The Untld Show #2: The Damned 1979-1984 Pt. A

I will cover the landscape leading up to the recording of "Machine Gun Etiquette" and my thoughts on it.
In case you missed episode one, here's where you can find it:
• The Untld Show #1: The...
I did not write any of the music featured in this video. It appears for the purpose of analysis and review. If you like the Damned, buy their music.

[@koont666]

Watched Lemmy play bass for them in a pub The greyhound Fulham,1981 Christmas Eve amazing gig 🍀🇬🇧👍

[@scootaboygazza8214]

I've been a fan since the late 70's. Bring on the next part.

[@akikoyamaguchi3075]

Thank u. As a teenager in Japan, I had no idea what Plan 9 Channel 7 meant. The band was so undervalued back then and I could barely get information. Look forward to Pt.B.

[@libre-tad6283]

All the above from UK Great vid for this album

[@IrishFootyVlogs]

Whatever happened part b?

[@davy50g55]

Again, wonderful critique. Thank for your work.

[@73jimofthejungle]

Loving these videos! Great Job!!! Enjoy your commentary!

[@mariaisabelcarrillo6315]

Vanian wrote These Hands inspired by the 1927 silent horror film classic "The Unknown", by director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks) and starring Lon Chaney as "Alonzo the Armless", a carnival knife thrower withouth hands. He does everything with his feet. Worth have a look. And thanks for being a Damned fan.

[@maurenwalsh5313]

Thanks for this key info

[@zeiram8230]

Dude ! Please keep these coming. I’ve recently gotten hooked on the band, and am fascinated with their segue between punk and goth. You seem like the guy to tell the story!

[@johnjohnnyjohnson9987]

Excellent work and much appreciated as you've obviously put a lot of work into this.

[@BrettHue-pz4fb]

I bought 'Live at Shepperton" when i was 13 in 1983! Fell in love with it and the band for life! Its true the band has put out alot of mediocre albums(but they DEFINITELY put out some 'all killer no filler' albums aswell!), throughout the years, but the awesome take away from all of this.... (the prolificness& vast catalog of the DAMNED) is that when you wanna hear some great DAMNED music, they have sooo many great cuts to choose from they never get old. ALOT!!!!and its a beautiful thing! peace

[@maurenwalsh5313]

Please continue with this show

[@user-yx2it6ke9m]

Absolutely loved your show on The Damned. I saw them first when I was 16, and just again recently in Melbourne, 30 odd years later. My love for that band is totally reignited and I'm trawling the internet for information on them. Your show is really informative and nuanced - the way you talk about music is so interesting. Please keep going with your series. Cheers to you.

[@openingconsciousness]

Enjoyed this, hope we get the next part at some point

[@LA-mg7rv]

This was great! More please!

[@LittleMissIssues]

Hey!! I took that photo of Bryn at 1:18!! I keep seeing my photos in these docus!! Sweet! I have a story about how some of my photos ended up in their book....I made a video about it.

[@blue2134]

Thank you for this ❤❤❤❤❤

[@methman9212]

I like the video length id like it a litttle longer personally but whatevers clever cant wait for the next parts, cheers

[@TamaraInCyberspace]

Looking forward to the next video

[@nolagospeltracts8264]

He seems to have quit his channel.

[@LittleMissIssues]

I also went looking for the next one.....shame, I would love to see more, as a huge Damned fan.....

[@jerrybailey5797]

Keep em half our long makes them more interesting, l really love the way you've put this together 👍

[@derekcoulthard6765]

Thanks for the dope, bro, you're an excellent historian. Pity you don't seem to have continued, but I'm only interested in MGE anyway, so all good. That said, I can't find their 'Eloise' with the ending as I remember it -- evidence of a parallel universe, but I do digress 🤣

[@VortexBunche]

I was first introduced to the Damned via their appearance on The Young Ones, but while I enjoyed the performance of "Nasty," it didn't really spur me to investigate further. A few months later. MTV ran a memorable Halloween special featuring nothing but eerie or horror-themed videos, and it was there that I first encountered "Plan 9 Channel 7," the song that on the spot turned me into a Damned fan for life. The credit on the video mis-identified the source album as Live at Shepperton, so I bought that, but it was obvious it was the wrong recording. I then picked up the original Best of the Damned, which had the right version of "Plan 9," but it also featured an excellent overview of their early offerings. I then went backwards and bought every damned album up to that point, and I have been on board ever since. Since 1988, I have only missed one of their live appearances here in NYC, and I cannot wait to see them again. If you had enough interest to watch this video and the first installment but have never seen them live, I cannot recommend the experience enough. One of the finest bands to see live, they never disappoint.

[@nolagospeltracts8264]

These two Damned videos must have been part of a school project or college course because this cat never made another video. Too bad because they're very good.

[@acrodave9287]

I agree about the authorship of 'Love Song'; Captain Sensible has always been a self confessed and unashamed train spotter and it shows in the first verse. 'These Hands' would make a perfect background track to any TV or film adaptation of Batman including the Joker. 'Melody Lee' was also Sensible paying homage to an old British comic strip, 'Melody Lee, a dancer she'll be', in the girls comic Bunty, which was about the gradual mental destruction of an aspiring young ballerina by a sadistic teacher. British comics of the 70s, ya gotta love 'em...I did. Made me the man I am today...😱😂

[@jamesp9141]

Loved Pt.'s 1 & 2A. Looking forward to Pt. 2B. Going back to Music For Pleasure, It took a bit for it to grow on me, but the majority of it is Pretty good even though it was rushed. I really like One Way Love it's my favorite, of all the songs on there it's the one where you can tell there's actually 2 Guitars , I like the Slide parts in it & I like the Lyrics HAHAHAHA! Machine Gun Etiquette is a Monster of a Record for sure! Not a bad tune on it & like you my favorite changes depending on what day it is, but I really dig Noise, Noise, Noise. The Captain is way more technically versed, a completely different Guitar player(Musician) than Brian James who is a pretty Damned good player in his own right. The Damned are the best Band of that era hands down & still are! Thank you for posting this!

[@Shadowbannddiscourse]

Dude i dig your vudeos on the damned .. you were on ppint with what yoh said about artists and their albums -you chose the perfect albums for examples . ( metalica morbid angel) aside from thst .machine gun etiquette the first are my faves. The damned have had so much inflriences. From goth and new wave but also hardcore punk. Ps that clip of decline 3 movie.. i met one of those dudes in the pic - Darius the one kn the wheel chair . I rememher someone thought i was him once

[@Wazulon]

I see someone said Dave wrote the Love Song Lyrics but I remember reading something with Lemmy where he said Rat had written these awful lyrics like "I'll be the rubbish if you'll be the bin" and he was laughing his arse off and then a few months later it was in the top 20 😂

[@TheChadTI]

Nice work! 🤙

[@jettrainbow]

wow I've been listening to Tank for 10 years and had no idea Algy played in The Damned. I guess that explains why their early stuff has such a punk flavor to it.

[@andrewbarrett4276]

ALGY came from Australia were he played with THE SAINTS!

[@brianjohnson6428]

I did not know both MGE and London Calling were both in session in the same building at the same time thats just too insane!

[@andromedapersea4792]

Dave !..Dave !.. Dave !..

[@rocknroll_jezus9233]

I really dig Dave's vocal on These Hands

[@angustermopyle7511]

Come on, do part 3.

[@MiaMeezy]

I love the damned and I enjoyed your lower videos, I'd love to hear the conclusions all the way past phantom chords

[@Jambi2435]

Great video! Just thought I'd add that Captain wrote the music to Love Song but Rat actually wrote the lyrics as an ode to Captains love of trains and trainstations. Quote from Rat “Love Song is about a railway station. Cos’ I figured if you’re gonna write a love song - and most love songs in the charts are so irrelevant to reality anyway, that you might as well be completely irrelevant and why not write one about a railway station that loves it’s passengers?!”

[@Jambi2435]

Also Anti-Pope was written by Captains brother Phil Burns originally for his band The Cowards. Captain has cofirmed that These Hands was "100% Mr Vanian". And interesting to note that Liar was the only song on the album written by Algy.

[@theuntldshow3138]

That's so funny Love Song is literally about trains. Never would've guessed that was Rat. Thanks for that tid bit and thanks for listening.

[@TheChadTI]

Dave actually wrote Love Song lyrics. Hope you do a third part one day.

[@davidheafield1436]

I just can’t be happy today was also a left over song rehashed from Captain Sensibles “King” , totally different lyrics but unmistakably the root of the tune ...search King ”My girl went away”

[@copyright-ur1sf]

So where's Part B, then?

[@Terencetembre1001.]

Great review, not to be a smart arse but Chiswick is pronounced Chiz-ick the W is silent .ps i saw the Damned only once at liverpool Eric's in 1980.

[@dumpwoodhere]

I have to say, I have been a Damned fanatic from the very start, I own a hot rods cover so there you go now! Anyway, for an American who lives half way round the world I gotta say you may have got a couple of facts slightly wrong but on the whole you have done a Stirling job with the history of the Damned. BRAVO! And yes, Algy was a real asshole in real time.

[@mummyd1990]

Dave Letts is just a great artist.

[@tonywhittaker1970]

Thanks or that.enjoyed it. I used to have Vanian and captains autograph, but lost them. Dave just put "Vanian", Captain put "I shit in Thatchers mouth"

[@sirPUNKsir]

3:52 look into screaming Lord Sutch which I always felt David based his voice and look on to a certain degree. He was one of the original "shock rockers" staring with Screaming Jay Hawkins then Sutch , then Arthur Brown and finally back to America with Alice Cooper. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZS2XoGuas6bidU

[@chelseachelseaboy]

Where's Part B ?. really enjoyed Part A......remember buying MGE when it came out superb album .

[@noworldorderforme]

Oh man. You don't like 'Liar'? The album version isn't a stand out, but please check out the John Peel session version of the song. There's a section after the drum solo when the rest of the band comes back in that is probably the tightest, most raucous, and coolest thing the band ever did musically. Seriously.

[@richardclarke4681]

Antipope is an old King song. Check out King Peel session. Connection to Badowski.

[@stephenmccoy898]

Anti pope was written by captains brother phil

[@MiaMeezy]

What about Phantasmagoria cant wait

[@stephenmccoy898]

Wasn't captain who wrote ANTIPOPE was his brother phil,,

[@jerrybailey5797]

I think Machine-Gun Ettiquette is when the Damned as a band gelled the best.... apart from Algy Ward , its a fantastic album 👌

[@nalbizo2]

You left out Gang of Four, one of the most innovative post-punk bands.

[@TheChadTI]

Liar is the least of them yep.

[@kevincognito3575]

Dude the lyrics to love song where written by rat scabies

[@kevinbrewis6014]

were

[@kevincognito3575]

@@kevinbrewis6014 Right for the graham cracker

[@Shadowbannddiscourse]

Pa i know lemmy snd phil from thin lizzy duf them

[@VONCEIL1]

Chiswick...your having a bubble m8

[@linnet12dd]

Joy Division pic is not actually them!

[@theuntldshow3138]

Oh no! It's a pic from their movie isn't it.. how embarrassing. I liked the movie though. Thanks for watching.

[@ChrisBryans9999]

Some good comments, but Rat is famous for writing the lyrics for LS. You let yourself down there in terms of research.

[@theuntldshow3138]

yeah that was a bonehead move on my part. striving to do better next time.

[@ChrisBryans9999]

@@theuntldshow3138 Up to that point, I was really into your insights and observations. That said, such a slight misstep won't stop me from picking up where I left off.

[@nalbizo2]

"Idiot Box" is a horrible song.