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DAMGOOD 559LP
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"Johnny Moped's 'lost album' from 1990, finally gets a reissue." "I like this album, Johnny hates it. But why? I think it's more 'Johnny Moped' than any other album out there. What other album has entirely penned JM songs/ditties like 'Soldiers' and 'Moped crash' plus ad-libs and all the other little interludes in between the tracks that are pure 'Moped'. Johnny thinks it sounds like a 'disco' album, which it does in places, but, hey-ho, it was 1989 and it was the age of Stock, Aitken and Waterman. At the time there had been no Moped band since 1985-ish and certainly Slimy hadn't been in the band since the early '80s. Also, there was only one album out there, Cycledelic so there was a lot of songs destined for a follow up album that never happened and it looked like we were going to be a one album band. So, with so much unreleased material and a chronic lack of 'mopedisum' I decided to embark on a little project... This album came out in 1990 on Deltic Records but the deal was that I had to produce a finished master tape that could go straight to the cutting room and be pressed, so I borrowed a 4-track Teac and a Roland sampler and Roland drum machine and got to work. Some of the tracks sound like they were recorded in someone's bedroom, that's because they were, but Captain recorded some great stuff on his 8-track where I had recorded Johnny 'live' and handed over a tape for him to work with ('I'm a Spasm', 'Soldiers', 'Cut Across Shorty'). Also, he provided some decent backing vocals on other tracks ('Corpse Boogie', 'Hiawatha')." --Dave Berk, May 2022
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DAMGOOD 559CD
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"I like this album, Johnny hates it. But why? I think it's more 'Johnny Moped' than any other album out there. What other album has entirely penned JM songs/ditties like 'Soldiers' and 'Moped crash' plus ad-libs and all the other little interludes in between the tracks that are pure 'Moped'. Johnny thinks it sounds like a 'disco' album, which it does in places, but, hey-ho, it was 1989 and it was the age of Stock, Aitken and Waterman. At the time there had been no Moped band since 1985-ish and certainly Slimy hadn't been in the band since the early '80s. Also, there was only one album out there, Cycledelic so there was a lot of songs destined for a follow up album that never happened and it looked like we were going to be a one album band. So, with so much unreleased material and a chronic lack of 'mopedisum' I decided to embark on a little project... This album came out in 1990 on Deltic Records but the deal was that I had to produce a finished master tape that could go straight to the cutting room and be pressed, so I borrowed a 4-track Teac and a Roland sampler and Roland drum machine and got to work. Some of the tracks sound like they were recorded in someone's bedroom, that's because they were, but Captain recorded some great stuff on his 8-track where I had recorded Johnny 'live' and handed over a tape for him to work with ('I'm a Spasm', 'Soldiers', 'Cut Across Shorty'). Also, he provided some decent backing vocals on other tracks ('Corpse Boogie', 'Hiawatha')." --Dave Berk, May 2022
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DAMGOOD 514LP
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"Johnny Moped's first album since 2016's It's A Real Cool Baby! Time flies! It's three years since the band's last album, It's A Real Cool Baby, but the band have been busy in the meantime. Following the amicable departure of founding member Dave Berk, they welcomed Marty Love as their new drummer. Since then the band have had successful tours of the UK, Germany, Holland and Scandinavia. They've had prestigious slots at Blackpool's famous Rebellion Festival, recorded radio sessions for Marc Riley's BBC 6Music Show, and played a storming set at Damaged Goods 30th Anniversary show at London's Koko last September along with touring with The Damned and a headline Christmas show at The Lexington. A biography of the band is currently being written. More details to follow on that nearer to publication date. There's even talk of gigs in the US and Japan in the not too distant future. Fingers crossed eh So what can we tell you about the new LP? Well it has 14 tracks including recent sold out single 'Catatonic'. There's a guest appearance from none other than Captain Sensible, a longtime friend and champion of the band. The original Mopeds Johnny and Slimy Toad have been joined by long time members, Jacko Pistorious, Rock N Roll Robot (also know as Rob from legendary Ska/Punk band 'Case') and Marty Love for the new album. It was recorded at Panther Studios, Reigate and produced by longtime associate Dick Crippen."
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DAMGOOD 460LP
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Damaged Goods present a reissue of Johnny Moped's Cycledelic, originally released in April of 1978. Described by Jon Savage in his book England's Dreaming (1991) as "certainly one of the more curious albums to emerge from the first wave of UK punk. Moped was a clumsy singer even by the standards of early British punk, given to moaning and gurgling when he couldn't think of something to say, and guitarist Slimy Toad had chops and wasn't afraid to show them, so some of the longer songs like 'Maniac' and '3D Time' veer off into what sounds like a thug's version of prog-rock. And even when the band did tear into something short, fast, and loud, they sounded like '60s pop gone mad on speed; Cycledelic may be one of the only albums from punk's first wave that displays almost no audible Ramones influence. But if the Mopeds were following a path all their own, they were clearly having a lot of fun doing it. Johnny Moped was a little too odd to serve as a true 'every kid', but the absurd brilliance of the best moments on Cycledelic are a shining example of the punk credo that anyone could do it -- and that sometimes amazing things could emerge from unexpected places."
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DAMGOOD 455EP
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With exclusive B-side featuring full non-album version of "Post Apocalyptic Love Song"! Third single from their recent It's A Real Cool Baby album. On neon yellow 7" vinyl.
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DAMGOOD 450CD
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The three remaining original members of UK punk band Johnny Moped, who debuted in 1978 with their Cycledelic LP (BEAT 058LP), are back with It's A Real Cool Baby. Johnny Moped, Slimy Toad, and Dave Berk, together again for the first time since 1990's The Search For Xerxes, showcase some new songs and revisit a few live favorites that never got recorded back in their heyday, including "I Wanna Die" and "I Believed Her Lies." The original three Mopeds are joined by longtime live members Jacko Pistorious and Rock N Roll Robot (also known as Rob from legendary ska punk band Case). This album follows the 2015 release of the band's first 7" since 1978, Ain't No Rock 'N' Roll Rookie/Super Woofa, which hit the number-three position in the UK vinyl chart and was warmly received by Moped fans as "sounding just like a Johnny Moped single" -- no higher praise is possible.
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DAMGOOD 450LP
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LP version. Gatefold sleeve. The three remaining original members of UK punk band Johnny Moped, who debuted in 1978 with their Cycledelic LP (BEAT 058LP), are back with It's A Real Cool Baby. Johnny Moped, Slimy Toad, and Dave Berk, together again for the first time since 1990's The Search For Xerxes, showcase some new songs and revisit a few live favorites that never got recorded back in their heyday, including "I Wanna Die" and "I Believed Her Lies." The original three Mopeds are joined by longtime live members Jacko Pistorious and Rock N Roll Robot (also known as Rob from legendary ska punk band Case). This album follows the 2015 release of the band's first 7" since 1978, Ain't No Rock 'N' Roll Rookie/Super Woofa, which hit the number-three position in the UK vinyl chart and was warmly received by Moped fans as "sounding just like a Johnny Moped single" -- no higher praise is possible.
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DAMGOOD 451EP
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English band Johnny Moped present "Real Cool Baby," taken from their 2016 album It's a Real Cool Baby (their first album since 1990's The Search for Xerxes). It's backed here with exclusive track "Never Never Time."
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