After Psychedelic Jungle, the Cramps experienced personnel and record label difficulties; they would not release another studio album until this one, four years later. Gone...
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An extremely skimpy compilation, Bad Music is only 31 minutes long. Still, this dog's breakfast of material, assembled upon the Cramps' departure from IRS, was the only...
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This five-song EP contains the demented sleaze of the title track and tunes like "Jackyard Backoff" and "Beat Out My Love," plus covers of "Jailhouse Rock" and a live...
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This first release by the Cramps shows the group laying out many of the aspects of their curious style in rudimentary fashion. Raw, slashing guitar playing derived mostly...
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Like most latter-day Cramps records, Look Mom No Head! has a few frenzied highlights -- including the manic "Eyeball In My Martini" and the sleazy "Dames, Booze, Chains and...
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Combining what is arguably the band's finest full-length album with their debut collection of covers, Psychedelic Jungle/Gravest Hits offers up a substantial dose of the...
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Here, Kid Congo Powers and Ivy form just as fine a team as she and Gregory did on earlier releases, and if things aren't always as flat-out fried as on Gravest Hits and...
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Continuing the spooked-out and raging snarls of Gravest Hits, the Cramps once again worked with Alex Chilton on the group's full-album debut, Songs the Lord Taught Us. The...
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A blistering document of a 1986 New Zealand concert--previously available only as a limited-edition import on blue vinyl until it was reissued a couple years ago--this album...
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From 1986 to 1990, the Cramps eschewed studio work in favor of extensive touring; this album documents a live show from August 1986. The sound quality is crude at best, but...
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Something of a return to form, Flamejob features the band's most committed, energetic performances in quite some time, with wild, crazed vocals from Lux Interior and...
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The Cramps--which, for all practical purposes, has always referred to guitarist Poison Ivy and singer Lux Interior--have a definite vision of what rock 'n' roll is about,...
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As the Cramps approached their 20th anniversary, they showed no signs of changing their signature kitschy psychobilly style. In so many ways, Big Beat From Badsville is no...
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It's a little funny to think of any Cramps song as a "hit," since none of their singles even made passing acquaintance with the charts, but BMG Special Products' Greatest...
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One gets the feeling from the title and cover art alone that if the Cramps could have released this live document in Glorious Smell-o-rama they would have jumped at the...
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