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“In Dulce Decorum” by The Damned
From the album Anything (1986)
“In Dulce Decorum” by The Damned appears on 4 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1989 and 1994. It was first released in 1986 on the album Anything. Its best result is #199 on the Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,898 alternative song of all time.
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The Damned cut "In Dulce Decorum" for their 1986 album Anything, with the writing credit split four ways between Dave Vanian, Roman Jugg, Bryn Merrick and Rat Scabies. It was inspired by Wilfred Owen's poem Dulce et Decorum est, and it opens with an excerpt of Winston Churchill's speech to the House of Commons in June 1940, as the Battle of Britain began. Gothic grandeur with a history lesson attached.
MCA pulled it back off the album in November 1987 to promote the retrospective Light at the End of the Tunnel, issuing it in Germany too. It scraped to number 72 in Britain, the last time a Damned single made the UK charts, and it found a second life on Miami Vice, in the third-season episode "Walk Alone", with an instrumental take landing on the Miami Vice II soundtrack.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 324 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989) | 500 |
| 1990 | 199 | Live 105 | Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1990) | 299 |
| 1992 | 270 | Live 105 | Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1992) | 299 |
| 1994 | 316 | Live 105 | Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994) | 500 |
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