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which range from girl group splendor (the Charms' charming rendition of "Frosty the Snowman") to the Ravi Shankar-meets-Phil Spector wall of sitars and strings that permeates Tina Sugandh's lush "White Christmas

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Pure Punk: 1977-1982 Limited Edition Picture Vinyl 01/31/2020 " and the claustrophobia ofIt is often argued that U. K. punk pioneers the Damned were the first English punk band to issue a record, beating spiky haired contemporaries the Sex Pistols, among others, when it came to actually getting themselves into a studio. Pure Punk: 1977 1982 focuses on the steps that took the Damned into the studio to begin with, collecting mostly live recordings and a few unreleased demos from their earliest days. In addition to live versions of tracks