For any enthusiast who is exploring the roots of punk rock, get this album - now! While maintaining all of the raw energy that fueled the groundbreaking "Damned Damned Damned" and harnessing the vision that shaped "Music For Pleasure", Machine Gun Etiquette has so many different dimensions and textures to it that it's hard to believe this is the same band performing on every track. That's what makes The Damned one of the best and most unique punk bands of all time.

From the ghoulish "These Hands" to the hard charging "Plan 9 Channel 7" and "Looking At You" to the raucous "Noise Noise Noise" to the Punk Anthem "Smash It Up" (originally banned in the U.K. when it was released), I guarantee you will find at least one song on this album that you won't ever be able to let go. Play "Machine Gun Etiquette" at your sister - LOUD!

This must be at least one of the 5 best punk albums ever. Back in 1970s, the Damned were one of the first bands to do punk. Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, all influenced by this great band. Get this album, now. Best song, definately Smash it Up. Plan 7, Channel 9 proves that Captain Sensible is the best punk guitarist ever. Really. Great bass from Ward, especially on Love Song.

Having survived losing their main riff-master Bryan James, the band reorganised themselves with Captain Sensible stepping up to handle the guitar parts. And how. This album has all the ingredients of a classic band in the making. In a similar vein as the Clash, the Damned on this album came clean with their influences - not just 60s garage rock but psychadelia, pop, and even a pastiche of stadium guitar megarock. The result is a bizarre cocktail that unveils more on each listen. Great production, top tunes - and riddled right through with the Damned's wicked sense of humor. Machine Gun Etiquette truely captures a band at their peak. It's definately in my top 10 albums of all time - and should be in yours. You won't be disappointed.

This album is supremely perfect. Every song is addicting and is soaked with highly energetic and bounchy rhythms and beats. I personally really love "Looking at You", "Plan 9, Channel 7", "Liar", "These Hands", and "Smash it Up Pts. 1&2" However all the songs on this album are worthy enough to listen to about a thousand times each, that may be an exaggeration (one truely might get tired of listening to a song that many times), but with this album, I sincerely doubt it's possible to get tired of it. If you are just recently figuring out of you like the Damned or not, give this album a listen and i'm sure you will love it. If not, then maybe this kind of music just isn't for you.

This album is perfect and I love it to death. One of the great ones, this is.

This is a great album from a great band. If you have not heard it you are missing something quite special. I suppose back in the 80's a lot of us fell victim to punk dogmas and wrote this band off, just shows how unfree we all were, a sign of conformity. But looking back this one has some enduring qualities that make it stand out. This 25th anniversary edition has some extras that almost compensate for the cost, not as good value as the 25th anniversary edition of London Calling, but worth putting in your collection. I think that this is the best of the first 5 LP's but I must admit I have not listened to anything by The Damned after Strawberries LP. The tracks that really stand out to me are the ones that were on the original and so I do not think any of the extras trump what was on it, although there is a cover of an old song by The Sweet, Ballroom Blitz, that rips arse. Plan 9 Channel 7, Melody Lee, Smash it Up parts 1+2 and I suppose Noise, Noise, Noise are the tracks that really stand out - but what can I say about them... So, yeah, its good, buy it if you can.