Machine Gun Etiquette

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Machine Gun Etiquette
Machine Gun Etiquette cover
Studio album by The Damned
Released November 1979
Recorded Utopia Studios, Chalk Farm Studios, Sound-Suite Recording, Workhouse Studios and SGS Recording Studios (London)
(March - May 1979)
Sound-Suite Recording, Workhouse Studios and Wessex Studios (London)
(July - August 1979)
Genre Punk rock
Pop rock
Psychedelic rock
Length 35:28
Label Chiswick Records
Producer The Damned,
Roger Armstrong
Professional reviews
The Damned chronology
Music for Pleasure
(1977)		 Machine Gun Etiquette
(1979)		 The Black Album
(1980)

Machine Gun Etiquette is the third album by the British punk band the Damned. They released it in November 1979. The album was the group's first since reforming with Dave Vanian on vocals, Captain Sensible on lead guitar, Rat Scabies on drums and Algy Ward on bass. Machine Gun Etiquette saw the band become more experimental; without Brian James, the song-writing was more democratic, resulting in a blend of punk, psychedelic rock and pop styles.


[edit] Track listing

  1. "Love Song" – 2:21
  2. "Machine Gun Etiquette" – 1:48
  3. "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" – 3:42
  4. "Melody Lee" – 2:07
  5. "Anti-Pope" – 3:21
  6. "These Hands" – 2:03
  7. "Plan 9 Channel 7" – 5:08
  8. "Noise, Noise, Noise" – 3:10
  9. "Looking At You" – 5:08 - Originally by the MC5
  10. "Liar" – 2:44
  11. "Smash It Up (Part I)" – 1:59
  12. "Smash It Up (Part II)" – 2:53
  • Later re-issued by Ace records with the following singles as bonus material on the CD version:
  1. "Ballroom Blitz" – 3:30
  2. "Suicide" – 3:14
  3. "Rabid (Over You)" – 3:41
  4. "White Rabbit" – 5:13

This version also had a different cover.

  • The album was again re-issued, this time by Chiswick records and had the following extra tracks:
  1. "Love Song" (Ed Hollis version)
  2. "Noise, Noise, Noise" (Ed Hollis version)
  3. "Suicide"
  4. "Smash It Up (Part II)" (Backing track - singalonga Damned)
  5. "Smash It Up (Part IV)"
  6. "Burglar"
  7. "I Just Can't be Happy Today" (DJ edit)
  8. "Ballroom Blitz"
  9. "Turkey Song"
  10. "Plan 9, Channel 7" (Video clip)

This version again had the same cover as the original.

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[edit] Trivia

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The original vinyl's lead-out groove contained a sound clip ("Nibbled to death by an okapi") that was intended to loop indefinitely until the listener removed the needle from the vinyl (like the lead-out groove on Sergeant Pepper). The sound clip was a line from the BBC Radio series Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, spoken by Peter Jones, about the fate of Arthur Dent's brother[citation needed].

The Japanese band, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, based their name on a mispronunciation of Machine Gun Etiquette.

The album is mentioned in the NOFX song "We Got Two Jealous Agains" from the album The War on Errorism.

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