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Ray Burns, better known to nearly everyone as Captain Sensible, once said, "The Damned, much as I love them, were just hell-for-leather destruction merchants." However, the good Captain doesn't seem to appreciate that it was the Damned's glorious recklessness, especially in their early days, that made them so memorable -- while most of the first wave of British punk bands had some sociopolitical axe to grind or a fashion statement to make, the Damned just wanted to play fast, loud, and frantic, and nearly 30 years after they were recorded, the group's first single ("New Rose" b/w "Help") and first album (Damned Damned Damned) have worn far better than what most of their contemporaries were doing at the time. The Damned's earliest sides were issued by the then-fledgling Stiff Records, whose fondness for absurdity and good-natured scams made them worthy partners for the path-breaking punks, and Play It at Your Sister is a boxed set collection that features everything the Damned recorded during their 16 months as Stiff recording artists. Opening with three June 1976 demos and closing with the band's misbegotten second LP, Music for Pleasure, Play It at Your Sister documents the rise and fall of the Damned Version 1.0 as well as you could hope, including some stellar live material from two John Peel sessions and a May 1977 concert recorded for BBC Radio One. While the band got tighter and more muscular during the course of their tenure with Stiff, part of the charm of these recordings is that the band knew what they wanted to do right off the bat, and the speed-fueled attack of "New Rose" isn't especially different from the highlights of the Music for Pleasure sessions (though it doesn't take long to figure out that Nick Lowe was far better suited to produce the Damned than Nick Mason). The Damned split up for a short spell after Music for Pleasure landed with a thud, and even that seems to seems ...
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