The Black Album (The Damned album)
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{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
Name = The Black Album |
Type = [[Album]] |
Artist = [[The Damned]] |
Cover = Thedamnedblackalbum.jpg |
Released = October, 1980 <small>CWK3015</small>|
Recorded = [[Rockfield Studios]] ([[Monmouth]], Wales) <br> (May - June 1980) <br> <small>live tracks: <br> [[Shepperton Studios]] ([[Shepperton]]) <br> (26th July 1980)</small> |
Genre = [[Punk rock]],<br /> [[Gothic rock]]<br />[[Psychedelic rock]]<br />[[Experimental rock]] |
Length = 77:42 |
Label = [[Chiswick Records|Chiswick]] |
Producer = [[The Damned]],
(and on [["The History of the World - Part 1"]] only, [[Hans Zimmer]]) |
Reviews = *[[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|3.5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:yla9qj6yojsa link] |
Last album = ''[[Machine Gun Etiquette]]''<br /> (1979) |
This album = ''The Black Album'' <br /> (1980) |
Next album = ''[[Strawberries (album)|Strawberries]]''<br />(1982) |}}
'''''The Black Album''''' was the fourth album by [[The Damned]], and the first to feature [[Paul Gray (musician)|Paul Gray]] on bass guitar.
It was released in October 1980 on [[Chiswick Records|Chiswick]] as a [[double album]], with "Curtain Call" filling the whole of side three, and a selection of live tracks recorded at [[Shepperton Studios]] for Damned fan club members on side four.
==Reissues==
The Damned's Chiswick back catalogue was acquired by Big Beat in 1981, and ''The Black Album'' was reissued in August 1982 as a single album that omitted "Curtain Call" and the live tracks.
The artwork for the reissue parodied the sleeve of [[The Beatles]]' ''[[White Album]]'', rendered in black with no details other than the group's name embossed in capitals. The live tracks were reissued in their own right as ''[[Live Shepperton 80|Live Shepperton 1980]]'' with four extra tracks.
The first subsequent reissue on [[Compact disc|CD]] reinstated "Curtain Call" and the original artwork, and the 2005 double-CD reissue also reinstated the live tracks.
==Track listing==
All songs written by [[Rat Scabies]]/[[Captain Sensible]]/[[Paul Gray (musician)|Paul Gray]]/[[Dave Vanian]] except * by Scabies/Sensible/Gray/Vanian/Billy Karloff, † by Scabies/Sensible/Gray/Vanian/Giovanni Dadomo.
===Side one===
#"Wait for the Blackout" – 3:57 *
#"Lively Arts" – 2:59
#"Silly Kids Games" – 2:35
#"Drinking About My Baby" – 3:04
#"Twisted Nerve" – 4:39
#"Hit Or Miss" – 2:37
===Side two===
#"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" – 4:35 †
#"Sick Of This and That" – 1:50
#"The History of the World - Part 1" – 3:45
#"13th Floor Vendetta" – 5:05
#"Therapy" – 6:12
===Side three===
#"Curtain Call" – 17:13
===Side four===
All songs written by Scabies/Sensible/Vanian/[[Algy Ward]] except ** by Scabies/Sensible/Vanian/Ward/Dadomo, ‡ by [[Brian James (musician)|Brian James]].
#"Love Song" (Live) – 2:10
#"Second Time Around" (Live) – 1:46
#"Smash It Up (Parts 1 & 2)" (Live) – 4:24
#"New Rose" (Live) – 1:49 ‡
#"I Just Can't Be Happy Today" (Live) – 3:55 **
#"Plan 9 Channel 7" (Live) – 5:12
== Line up ==
* [[Dave Vanian]] - Vocals
* [[Captain Sensible]] - Guitars & Vocals
* [[Paul Gray (musician)|Paul Gray]] - Bass
* [[Rat Scabies]] - Drums
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