GROBLJANSKI KRUG: VARIOUS ARTISTS - Children Of The Damned (2008)

Saturday 12 December 2020

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Children Of The Damned (2008)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Children Of The Damned

(2008)

This compilation originates from (first) split of The Damned in March 1978, after the release of their second album "Music For Pleasure" (November 77). Tired of total chaos, ego war, failure of "Music for Pleasure" wrongly descended from critics, Brian James founds Tanz Der Youth with ex-Warsaw Pakt Andy Colquhoun; Rat Scabies holds the drumsticks in White Cats; Captain Sensible formed the super group King with Dave Berk (Johnny Moped), Kym Bradshaw (Saints) & Henry Badowski (Chelsea), Dave Vanian joined Doctors Of Madness.

The Damned were reformed in September 78 without Brian James, who was replaced by Algy Ward . "Children Of The Damned" illustrates the wandering of 1978 through the Peel Sessions, good times like the very psyche punk "Antipope" included on "Machine Gun Etiquette" in 1979. "Detectives" was reworked into an instrumental called "Wiped Out" and released on Rat Scabies solo single "Let There Be Rats" (1984). "Junkyard Angel" was reworked into the Damned track "Sick Of This And That" on The Damned "The Black Album" (1980).