The Damned Lyrics
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From the Album
1. I Feel Alright
2. Anything
3. Lovely Money
4. Thanks For The Night
5. Plan 9 Channel 7
6. Grimly Fiendish
7. Stranger On The Town
8. Neat Neat Neat
9. Alone Again Or
10. Is It A Dream
11. Smash It Up Parts I & II
12. Psychomania
13. Curtain Call
14. Ignite
15. Help!
16. Rabid (Over You)
17. I Just Cant Be Happy Today
18. Problem Child
19. Nasty
20. Disco Man
21. New Rose
22. Love Song
23. Feel The Pain
24. The History of the World (Part 1)
25. In Dulce Decorum
26. Trojans
27. Eloise
28. The Shadow Of Love
Other Songs 13th Floor Vendetta 1 Of The 2 Absinthe Alone Amen Antipope Bad Time For Bonzo Ballroom Blitz Beauty Of The Beast Billy Bad Breaks Born To Kill Burglar Citadel Creep Democracy? Disguise Dont Bother Me Dont Cry Wolf Dozen Girls Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Drinking About My Baby Edward The Bear End Of Time Fan Club Fish Generals Gigolo Gun Fury History of the World Part 1 History Of The World Part I Hit Or Miss I Fall I Need a Life [BBC Session: 29/11/93] I Think I'm Wonderful [Bonus Track] Idiot Box Its A Real Time Thing Jet Boy Jet Girl Liar Life Goes On Limit Club Lively Arts Looking At You Looking For Action Lust for Life Machine Gun Etiquette Melody Lee Neverland Nice Cup Of Tea Nightshift Noise Noise Noise Obscene One Way Love Politics Pretty Vacant Restless Sanctum Sanctorum Second Time Around See Her Tonite She Shut It (Die Krupps Mix) Sick Of This And That Silly Kids Games Smash It Up Smash It Up Parts I and II Smash It Up, Pts. 1-2 Smash It Up(Pt 2) So Messed Up Song.com Stab Yor Back Stab Your Back Street Of Dreams Stretcher Case Stretcher Case Baby Suicide The Dog The Eight Day The Girl Goes Down The Limit Club The Pleasure And The Pain The Turkey Song Therapy There Aint No Sanity Clause Therell Come A Day These Hands Thrill Kill Tightrope Walk Twisted Nerve Under The Floor Again W Wait For The Blackout Would You Would You Be So Hot Would You Be So Hot (If You Weren't Dead) You Know You Take My Money Your Eyes
Other Songs 13th Floor Vendetta 1 Of The 2 Absinthe Alone Amen Antipope Bad Time For Bonzo Ballroom Blitz Beauty Of The Beast Billy Bad Breaks Born To Kill Burglar Citadel Creep Democracy? Disguise Dont Bother Me Dont Cry Wolf Dozen Girls Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Drinking About My Baby Edward The Bear End Of Time Fan Club Fish Generals Gigolo Gun Fury History of the World Part 1 History Of The World Part I Hit Or Miss I Fall I Need a Life [BBC Session: 29/11/93] I Think I'm Wonderful [Bonus Track] Idiot Box Its A Real Time Thing Jet Boy Jet Girl Liar Life Goes On Limit Club Lively Arts Looking At You Looking For Action Lust for Life Machine Gun Etiquette Melody Lee Neverland Nice Cup Of Tea Nightshift Noise Noise Noise Obscene One Way Love Politics Pretty Vacant Restless Sanctum Sanctorum Second Time Around See Her Tonite She Shut It (Die Krupps Mix) Sick Of This And That Silly Kids Games Smash It Up Smash It Up Parts I and II Smash It Up, Pts. 1-2 Smash It Up(Pt 2) So Messed Up Song.com Stab Yor Back Stab Your Back Street Of Dreams Stretcher Case Stretcher Case Baby Suicide The Dog The Eight Day The Girl Goes Down The Limit Club The Pleasure And The Pain The Turkey Song Therapy There Aint No Sanity Clause Therell Come A Day These Hands Thrill Kill Tightrope Walk Twisted Nerve Under The Floor Again W Wait For The Blackout Would You Would You Be So Hot Would You Be So Hot (If You Weren't Dead) You Know You Take My Money Your Eyes
The Damned are an English rock band formed in London in 1976 by lead vocalist Dave Vanian, guitarist Brian James, bassist (and later guitarist) Captain Sensible and drummer Rat Scabies. They were the first punk band from the United Kingdom to release a single, "New Rose" (1976), release a studio album, Damned Damned Damned (1977) and tour the United States. Nine of the band's singles charted on the UK Singles Chart Top 40.
The band briefly dissolved after Music for Pleasure (1977), the follow-up to their debut studio album, was critically dismissed. They quickly reformed without Brian James and released Machine Gun Etiquette (1979). In the 1980s, they released four studio albums: The Black Album (1980), Strawberries (1982), Phantasmagoria (1985) and Anything (1986), which saw the band moving toward a gothic rock style. The latter two albums did not feature Sensible, who had left the band in 1984. In 1988, James and Sensible rejoined to play a series of reunion gigs, one of which was released the next year as the live album Final Damnation (1989). Their fast-driven punk rock has been cited for influencing and shaping the emergence of hardcore punk in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United Kingdom and the United States.
The Damned again reformed for a tour in 1991. In 1995, they released a new studio album, Not of This Earth, which was Scabies's last with the band. This was followed by Grave Disorder (2001), So, Who's Paranoid? (2008) and Evil Spirits (2018), their first studio album in the Official Charts top-10 list, landing at No. 7. Their most recent album, Darkadelic, was released in 2023. Despite experiencing numerous lineup changes, the formation of Vanian, Sensible, keyboardist Monty Oxymoron, drummer Pinch and bassist Stu West had been together from 2004 until 2017, when West left the band and former bassist Paul Gray rejoined. In 2019, drummer Pinch left the band, and in February 2022 he was replaced by Will Taylor, who left in November 2023, when Scabies rejoined.
As one of the first gothic rock bands, the Damned, featuring lead singer Vanian's baritone singing, dark lyrics and vampire-themed costume, were a major influence on the goth subculture.
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The band briefly dissolved after Music for Pleasure (1977), the follow-up to their debut studio album, was critically dismissed. They quickly reformed without Brian James and released Machine Gun Etiquette (1979). In the 1980s, they released four studio albums: The Black Album (1980), Strawberries (1982), Phantasmagoria (1985) and Anything (1986), which saw the band moving toward a gothic rock style. The latter two albums did not feature Sensible, who had left the band in 1984. In 1988, James and Sensible rejoined to play a series of reunion gigs, one of which was released the next year as the live album Final Damnation (1989). Their fast-driven punk rock has been cited for influencing and shaping the emergence of hardcore punk in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United Kingdom and the United States.
The Damned again reformed for a tour in 1991. In 1995, they released a new studio album, Not of This Earth, which was Scabies's last with the band. This was followed by Grave Disorder (2001), So, Who's Paranoid? (2008) and Evil Spirits (2018), their first studio album in the Official Charts top-10 list, landing at No. 7. Their most recent album, Darkadelic, was released in 2023. Despite experiencing numerous lineup changes, the formation of Vanian, Sensible, keyboardist Monty Oxymoron, drummer Pinch and bassist Stu West had been together from 2004 until 2017, when West left the band and former bassist Paul Gray rejoined. In 2019, drummer Pinch left the band, and in February 2022 he was replaced by Will Taylor, who left in November 2023, when Scabies rejoined.
As one of the first gothic rock bands, the Damned, featuring lead singer Vanian's baritone singing, dark lyrics and vampire-themed costume, were a major influence on the goth subculture.
Dave Vanian (David Lett) - lead vocals (1976-present)
Captain Sensible (Raymond Burns) - guitar, backing vocals (1979-1984, 1988-1992, 1996-present), keyboards (1979-1981), bass (1976-1978; 2022 reunion tour)
Paul Gray - bass, backing vocals (1980-1983, 1989-1992, 1996, 2017-present)
Monty Oxymoron (Laurence Burrow) - keyboards, backing vocals (1996-present)
Rat Scabies (Christopher Millar) - drums, backing vocals (1976-1977, 1979-1996, 2022, 2023-present)
From: London, England
Genre(s): Punk rock, gothic rock, post-punk, psychedelic rock
Active From: 1976-present