LABEL: BMG
RELEASE DATE: 07/24/2026
VARIANT: Black Vinyl LP

A pioneering U.K. punk album with plenty of panache, the lighting-jolted Damned Damned Damned plays a great deal faster than the music of their contemporaries in the Sex Pistols or the Clash. Stab Your Back and New Rose the countrys first punk single set the bar high with their frenzied paces, drummer Rat Scabies rampaging his kit like Keith Moon on a speed-bender. Then again, the blood-chilling creep of mid-album highlight Feel the Pain crooned by kinda corpse-painted frontman Dave Vanian is a heart-panging proto-goth classic. Influential on many levels, its a damned classic album. Essential listening for any punk devotee.