The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette

Special Edition of One of Punk's Innovative and Epoch-defining Albums, Remastered with Alternate Versions of Three Singles and the Non Album B-sides. Album Details

Perfect

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. May 17, 2007

Machine Gun Etiquette

This is the album where The Damned passed their contemporaries by leaps and bounds. Every track is fresh and different, and all come straight out of the blue. I place this in the same rarified, esoteric air as The Beatles' "Sargeant Pepper" and White Albums, the Replacement's "Hootenanny", 'The Clash's "London Calling" or Alice Cooper's "School's Out". It transcends any expectation, genre, or stereotype. You should hear this.
February 23, 2007

Possibly the best punk album ever!

The Damned is the most underrated punk band. And they are awesome! You have to get "Machine gun Ettiquette" if you even remotely like punk. this is the essential damned. Although, the original recording is very good. Get that too. This is great punk! December 16, 2006

Overall an excellent album

Machine Gun Etiquette and Damned Damned Damned are the two most actual "punk" albums that the Damned have and they are both excellent. They have much quicker paced songs, and more aggressive (if the Damned could ever be characterized this way!) and raw. The one thing I always laugh about on Machine Gun Etiquette is that the two worst songs they ever made are both on this otherwise great album - Ballroom Blitz and White Rabbit (interestingly, both are covers of previously flawless songs! Why they covered these and made them so horrible is beyond me!) But if you're a Damned fan or want to expand your original punk collection this is a good one to get. May 18, 2006

One of the best punk albums ever

After the disappointment of Music for Pleasure, The Damned released Machine Gun Etiquette, thought of as their 'classic', and the only one that the critics ever pay any attention to.

It's undoubtedly their most consistent album, and every song is worthy of inclusion on a greatest hits compilation. At the best, The Damned were wonderful, with songs such as Plan 9 Channel 7, I Just Can't Be Happy Today, Smash it up and Love Song as the standout tracks. Anti-Pope and Noise Noise Noise will appeal to fans of the first two albums, but as a whole, Machine Gun Etiquette sounds very different to anything they'd done before.

If you're a punk fan, or a fan of The Damned, then buy it - you won't be disappointed. March 20, 2006

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