The Damned discography

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The Damned discography
Studio albums11
Live albums22
Compilation albums28
Video albums7
Music videos16
EPs5
Singles48
Box sets4

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.

Contents

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[1]
UK
Indie

[2]
AUS
[3]
NZ
[4]
Damned Damned Damned
  • Released: 18 February 1977
  • Label: Stiff
  • Formats: LP, MC
34
Music for Pleasure
  • Released: 18 November 1977
  • Label: Stiff
  • Formats: LP, MC
Machine Gun Etiquette
  • Released: 2 November 1979
  • Label: Chiswick
  • Formats: LP, MC
314
The Black Album
  • Released: October 1980
  • Label: Chiswick
  • Formats: 2xLP, LP, MC
2913
Strawberries
  • Released: 1 October 1982
  • Label: Bronze
  • Formats: LP, MC
157
Phantasmagoria
  • Released: 15 July 1985
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
119532
  • UK: Silver [5]
Anything
  • Released: 5 December 1986
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
40
  • UK: Silver [5]
Not of This Earth
  • Released: 8 November 1995
  • Label: InsideOut, Cleopatra, Marble Orchard
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
  • Released in the UK in April 1996 as I'm Alright Jack and the Bean Stalk
Grave Disorder
  • Released: 21 August 2001
  • Label: Nitro
  • Formats: CD, LP
38 [6]
So, Who's Paranoid?
  • Release date: 17 November 2008
  • Label: The English Channel
  • Formats: CD
32 [7]
Evil Spirits 7
Darkadelic
  • Release date: 28 April 2023
  • Label: earMUSIC
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
9
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart
positions
UK
Indie

[2]
Live Shepperton 1980
  • Released: 26 November 1982
  • Label: Big Beat
  • Formats: LP
5
Live in Newcastle
  • Released: November 1983
  • Label: Damned
  • Formats: LP
2
The Captain's Birthday Party
  • Released: 27 June 1986
  • Label: Stiff
  • Formats: LP
Not the Captain's Birthday Party?
  • Released: 17 October 1986
  • Label: Demon
  • Formats: LP
  • Reissue of The Captain's Birthday Party with an additional track
16
Mindless Directionless Energy
  • Released: 7 November 1987
  • Label: I.D.
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Final Damnation
  • Released: 21 August 1989
  • Label: Essential
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Live
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Success/Marble Arch Rock
  • Formats: 3xCD, digital download
Ballroom Blitz – Live at the Lyceum
  • Released: June 1992
  • Label: Receiver
  • Formats: CD, LP
The School Bullies
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Receiver
  • Formats: CD
Fiendish Shadows
  • Released: September 1996
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD
  • US and Japan-only release
Eternal Damnation Live
  • Released: June 1999
  • Label: Big Ear Music
  • Formats: CD
  • US-only release
Molten Lager
  • Released: October 1999
  • Label: Musical Tragedies, Sudden Death
  • Formats: CD
  • Germany and Canada-only release
Tiki Nightmare – Live in London
  • Released: November 2003
  • Label: Salvo
  • Formats: 2xCD+DVD
Live at the 100 Club
  • Released: April 2007 (LP)
  • Label: Castle Music
  • Formats: CD (only with expanded release of debut album), LP (limited release)
Return to the 100 Club
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Live Here Now
  • Formats: 2xCD (limited release)
Live at Woolwich Coronet
  • Released: 27 August 2007
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: LP
  • US-only limited release
Machine Gun Etiquette Anniversary Live Set
  • Released: 13 June 2011
  • Label: Easy Action
  • Formats: CD+2xDVD
35th Anniversary Live in Concert – 12.11.2011 The Roundhouse, London
  • Released: 12 November 2011
  • Label: Concert Live, 4W
  • Formats: 2xCD
35th Anniversary Live in Concert – 19.11.2011 Academy Manchester
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: Concert Live
  • Formats: 2xCD
Another Live Album from the Damned
  • Released: 27 October 2014
  • Label: Southworld, 4W
  • Formats: 2xCD, 2xLP, digital download
35 Years of Anarchy, Chaos and Destruction – 35th Anniversary – Live in London
  • Released: 18 September 2015
  • Label: Westworld
  • Formats: 2xCD
40th Anniversary Tour – Live in Margate
  • Released: December 2016
  • Label: Live Here Now
  • Formats: 2xCD, 3xLP
A Night of a Thousand Vampires: Live in London
  • Released: 28 October 2022 [8]
  • Label: Earmusic
  • Formats: 2×CD+Blu-ray, 2×LP
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
[1]
UK
Indie

[2]
NZ
[4]
Another Great Record from the Damned – The Best of the Damned
  • Released: 13 November 1981
  • Label: Ace
  • Formats: LP, MC
43341
Damned But Not Forgotten
  • Released: January 1986
  • Label: Dojo
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
2
Lively Arts
  • Released: 21 February 1986
  • Label: PRT/Big Beat
  • Formats: LP
  • Japan-only release
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
  • Released: 30 November 1987
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: 2xCD, 2xLP, 2xMC
87
Best of Vol 1 1/2 – Long Lost Weekend
  • Released: May 1988
  • Label: Big Beat
  • Formats: LP, MC
17
Chiswick Singles
  • Released: 21 February 1990
  • Label: Chiswick
  • Formats: CD
  • Japan-only release
The Collection
Totally Damned
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Dojo Limited
  • Formats: CD
The MCA Singles A+Bs
  • Released: July 1992
  • Label: Connoisseur Collection
  • Formats: CD, MC
Skip Off School to See the Damned
  • Released: September 1992
  • Label: Demon
  • Formats: CD
Tales from the Damned
  • Released: 13 August 1993
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD, MC
  • US-only release
Sessions of the Damned
Eternally Damned: The Very Best of the Damned
  • Released: May 1994
  • Label: Music Collection
  • Formats: CD, MC
Noise – The Best of the Damned Live
  • Released: September 1995
  • Label: Emporio
  • Formats: CD, MC
From The Beginning
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Spectrum Music (Universal Special Operations)
  • Formats: CD
  • Country: Germany
The Radio One Sessions
  • Released: April 1996
  • Label: Nighttracks
  • Formats: CD
The Chaos Years – Rare & Unreleased 1977–1982
  • Released: 5 March 1997
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD
  • US-only release
Born to Kill
The Best of the Damned – Marvellous
  • Released: 29 November 1999
  • Label: Big Beat
  • Formats: CD
The Pleasure and the Pain – Selected Highlights 1982–1991
  • Released: June 2000
  • Label: Castle Music
  • Formats: 2xCD
Live Anthology
  • Released: 22 October 2001
  • Label: Castle Music
  • Formats: 2xCD
Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976–1987
  • Released: 22 October 2002
  • Label: Castle Music/Sanctuary
  • Formats: 2xCD
154 [9]
Punk Generation: Best of Oddities & Versions
  • Released: 17 February 2004
  • Label: Anarchy Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Neat Neat Neat – The Alternative Anthology
  • Released: 11 October 2004
  • Label: Sanctuary Midline
  • Formats: 3xCD
The Best of the Damned – Total Damnation
  • Released: April 2006
  • Label: Metro
  • Formats: CD
Chiswick Singles...and Another Thing
  • Released: 26 September 2011
  • Label: Chiswick
  • Formats: CD
  • Includes Friday 13th EP
Punk Oddities & Rare Tracks 1977–1982
  • Released: 14 March 2014
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD, LP
Go! – 45
  • Released: 25 May 2015
  • Label: Chiswick
  • Formats: LP
Black Is the Night: The Definitive Anthology
  • Released: 1 November 2019
  • Label: BMG
  • Formats: 2xCD, 4xLP, digital download
63
Singles Singles Singles Vol.1 – 1976/1979
  • Released: 19 November 2021
  • Label: Zero Thoughts
  • Formats: LP
"—" 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

TitleAlbum details
Boxed
  • Released: 18 May 1999
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: 3xCD
  • US-only release
The Stiff Singles 1976–1977
  • Released: February 2003
  • Label: Castle Music
  • Formats: 5xCD
Play It at Your Sister
  • Released: 24 October 2005
  • Label: Castle Music
  • Formats: 3xCD
Noise Noise Noise – The Live Box
  • Released: 4 September 2006
  • Label: Castle Music/Sanctuary
  • Formats: 5xCD

Extended plays

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
[1]
UK
Indie

[2]
Friday 13th EP
  • Released: 13 November 1981
  • Label: NEMS
  • Formats: 7", 12"
502
The Peel Sessions (10th May 1977)
  • Released: September 1986
  • Label: Strange Fruit
  • Formats: 12"
905
The Peel Sessions (30th November 1976)
  • Released: 20 November 1987
  • Label: Strange Fruit
  • Formats: 12"
26
Testify
  • Released: 21 January 1997
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD
  • US-only mini-album
The Rockfield Files
  • Released: 16 October 2020
  • Label: Spinefarm/Search and Destroy
  • Formats: CD, 12"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
UK
[1]
UK
Indie

[2]
AUS
[3]
GER
[10]
IRE
[11]
NZ
[4]
US
Main.

[12]
"New Rose"1976Damned Damned Damned
"Neat Neat Neat"197752 [upper-alpha 1]
"Stretcher Case Baby" (limited release)Music for Pleasure
"Problem Child"
"Don't Cry Wolf"
"Love Song"197920Machine Gun Etiquette
"Smash It Up"35
"I Just Can't Be Happy Today"46
"White Rabbit" (France and Germany-only release)1980Non-album single
"The History of the World (Part 1)"5136The 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)1981The Black Album
"Love Song" (reissue)19823Machine Gun Etiquette
"Smash It Up" (reissue)4
"Wait for the Blackout" (UK release)3The Black Album
"Lovely Money"42Non-album single
"Dozen Girls"Strawberries
"Lively Arts"5The Black Album
"Generals"Strawberries
"White Rabbit" (UK release)1983822Non-album singles
"There Ain't No Sanity Clause" (reissue)9716
"Thanks for the Night"1984431
"Grimly Fiendish"198521Phantasmagoria
"The Shadow of Love"25
"Is It a Dream?"3469
"Eloise"19863858418Non-album singles
"New Rose" (reissue)81
"Anything"32Anything
"Gigolo"198729
"Alone Again Or"2750
"In Dulce Decorum"72
"Fun Factory" [upper-alpha 2] 1991Non-album singles
"Prokofiev"
"Shut It"1996Not of This Earth
"Disco Man" (Germany and Canada-only release)1998Non-album single
"Ignite" (US-only release)2001Strawberries
"Smash It Up" (2nd reissue)20047723 [14] Machine Gun Etiquette
"Little Miss Disaster"2005So, Who's Paranoid?
"A Nation Fit for Heroes"2010
"Standing on the Edge of Tomorrow"2018Evil Spirits
"Devil in Disguise"
"Look Left"
"Black Is the Night"2019Black Is the Night: The Definitive Anthology
"Keep 'Em Alive"2020 [upper-alpha 3] The Rockfield Files
"The Invisible Man"2023Darkadelic
"Beware of the Clown"
"You're Gonna Realise"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Videos

Video albums

TitleAlbum details
Live '79
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Final Damnation
Tiki Nightmare – Live in London
  • Released: 25 August 2003
  • Label: Union Square Pictures
  • Formats: DVD
MGE25 – Machine Gun Etiquette 25 Tour
  • Released: 20 February 2006
  • Label: ILC Entertainment
  • Formats: 2xDVD
Don't You Wish That We Were Dead
Really Must Be Going Now
  • Released: 2017
  • Label: Up Periscope
  • Formats: DVD

Music videos

TitleYear
"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

  1. Chart position is from the "Star Breakers" list, an official extension of the BRMB Top 50 Singles Chart. [13]
  2. Originally recorded in 1983
  3. "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. [15] [16]

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