Machine Gun Etiquette - 25th Anniversary Edition [Enhanced, Original recording remastered, Import]

Damned | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 15, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Chiswick
• ASIN: B0006332YC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,486 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #31 in Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative > British Punk
  • #75 in Music > Alternative Rock > Goth & Industrial > Goth

Track Listings

1. Love Song

2. Machine Gun Etiquette

3. I Just Can't Be Happy Today

4. Melody Lee

5. Anti-Pope

6. These Hands

7. Plan 9 Channel 7

8. Noise, Noise, Noise

9. Looking At You

10. Liar

11. Smash It Up (Parts 1 And 2)

12. Love Song (Ed Hollis Version)

13. Noise, Noise, Noise (Ed Hollis Version)

14. Suicide

15. Smash It Up (Part 2) (Backing Track - Singalonga Damned)

16. Smash It Up (Part 4)

17. Burglar

18. I Just Can't Be Happy Today (DJ Edit)

19. Ballroom Waltz

20. Turkey Song

Editorial Reviews

This special edition of one of punk's most innovative albums contains the whole original album remastered with alternate versions of the three singles and the non-album B-Sides. The Ed Hollis mix of Love Song has never been released in any form before, and check out the Smash It Up instrumental track for sing-a-long karaoke fun, followed by Smash It Up Part 4, the Wessex Studio version, never released before. Included is the impossibly rare Radio Edit 45 version of I Just Can't Be Happy Today - never re-issued and for the first time ever on CD; the single version of Noise Noise Noise, Burglar and Turkey Song. As a special bonus, the Plan 9 Channel 7 video is here.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ...Worth your hard-earned cash!!!, February 9, 2005

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R. Carpio (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Machine Gun Etiquette - 25th Anniversary Edition (Audio CD)

When I first listened to Machine Gun Ettiquette years ago...it was hard to believe that it was the same band playing on each song!! The Damned created an album with different musical styles and managed to flow it all together and make it sound effortless!! My favorite Tracks? It's so hard to choose. There really isn't a bad song on here.
M.G.E. is filled with catchy punk/psych/rock... anthems that become permanently stuck in your head!! You can't shake them out..believe me, I've tried. It is readily available again.... so my friends don't have an excuse for not having it in their collections!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect, May 16, 2007

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Angelina Malone (Whoare Town) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Machine Gun Etiquette - 25th Anniversary Edition (Audio CD)

This album is supremely perfect. Every song is addicting and is soaked with highly energetic and bounchy rhythms and beats. I personally really love "Looking at You", "Plan 9, Channel 7", "Liar", "These Hands", and "Smash it Up Pts. 1&2" However all the songs on this album are worthy enough to listen to about a thousand times each, that may be an exaggeration (one truely might get tired of listening to a song that many times), but with this album, I sincerely doubt it's possible to get tired of it. If you are just recently figuring out of you like the Damned or not, give this album a listen and i'm sure you will love it. If not, then maybe this kind of music just isn't for you.
This album is perfect and I love it to death. One of the great ones, this is.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Completely Embodies the Punk Spirit-Essential, December 20, 2004

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ThrEaD NUGENT (Newport Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Machine Gun Etiquette - 25th Anniversary Edition (Audio CD)

Bought this on German Chiswick vinyl '84....It changed my life....have had many versions throughout the years on cd and vinyl(still have my wall of punk vinyl thanks)....The 25th Anniversary release does this amazing record justice, sounds great.... near to vinyl warmth...bonus tracks are cool, alt. versions ok, not essential to these ears.....maybe back in '84-'86 I'd flip over them.....now I just want to hear the album versions.....The Damned came back from their breakup w/ both barrels screaming w/ MGE...Metal/Punk/Pop...genius!!! Can't Wait for the Black Album, their masterpiece, to be remastered for its' 25 Anniversary!