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Sorry to be a bit tardy with this, I have absolutely no excuse for my lateness. I can make a few up if you really need an explanation.
I remember buying the third Damned LP 'Machine Gun Etiquette' and being amazed and slightly jealous at how they came back from the dead (as befits their name) with a couple of great singles and a very good LP. They were the first major punk band to break up, in 1977, and reformed a year later without their songwriter and guitarist, Brian James. The prospects weren't good. Brian had written 'New Rose' and 'Neat Neat Neat'. Brilliant singles. Drummer Rat Scabies had written 'Stab Yor Back'. Brilliant, but in a different, not as good, way. Who would have guessed that Captain Sensible, the bass player who the average NME reader would have thought couldn't be trusted to run a message to the shop without a note, would turn out to be the saviour as songwriter. 'Love Song' and 'Smash It Up' were the first signs that the Captain could turn out smart tunes, Melody Lee among them.

The Loft - Winter
The Damned - Melody Lee
Animals and Men - Don't Misbehave In The New Age
Go Gos - You Can't Walk In Your Sleep
Vacants - Television Viewer
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - New Pleasure
Electric Eels - Agitated
Cowboy & Spingirl - The Things That Make Me Glad
Penetration - Don't Dictate
MC5 - Looking At You
The Boys - Terminal Love
First Crew to The Moon - The Sun Lights Up The Shadows Of Your Mind
PIL - Public Image
Land - Patti Smith
Wire - Brazil