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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:38 pm
And it's Nibbled to death by an okap.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:38 pm
Aaaaaaaand it's over.
It's a very good record that falls away badly throughout the mid-section of Side 2.
Yes, Side 2, for that is how I understand the record.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:38 pm
Now to go back and listen to the first 5 tracks I missed by being asleep.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:39 pm
WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:
Now to go back and listen to the first 5 tracks I missed by being asleep.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:39 pm
Well, I really enjoyed listening to that again.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:40 pm
Fangirl Three wrote:
That's from Hitch-hiker you know
The okapi bit, not Billy Idol.
NOW!
THAT!
I did not know.
Seems obvious now you say it though.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:41 pm
It's Peter Jones, Voice of the Book.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:41 pm
It is over. That is an album which didn't sound like I'd expected it to. I'd expected 35 minutes of cartoon shouting and thrashing but got something musically far more accomplished. I felt the first half of the album was more enjoyable than the second, which started to drag with songs that went on too long and had too much musicianship on them.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:41 pm
Fangirl Three wrote:
Well, I really enjoyed listening to that again.
As did I.
Unfortunately the experience was marred somewhat by various other people semi-listening to it as well.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:42 pm
Fangirl Three wrote:
It's Peter Jones, Voice of the Book.
Yes, I realise that.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:43 pm
20 Jazz Funk Greats next...
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:44 pm
Sorry.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:45 pm
It sounded like a good album, nice variety, but I'm not sure it withstood the test of time. I'd imagine I'd have loved it at the time if I'd heard it aged 15 or so.
Dare I suggest we try the Stranger's near concurrent album The Raven?
Which I suspect would have been disappointing at the time, but has dated far better?
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:46 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
It is over. That is an album which didn't sound like I'd expected it to. I'd expected 35 minutes of cartoon shouting and thrashing but got something musically far more accomplished. I felt the first half of the album was more enjoyable than the second, which started to drag with songs that went on too long and had too much musicianship on them.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it.
Their last album was more 60s psych-pop than punk.
Didn't like it myself. Too nice.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:49 pm
WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:
Now to go back and listen to the first 5 tracks I missed by being asleep.
Side 1 is better than side 2.
Unless the last track is pointless cover of the Beatles Heltier Skelter
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:54 pm
WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:
Track 5 Anti Pope.
It's gonna be fun tonight Spreading news around the town That the vicars are transvestites With a fetish for robes and gowns
dunno, that sounds a bit like kink shaming. if I'm being real here.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:54 pm
Fangirl Three wrote:
Sorry.
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:59 pm
Let's check out the MC5 original
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 8:01 pm
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Subject: Re: The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) Sat Mar 14, 2020 8:02 pm
Incredibly clever and original that.
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