
Bottom/ Devo's single "Come Back Jonee" (Virgin, 1978) was produced by Brian Eno. Some hear influences from the Krautrock musical style in Devo's music, such as Neu!, Can and the production work of Conny Plank. Other influences are said to include American rock iconoclasts Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Residents. Their extensive mechanization of popular music through synthesizers helped to inspire the more modern industrial pop acts of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Top/ "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" (Chiswick, 1979) was a single by the British punk band The Damned, taken from their third album Machine Gun Etiquette. The Damned are an English band formed in London in 1976, notable for being the first punk rock band from England to release a single ("New Rose"), release an album (Damned Damned Damned), and tour the United States. The Damned later evolved as one of the forerunners of the gothic rock genre. The Damned have incorporated many different styles into their music and image, including: garage rock, psychedelic rock, cabaret, and the theatrical rock of Screaming Lord Sutch and Alex Harvey. Vanian's vocal style has been described as similar to a crooner.