The Damned - Peel Session 1980

The complete session recorded by The Damned on 6 October 1980 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 20th of that month.
Tracklist:
1. Therapy (0:36)
2. Hit Or Miss (5:54)
3. Curtain Call (Part 1) (8:57)

[@thomasconway4955]

The Damned at their creative peak. Wonderful stuff

[@osaDBX]

the Damned doing what they do best, Noise, Noise, Noise

[@preving]

I love Therapy. Great song!

[@graysonroyal]

I saw the Damned in ATL a few summers back. This is their creative peak? What the hell are U smoking? I'd like to know.

[@blueshorecreative3146]

Man! That is a good live performance. I can't imagine how incredible their live shows were at the time.

[@LEEFORDJAGG]

Thank you for posting. Looking forward to seeing The Damned on tour in 2023.

[@MB-hv1id]

RIP John , Great Entertainmer

[@stephenwolfram356]

I convinced a friend to go see them around 2002, he was not enthused. Ultimately he was super impressed and I think it was one of the best shows I've ever seen (The Social, Orlando, 2002) Long live the Damned.

[@liamwilson42]

absolute brilliance

[@UltraKlutzJeff]

WOW. Opening up with Therapy. That's bold, it being not a single but a deep cut. Never would have thought they did this "Peel live" after putting it down in studio. Fantastic chops.

[@y16amp]

Gotta love Curtain Call. Punk meets prog. An awesome blend of my two favourite musical genres

[@BarisonMassacre]

I'd say an experimental-gothic-thrash- punk. Because it seems like they stick it a scale but keep the hook, and most of all; a deep haunting/hypnotising tempo. :)

[@paullack9025]

Not Boring enough to call it Prog.,. Prog helped to Create Punk due to Its Pompous 10 Minute Musical Virtuosity Solos by Every Instrument in Each Song.,. Suppose they were good for Letting the Singer have a Nap during Them Haha.,.

[@bent2]

I think The Damned should release a new album with all the BBC sessions. The one from 1993 omitted Hit or Miss and used a poor tape recording of the 1978 sessions because the original tape was missing then (it has luckily been recovered later).

[@johnowen6536]

Curtain call Rather fxxxing good me thinks Heard it pn peely back in the day Wonderful to track it down again Uiua lA DAMNED

[@LarzGustafsson]

Brilliant!

[@freetofu]

Better than the album versions, as is so often the case.

[@vermilliongecko]

I totally agree with you!

[@mightyV444]

I agree! And I was thinking the same thing when listening to their Peel Session from '79 just before 🙂

[@VULGARxRM]

Definitely. I think that The Black Album has some really weak production, but a lot of the songs are really good. Perfect for a Peel Session.

[@gustavoautran]

usually, considering BBC sessions

[@carmelinebbmbklausmusician1317]

I love this song 👌

[@c.s.4428]

There are three songs in this video.

[@quakerkid3280]

Listen to that PG Rickenbacker. Awesome track.

[@stevehastings5161]

"GOLDENVOICE PRESENTS=THE DAMNED @ THE JOHN ANSON FORD THEATRE,101 Freeway @ Cahuenga Boulevard,Saturday October 22nd.,1988 @ 8:00 P.M! One of my many ticket stubs from The Damned Live in Hollywood & Los Angeles Back In The Day!

[@osaDBX]

the Damned doing what they do best, Noise, Noise, Noise

[@stevehastings5161]

@@osaDBX Thanx! You Got It Right! All The Best! Noise,Noise,Noise! From the very beginning of The Punk Rock Scene!

[@Barty63uk]

Love this track

[@c.s.4428]

There are three songs in this video.

[@DaveWatts_ejectamenta]

the Damned doing what they do best, Noise, Noise, Noise

[@djgaryowens]

Never let it be said that they cant play.

[@oswing]

no they are very good but they were not pushed ahead by their company of parasites

[@sunboy1000]

I think the black album was the best..it has never been beaten...

[@kangaroorecords2376]

depends what you like . black album is for me new wave

[@stevehastings5161]

The Black Album Is A Masterpiece! Like An Art Gallery Of Music In It's Own Universe That Will Live Till The End Of Time!

[@beefheart1410]

Nah! As great as it is (and that era of the band's output in general was, per-se) "The Black Album" was 2nd best. The best was "Machinegun Etiquette" and associated material from late 1978 to late 1979.

[@c.s.4428]

They wouldn't even have been around to make this record had they not already made two stone-cold classic/legendary albums first: "Damned Damned Damned" AND "Machine Gun Etiquette". The Black Album is their best album 'after' they ceased to be a punk band but it is far from being their best album, methinks.

[@neilcurran1589]

Scabies and Gray were a great combination weren't they ????

[@AndrewAHayes]

I wish Sensible would bury his hatchet and invite Rat back for a reunion gig, will probably never happen though, Sensible is a great guitarist but a bit of wanker as well.

[@gasutrias9961]

😍

[@Kelly14UK]

Nice bassline from Paul, even if it is sort of Love Song ( re Therapy)

[@l.salisbury1253]

5:53 - now check out Eddie & the Hot Rods 1979 original! (RIP Berrie...)

[@johnflushing9328]

RIP EDDIE

[@richards3192]

Fuking nutz

[@ferroxglideh5621]

Like The Damned channeling The Who... which is okay by me.

[@jonathansutcliffe3401]

the who? no way. no way...

[@oswing]

??? n'importe quoi !

[@written12]

In particular, channeling John Entwistle on Therapy.

[@written12]

Is Brian James on this? I know he went off the start the Lords of the New Church not too deep into the Damned’s career.

[@AndrewAHayes]

No Brian left well before this in 1978

[@georgelee8914]

New rose was the first and the best new wave george

[@jillixo17]

Thearpy for clones with there barcly cards pension books and mortgage minds they call these thearpy.

[@jonathansutcliffe3401]

dear damned i am now gonna go and listen to flowers must die... a suggest you do to....

[@jiji1583]

I don't understand English translation.

[@JJONNYREPP]

The Damned - Peel Session 1980 0442am for the rest of your lives.... still going strong and arguably the most coherent of the music hall dregs that you term punk. these are the bands punks hate eg: damned, sex pistols, ramones... psychedelic furs.. it's just pop music. can see him now.... just jizzin himself as the bass line runs it's course. disinterest or vacant stare - either way that's how to approach celebrity culture. gettin excited about stuff is a bit crap of you, sir.... therapy? a band from eire. and a song by a band called the damned. oh ohohohohoho... i think the bass line is the saving grace of this song,not necessarily his excitement as he plays air bass and used tin foil roll drum...

[@jonathansutcliffe3401]

therapy? nice quaint irish band.

[@fredbert4048]

JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE that be therapy x ya gobshite

[@c.s.4428]

"Therapy?" tho, innit?

[@jonathansutcliffe3401]

do all punks go crazily stage musical????? dk were just one stage musical fiasco. but, surprisingly, likeable. or do i just blame bowie?

[@c.s.4428]

"Do all punks go crazily stage musical??" What are you actually asking?