What I loved about The Damned is that they never took themselves too seriously and made consistently great songs and albums, unlike other punk bands. Love em
Wow, I actually found a Damned video that I've never seen!! This isn't what I was expecting, but it was funny :) One thing (of many things) that I love about The Damned is taht they don't seem to take themselves too seriously, have a quirky sense of humor, & seem to have fun in their videos. It's really too bad they're so overlooked in general, but more reason for me to love them!!!
They weren't overlooked in their home country; far from it. They just weren't ever huge here in America, but a lot of my friends were familiar with them.
@@wickedlee664I'm in the states & have loved this band since 2001 - thanks, Napster! Trust me, hardly anyone that I talk to except those of us more in alternative/goth bands has heard of them here in the states. It sounds like they didn't sell themselves out to the American market (from what they said on their documentary), which is probably for the best.
I first saw this video in like 2008 or 09 and tried ever since to find it again. My loved ones looked at me like I was crazy when I described it... But finally I found it 🙂🤣
Had the chorus part of it on a cassette tape,recorded off the radio back in the late 80s. Helped keep certain songs on my radar when I didn't have the disposable cash to buy any of them. I definitely bought Grimly Fiendish on 7" a couple of years before this.
Thanks! I saw this video years ago but I think that version was taken down, and I forgot the title of the song and couldn't find it again for ages. What a relief I finally remembered! I love this video. I wish I knew who did the costume design.
I first got to hear the them,rather than hear their name or about them or see their name graffittid round the place,in 1979,and considered myself a late-comer.
Gigolo aunt. it doesn't sound that similar but in syd's song the lyrics for the chorus are: 'Cause I know what you are You are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt! And here they are: You know what I ain't You know what I ain't I ain't no gigolo aunt Read more: The Damned - Gigolo Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Give the Barrett song a listen. ruclips.net/video/8cIgt5CUZMI/видео.html The Damned incorporated the hook. I do believe They wanted Syd to help them with Music For Pleasure, but they got landed with the eminently more serious David Gilmour instead. The first few seconds of the first song on that album sound enticingly like the intro to Interstellar Overdrive.
Got a lot of love for this though its arguably the odd duck of all their output. Like a totally different band but is great fun to watch and not a bad track to earhole.
this is mostly borrowed from syd barret but there's also a bit of robyn hitchcock and the egyptians "my wife and my dead wife" in there too. probably other stuff too.
Don't know that anyone really knows. This is Syd Barrett we're talking about. The song holds one key resemblance - the chorus is a faster version of Barrett's only in the negative.
Gigolo Aunt -A Girl who is usually very cute and pretty that seduces men makes them madly fall in love with her using her specific ways but unlike a male gigolo she's not interested in money but only the pleasure of capturing and breaking their heart.
Love this! Aint it funny looking @ it now??? Circa 1985!........The Damneds songs and videos! Especially this one!.......I think Tim Burton must be a fan???
I get it. I'm not trying to insult you. I just think it's dumb that people keep incorrectly naming the year that the song came out, just because it was reissued later as a single. Not a big deal.
Check out Siouxsie and the Banshee,Echo and the Bunnymen,Smiths,Cure, Some of the greatest goth bands of our Generation. Inc This great band. Love this song and wore the album out in the 80's
I can understand why many fans of The Damned don't like this song, it's obviously not a punk track, nor does it have the goth pomp of Phantasmagoria. I came across this track pretty recently, never heard anything off this album. Anyway, didn't realise this was the Damned at all, and thought it was a pretty catchy late 80s college rock song. I guess if you go in blind not knowing who it is, the song is better than it's given credit for. Going to check out the album, as I hadn't really wanted to hear it and just assumed it was crap due to word of mouth.
I have since purchased a copy of and listened to Anything. It's actualy a pretty okay album. I enjoyed the tracks Anything , Tightrope Walk and the cover of Alone Again Or.
I bought this album 25 yrs ago, but after all this time somebody please tell me WTF a "gigolo aunt" is?!?! (Apart from the title of a Syd Barrett tune, where bears no resemblance to this one whatsoever.) TIA
Love The Damned but never particularly liked the Anything lp,the only track I liked on it was Pschomania,MCA ruined the Damned glad they are back on form again,RIP Brynn Merrick.
This is why nobody ever heard of the Damned. You have a dark name like the Damned, think you're vampires, and then do silly little schlocky shit like this. Where are more songs in the vein of Shadow of Love? That's what they should have been doing.
"cult following" is another way of saying "nobody ever heard of them." Obviously I've heard of them, some years ago, and have come to appreciate a few of their songs, but only just recently. But I know people who are punk enthusiasts who have never heard of them.
@@thomaswebb248 they're obviously not punk enthusiasts then...maybe Green Days more their speed. The Damned are one of the most important bands of the British punk movement
@@thomaswebb248 Do your homework, don't be so self-satisfied with being ignorant. There is no way one can be a "punk enthusiast" and have never heard of the Damned - whether they like the band or not- they released the first punk single; it is a non-sense. Unless they are so-called punk enthusiasts and don't know shit about their 101 Punk history. I don't even like the Clash yet I acknowledge their importance in punk history. Don't assume that because YOU don't know about them (or the people you mention) that it is a fact. Hello, they filled Royal Albert Hall in 2016.
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What I loved about The Damned is that they never took themselves too seriously and made consistently great songs and albums, unlike other punk bands. Love em
Wow, I actually found a Damned video that I've never seen!! This isn't what I was expecting, but it was funny :) One thing (of many things) that I love about The Damned is taht they don't seem to take themselves too seriously, have a quirky sense of humor, & seem to have fun in their videos. It's really too bad they're so overlooked in general, but more reason for me to love them!!!
They weren't overlooked in their home country; far from it. They just weren't ever huge here in America, but a lot of my friends were familiar with them.
Dirk Diggler every person I’m friends with has them too 10. Overlooked?
@@wickedlee664I'm in the states & have loved this band since 2001 - thanks, Napster! Trust me, hardly anyone that I talk to except those of us more in alternative/goth bands has heard of them here in the states. It sounds like they didn't sell themselves out to the American market (from what they said on their documentary), which is probably for the best.
Love the Syd Barrett connection. Totally brilliant
seeing dave vanian in full vampire garb covered in stuffed animals gave me whiplash, but in the best way possible.
Vampire garb? He is wearing a graduation cap and gown for pete's sake
What a gorgeous lad
I first saw this video in like 2008 or 09 and tried ever since to find it again. My loved ones looked at me like I was crazy when I described it... But finally I found it 🙂🤣
Had the chorus part of it on a cassette tape,recorded off the radio back in the late 80s. Helped keep certain songs on my radar when I didn't have the disposable cash to buy any of them. I definitely bought Grimly Fiendish on 7" a couple of years before this.
Me at the beginning of the video: "Dave with moustache? WTF???!!!"
Me at the end of the video: "Wow, he is so pretty with moustache!"
+Siberia X he has a stache in "alone again or", too. :)
He's pretty all the time! *swoooooon!* 😉😉😉😍
The Zorro look. :)
and better in the flesh
So hot
This song always puts a smile on my face! Damnit bae-vanian!! :D
Thanks! I saw this video years ago but I think that version was taken down, and I forgot the title of the song and couldn't find it again for ages. What a relief I finally remembered! I love this video. I wish I knew who did the costume design.
Great 70's punk band to great 80's pop band.
I love this era. Very lush and dark. This is when I got turned on to them. Early stuff freaking rocks too.
I first got to hear the them,rather than hear their name or about them or see their name graffittid round the place,in 1979,and considered myself a late-comer.
I love any tribute to Robyn Hitchcock. This is great.
It’s obv Syd’s song, but the bridge shows it’s actually an RH tribute.
From 1987.
This Song is a Adaption from a Syd Barrett Song.
Beat Brunner which is??
Gigolo aunt. it doesn't sound that similar but in syd's song the lyrics for the chorus are:
'Cause I know what you are
You are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt!
And here they are:
You know what I ain't
You know what I ain't
I ain't no gigolo aunt
Read more: The Damned - Gigolo Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Give the Barrett song a listen. ruclips.net/video/8cIgt5CUZMI/видео.html The Damned incorporated the hook.
I do believe They wanted Syd to help them with Music For Pleasure, but they got landed with the eminently more serious David Gilmour instead. The first few seconds of the first song on that album sound enticingly like the intro to Interstellar Overdrive.
@@bradhutton3093 Have heard it before,as I love Pink Floyd, too. R.I.P. Sid Barrett. :'(
@KRONOS 1957 Right!
my favorite song
from anything
thanks for uploading.
2:28 - borrowed from the theme of Edgar Wallace Mysteries, from the 1960's, if anyone remembers it. Theme is loaded on RUclips.
Got a lot of love for this though its arguably the odd duck of all their output. Like a totally different band but is great fun to watch and not a bad track to earhole.
this is mostly borrowed from syd barret but there's also a bit of robyn hitchcock and the egyptians "my wife and my dead wife" in there too. probably other stuff too.
@karlt10
This was the most decent quality I could get.
Neat neat neat! I would watch this just for the pleasure of seeing Dave with a bunny on his head!
Don't know that anyone really knows. This is Syd Barrett we're talking about. The song holds one key resemblance - the chorus is a faster version of Barrett's only in the negative.
BRILLIANT!!! song and video
Gigolo Aunt -A Girl who is usually very cute and pretty that seduces men makes them madly fall in love with her using her specific ways but unlike a male gigolo she's not interested in money but only the pleasure of capturing and breaking their heart.
Interesting - I'd always assumed Syd coined the phrase.
My favourite song and video 💖✨
GREAT SONG!
Finally I ended up in some good music after surfing in RUclips
Great song. Great album.
No animals were harmed in the making of this video.
Love this! Aint it funny looking @ it now??? Circa 1985!........The Damneds songs and videos! Especially this one!.......I think Tim Burton must be a fan???
I like the Gothic period of The Damned that the time Punk
Underrated album.(Even by them 😅) XTC vibes from this track.
suddenly My Wife and My Dead Wife by Robyn Hitchcock?
the down slope of a great group thank god they found theselves again back to roots
Trevor Parles fucking square
@@wickedlee664 no ...this shits just straight up trash
@@culturestreetfilms4704 Oh well, I love it...
Captain sensible collected stuffed rabbits
love it
me and a high school friend thought he was saying "i aint the king of the wops."
SYD BARRETT
Anything is a very good Damned album. How come it didn't achieve the same kind of success Phantasmagoria did ,
Most young damned fans were goths at the time, so wouldn't touch this with a barge pole! Good in retrospect though...
Thank you! Anything has long been my 2nd fave Damned album, right after Phantasmagoria. But it gets a lotta hate.
Napoleon Scabies on Drums
For Roger Moore...007
It's funny how non-vampire, facial hair sporting Dave looks a lot like Vinny from Vinesauce.
Why does everybody on the net keep saying this song is from 1987?? It's off of "Anything", which was released in 1986. Look it up, people.
Whatever. It still came out in 1986.
I get it. I'm not trying to insult you. I just think it's dumb that people keep incorrectly naming the year that the song came out, just because it was reissued later as a single. Not a big deal.
The video is from 1987, the album version of the song is indeed from 1986.
Dirk Diggler sup pedant. You seem fun
"You know what I ain't, I am the king of the Wops." - me and my hs friend
Check out Siouxsie and the Banshee,Echo and the Bunnymen,Smiths,Cure, Some of the
greatest goth bands of our Generation. Inc This great band. Love this song and wore the album out in the 80's
Big sound Damned was the best IMO. It may not have been Neat Neat Neat and shows how they strayed from that punk sound, but I prefer this!
HD version HD HD HD
i like this too. from the vhs the light at the end of the tunnel. my names wild mick riot
Amparo Bermejo Excellent quality video and sound. Much better than my old recorded tape. THX.
I can understand why many fans of The Damned don't like this song, it's obviously not a punk track, nor does it have the goth pomp of Phantasmagoria. I came across this track pretty recently, never heard anything off this album. Anyway, didn't realise this was the Damned at all, and thought it was a pretty catchy late 80s college rock song. I guess if you go in blind not knowing who it is, the song is better than it's given credit for. Going to check out the album, as I hadn't really wanted to hear it and just assumed it was crap due to word of mouth.
One of my fav Damned albums is "Anything".
I have since purchased a copy of and listened to Anything. It's actualy a pretty okay album. I enjoyed the tracks Anything , Tightrope Walk and the cover of Alone Again Or.
Napoleon on drum
Dave looks a bit Zodiac Mindwarp here.
Super
Dave Vanian, S.Vam (Sarjana Vampir)
What the hell were they thinking??
Vanian looks like Bill Oddie here.
La pena es que no se escucha bien ...🙏🏻
I bought this album 25 yrs ago, but after all this time somebody please tell me WTF a "gigolo aunt" is?!?! (Apart from the title of a Syd Barrett tune, where bears no resemblance to this one whatsoever.) TIA
This sounds like XTC - at the time when I heard it I thought this
My thoughts exactly !
me and the lads after doing opium
Dave looks a bit like Ethan Hawke :)
Love The Damned but never particularly liked the Anything lp,the only track I liked on it was Pschomania,MCA ruined the Damned glad they are back on form again,RIP Brynn Merrick.
JESUS CHRIST LOVES UU ALL. ✝️🖤🖤🖤
Even to this day I still say DV pinched Mide Ures look
Badly advised in this video. Not their greatest effort.
This is why nobody ever heard of the Damned. You have a dark name like the Damned, think you're vampires, and then do silly little schlocky shit like this. Where are more songs in the vein of Shadow of Love? That's what they should have been doing.
Nobody ever heard of The Damned? They've had a cult following for over 40 years now.
"cult following" is another way of saying "nobody ever heard of them." Obviously I've heard of them, some years ago, and have come to appreciate a few of their songs, but only just recently. But I know people who are punk enthusiasts who have never heard of them.
@@thomaswebb248 they're obviously not punk enthusiasts then...maybe Green Days more their speed. The Damned are one of the most important bands of the British punk movement
Hmm - played the Albert Hall last year in London but I guess nobody's ever heard of em...
@@thomaswebb248 Do your homework, don't be so self-satisfied with being ignorant. There is no way one can be a "punk enthusiast" and have never heard of the Damned - whether they like the band or not- they released the first punk single; it is a non-sense. Unless they are so-called punk enthusiasts and don't know shit about their 101 Punk history. I don't even like the Clash yet I acknowledge their importance in punk history. Don't assume that because YOU don't know about them (or the people you mention) that it is a fact. Hello, they filled Royal Albert Hall in 2016.
Absolute garbage