The Damned - Plan 9 Channel 7 (Official Audio)

Lyrics:

She plays her mouth into a smile
And offers that he stay a while
Two hearts that beat as one
And eyes that hardly ever saw the sun
Hollywood babbles on

She lays a wreath of lilies on his grave
His flame gone along with the love he never gave
Not to be seduced by those red lips
Two dimensional comic clips
Hollywood babbles on,
on and on and on and on.

(chorus)
Channel 7, eyeshades of grey
Too close but two worlds away
Plan 9, her domain
Too close but two worlds away... they say

(repeat)
Step into the night.

[stevechurch]

i secretly thought this was the best track on this album, now i don't mind just admitting it. i keep my ear out for this whenever i can, tremendous song.

[druidswillow]

IMHO The most under-rated band in human history, Whenever I play my favourite Damned tracks to people who've never heard/heard of them it's always how the eff have I not heard this before, they've never got the recognition that their peers got I mean I love The Clash, The Stranglers, Pistols etc but the Damned will always have a special place for me Cheers Jim, Surrey, UK

[davidwaterhouse]

I am an original 1977 pUnK, I loved the first two LP's despite the band hating the second LP! MGE was released in 1979, when I was in 3rd year at school, it was also the first LP that 'The Captain' switched from Bass to Rhythm/Lead guitar. The Entire LP is brilliant I saw them tour it at Manchester Apollo in the same year, I still love it just as much now in June 2024! dx

[fernandomaron]

Love Vanian's ghastly scream at 3:46 So eerie, it gives me shivers till this day

[raskol]

Damn. That wall of sound and punk rock fury mixed with aching vocals.... makes this one of my all time fave Damned songs. Period. Awesome to hear again on their 2017 tour.

[danpflaum]

Still sounds absolutely amazing all these years (DECADES!)

[garymulley]

Dave vanian is a talented song writer. Should get more recognition. In my opinion.

[cardealyogrossmanski]

All songs by the Damned are excellent!!! The best band ever.

[jelt]

Fucking love Dave "Vanian".... voice, , and lyrics. But primarily: voice. Just beautiful.

[_Ben]

The production & sound engineering on MGE remains simply brilliant...just listen to Sensible's guitar 👌🙏👌 Roger Armstrong & Mike Shipley...what a production duo they were on this album. 👍👍👍

[NICO]

The Captain is the most underrated guitarist of his era. It’s only been recently that I had to admit he was (is) better than Joneses Steve and Mick. He and Vanian invented psych-punk with this track.

[matthewjdouglas]

Two hearts that beat as one and eyes that have hardly ever saw the sun

[Brewzerr]

I remember how when the Black Album came out and everybody was freaking out saying shit like "they sold out!" and "they went soft!" or whatever, when this song right here (plus a couple others on MGE like "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" and "These Hands") was hinting at what was to come next. It came as no surprise to me when they did an album that was almost entirely dark and psychedelic. It all began with this song, and personally i thought it was a brilliant evolution in style. We can thank Mr. Vanian for this one.

[Billo]

Takes you right back. A very haunting and powerful piece of music.

[MichaelRyan-yw]

Captain Sesible and these guys could PLAY. Truly a classic of English rock in my top 5 of all time and l go back 60 plus years.

[theclattavantrilogy]

First single 1976 before all the rest of the big name British punk bands. New Rose and what a single it was and they just kept on giving.
Machine Gun Etiquette is a truly great LP.

[rickeybrown]

every morning to listen to this song I love it

[bluerfoot]

punkedelic and very melodic. not your average song not your average band.

[buttface]

Maila Nurmi was absolutely beautiful. Vampira rest in peace.

[RUDI-UK]

The production still sounds amazing on this.