Machine Gun Etiquette

Damned | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Roadrunner Records
• ASIN: B000000H7W
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,539 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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, Pt. 1

12. Smash It Up, Pt. 2

13. Ballroom Blitz [*]

14. Suicide [*]

15. Rabid (Over You)

16. White Rabbit [Extended Version]

Editorial Reviews

UK release for the long running punk act's 1979 album features 16 tracks including 4 single tracks which did not appear on the original album, 'Ballroom Blitz', 'Suicide', 'Rabid (Over You)', & 'White Rabbit' (Extended Version). Ace. 1986. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Punk Album of All Time, September 22, 1999

By 

Michael E. Strupp (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Machine Gun Etiquette (Audio CD)

For any enthusiast who is exploring the roots of punk rock, get this album - now! While maintaining all of the raw energy that fueled the groundbreaking "Damned Damned Damned" and harnessing the vision that shaped "Music For Pleasure", Machine Gun Etiquette has so many different dimensions and textures to it that it's hard to believe this is the same band performing on every track. That's what makes The Damned one of the best and most unique punk bands of all time.

From the ghoulish "These Hands" to the hard charging "Plan 9 Channel 7" and "Looking At You" to the raucous "Noise Noise Noise" to the Punk Anthem "Smash It Up" (originally banned in the U.K. when it was released), I guarantee you will find at least one song on this album that you won't ever be able to let go. Play "Machine Gun Etiquette" at your sister - LOUD!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The last great album of the 70's, September 28, 2000

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Damned Disciple (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Machine Gun Etiquette (Audio CD)

1979 started a new chapter in the history of the Damned. The release of the single 'Love Song' in April proved that they were back and better than ever! After disbanding in early 1978 it took them almost a year to wise up, put their differences aside and have a go at making music together. One difference though: Brian James wasn't in the picture this time around. A wise move was made in moving Captain Sensible to guitar and enlisting the help of former Saint's bassist Algy Ward.Could Vanian, Scabies and Sensible succeed minus their chief songwriter? The answer was a resounding YES! The result being the album 'Machine Gun Etiquette'. Released in November 1979, this record gave a middle finger response to all critics who had dismissed the group as a cartoonish caberet act. In my opinion it even rates up there with 'London Calling' and 'Unknown Pleasures' as one of the best post-punk albums of that era. The opener, the aforementioned 'Love Song' (a definitive Damned song, right up there with 'New Rose' and 'Neat Neat Neat'), grabs you by the throat and from there on in it only gets better: the full-speed-ahead thrash of the title track (complete with a breakdown strangely reminicent of Gary Glitter's 'Rock And Roll'), the poppy keyboard-driven 'I Just Can't Be Happy Today', straight-forward punk'n'roll numbers such as 'Noise Noise Noise', 'Liar', 'Melody Lee', and 'Antipope' (featuring a bongo jam in the middle!), the circus-like atmosphere of 'These Hands' and the quintesential live Damned song, a run through MC5's classic 'Looking At You'. 'Plan 9 Channel 7' is undoubtably a bonafide classic, as is 'Smash It Up', THE punk anthem of anthems. My words really can't do these tracks justice. This is so much more than a 'punk' album, with hints at psychedelia, goth, and even progressive rock. An added bonus is the extra tracks on the CD- covers of 'White Rabbit' and 'Ballroom Blitz' (featuring bass from none other than Lemmy from Mötorhead!), and two incredible b-sides, 'Rabid (Over You)', and 'Suicide'. My only complaint is that they left off 'Burglar' and 'The Turkey Song', but I digress. This is the Damned in top form, and they continued to be through two more albums, up until the unlikely departure of Captain Sensible. An album this great only comes along once in a great while.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply awsome punk, September 12, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Machine Gun Etiquette (Audio CD)

This must be at least one of the 5 best punk albums ever. Back in 1970s, the Damned were one of the first bands to do punk. Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, all influenced by this great band. Get this album, now. Best song, definately Smash it Up. Plan 7, Channel 9 proves that Captain Sensible is the best punk guitarist ever. Really. Great bass from Ward, especially on Love Song.