THE DAMNED haben für den 1. November 2019 das 39 Songs starke Doppel-Best-Of-Album „Black Is The Night (The Definitive Anthology)“ über BMG angekündigt. Darunter wird auch ein brandneuer Track sein. Das Artwork der Song-Sammlung wurde von Künstler Phil Smee (u.a. Motörhead, Elton John, Madness) kreiert.
Phil Smee kommentiert die Zusammenarbeit: “I loved working with the band back in the 80’s and I like to think we came up with some iconic designs. Certainly I see the many Damned logos I came up with still used on t-shirts to this day. I’ve not cut corners with this new album, even setting all the sleeve copy by hand, which took me back to ‘The Black Album’ which I hand-lettered with a shaky pen. The Damned are a totally unique band, I’ve always loved everything they’ve done. I still get excited about every design project that comes along, but I was particularly pleased to be asked to work on The Damned’s ‘Black is the Night’ album.”
Tracklist:
01. Love Song
02. Wait For The Black Out
03. Generals
04. I Just Can’t Be Happy Today
05. Bad Time For Bonzo
06. Democracy?
07. White Rabbit
08. Antipope
09. Ignite
10. Melody Lee
11. Smash It Up Pt. 1 & 2
12. New Rose
13. Neat, Neat, Neat
14. Stretcher Case Baby
15. Sick Of Being Sick
16. Born To Kill
17. Rabid (Over You)
18. Problem Child
19. 1 Of The 2
20. So Messed Up
21. Machine Gun Etiquette
22. Disco Man
23. Fan Club
24. Suicide
25. Eloise
26. Plan 9 Channel 7
27. Grimly Fiendish
28. The Shadow Of Love
29. Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
30. Street Of Dreams
31. The History Of The World (Part 1)
32. Curtain Fall
33. Alone Again Or
34. Lively Arts
35. Standing On The Edge Of Tomorrow
36. Stranger On The Town
37. Fun Factory
38. Under The Floor Again
39. Black Is The Night