Smash It Up

"Smash It Up"
Single by the Damned
from the album Machine Gun Etiquette
B-side"Burglar"
Released12 October 1979 (1979-10-12)
Recorded1979
Genre
Length2:53
LabelChiswick
CHIS 116
Songwriter(s)
  • Dave Vanian
  • Captain Sensible
  • Rat Scabies
  • Algy Ward
Producer(s)
The Damned singles chronology
"Love Song"
(1979) 		"Smash It Up"
(1979) 		"I Just Can't Be Happy Today"
(1979)

"Smash It Up" is a song by English punk rock band the Damned, released as a single on 12 October 1979 by Chiswick Records. It is considered the band's unofficial anthem.[1]

The single was the second release from the band's third studio album Machine Gun Etiquette (1979), where it was listed as "Smash It Up (Part II)". The B-side of the single was "Burglar".[2]

  1. ^ "The Damned's Smash It Up: "It's about frothy lager… hardly a call to revolution"". Uncut.co.uk. 24 April 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Damned, The – Smash It Up". Discogs. Retrieved 10 July 2013.