[citation needed] Initial attempts to persuade Vanian to join the project were unsuccessful, as the singer was dismissive of the demo songs.

Scabies abandoned the material, and began working with Alan Lee Shaw (who had previously played guitar for The Rings, The Maniacs, The Physicals and Brian James' band Brains).

A proposed tour of small venues was shelved, apart from a one-off show at Plymouth Cooperage, the line-up's final live performance.

[citation needed] The Vanian/Scabies/Shaw/Dollimore/Moose line-up have featured on two other Damned releases – the remix EP Testify and the live album Molten Lager.

[1] In April 1996, the Marble Orchard label issued the album in the UK, now titled I'm Alright Jack & the Beanstalk (inspired by a phrase used by an acquaintance of Scabies').

[citation needed] To further the confusion about the album's name, Castle Music reissued it as I'm Alright Jack & the Beanstalk in the USA in 2002, with Imperial doing the same in Japan.

Recently, thanks to the ease of importing CDs and the rise of internet shopping, copies of the US release of Not of This Earth can be easily found in Europe, with Cleopatra also reissuing the album in The Damned Box Set in 1999 (with the Testify remix EP, and compilation The Chaos Years).

however said that if listeners were not familiar with group then "Not of This Earth is a perfectly solid LP, filled with catchy little numbers such as "I Need a Life" and "My Desire," which still show plenty of overrated indie types and alt-rockers a thing or two.

and concluded that the only stand out track was "Shadow to Fall"[7] All songs written by Alan Lee Shaw and Rat Scabies, except where noted.