Genres: Punk, Goth Rock, British Punk, Dance-Rock Active: 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1976 in England
Nick Lowe, The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, Sham 69, Chelsea, The Stranglers, The Ramones, U.K. Subs, Johnny Thunders, Buzzcocks, Radio Birdman, The Adverts, T.S.O.L., Dead Boys, The Vibrators, The Dickies, The Jam, The Misfits, The Saints Horrors, Hüsker Dü, The Misfits, Motörhead, Sham 69, Ian Dury, U.K. Subs, Generation X, American Werewolves, M.I.A., Honor Role, The Weirdos, Slammin' Watusis, Greg Sage, Penetration, The Germs, Plasmatics, Alkaline Trio, Saves the Day |  |
As punk's history enters a new millennium, the impact of the band initially judged "the least likely to" seems to grow ever more each day. The Ramones hold deserved pride of place for kick-starting the whole thing, while the Sex Pistols and to a lesser extent the Clash helped take it to an even more notorious level, role models for many young bands to this day. But arguably just as important and memorable were the Damned, London contemporaries of the Pistols and Clash that made their own mark from the start. Eschewing political posing, ill-fitting outside rhetoric, and simply doing the same thing over and over again, the group -- lacking anything like a stable lineup -- took punk's simplicity and promise as a starting point and ran with it.
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Release: December 9, 2008
Label: English Cha, English Chanel, TBC
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Release: October 21, 2008
Label: Lilith
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