It's 2006, and time for the first of the Monday music offerings I talked up a while ago. These will be available for a week or two; please right-click or option-click to save to your desktop. If bandwidth becomes an issue, we go to yousendit links.

No doubt you are familiar with the reputation of the Sex Pistols, if not the actual music -- but the first UK punk group to release a single was actually The Damned, thanks to the fast-moving folks at Stiff Records. For all the controversy about the then-new genre, the first commercially available offering is a giddy love song. Later covered by Tool and Guns 'n' Roses.

The Damned - "New Rose"