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The Damned: Eternally Damned: The Very Best Of (Music Collection)

Miles, MOJO, July 1994

THE DAMNED WERE THE FIRST PUNK band to release a single ('New Rose') and to get an album out and in the charts, but it's difficult now, 17 years later, to see where the Dolls, MC5, Iggy Pop, even Blue Oyster Cult left off and punk began.

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