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Review: 'Damaged Goods All Stars'
'A Damaged Christmas Gift For You'   

-  Label: 'Damaged Goods Records'
-  Genre: 'Punk/New Wave' -  Release Date: '10.12.21.'-  Catalogue No: 'DAMPUD 567LP'

Our Rating:
Well Yo Ho Ho they've got the Christmas grinch reviewing Christmas albums again!! Ye of little faith it is still possible to make a great Christmas album in these plague times. So to help place these songs from the Damaged Records all stars in your Christmas day playlist if you've downloaded it, rather than playing it on the pristine slab of Vinyl you've just unwrapped, this review has some serving suggestions.

The album opens with a song that's perfect for the end of the party on Christmas day, As the old folks with fine memories of 1979 will want to get your Gloggi and allow Billy Childish And The Musicians Of The British Empire to tell you all about Christmas 1979 in his house, quite a tale it is too, perfect for the maudlin parts of the day.

The Courettes Christmas (I Can Hardly Wait) is more sophisticated with a great 60's girl group sound to it so break out the babycham and Cherry Brandy and munch on some mince pies while looking as cool as you can in a paper hat.

We all love a Christmas cigar and some of us like to use real candles on our Christmas tree, so Holly Golightly has some advice in case your Christmas Tree On Fire and is burning down the house, yes make sure someone beating out the rhythm on some post and pans, so be careful with your trees this Christmas.

The one thing we don't want this Christmas is any fights and who better to read us all the riot act than Helen Love as she lays down the Christmas law on Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight) now try to stop bouncing round the room as if you're in The Ramones, you've already had loads to eat and we don't need any accidents.

Cuckooland take a traditional song Silver Bells and after a lush acapella intro it goes pogotastic party punk so we can all jump around shaking our Silver Bells.

For Christmas Eve's hardcore carol singing session God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman is growled and blasted into your years by Wat Tyler.

At midnight on Christmas Eve who better to welcome Santa Claus into your home but Thee Headcoatees as they request Farmer John finds all the presents, they want and you need, including superlative garage rock Christmas tunes like this one.

Just after you've finished eating the Tofurkey and are wiping the cranberry sauce out of your beard, it's time to remember the stupidity of war and have a sing along to Jonah Lewies classic Stop The Cavalry, in full on terrace punk style with Severe, who are here to give a good kicking to anyone thinking of starting a war this Christmas peace pudding all round.

Starting the party early on Christmas eve are Goldblade with the ghostly presence of Polystyrene they are raising a toast to everyone we have lost in the last year, it's such a long and sobering list to drown your sorrows in, during the western showdown of City Of Christmas Ghosts, a true carol for Christmas 2021 you may get emotional listening to this too often.

Holly Golightly And The Greenhorns take a wonderful cocktail hour spin on Little Stars this is ideal for those mid-morning Snowball's to be drunk while eating the first mince pies of the day.

The Cute Lepers not only have a great band name, they also have their own Cute Lepers Christmas Song that's just about right to eat some Cheese Footballs too while listening to it as it tries to be as memorable as Wizzard and Slade.

Probably best save TV Smith to Boxing Day morning to sing along to Xmas Bloody Xmas with your Bloody Mary in hand thinking about those less fortunate than us who are in real need of help instead of all the stupid pointless partying for the sake of partying.

No Christmas party is complete without some drunken fool singing Ding Dong Merrily On High and pulling all sorts of poses and winks while doing it and with a tinsel wrapped banjo The Singing Loins are trying to get everyone singing with them, even the semi-comatose uncle in the corner.

Monkhouse aren't telly dirty jokes or drinking Golden Shots no they believe it really is time for Guinness And Wine, that I'm guessing they are drinking as a mulled cocktail, as things get properly hardcore messy, I'm sure some good gloggi mulled wine and cinnamon sticks are involved.

The festivities finish with The Buff Medways low-fi Xmas mauling Merry Christmas Fritz that is a short sharp blast to get everyone staggering out the door to go carousing in the streets once more.

Find out more at https://damagedgoods.co.uk/discography/various-artists-a-damaged-christmas-gift-for-you/ https://www.facebook.com/DamagedGoodsRecords


  author: simonovitch

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