Regular listeners of the show are already aware of Rob's lifelong love of all things The Damned. This week's guest, Karl Ueberbacher (Phoenix Records), brings us their third release, 1979s classic - and highly influential - 'Machine Gun Etiquette'. Is it the perfect punk record? What does that even mean?? Let's smash it up and find out!!

Songs discussed in this episode: Smash It Up (The Damned cover) - The Offspring; 1970 - The Stooges; Know Your Product - The Saints; Mad John - Small Faces; Love Song - The Damned; Ace Of Spades - Motorhead; Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned; I Can't Come - The Snivelling Shits; I Just Can't Be Happy Today - The Damned; My Baby Don't Care - King; Melody Lee - The Damned; Antipope (Peel Session) - King; Anti-Pope, These Hands, Plan 9 Channel 7 - The Damned; Soft Focus - T.S.O.L.; Vanilla Blue - Naked Raygun; Halloween - AFI; Noise, Noise, Noise, Looking At You (MC5 cover) - The Damned; Looking At You - MC5; City Slang - Sonic's Rendezvous Band; Liar, Smash It Up (Pt 1), Smash It Up (Pt 2) - The Damned; Get It On - T-Rex and The Damned, (Live at the Rainbow 1977