Yes, this an essential disc for a few reasons....

First off, I always though it was Rat that handled the vocal duties on Burglar. After all, it's HIS mugshot on the back of my copy of Smash It Up b/w Burglar CHIS 116 on Chiswick records. ;)

Anyhow, the Friday the 13th EP tracks are great, and hard to find elsewhere. ...Great cover of The Stones' Citadel. Disco Man is the Vanian vocal version, different from the Capt. version found on Collection and Damned But Not Forgotten. Teenage Dream is a great insight into the Algy-era Damned live set, as that's part of The School Bullies disc on Receiver Records. Try and find that one! A Sanity Clause remix, a live cover of The MC5's Looking At You, and the 'fiddle solo' version of Anti-Pope are other rare ones from the There Ain't No Sanity Clause 12". The wacky banter surrounding silly tracks like I'm So Bored(yep, I'm So Glad) and the Turkey Song is fantastic. Also, there's the 'double band' version of Motorhead's Over the Top, where The Damned play WITH Motorhead SIMULTANEOUSLY, which turned up on Motorhead's Bomber single as the b-side.

Truly a must-have from The Pirates of Punk. AAARRRGGHHH!!!!

I think this is the only release Cleopatra issued by The Damned that was any good. This disc has 15 songs unavailable for sometime since all of these were released on vinyl. I like the song Over the top Motordamned it was only previously released on the Long Lost weekend best 1 1/2 LP. This cd also contains the entire Friday the 13th EP The Limit Club is my all time favorite Damned song post Brian James era. I recommend picking this up at once you won't regret it.

Fantastic set of extras and other rarities from the most obnoxious group of punk prototypes. "Tales" is staight from the bowels of late seventies, early eighties, english dirty punk. A few tracks are taken from another of the Damned's ep.'s, "Friday the Thirteenth Ep." The disc features a cover of the Rolling Stones song "Citadel" and the track "Over the Top" features ageing fart rocker Lemmy from the group Motorhead, who manned bass for a short while in the group. The Song entitled, "The Limit Club" excercises the groups "goth" styling and I think proves why this band surpassed all other early punk outfits in the arena of great music.