Grave Disorder Explained

Grave Disorder
Type:Album
Artist:The Damned
Cover:gravedis.jpg
Released:21 August 2001
Recorded:2000–2001
Studio:Mad Dog Studios, Burbank, California
Genre:Punk rock[1]
Length:57:35
Label:Nitro Records
Producer:David Bianco
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Grave Disorder is the ninth studio album from the punk rock band The Damned, released on 21 August 2001. It was their first release since signing to Nitro Records and only studio album with Patricia Morrison.

Style

The album is musically similar to Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible's previous Damned collaboration, Strawberries. It uses a combination of modern sampling and looping ("Absinthe"), gothic rock ("Thrill Kill"), punk rock ("Neverland", "Obscene" and "Amen"), deep gothic piano pieces ("Beauty of the Beast" and "The End of Time"), and more traditional pop songs. The song "Lookin' for Action" appeared on the Warped Tour 2002 Tour Compilation.

Songs like "W" (about the 2000 election and George W. Bush) have a sound very reminiscent of Britpop (such as the sound they exhibited on Strawberries). "song.com" offers a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the Internet, while "Democracy?" offers a rebuke of what they see as the futility of democracy and political revolution.

The album's name is taken from parliamentary convention in the United Kingdom, where a sitting may be adjourned should 'grave disorder' break out among members.[2]

Track listing

Songwriting credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[3]

  1. "Democracy?" (Captain Sensible) – 3:21
  2. "song.com" (Sensible, David Vanian) – 3:39
  3. "Thrill Kill" (Sensible, Pinch) – 5:37
  4. "She" (Sensible, Vanian) – 4:27
  5. "Lookin for Action" (Sensible, Vanian, Monty Oxy Moron, Patricia Morrison, Pinch) – 4:04
  6. "Would You Be So Hot (If You Weren't Dead?)" (Sensible) – 4:13
  7. "Absinthe" (Vanian) – 4:17
  8. "Amen" (Sensible, Pinch) – 7:55
  9. "Neverland" (Sensible) – 3:31
  10. "'Til the End of Time" (Sensible) – 3:51
  11. "Obscene" (Sensible, Vanian) – 2:46
  12. "W" (Pinch, Tom Savage) – 5:05
  13. "Beauty of the Beast" (Vanian, Oxy Moron) – 4:44

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[4]

The Damned
Technical

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stegall . Tim . These 5 albums embody the Damned’s punk-rock magnificence These 5 albums embody the Damned’s punk-rock magnificence These 5 albums embody the Damned’s punk-rock magnificence . . 28 April 2023.
  2. Erskine May: Grave disorder https://erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/4897/grave%20disorder/
  3. Grave Disorder . CD liner notes. The Damned. . 2001.
  4. Grave Disorder . CD liner notes. The Damned. . 2001.