Disco de The Damned: “Tales from the Damned”

Tales of The Damned is an essential purchase simply because it contains the full Friday 13th EP:

Disco Man: a live favourite

The fact the album comes with more songs is simply a bonus. Burglar is a fun b-side with the raspy vocals of Mr. Rat Scabies. Looking At You is a great song and this a strong live performance. Sanity Clause is the usual Damned mayhem with xmas bells!

I'm So Bored and The Turkey Song are throwaway fun, Antipope is an interesting alternative version with violins replacing the bongos. Sugar & Spite, Seagulls are instrumentals that you can take or leave Over The Top is a loud workout between Motorhead nad The Damned with Lemmy on vocals.

Sometimes a collection of rare item could be better than a few of the band's albums. Tales from the Damned is one of them. The cd first track "Burglar" a b-side from the Algy Ward days is a true punk classic, with its sore throated Algy or Captian vocal(I don't know which) and thundering drums. The collection then moves to the unavailable Friday the 13th ep's tracks making it an essential purchase for any Damned fan. "I Believe the Impossible", the violin included "Antipope" (which I enjoy better than the album version), "I'm So Bored", "Teenage Dream", and "Seaguls" are also included along with a few other suprises making a very good collection of tracks.

The Pistols were smart media manipulators. The Germs were extremists. The Damned were god Damned FUN. None of `em knew how to play and the funniest one took off his britches. But somehow the Damned sounded good anyway! How could a group of comedians who didn't know how to play make such great music? It's a Damned mystery and really it gets 5 bicycle bell rings which are better than stars.

And it's also a mystery why Captain Sensible took a leak on the bass player head.

All that god Damned fun comes out on this record. If you are expecting hard core here go buy one of the numerous cliché ridden copy cat punky bands. Just back away because we Damned people don't like you anyway you wankers. You are annoying twits. But if you understand how god Damned funny and fun the Damned were and how great rock can sound then you might want to shell out the extreme amount that this CD fetches. The Motorhead song is better than any Motorhead Motorhead song but Motorhead fans are prohibited from buying this record because they are stupid too. I was going to sell this one until I listened to it. I can't afford to keep it but I'm going keep it anyway. Screw you, I got mine and you are too dumb to understand anyway.

Really, I don't even like most of the Damned records but this one is the living end.