Picked this compilation album up at Missing Link second hand and it had all this Chiswick stuff on it. Great comp but the best song on it was this great long version of the damned's single Smash It Up. A meandering start that leads to one of their best singles.
Loved the damned when they released their first album. I guess it was the first punk album. Well first UK punk album anyway. There was this ad for the album that said "Play It At Your Sister". Love that line so I wrote a song called "Play it At Your sister" 3 chords. One of my first punk songs.
After the first album they made a fairly rubbish second and they became kindof uncool compared to bands like The Clash and Stiff Little fingers. Then the indie radio stations started playing this song. Great stuff. And they followed it up with Love Song which was also a great single. I bought the singles but I was not so keen on investing in the album until about 10 years ago when I finally picked it up second hand. And there is some great stuff on it. Of course then they went all slightly gothic and lost me again. Eliose was a good cover and we used to play it at Barbarellas and Beehive. But it was all a bit grimly fiendish for me.
still I like playing this song. I like their sentiment too. Everyone is smashing things down and we are smashing things up.
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