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Smash It Up: the Anthology 1976-1987 | 
| Artist: The Damned
Label: Sanctuary
Category: Music
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 4116
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 134
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.6
UPC: 766488856323
EAN: 0766488856323
ASIN: B00005V4US
Release Date: February 26, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | New Rose | | • | Help | | • | Neat Neat Neat | | • | See Her Tonite | | • | Fan Club | | • | I Fall | | • | I Feel Alright | | • | Feel The Pain | | • | Stretcher Case | | • | Problem Child | | • | Don't Cry Wolf | | • | Your Eyes | | • | Creep (You Can't Fool Me) | | • | Idiot Box | | • | Love Song | | • | Smash It Up (Part 1) | | • | Smash It Up (Part 2) | | • | Machine Gun Etiquette | | • | Melody Lee | | • | Plan 9 Channel 7 | | • | I Just Can't Be Happy Today |
Disc 2
| • | The History Of The World (Part 1) | | • | Wait For The Blackout | | • | Drinking About My Baby | | • | Silly Kids Games | | • | Curtain Call | | • | Lovely Money | | • | Dozien Girls | | • | Life Goes On | | • | Under The Floor Again | | • | Generals | | • | Grimly Fiendish | | • | Eloise | | • | Anything | | • | In Dulce Decorum |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Smash It Up revisits the decade-long career of the Damned, who famously hitched a ride on the early Sex Pistols bandwagon and then beat them to releasing the first UK punk single, a crazed little beat ditty called "New Rose", in November 1976. Based visually around Dave Vanian's (aka Dave Letts) proto-goth vampire trappings and Captain Sensible's (aka Ray Burns) tutu-wearing wackiness, and musically around Rat Scabies's (aka Chris Miller) Keith Moon-like drum mania and Brian James's (aka Brian Robertson) high-speed thrash guitar, they followed up with the even better "Neat Neat Neat", a punk high point. Artistically, it was also The Damned's, as James left, Sensible moved to guitar, and they embarked upon a career of pub-metal anthems and cabaret punk nostalgia. The critics ignored them, but the hits kept on coming, including "Love Song", "Smash It Up" and their biggest, a ludicrous cover of the Paul and Barry Ryan's 1960s MOR hit "Eloise", which reached No. 3 in January 1986. They spilt the following year, leaving behind a legacy of making a little go a long, long way, the salient parts of which are all included on this two-CD, 35-track set. --Garry Mulholland
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| Customer Reviews:
Damn Good Stuff! September 10, 2002
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is the Damned album that all fans should have especially if they are more into the old styles of Punk with more resmblance to that of The Clash and Sham 69 to name a couple, which is definitley more to my liking. With great songs like New Rose,Smash it up, Neat Neat Neat and Love Song that break through into your head like a demon that just won't go away.Great guitar work and vocals that help echo the words "Pure Punk" and it is nothing less...The Damned hepled bring Classic Punk kicking and screaming into many peoples lives, and this double Cd covering probably the best years of this fantastic band is a definite Must Buy for the "Punk Obsessed".
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