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“Wait for the blackout” by The Damned
From the album The Black Album (1980)
“Wait for the blackout” by The Damned appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2003. It was first released in 1980 on the album The Black Album. Its best result is #2019 on the Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,659 alternative song of all time.
"Wait for the Blackout" comes off The Black Album, the Damned's fourth studio album, a sprawling double that Chiswick released in 1980 and the first with Paul Gray on bass. The record found the old punk bruisers stretching out into psychedelia, and this is one of its big swings: AllMusic's Ned Raggett called it a "dramatic psych/punk surge", and it wears its goth affectations with a perfectly straight face.
The writing credit is a crowd, split between Captain Sensible, Dave Vanian, Rat Scabies, Paul Gray, Billy Karloff and John Osborn. The band produced it themselves, with Hugh Jones engineering. Around it, the album went all in on ambition, handing the whole of side three to "Curtain Call" and filling side four with a live set cut for fan club members at Shepperton Studios.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 2019 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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