Superb recording (possibly from a TV broadcast). The Rats were probably never better than in late 1978, and this is probably one of the best available live shows.

01 Mary Of The 4th Form
02 Me & Howard Hughes
03 I Never Loved Eva Braun
04 Don’t Believe What You Read
05 Rat Trap
06 Kicks
07 Joey’s On The Street Again
08 Living On A Island
09 She’s Gonna Do You In
10 Like Clockwork
11 She’s So Modern
12 Looking After No. 1

Source: Probable TV broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 270kbps mp3
File size: 96Mb

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Superb recording of the penultimate date of 2008's 'Combine Harvester Tour'. This is so good, you'd scarcely realise it's an audience recording.

Part 1:
01 There’ll Always be an England
02 Pretty Vacant (Country Version)
03 Pretty Vacant
04 Seventeen
05 No Feelings
06 New York
07 Did You no Wrong
08 Liar
09 Holidays in the Sun
10 Baghdad was a Blast
11 Submission
12 Stepping Stone
13 No Fun
14 Problems

Part 2:
15 God Save the Queen
16 EMI
17 Bodies
18 Anarchy in the UK
19 Silver Machine
20 Roadrunner

Source: Audience
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 79Mb (part 1), 58Mb (part 2)

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Very good audience recording of The Damned touring the then recently-released 'So, Who's Paranoid?' album.

01 Under The Wheels (fades in)
02 Fan Club
03 Dr Wolfenstein
04 Democracy
05 Under The Floor Again
06 Love Song
07 Second Time Around
08 Shallow Diamonds
09 Alone Again Or
10 A Danger To Yourself
11 Curtain Call
12 New Rose
13 Dark Asteroid
14 There Ain't No Sanity Clause
15 Stretcher Case
16 Ignite
17 Smash It Up (Parts 1 & 2)
18 Welcome To The Future (jam)
19 Happy Talk

Source: Audience
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 52Mb (part1), 65Mb (part 2)

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Superb-quality recordings of the Foos with ten tracks from an FM radio broadcast of their headline set at the Reading Festival in 2002 and four recorded from the TV broadcast of 'Later With Jools Holland' in December of the same year.

Reading Festival:
01 All my Life
02 Breakout
03 This is a Call
04 Learn to Fly
05 Disenchanted Lullaby
06 Times Like These
07 Hey, Johnny Park!
08 Low
09 Monkey Wrench
10 Everlong

Later With Jools Holland:
11 All My Life
12 Low
13 Times Like These
14 Tired of You

Source: FM Radio/TV broadcasts
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 128kbps m4a
File size: 60Mb

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Incredible show by the Queens, showcasing many of the tracks from their awesome "Songs for the Deaf" album. Fantastic sound quality from an FM radio broadcast.

01 Millionaire
02 Feelgood Hit of the Summer
03 Quick and to the Pointless
04 If Only
05 The Sky is Fallin'
06 Leg of Lamb
07 Gonna Leave You
08 Hanging Tree
09 Auto pilot
10 A Song for the Dead
11 Better Living Through Chemistry
12 No One Knows
13 Go With the Flow
14 The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 128kbps mp3
File size: 53Mb

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Great sounding audience recording (a little lacking on bass, but very clear otherwise) recorded shortly before the original line-up reunion dates of 1989. This is the Vanian, Scabies, Jugg, and Merrick incarnation of The Damned. Oh, and 'Cathouse' is a cover of the Danielle Dax song...

01 See Her Tonite
02 Noise Noise Noise
03 You Must be a Witch
04 Plan 9 Channel 7
05 Shadow of Love
06 Fever
07 Street of Dreams
08 Psychomania
09 Smash it Up
10 Johnny Remember Me (Fades out)
11 Tonight (Fades in)
12 Cathouse
13 Short break
14 Anything
15 Neat Neat Neat
16 I Feel Alright

Source: Audience
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 86Mb

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Found this tape, which I bought a few years back in a job lot on ebay, a few days ago, and realised I had never listened to it. Turned out to be quite a good recording of the second date on the Phantasmagoria tour. And, I suspect, largely uncirculated. Generally, everything is very clear, with just the occasional briefly muffled moments.

01 Curtain Call
02 Shadow of Love
03 neat Neat Neat
04 Wait for the Blackout
05 Stranger on the Town
06 Is it a Dream
07 There'll Come a Day
08 Smash it Up
09 Looking at You
10 Gun Fury
11 Street of Dreams
12 Curtain Call (reprise)
13 Love Song
14 New Rose

Source: Audience
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File Size: 77Mb

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Fantastic recording on which The Damned are in exceptional form. From an unknown recording source, but quite probably a soundboard tape as the audience noise doesn't intrude during the songs. A real gem!

01 Intro
02 Disco Man
03 Just Can't be Happy Today
04 See Her Tonite
05 Democracy
06 Amen
07 13th Floor Vendetta
08 Born to Kill
09 Ignite
10 song.com
11 Street of Dreams
12 Would You be so Hot
13 She
14 Neat Neat Neat
15 Captain speaks
16 History of the World Part 1
17 Eloise
18 New Rose
19 Love Song
20 Smash it Up
21 Looking at You

Source: Possible soundboard
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size 72Mb (part 1), 62Mb (part 2)

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This sounds as though it is a soundboard recording, but also as though it's from a tape several generations down the line. Hence it's not perfect, but is a very good recording. This came to me as mp3s and all the between-song chats have been split into separate tracks.

01 Intro
02 New Rose
03 Banter
04 Democracy
05 Banter
06 Wait for the Blackout
07 Banter
08 Disco Man
09 Banter
10 I Just Can't be Happy Today
11 Mucking About
12 song.com
13 Banter
14 Shadow of Love
15 Banter
16 Looking at You
17 Plan 9 Channel 7
18 Banter
19 She
20 Curtain Call
21 Neat Neat Neat
22 Crowd noise
23 Happy Talk
24 Absinthe
25 Love Song
26 Eloise
27 Smash it Up

Source: Possible soundboard
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 60Mb (part 1), 55Mb (part 2)

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Very good, though bass-heavy, audience recording.

01 Intro
02 Ignite
03 Disco Man
04 I Just Can't be Happy Today
05 song.com
06 Amen
07 13th Floor Vendetta
08 Democracy
09 History of the World Part 1
10 See Her Tonite
11 She
12 Neat Neat Neat
13 New Rose
14 Love Song
15 Eloise
16 Smash it Up

Source: Audience
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
Filesize: 100Mb

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Quite a good-sounding audience-recorded show which originally had sound in the left-hand channel only, so I have duplicated the left-hand channel into the right-hand channel so it sounds correct, even though it's effectively a mono recording now.

01 Love Song
02 Second Time Around
03 I Just Cant Be Happy Today
04 Wait For The Blackout
05 Stage Talk
06 Disco Man
07 History Of The World
08 New Rose
09 Neat Neat Neat
10 Ignite
11 I Fall
12 Born To Kill
13 Stage Chat
14 Noise Noise Noise
15 Stage Chat
16 Melody Lee
17 Smash It Up
18 Jet Boy Jet Girl
19 Nasty

Source: Audience
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 83Mb

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A decent quality audience recording, though the sound is a little unbalanced on some of the later songs.

01 I Fall
02 Wait For The Blackout
03 Disco Man
04 I Just Can’t Be Happy Today
05 Plan 9 Channel 7
06 Gun Fury
07 Melody Lee
08 Noise Noise Noise
09 Dr Jeckel And Mr Hyde
10 Limit Club
11 Love Song
12 Neat Neat Neat
13 New Rose
14 Stab Your Back
15 Singalongascabies
16 Reprise
17 Voodoo Chile
18 Looking At You
19 Smash It Up

Source: Audience
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 80Mb

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A very rough recording, but uploaded for its rarity value, this one is really only for the dedicated Rezillos fan. It has been suggested that this was recorded at Tiffany's in Coventry on this date, but I doubt that The Rezillos were playing in England at this point in their career. The set is mostly covers, which was what they started out playing over a year earlier, though a couple of Rezillos classics are present. Hungry For Love would later be recorded and released as a single by Eugene and Fay's post-Rezillos outfit, The Revillos.

01 Glad All Over
02 You really Got Me
03 Getting Me Down
04 Have I the Right
05 Twist and Shout
06 Lipstick on Your Collar
07 I Like It
08 Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight
09 Hungry For Love
10 Johnny be Good
11 Great Big Kiss
12 Wooly Bully
13 C'mon Everybody
14 Boney Maronie
15 Do You Really Love Me
16 Stupid Cupid
17 20,000 Rezillos Under the Sea
18 Route 66
19 Leader of the Pack
20 Don't You Just Know It
21 (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures
22 I Wanna Be Your Man
23 I Need You

Source: Audience
Quality: Rough
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 84Mb

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I suspect this is a soundboard recording, due to the lack of audience intrusion and the even levels of all the instruments during the songs, though the sound quality is merely average. But Rezillos boots are rare, so I though it worth hearing.

01 Flying Saucer Attack
02 I Need You
03 Game's the Same
04 Wooly Bully
05 No
06 Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight
07 Getting me Down
08 Rosalyn
09 Top of the Pops
10 (My baby Does) Good Sculptures
11 Don't You Just Know It
12 2000AD
13 Can't Stand My baby
14 I Wanna be Your Man
15 Glad All Over
16 Twist and Shout
17 Route 66

Source: Unknown, possible soundboard
Quality: Average
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 60Mb

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Average sounding audience recording, but Revillos boots are very rare, so it's worth hearing. This was recorded from a vinyl LP that came out a few years ago.

01 Motorbike Beat
02 Bongo Brain
03 Mind-Bending Cutie Doll
04 Hip City (You Were Meant for Me)
05 Your baby's Gone
06 Scuba Boy Bop
07 Do the Mutilation
08 She's Fallen in Love with a Monster Man
09 Where's the Boy for Me?
10 Boys
11 Hippy Hippy Shake

Source: Audience
Quality: Average
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 44Mb

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By this point, The Damned had the legal rights to the name again and this spirited performance includes several songs that were to appear on the classic 'Machine Gun Etiquette' album later in the year as well as a brief run through Deep Purple's 'Black Night'. The quality isn't great and has a slight crackling sound but it's another Damned show worth hearing for its rarity alone.

01. Jet Boy Jet Girl
02. Teenage Dream
03. Stretcher Case
04. Ballroom Blitz
05. Problem Child
06. Love Song
07. Looking At You
08. Born To Kill
09. Second Time Around
10. Melody Lee
11. Help
12. Stab Your Back
13. So Messed Up
14. Neat Neat Neat
15. New Rose
16. Pretty Vacant
17. Burglar
18. Black Night
19. I Feel Alright (fades out)

Source: Audience
Quality: Average
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 80Mb

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This recording dates from the period after The Damned reformed in 1978, but before they had regained the legal rights to the name, and played some dates as The Doomed. The sound isn't as good as you'd expect from a soundboard recording, but, hey, the tape is over 30 years old... Anyway, it's well worth hearing for historical interest and rarity alone. The line up on this recording is Dave Vanian (vocals), Captain Sensible (guitar), Rat Scabies (drums) and Henry Badowski (bass).

01 Teenage Dream
02 Second Time Around
03 Problem Child
04 Burglar
05 Ballroom Blitz
06 Looking At You
07 Help
08 Stab Your Back
09 Antipope
10 New Rose
11 Jet Boy Jet Girl
12 Stretcher Case
13 Neat Neat Neat

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Average
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 57Mb

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Truly superb audience recording. Slightly bass-heavy, but otherwise as good as you'll hear.

01 There'll Always be an England
02 Pretty Vacant
03 Seventeen
04 No Feelings
05 New York
06 Did You no Wrong
07 Liar
08 Holidays in the Sun
09 Baghdad Was a Blast
10 Submission
11 Stepping Stone
12 No Fun
13 Problems
14 God Save the Queen
15 EMI
16 Bodies
17 Anarchy in the UK

Source: Audience recording
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 96Mb

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FM radio broadcast. Not the full set.

01. I Fall
02. Wait For The Blackout
03. Disco Man
04. I Just Can't Be Happy Today
05. Plan 9 Channel 7
06. Melody Lee
08. Noise Noise Noise
09. Dr.Jeckel & Mr.Hyde
10. Limit Club
11. Love Song (fades out)

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 49Mb

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Good quality audience recording. This came to me as mp3s, but the files have been split in slightly strange places, so that the next song will start before the end of the mp3 file. Still, if you listen to the recording as a whole, that won't matter a bit.

01 Sanctum Sanctorium
02 Wait For The Blackout
03 Psychomania
04 Anything
05 Shadow Of Love
06 In Dulce Decorum
07 Gun Fury
08 Is It A Dream
08 Stranger On The Town
09 The Girl Goes Down
10 LA Woman
11 Smash It Up 1 & 2
12 Eloise
13. Plan 9 Channel 7
14. Street Of Dreams
15. Neat Neat Neat
16. Tonight
17. Love Song
18. We Love You

Source: Audience recording
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 53Mb (part 1), 57Mb (part 2)

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This superb audience recording is from a different day and venue to the material on the "Machine Gun Etiquette 25" DVD set, which was recorded in Tokyo.

01 Crowd
02 Melody Lee
03 Disco Man
04 I Just Can't be Happy Today
05 I Fall
06 Eloise
07 New Rose
08 Would You be so Hot
09 Street Of Dreams
10 Jet Boy Jet Girl
11 History of the World
12 Neat Neat Neat
13 Love Song
14 Smash it Up

Source: Audience Recording
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 70Mb

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Another surprisingly good recording from 1977, and worth hearing for several songs from The Damned's second album 'Music For Pleasure'. Again, taken from a vinyl LP.

01 You Take My Money
02 Neat Neat Neat
03 Problem Child
04 Fan Club
05 Politics
06 Sick of Being Sick
07 Don't Cry Wolf
08 Stretcher Case
09 Help
10 Stab Your Back
11 So Messed Up
12 New Rose
13 Born To Kill
14 Fish

Source: Audience recording
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 46Mb

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Surprisingly good, if slightly bass-heavy, recording from the early days of The Damned, this is taken from a vinyl LP - you can hear the crackling as the recording begins.

01 Feel Alright
02 Born to Kill
03 Sick Of Being Sick
04 Neat Neat Neat
05 Stretcher Case Baby
06 Fan Club
07 Help
08 Stab Your Back
09 So Messed Up
10 New Rose
11 Fish
12 Neat Neat Neat
13 Stretcher Case Baby

Source: Audience Recording
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 49Mb

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Another show from the Christmas tour of 1983, when The Damned were unsigned and, presumably, making a living by gigging. Not the greatest sound quality, but certainly worth hearing.

01 There Aint No Sanity Clause
02 Disco Man
03 Ignite
04 Stranger On The Town
05 Wait For The Blackout
06 Do The Blitz
07 Melody Lee
08 Born To Kill
09 Feel The Pain
10 Love Song
11 Neat Neat Neat
12 Looking At You
13 Smash It Up
14 Noise Noise Noise
15 New Rose
16 Hippy Hippy Shake
17 We Love You
18 I Feel Alright

Source: Audience recording
Quality: Average
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 44Mb (part1), 61Mb (part2)

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Recorded on the same day The Damned released the Friday The 13th EP, this is possibly the only occasion on which they played all four songs from that release at the same gig. Sound is OK, nothing special, but well worth a listen.

01 Intro
02 Lively Arts
03 Wait For The Blackout
04 Disco Man
05 Billy Bad Breaks
06 I Just Can’t Be Happy Today
07 Plan 9 Channel 7
08 Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde
09 Fan Club
10 Noise Noise Noise
11 The Limit Club
12 Love Song
13 Neat Neat Neat
14 Drum Solo
15 New Rose
16 Smash It Up
17 Citadel
18 Looking At You
19 Melody Lee
20 Love Song
21 Ballroom Blitz
22 Outside Gig

Source: Audience recording
Quality: Average
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 60Mb (part1), 54Mb (part2)

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Awesome radio broadcast of Sonic Youth at arguably the height of their powers, touring the mighty 'Dirty' album.

01 100%
02 Dirty Boots
03 Cool Thing
04 Swimsuit Issue
05 Genetic
06 Theresa's Sound World
07 Tom Violence
08 Sugar Kane
09 Schizophrenia
10 Drunken Butterfly

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File Size: 62Mb

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Good-sounding audience recording of The Ruts in Germany. Almost certainly not the full show, this sounds as though it was originally a vinyl LP bootleg. Six months after this, Malcolm Owen died, robbing punk of one of its most original voices.

01 SUS
02 Demolition Dancing
03 Back Biter
04 Out of Order
05 Jah War
06 Babylon's Burning
07 Criminal Mind
08 Staring at the Rude Boys
09 You're Just A...
10 It Was Cold
11 In a Rut
12 Society

Source: Audience
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 60Mb

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This was recorded at "The Longest Day" - a one-day event headlined by U2, which also featured REM, Ramones, Billy Bragg and The Faith Brothers. Not a bad recording by any means, though the sound is unbalanced on the first six tracks (which were side one of the tape). It's evenly balanced on the last four.

01 Once in Her Lifetime
02 Rainmaker
03 Rocket Ship
04 Come Back
05 All My Love (Ask Nothing)
06 Attica
07 Mickey
08 Young Men
09 I Can See
10 Liberator

Source: Audience recording
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 61Mb

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This is an audience recording from a tape I bought on Lincoln Market a few days after seeing The Damned at this gig on their short Christmas tour in 1985. Sound quality is slightly 'muddy' but generally OK - I've heard (and bought) much worse! Notable for an early airing of Eloise, which was released in the Spring of 1986.

01 Curtain Call
02 Shadow of Love
03 Neat Neat Neat
04 Wait For The Blackout
05 Just Cant' Be Happy Today
06 Stranger On The Town
07 Grimly Fiendish
08 Smash It Up
09 Is It A Dream
10 There Ain't No Sanity Clause
11 I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
12 Eloise
13 Street Of Dreams
14 Curtain Call
15 Lust For Life
16 Love Song
17 New Rose
18 We Love You

Source: Audience recording
Quality: Average
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 57Mb (pt1), 55Mb (pt2)

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