Molten Lager
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Live album by the Damned | ||||
Released | October 1999 | |||
Recorded | 23 June 1994 | |||
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Label | Musical Tragedies | |||
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Molten Lager is a live album by English rock band the Damned, released in October 1999. It was recorded in Mulhouse, France on 23 June 1994.
The line-up features the Not of This Earth personnel and showcases much of that album and other rare tracks by the Damned. While somewhat obscure, this CD is regarded by many fans and music critics as the best of the Damned's numerous live albums [citation needed], although it largely ignores the band's goth period in favour of the more punk and rock oriented material. It was recorded straight from the mixing desk to DAT.[1]
Reception
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Jack Rabid, writing for AllMusic, called the album "extremely great-sounding," adding, "Being boogie-rock, it doesn't really sound like the Damned, but it sounds like a fairly kick-ass R&B punk band being fronted by Dave Vanian." However, he felt that the "few old classics this lineup attempts" sound "horrible."[2]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Testify" | Alan Lee Shaw, Rat Scabies | 3:52 |
2. | "Shut It" | Shaw, Scabies | 2:47 |
3. | "Shadow to Fall" | Shaw, Scabies | 3:47 |
4. | "I Need a Life" | Shaw, Scabies | 3:11 |
5. | "I Walk the Line" | Johnny Cash | 2:35 |
6. | "Running Man" | Shaw, Scabies | 4:05 |
7. | "That Loving Feeling" | Phil Spector, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil | 1:21 |
8. | "Not of This Earth" | Shaw, Scabies | 2:54 |
9. | "Heaven... Can Take Your Lies"" | Shaw, Scabies | 4:13 |
10. | "My Desire" | Shaw, Scabies | 2:50 |
11. | "Never Could Believe" | Shaw, Scabies | 4:40 |
12. | "Love Song" | Scabies, Captain Sensible, Dave Vanian, Algy Ward | 2:13 |
13. | "Disco Man" | Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Paul Gray | 2:46 |
14. | "Neat Neat Neat" | Brian James | 2:20 |
15. | "Ignite" | Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Gray | 3:49 |
16. | "Gun Fury" | Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Gray | 3:02 |
17. | "I Must Be Mad" | The Damned | 0:26 |
18. | "Nasty" | Sensible, Scabies, Vanian, Roman Jugg, Bryn Merrick | 2:38 |
- Note
- Some editions of the album omit "I Walk the Line" and "That Loving Feeling".[2]
Personnel
- The Damned
- Dave Vanian – vocals
- Kris Dollimore – guitar
- Alan Lee Shaw – guitar, backing vocals
- Rat Scabies – drums
- Moose – bass
- Technical
- Ralf Lexis – cover, artwork
References
- ^ Molten Lager (Album liner notes). The Damned. Blighty. 2020. 1NE.
{{cite AV media notes}}
: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ a b c Rabid, Jack. "Molten Lager review". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
- ^ Fortnam, Ian (19 February 2000). "Albums". Kerrang!. No. 789. EMAP. p. 45.
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- Dave Vanian
- Captain Sensible
- Monty Oxymoron
- Rat Scabies
- Paul Gray
- Brian James
- Lu Edmonds
- Algy Ward
- Roman Jugg
- Bryn Merrick
- Moose Harris
- Patricia Morrison
- Stu West
- Henry Badowski
- Jon Moss
- Lemmy
- Gary Holton
- Garrie Dreadful
- Spike Smith
- Pinch
- William Granville-Taylor
- 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?
- Evil Spirits
- Darkadelic
- 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
- Light at the End of the Tunnel
- The Radio One Sessions
- Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976–1987
- Black Is the Night: The Definitive Anthology
- Friday 13th
- Testify
- The Rockfield Files
- "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"
- "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"
- "Anything"
- "Gigolo"
- "Alone Again Or"
- "In Dulce Decorum"
- "Fun Factory"
- "Prokofiev"
- "Shut It"
- "Little Miss Disaster"
- "Standing On the Edge of Tomorrow"
- "Devil in Disguise"
- "Look Left"
- "Procrastination"
- Band members
- Discography
- "Nasty"
- The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead
- Stiff Records