{{tracklist
| headline = Disc two
| all_writing = [[Brian James (musician)|Brian James]], except where noted
| title1 = I Fall
| length1 = 2:56
| title2 = See Her Tonite
| length2 = 2:40
| title3 = Feel the Pain
| length3 = 5:11
| title4 = [[Help! (song)|Help]]
| note4 = [[John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney]]
| length4 = 1:43
| title5 = Stab Yor Back
| note5 = [[Rat Scabies]]
| length5 = 0:59
| title6 = Neat Neat Neat
| length6 = 2:39
| title7 = New Rose
| length7 = 2:40
| title8 = So Messed Up
| length8 = 2:28
| title9 = I Fall
| length9 = 2:10
| title10 = Singalongascabies
| note10 = Scabies
| length10 = 1:00
| title11 = Fan Club
| length11 = 3:03
| title12 = Feel the Pain
| length12 = 3:33
| title13 = Stretcher Case Baby
| note13 = Scabies
| length13 = 1:48
| title14 = Sick of Being Sick
| length14 = 2:29
| title15 = I Feel Alright
| note15 = [[Dave Alexander (The Stooges)|David Alexander]], [[Ron Asheton]], [[Iggy Pop]]
| length15 = 4:49
| title16 = Born to Kill
| length16 = 3:01
| title17 = Sick of Being Sick
| length17 = 2:50
| title18 = Neat Neat Neat
| length18 = 2:56
| title19 = Fan Club
| length19 = 2:55
| title20 = Stretcher Case Baby
| length20 = 2:26
| title21 = Help
| note21 = Lennon, McCartney
| length21 = 1:32
| title22 = Stab Yor Back
| note22 = Scabies
| length22 = 1:02
| title23 = So Messed Up
| length23 = 2:35
| title24 = New Rose
| length24 = 3:26
| title25 = Stretcher Case Baby
| note25 = Scabies
| length25 = 2:14
| title26 = Sick of Being Sick
| length26 = 1:59
}}
{{tracklist
| headline = Disc three
| title1 = 1 of the 2
| length1 = 3:41
| title2 = New Rose
| length2 = 2:57
| title3 = Alone
| length3 = 3:50
| title4 = [[Help! (song)|Help]]
| note4 = [[John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney]]
| length4 = 1:47
| title5 = Fan Club
| length5 = 3:01
| title6 = I Feel Alright
| note6 = [[Dave Alexander (The Stooges)|David Alexander]], [[Ron Asheton]], [[Iggy Pop]]
| length6 = 4:20
| title7 = Feel the Pain
| length7 = 4:46
| title8 = Fish
| length8 = 1:50
| title9 = I Fall
| length9 = 2:10
| title10 = [[Circles (The Who song)|Circles]]
| note10 = [[Pete Townshend]]
| length10 = 4:42
| title11 = See Her Tonite
| length11 = 2:51
| title12 = I Fall
| length12 = 3:08
| title12 = So Messed Up
| length12 = 2:38
}}
==Personnel==
===The band===
* [[Dave Vanian]] – [[singing|vocals]]
* [[Brian James (musician)|Brian James]] – [[guitar]], vocals
* [[Captain Sensible]] – [[bass guitar|bass]], vocals
* [[Rat Scabies]] – [[drums]], vocals
===Technical staff===
* [[Nick Lowe]] – [[record producer|producer]]
* [[Barry (name)|Bazza]] – [[audio engineer|engineer]]
==References==
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