Love it - one of my favourite Damned songs ever pumped out in true fashion by another band I love - Blondie - with the inimitable velvet voice of Debbie Harry adding a new twist - what's not to love!
The best cover I've heard since Slaves did "Daft Punk is playing at my house". Debbie's vocals give a great sleazy quality to the song, as opposed to Dave Vanian's frustrated angry punk teenager version on the original. Nowadays he croons it live, but Hey, it's all good. The Damned are awesome, very underrated. Deborah and Blondie are, of course, pop legends. Thanks for uploading, little gems like this are fantastic when you just stumble upon them. 🎸🎤🎙️👠
Saw them do this last night. It was a true come true the classic American band doing one of the true punk classics. Boy didn't the little girls love it.
Savage, at least compared to some of the earlier stuff. Rip-snorting Blondie - gotta love it. Earns high marks, many points and repeated listening in this house...
New Rose From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "New Rose" is the first single by British punk rock] group the Damned, released on 22 October 1976 on Stiff Records, and in 1977 in the Netherlands, Germany and France. It is considered to be the first single by a British punk group. Written by guitarist Brian James, "New Rose" was also included on the group's full-length debut album, Damned Damned Damned. The deadpan intro by singer Dave Vanian ("Is she really going out with him?") parodied the 1964 Shangri-Las song "Leader of the Pack". The single's B-side was a cover of the Beatles' hit "Help!", performed about twice as fast as the original. Both songs became staples of the Damned's live shows, and appeared on various compilations. "New Rose" was reissued in Stiff's Damned 4 Pack mail-order set. Original copies had a press-out centre, while reissues had a solid centre. Copies from the four-pack had matrix details: "Bilbo tape" handwritten and "AY 50332" printed. A CD version was issued in the Stiff Singles 1976-1977 boxed set by Castle Music in 2003. "Help!" also appeared on Hits Greatest Stiffs.
The best Damned covers are, predictably, by the Tokyo Damned, their tribute band; only Disco Man is on RU-vid, but their drummer does a better imitation of Rat Scabies than Clem Burke. Does the Tokyo Damned have the second best drummer in the world?
Funnily enough, in the first year of punk, he made it into a Sounds or NME poll of top 10 drummers. For me, he will always be the best. John Maher of the Buzzcocks was great, as well.
DAMN!!! Pun intended too! I was so hoping they'd do this when I saw them. We got "You Can't Put Your Arm Around A Memory" ... I'm so greedy...I wanted both ; )
I've been a Plaxmatics fan ever since I saw them on the tv show Solid Gold, I thought I had never see or heard anyone with a voice like Wendy O, loved the way she blowed up cars and sawed guitars apart, no one can beat her
Google Lyrics: I got a feeling inside of me It's kind of strange like a stormy sea I don't know why I don't know why I guess these things have got to be I gotta new rose I got it good Guess I knew that I always would I can't stop to mess around I got a brand new rose in town See the sun see the sun it shines Don't get too close or it'll burn your eyes Don't you run away that way You can come back another day I got a new rose I got it good Guess I knew that I always would I can't stop to mess around I got a brand new rose in town I never thought this could happen to me This is strange why should it be I don't deserve somebody this great I'd better go or it'll be too late I got a feeling inside of me It's kind of strange like a stormy sea I don't know why I don't know why I guess these things have got to be I got a new rose I got her good Guess I knew that I always would I can't stop to mess around I got a brand new rose in town
I AM CANCERIAN ALSO, BUT DIFFERENT PERSON. BY COINCIDENCE, I LOVE THE DAMNED AND DIG THIS COVER VERSION. MOST OF ALL,I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A MOVIE PROJECT UNDERWAY, DEPICTING THE LIFE OF WAYNE/JAYNE COUNTY,WITH A BLONDIE INPUT. I NEVER CAUGHT THE ELECTRIC CHAIRS LIVE, I WAS JUST A LITTLE BIT TOO YOUNG TO GET MOBILISATION TO GIGS, BUT MADE UP FOR IT, YEARS LATER, SEEING JAYNE LIVE, IN GLASGOW AND PAISLEY (TOWN HALL). I WOULD LOVE TO SEE BLONDIE LIVE AT THE WICKERMAN FEST IN SCOTLAND, THEY GOT SCISSOR SISTERS TWO YEARS AGO, NILE RODGERS LAST YEAR, SO WHY NOT BLONDIE NEXT TIME?
I didn't understand what you meant when you said the damed, the only time i've heard of "The Damned" is on a plasmitics cd and they also had a video of that song, I had no idea it was a group, but I guess i've heard them because I thought I've heared this song be4. I love this song!!
Ive been into The Damned for 30 years and so in my opinion its shameful that you didn't know they originally performed 'New Rose'. It was intended as joke - hence the exclaimation mark.
Great cover by Blondie. Whats with these 2 below? what has WW got to do with this song or cutting up a guitar? I mean how original to break up a guitar on stage "really".
its off the Joe whiley show they dedicated it to her , was apparently her favourite song it was her birthday that day. all the talking is cut out , she stopped it and started it again when she heard the dedication. try and get an MP3 for you.
