The Damned discography | |
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Studio albums | 11 |
Live albums | 22 |
Compilation albums | 28 |
Video albums | 7 |
Music videos | 16 |
EPs | 5 |
Singles | 48 |
Box sets | 4 |
The discography of British punk rock band the Damned includes twelve studio albums, twenty-two live albums, twenty-eight compilations, four box sets, five extended plays and forty-five singles.
Albums
Studio albums
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |||
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UK [1] |
UK Indie [2] |
AUS [3] |
NZ [4] | |||
Damned Damned Damned | 34 | — | — | — | ||
Music for Pleasure |
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— | — | — | — | |
Machine Gun Etiquette |
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31 | 4 | — | — | |
The Black Album |
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29 | 13 | — | — | |
Strawberries |
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15 | 7 | — | — | |
Phantasmagoria | 11 | — | 95 | 32 |
| |
Anything |
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40 | — | — | — |
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Not of This Earth | — | — | — | — | ||
Grave Disorder |
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— | 38[6] | — | — | |
So, Who's Paranoid? |
|
— | 32[7] | — | — | |
Evil Spirits |
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7 | — | — | — | |
Darkadelic |
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9 | — | — | — | |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Live albums
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
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UK Indie [2] | ||
Live Shepperton 1980 |
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5 |
Live in Newcastle |
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2 |
The Captain's Birthday Party |
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— |
Not the Captain's Birthday Party? |
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16 |
Mindless Directionless Energy |
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— |
Final Damnation |
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— |
Live |
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— |
Ballroom Blitz – Live at the Lyceum |
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— |
The School Bullies |
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— |
Fiendish Shadows |
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— |
Eternal Damnation Live |
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— |
Molten Lager |
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— |
Tiki Nightmare – Live in London |
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— |
Live at the 100 Club |
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— |
Return to the 100 Club |
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— |
Live at Woolwich Coronet |
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— |
Machine Gun Etiquette Anniversary Live Set |
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— |
35th Anniversary Live in Concert – 12.11.2011 The Roundhouse, London |
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— |
35th Anniversary Live in Concert – 19.11.2011 Academy Manchester |
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— |
Another Live Album from the Damned |
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— |
35 Years of Anarchy, Chaos and Destruction – 35th Anniversary – Live in London |
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— |
40th Anniversary Tour – Live in Margate |
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— |
A Night of a Thousand Vampires: Live in London |
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— |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Compilation albums
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
UK [1] |
UK Indie [2] |
NZ [4] | ||
Another Great Record from the Damned – The Best of the Damned |
|
43 | 3 | 41 |
Damned But Not Forgotten |
|
— | 2 | — |
Lively Arts |
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— | — | — |
The Light at the End of the Tunnel |
|
87 | — | — |
Best of Vol 1 1/2 – Long Lost Weekend |
|
— | 17 | — |
Chiswick Singles |
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— | — | — |
The Collection |
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— | — | — |
Totally Damned |
|
— | — | — |
The MCA Singles A+Bs |
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— | — | — |
Skip Off School to See the Damned |
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— | — | — |
Tales from the Damned |
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— | — | — |
Sessions of the Damned |
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— | — | — |
Eternally Damned: The Very Best of the Damned |
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— | — | — |
Noise – The Best of the Damned Live |
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— | — | — |
From The Beginning |
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— | — | — |
The Radio One Sessions |
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— | — | — |
The Chaos Years – Rare & Unreleased 1977–1982 |
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— | — | — |
Born to Kill |
|
— | — | — |
The Best of the Damned – Marvellous |
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— | — | — |
The Pleasure and the Pain – Selected Highlights 1982–1991 |
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— | — | — |
Live Anthology |
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— | — | — |
Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976–1987 |
|
154[11] | — | — |
Punk Generation: Best of Oddities & Versions |
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— | — | — |
Neat Neat Neat – The Alternative Anthology |
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— | — | — |
The Best of the Damned – Total Damnation |
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— | — | — |
Chiswick Singles...and Another Thing |
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— | — | — |
Punk Oddities & Rare Tracks 1977–1982 |
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— | — | — |
Go! – 45 |
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— | — | — |
Black Is the Night: The Definitive Anthology |
|
63 | — | — |
Singles Singles Singles Vol.1 – 1976/1979 |
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— | — | — |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Compilation appearances
- The Moonlight Tapes (1980)
- The Whip (1983)
- The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
- The History Of Rock Volume 31 (1985)
- Live At Alice In Wonderland - A Pretty Smart Way To Catch A Lobster (1986)
- The Punk Incident (1994)
- The Best Punk Album In The World...Ever! (1995)
- Punk - Lost & Found (1996)
- The Chiswick Story: Adventures Of An Independent Record Label 1975-1982 (1996)
- Industrial Mix Machine (1997)
- Short Music For Short People (1999)
- Punkzilla (2001)
- Warped Tour - 2002 Compilation (2002)
- No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion (2003)
- Friends Reunited.co.uk The Class Of 1986 (2004)
- Friends Reunited.co.uk The Class Of 1987 (2004)
- Hardcore Breakout USA 1,2,3,... (2004)
- Ace 30th Birthday Celebration - Garage, Beat and Punk Rock (2005)
- The Satanic Rights Of Dracula (2006)
- Hardcore Breakout – Essential Punk (2012)
Box sets
Title | Album details |
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Boxed |
|
The Stiff Singles 1976–1977 |
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Play It at Your Sister |
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Noise Noise Noise – The Live Box |
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Extended plays
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
---|---|---|---|
UK [1] |
UK Indie [2] | ||
Friday 13th EP |
|
50 | 2 |
The Peel Sessions (10th May 1977) |
|
90 | 5 |
The Peel Sessions (30th November 1976) |
|
— | 26 |
Testify |
|
— | — |
The Rockfield Files |
|
— | — |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Singles
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
UK [1] |
UK Indie [2] |
AUS [3] |
GER [12] |
IRE [13] |
NZ [4] |
US Main. [14] | |||
"New Rose" | 1976 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Damned Damned Damned |
"Neat Neat Neat" | 1977 | 52[A] | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
"Stretcher Case Baby" (limited release) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Music for Pleasure | |
"Problem Child" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Don't Cry Wolf" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Love Song" | 1979 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Machine Gun Etiquette |
"Smash It Up" | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"I Just Can't Be Happy Today" | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"White Rabbit" (France and Germany-only release) | 1980 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single |
"The History of the World (Part 1)" | 51 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | The Black Album | |
"Wait for the Blackout" (Spain-only release) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"There Ain't No Sanity Clause" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |
"Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" (US-only release) | 1981 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Black Album |
"Love Song" (reissue) | 1982 | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | Machine Gun Etiquette |
"Smash It Up" (reissue) | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Wait for the Blackout" (UK release) | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | The Black Album | |
"Lovely Money" | 42 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |
"Dozen Girls" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Strawberries | |
"Lively Arts" | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | The Black Album | |
"Generals" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Strawberries | |
"White Rabbit" (UK release) | 1983 | 82 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles |
"There Ain't No Sanity Clause" (reissue) | 97 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Thanks for the Night" | 1984 | 43 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | |
"Grimly Fiendish" | 1985 | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Phantasmagoria |
"The Shadow of Love" | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Is It a Dream?" | 34 | — | 69 | — | — | — | — | ||
"Eloise" | 1986 | 3 | — | 8 | 58 | 4 | 18 | — | Non-album singles |
"New Rose" (reissue) | 81 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Anything" | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Anything | |
"Gigolo" | 1987 | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
"Alone Again Or" | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | 50 | ||
"In Dulce Decorum" | 72 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Fun Factory" [B] | 1991 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles |
"Prokofiev" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Shut It" | 1996 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Not of This Earth |
"Disco Man" (Germany and Canada-only release) | 1998 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single |
"Ignite" (US-only release) | 2001 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Strawberries |
"Smash It Up" (2nd reissue) | 2004 | 77 | 23[16] | — | — | — | — | — | Machine Gun Etiquette |
"Little Miss Disaster" | 2005 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | So, Who's Paranoid? |
"A Nation Fit for Heroes" | 2010 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
"Standing on the Edge of Tomorrow" | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Evil Spirits |
"Devil in Disguise" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Look Left" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Black Is the Night" | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Black Is the Night: The Definitive Anthology |
"Keep 'Em Alive" | 2020 | —[C] | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Rockfield Files |
"The Invisible Man" | 2023 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Darkadelic |
"Beware of the Clown" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"You're Gonna Realise" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Videos
Video albums
Title | Album details |
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Live '79 |
|
The Light at the End of the Tunnel |
|
Final Damnation |
|
Tiki Nightmare – Live in London |
|
MGE25 – Machine Gun Etiquette 25 Tour |
|
Don't You Wish That We Were Dead |
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Really Must Be Going Now |
|
Music videos
Title | Year |
---|---|
"New Rose" | 1976 |
"Smash It Up" | 1979 |
"Plan 9 Channel 7" | |
"Grimly Fiendish" | 1985 |
"Shadow of Love" | |
"Is It a Dream?" | |
"Eloise" | 1986 |
"Anything" | |
"Gigolo" | 1987 |
"Alone Again Or" | |
"Standing on the Edge of Tomorrow" | 2018 |
"Look Out" | |
"Keep 'Em Alive" | 2020 |
"The Invisible Man" | 2023 |
"Beware of the Clown" | |
"You're Gonna Realise" |
Notes
- ^ Chart position is from the "Star Breakers" list, an official extension of the BRMB Top 50 Singles Chart.[15]
- ^ Originally recorded in 1983
- ^ "Keep 'Em Alive" didn't enter the UK Singles Chart, but did peak at number 1 on the Vinyl Singles Chart and number 20 on the Rock & Metal Singles Chart.[17][18]
References
- ^ a b c d "DAMNED | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980–1989'. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 0-9517206-9-4.
- ^ a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 81. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ a b c "Discography – The Damned". charts.nz. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
- ^ a b c "British certificates: searchable database". bpi.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
- ^ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50 | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50 | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 54.
- ^ "The Damned Release Two Tracks From "A Night Of A Thousand Vampires" Out Oct 28". The Rock Pit. 26 August 2022. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
- ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 30.
- ^ "Chart Log UK: Asher D - Dyverse". www.zobbel.de. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ "Offizielle Deutsche Charts - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ "The Damned Songs ••• Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts". www.musicvf.com. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ "Top 50 Singles". Music Week. 12 March 1977.
- ^ "Official Independent Singles Chart Top 50 | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ "Official Vinyl Singles Chart Top 40 | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ "Official Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 1 January 2022.