Plasmatics "The Damned (Video)

The song "The Damned" was covered by German thrash metal band Destruction on the Mad Butcher EP in 1987. During the 1990s, Beavis & Butt-Head showed the video often. The electro band Japanese Car Crash would perform "The Damned" live on their tours from 2007-2013. They replaced the guitar solo with a theremin solo.

The video Rod produced and directed of "The Damned" featured Wendy driving a school bus through a wall of TVs, climbing onto the roof of a moving bus which had been loaded with explosives, and then singing from the roof and jumping off a few moments before the bus goes through the second wall of TVs and then blows sky high.

Lyrics

Black visions from the satellite sky 
Deaf ears hear not their cries
Fat jackals howl at the moon
Flies buzzing, playing death's tune

Night ends but the sun it don't rise 
Tombs open and the dead they will rise
Black market buys your soul real cheap
No escaping what you sow, you will reap

Prisoners of the damned
Find another land
Planet of the lost
Land of fire and frost

Prisoners of the dead
Fear the unknown dread
Tidal waves at sea
Set the serpents free

Coup d'etat on a global scale
Opposition, locked up in jail
Domination, the goons are the boss
Human race nailed to a cross