{"id":245,"date":"2006-08-08T18:16:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T23:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2006-08-08T18:16:41","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T23:16:41","slug":"the-damned-music-for-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/the-damned-music-for-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Damned &#8212; Music for Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/damnedmusicforpleasure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-598\" title=\"The Damned -- Music for Pleasure\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/damnedmusicforpleasure.jpg\" alt=\"The Damned -- Music for Pleasure\" width=\"500\" height=\"1500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> The Damned<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Music for Pleasure<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1977<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Mary?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> Unknown origin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Music for Pleasure&#8221;, the second album by The Damned, is a lot more garage rock punk than I remembered. There are also moments that sound more like acid rock. I guess for 1977 that was more likely than it seems now. I like it and it&#8217;s hard to sit still when it&#8217;s playing, but I&#8217;ll admit that we won&#8217;t play this one that often. Gotta love the &#8220;smile price&#8221; sticker placed directly(?) on the record jacket. A real bonus is the oxblood colored vinyl. Not available on cassette, CD, MP3, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure where the first The Damned record is, but it&#8217;s gotta be here somewhere. While I look for it you can read about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Damned\">the complicated history<\/a> of the band, or the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Music_for_Pleasure_%28album%29\">Music for Pleasure<\/a>&#8221; record, or the cool label that put it out, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stiff_Records\">Stiff Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: The Damned Title: Music for Pleasure Year: 1977 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 7 Owner: Mary? Acquired: Unknown origin &#8220;Music for Pleasure&#8221;, the second album by The Damned, is a lot more garage rock punk than I remembered. There are also moments that sound more like acid rock. I guess for 1977 that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[466,452,453],"tags":[500,631,713,46,913,1033],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-500","tag-damned","tag-gothic","tag-music","tag-punk","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}