The Damned - Music For PleasureProduced, for numerous arcane reasons, by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, the second damned album, 'Music For Pleasure', was considered a disaster at the time and led to their being dropped from Stiff and their first break up. In retrospect, however, it's quite a respectable punk artefact, though the Damned themselves rejected it and never performed any of its songs again. More a historical document than a great album, 'Music for Pleasure's' highlights

on "Lithium Serenade"

where words like “explosive” and “thunderous” barely do justice

He's no psychedelic Civil War re-enactor

The track list was carefully curated by the hardworking people in record stores themselves

he was driving around town and filming stuff

Maximum Electronic Rock and Roll

or at least without initial awareness that music was being made

but one of the first Chicago house music labels was started by a young

and toured everywhere from Serbia to China

Determined to craft a work of lasting power

They're at least committed to giving the world some trouble before they go

New Mexico captured our hearts this summer with their pristine pop perfection