Grave Disorder

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Grave Disorder

Studio album by The Damned

Released

21 August 2001

Recorded

2000-2001

Genre

Punk rock, gothic rock

Length

57:35

The Damned chronology

Not of This Earth
(1996)

Grave Disorder
(2001)

So, Who's Paranoid?
(2008)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Pitchfork	3.8/10^[2]
PopMatters	favourable^[3]

Grave Disorder is an album from the punk rock band The Damned, released in August 2001.

It was their first release since signing to Nitro Records. The album is musically similar to Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible's previous Damned collaboration, Strawberries. It uses a combination of modern sampling and looping ("Absinthe"), gothic rock ("Thrill Kill"), punk rock ("Obscene" and "Amen"), deep gothic piano pieces ("Beauty Of The Beast" and "The End Of Time"), and more traditional pop songs. The song "Lookin' for Action" appeared on the Warped Tour 2002 Tour Compilation.

Songs like "W" (about the 2000 election and George W. Bush) have a sound very reminiscent of Britpop (such as the sound they exhibited on Strawberries). "song.com" offers a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the Internet, while "Democracy?" offers a rebuke of what they see as the futility of democracy and political revolution.

Track listing

Democracy? (Captain Sensible) – 3:21
song.com (Sensible, David Vanian) – 3:39
Thrill Kill (Sensible, Pinch) – 5:37
She (Sensible, Vanian) – 4:27
Lookin for Action (Monty Oxy Moron, Patricia Morrison, Pinch, Vanian) – 4:04
Would You Be So Hot (If You Weren't Dead?) (Sensible) – 4:13
Absinthe (Vanian) – 4:17
Amen (Sensible, Pinch) – 7:55
Neverland (Sensible) – 3:31
'Til the End of Time (Sensible) – 3:51
Obscene (Sensible, Vanian) – 2:46
W (Pinch, Tom Savage) – 5:05
Beauty of the Beast (Burrow, Vanian) – 4:44

Personnel

David Vanian - vocals, theremin
Captain Sensible - guitar, backing vocals
Patricia Morrison - bass guitar, backing vocals
Monty Oxy Moron - keyboards, backing vocals
Pinch - drums, backing vocals

References

↑ Jack Rabid. "Grave Disorder". Allmusic. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
↑ Joe Tangari (5 December 2001). "The Damned: Grave Disorder". Pitchfork. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
↑ Jason Thompson (20 August 2001). "The Damned: Grave Disorder". PopMatters. Retrieved 4 March 2012.

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Dave Vanian Captain Sensible Monty Oxymoron Pinch Stu West Brian James Rat Scabies Lu Edmonds Dave Berk Henry Badowski Jon Moss Algy Ward Paul Gray Roman Jugg Bryn Merrick Paul Shepley Kris Dollimore Alan Lee Shaw Jason "Moose" Harris Garrie Dreadful Patricia Morrison Spike Smith

Studio albums	Damned Damned Damned Music for Pleasure Machine Gun Etiquette The Black Album Strawberries Phantasmagoria Anything Not of This Earth Grave Disorder So, Who's Paranoid?

Live albums	Live Shepperton 1980 Live at Newcastle The Captain's Birthday Party Not the Captain's Birthday Party? Final Damnation Ballroom Blitz – Live at the Lyceum Molten Lager Live at the 100 Club

Compilation albums	Light at the End of the Tunnel The Radio One Sessions Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976–1987

EPs	Friday 13th EP Testify

Singles	"New Rose" "Neat Neat Neat" "Stretcher Case Baby" "Problem Child" "Don't Cry Wolf" "Love Song" "Smash It Up" "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" "White Rabbit" "The History of the World (Part 1)" "There Ain't No Sanity Clause" "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" "Wait for the Blackout" "Lovely Money" "Dozen Girls" "Lively Arts" "Generals" "Thanks for the Night" "Grimly Fiendish" "The Shadow of Love" "Is It a Dream?" "Eloise" "Gigolo" "Anything" "Alone Again Or" "In Dulce Decorum" "Fun Factory" "Prokofiev" "Shut It" "Little Miss Disaster"

Associated acts	Masters of the Backside London SS The Lords of the New Church Dave Vanian and the Phantom Chords Naz Nomad and the Nightmares

Related articles	Discography Stiff Records Chiswick Records Bronze Records Nitro Records Nasty (The Young Ones)

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