History Music / TheDamnedBand

* CoverVersion: Covered "1970" by Music/TheStooges (renamed "I Feel Alright") for ''Damned Damned Damned'', "Looking at You" by {{Music/MC5}} for ''Machine Gun Etiquette'', "Citadel" by Music/TheRollingStones for ''Friday 13th EP'', and "Eloise" by Paul Ryan as a non-album single.

* CoverVersion: Covered "1970" by Music/TheStooges (renamed "I Feel Alright") for ''Damned Damned Damned'', "Looking at You" by {{Music/MC5}} for ''Machine Gun Etiquette'', and "Eloise" by Paul Ryan as a non-album single.

* BlackSheepHit: Captain Sensible's solo hit cover of "Happy Talk". Vanian was supportive; Scabies was ''pissed''.

* CreatorBacklash: The band are unhappy with how their second album, ''Music for Pleasure'', came out. Dave Vanian also objected to Rat Scabies releasing ''Not of this Earth'', and several people aren't sure if it should even be counted as a Damned album.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Album producer [[PinkFloyd Nick Mason]] is often blamed for ''Music for Pleasure'' coming out as weak as it did. Captain Sensible in particular hates the cleanness and the chorus effects Mason added. However it has also been reported that Mason simply wasn't very interested in the recording of the album, so [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]] here.
** "The History of the World (Part 1)" was labeled as "''Over''produced by HansZimmer" on the original album cover for ''The Black Album''.

* ADayInTheSpotlight: Captain Sensible takes over vocals for "Silly Kids Games" from ''The Black Album'', "Life Goes On" and "Don't Bother Me" from ''Strawberries'', and the B-sides "TakeThat" and "Torture Me".

* BreakupBreakout: Though he was still in the band at the time, Captain Sensible had a surprising bout of solo success in the 1980s (UK only). He would eventually leave the band to focus on his solo work.

** The title to "There Ain't No Sanity Clause" takes its title from a scene in TheMarxBrothers film ''ANightAtTheOpera''.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: From their third album ''Machine Gun Etiquette'' on, they've mixed Punk with classic Rock, Pop, PsychedelicRock, and GothRock.

** "The History of the World (Part 1)" was labeled as ''over''produced by HansZimmer on the original album cover for ''The Black Album''.

* SillyLoveSongs: "New Rose" and "See Her Tonite" from ''Damned Damned Damned'', "One Way Love" from ''Music for Pleasure'', "Shadow of Love" from ''Phantasmagoria'', non-album single "Eloise", "Little Miss Disaster" from ''So, Who's Paranoid?''.

* ShoutOut: The title to "There Ain't No Sanity Clause" takes its title from a scene in TheMarxBrothers film ''ANightAtTheOpera''.
* SillyLoveSongs: "Love Song" from ''Machine Gun Etiquette'' is a sarcastic parody of this, while "New Rose" from ''Damned Damned Damned'' seems to play it pretty straight.

* ChristmasSong: "There Ain't No Sanity Clause", with tongue firmly in cheek.

* TheMasochismTango: "Torture Me", a B-side to the 1982 "Dozen Girls" single.

* CreatorBacklash: The band are unhappy with how their second album, ''Music for Pleasure'', came out.

-->''Go to the window / What do I see / Go to the window / The killer is me''

* EpicRiff: "New Rose" is instantly identifiable, even before the guitar comes in.

* EpicRocking: "Curtain Call" from ''The Black Album'' is 17 minutes long.

The Damned are one of the original British punk bands, although they have mutated beyond punk rock in the decades since they were first formed in 1976. The original line-up consisted of Dave Vanian(Vocals), Brian James (Guitar), Captain Sensible (Bass) and Rat Scabies(Drums). They released both the first British punk single (“New Rose”) and British punk album (''Damned Damned Damned'') before becoming the first British punk band to tour the United States. Interestingly enough they were not the first British punk band to break up (that was the Sex Pistols; the Damned were second) but they were the first to re-form. The subsequent line up had Captain Sensible replacing the departed Brian James on guitar and whatever bassist they could find[[hottip:*:Henry Badowski, [[Music/{{Motorhead}} Lemmy]](!), Algy Ward, Paul Gray, Bryn Merrick, Jason Harris, [[TheSistersOfMercy Patricia Morrison]], and Stu West]] that week replacing the Captain on the bottom section. It was during this period that the band - which thanks to their vampyric crooning frontman Vanian had always dabbled in the dark - began to take on a more gothic sound, which helped give birth to the Gothic Rock subgenre.

* VideoNasty: Yes, they've got an entire ''song'' dedicated to VideoNasties.

The Damned are one of the original British punk bands, although they have mutated beyond punk rock in the decades since they were first formed in 1976. The original line-up consisted of Dave Vanian(Vocals), Brian James (Guitar), Captain Sensible (Bass) and Rat Scabies(Drums). They released both the first British punk single (“New Rose”) and British punk album (''Damned Damned Damned'') before becoming the first British punk band to tour the United States. Interestingly enough they were not the first British punk band to break up (that was the Sex Pistols; the Damned were second) but they were the first to re-form. The subsequent line up had Captain Sensible replacing the departed Brian James on guitar and whatever bassist they could find[[hottip:*:Henry Badowski, [[{{Motorhead}} Lemmy]](!), Algy Ward, Paul Gray, Bryn Merrick, Jason Harris, [[TheSistersOfMercy Patricia Morrison]], and Stu West]] that week replacing the Captain on the bottom section. It was during this period that the band - which thanks to their vampyric crooning frontman Vanian had always dabbled in the dark - began to take on a more gothic sound, which helped give birth to the Gothic Rock subgenre.