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The Damned discography
Studio albums11
EPs2
Live albums15
Compilation albums32
Singles35
Music videos9

The discography of British punk rock band the Damned includes eleven studio albums, fifteen live albums, thirty-one compilations, two extended plays and thirty-five singles.

Studio albums

Year Title Chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[1]
NZ
[2]
1977 Damned Damned Damned 36
Music For Pleasure
  • Stiff
1979 Machine Gun Etiquette 31
1980 The Black Album
  • Chiswick
29
1982 Strawberries 15
1985 Phantasmagoria 11 32
1986 Anything
  • MCA
40
1995 Not of This Earth
2001 Grave Disorder
2008 So, Who's Paranoid?
  • English Channel Records
2018 Evil Spirits 7

Live albums

Compilation albums

  • The Best of the Damned (1981) UK #43,[4] NZ #41[2]
  • Damned But Not Forgotten (1985; CD re-issue 1994)
  • Lively Arts (1986)
  • Light At The End Of The Tunnel (1987) UK #87[4]
  • The Best of Vol 1 1/2 – Long Lost Weekend (1988)
  • The Collection (1990)
  • Chiswick Singles (1990)
  • Totally Damned (1992)
  • The MCA Singles A+Bs (1992)
  • Damned Busters (1992)
  • Skip off School to See the Damned (The Stiff Singles A's & B's) (1992)
  • Tales from the Damned (1993)
  • Sessions of the Damned (1993)
  • Eternally Damned – The Very Best of the Damned (1994)
  • From the Beginning (1995)
  • Noise (1995)
  • The Radio One Sessions (1996)
  • Neat Neat Neat (1996)
  • The Chaos Years – Rare & Unreleased 1977-1982 (1997)
  • Born to Kill (1997)
  • Super Best of the Damned (1999)
  • Boxed Set 1 (1999)
  • Boxed Set 2 (1999)
  • Marvellous (1999)
  • The Pleasure and the Pain: Selected Highlights 1982-1991 (2000)
  • Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976–1987 (2002)
  • The Stiff Singles 1976-1977 (2003)
  • Punk Generation – Best Of Oddities & Versions (2004)
  • Neat Neat Neat – The Alternative Anthology (2004)
  • Play It at Your Sister (2005)
  • Black Is the Night: The Definitive Anthology (2019)

Compilation appearances

Extended plays

Year Title Chart positions
UK[1][4]
1981 Friday 13th EP
  • NEMS Records
50
1986 The Peel Sessions 90
1997 Testify

Singles

Year Title Chart positions Album
UK
[1][4]
IRL
[5]
NZ
[2]
1976 "New Rose" [C] 81 Damned Damned Damned
1977 "Neat Neat Neat"
"Stretcher Case Baby" Music for Pleasure
"Problem Child"
"Don't Cry Wolf"
1979 "Love Song" 20 Machine Gun Etiquette
"Smash It Up" 35
"I Just Can't Be Happy Today" 46
1980 "White Rabbit" 82
"The History of the World (Part 1)" 51 The Black Album
"There Ain't No Sanity Clause" 97
1981 "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" The Black Album
1982 "Wait for the Blackout" [A]
"Lovely Money" 42 Strawberries
"Dozen Girls" Strawberries
"Lively Arts" [A] The Black Album
"Generals" Strawberries
1984 "Thanks for the Night" 43
1985 "Grimly Fiendish" 21 Phantasmagoria
"The Shadow of Love" 25
"Is It a Dream?" 34
1986 "Eloise" 3 4 18
"Anything" 32 Anything
1987 "Gigolo" 29
"Alone Again Or" 27
"In Dulce Decorum" 72
1991 "Fun Factory" [B]
"Prokofiev"
1996 "Shut It" Not of This Earth
2005 "Little Miss Disaster" So, Who's Paranoid?
2010 "A Nation Fit for Heroes" So, Who's Paranoid?
2018 "Standing On the Edge of Tomorrow" Evil Spirits
"Devil in Disguise"
"Look Left"
"Procrastination"
Notes
  • A^ Releases of older material by Chiswick's Big Beat imprint.
  • B^ Originally recorded in 1983.
  • C^ Charted in 1986.

Music videos

  • New Rose (1976)
  • Smash It Up (1979)
  • Plan 9, Channel 7 (1979)
  • Grimly Fiendish (1985)
  • Shadow of Love (1985)
  • Is It a Dream? (1985)
  • Eloise (1986)
  • Anything (1986)
  • Gigolo (1987)
  • Alone Again Or (1987)
  • Standing On the Edge of Tomorrow (2018)
  • Look Left (2018)

References

  1. ^ a b c Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 139. ISBN 978-1-904994-10-7.
  2. ^ a b c "Discography – The Damned". charts.nz. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  3. ^ a b c "British certificates: searchable database". bpi.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d "The Official Charts Company – The Damned". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  5. ^ "The Irish Charts – All there is to know". © IRMA 2006 – 2012. Archived from the original on 26 January 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2012.