The French science fiction writer Roland C. Wagner was added as a singer in 1983.
Ellis, Poiret and Wagner got together again in 1988, with a new rhythm section, playing psychedelic garage.
After the departure of Poiret in the early 1990s, Ellis and Wagner decided to stop performing and focus on recording.
In 2006, Brain Damage released their second album under one of the Creative Commons licenses on the free music platform Jamendo.
It is a collection of recordings spawning more than fifteen years, mostly punk and/or psychedelic with science fiction inspired lyrics — among them "Quand le paysage se déchire" ("When the Landscape Tears") a song about Philip K. Dick; and "Un été de serre" inspired by Norman Spinrad's novel Greenhouse Summer, which Wagner translated into French.