The Damage is a collection of Ludus

Ludus

Luduș is a town in central Romania in Mureș County, 44 km south-west from the county's capital Târgu Mureș.Six villages are administered by the town: Avrămeşti , Cioarga , Ciurgău , Fundătura , Gheja and Roșiori .-History:* 1330 - First mentioned as Plehanus de...

 songs culled from the Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

 post-punk

Post-punk

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 group's albums, singles, b-sides, and live recordings. It includes the band's most famous song, "Breaking the Rules", as well as a cover of Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot

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's 1970 single "Nue au Soleil". The sleeve includes Ludus biography written by LTM

LTM

LTM Recordings is an independent record label founded in Britain in 1983, and best known for high quality, well-packaged reissues of artists and music from 1978 to the present day, as well as modern classical and avant garde composition...

 owner James Nice, band discography and excerpts from contemporary reviews of the original Ludus records, as well as several reproductions of Linder Sterling

Linder Sterling

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's collage

Collage

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s.

This compilation includes 1 song from EP The Visit

The Visit

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(track 6), 2 songs from EP Pickpocket

Pickpocket (album)

Pickpocket was a six-track cassette tape by Manchester post-punk band Ludus, released by New Hormones in 1981. It came packaged with a limited-edition booklet and badge....

(tracks 7 and 17), 3 songs from the album The Seduction (tracks 8, 9 and 10) and 1 song from the LP Danger Came Smiling

Danger Came Smiling

Danger Came Smiling was the final LP released by Manchester post-punk group Ludus. It was first issued by New Hormones in September 1982.The album stands apart in the band's discography, being a lot more experimental, improvisational and intentionally less accessible than their other work. It...

(track 14). The rest of the material consists of songs from 7" and 12" singles, one song (track 1) that was previously available only on earlier Ludus compilations, and 3 songs recorded at the famous concert in Manchester's The Haçienda

The Haçienda

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in 1982. Out of 18 songs on this compilation, 8 are also available on the other two Ludus reissue CDs.

Tracklisting:

1. How High Does the Sky Go
2. She She
3. Let Me Go Where My Pictures Go
4. Nue au Soleil
5. Little Girls
6. I Can't Swim I Have Nightmares
7. Hugo Blanco
8. See the Keyhole
9. My Cherry Is in Sherry
10. The Escape Artist
11. Mirror Mirror (live)
12. Wrapped in Silence (live)
13. Too Hot to Handle (live)
14. Howling Comique
15. What a Falling Off Was There
16. Patient (7" version)
17. The Fool
18. Breaking the Rules