Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People
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Free Music Review: Cramps heyday!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I've always thought that a dream show would be Southern Culture on the Skids, The Reverend Horton Heat and The Cramps. As they tour, they could swap running order spots, because not one of them would suffice being an opening act for any of the others, though I would think that SCOTS and the Rev would volunteer to take a step back in deference to the mighty Cramps.
And this release is probably one of the most amazing collections you can find of the pioneers of psychobilly. Aside from being a great gateway to classic rockabilly with their scorching versions of "Love Me," "She Said" and "Can't Hardly Stand It," The Cramps also touch on the fact that punk music has a source spring, as "Garbageman" attests, but that rock is sleazy and inventive and just plain out of this world. "New Kind of Kick" is the anthem for the burnt out, "Goo Goo Muck" confirms that all of us street urchins are quite simply monsters and deserve to torment the beautiful people, and "TV Set" makes being a mass murderer sound fun and icky at the same time. The Cramps tread two feet in many different kinds of worlds, and this sings to the creep in me.
Free Music Review: "You Ain't No Punk You Punk!"
Hit: 5 Stars
Usually a band that pioneers a sound is surpassed by their imitators. However, nobody in the Psychobilly genre has topped the Cramps sound. The Reverend Horton Heat has come close, but has yet to equal the greatest Psychobilly band ever.The Cramps are highly energetic and extremely fun. They're way too humorous to be called Goth. The music is just simple, trashy fun.
"Bad Music for Bad People" is a collection of their early ( and best ) material. Songs like "Garbage Man", "Human Fly", and "TV Set" are classics that never get old. The surf guitar and punk rawness makes it feel like you're riding in a hotrod with greasers from hell. To top it off, Lux Interior's insane voice is like a Pentecostal preacher speaking in tongues while drunk on moonshine.
The Cramps destroy the innocent sound of late `50's rock and roll by adding blatant sex and drugs themes in an offensive and psychotic manner. That's exactly what made all of punk appealing, taking simple rock `n roll from an innocent time and making it raw and rebellious. The Cramps are just as important to punk as the Ramones are.
Free Music Review: Best introduction to the Cramps' library
Hit: 5 Stars
The Cramps are one of the best rock 'n' roll bands ever, and this is the perfect starting place if you want to get into them. The Cramps were punk, but more than just punk. They melded punk rock with rockabilly, horror lyrics, and even some surf, resulting in a new form subgenre known as Psychobilly. This is definatly an example of "They did it first, they did it best". In the Psychobilly genre, the only subsequent band to be of any real note is Reverend Horton Heat, as most of the other groups suffer from unoriginality, and most are just flat out boring. The Cramps, however, are true rock 'n' roll giants. Despite being a little on the short side, most of the Cramps' best early sides are on this album. Only one song is from the Cramps' best album "Song the Lord Taught Us", so you can buy this and still feel use for it when you pick up that classic. As another reviewer stated, this isn't "Goth Rock". It's too campy and out-there to be put in the Goth label. If you want something unique, original, or unorthadox punk, this is a good comp to pick up.Free Music Review: Like a wagon missing a wheel,
Hit: 5 Stars
this thing bumbles and rumbles and postures its way thru half an hour of addictive punka-drag-abilly. Could you call this a greatest hits when they had none? This is a good best of, though. Lux Interior wore high heels the same height as his foil, Poison Ivy, and had the complexion of a heroin addict(for all I know, he was). Anyway, I imagine it was the gender bending combined with the raw, sloppy assassination of rockabilly that makes this band such an underground favorite. Worth the price of admission for "Drug Train", which contains these lyrics..." Im gonna show yall how/to get on board/you put one foot up/you put another foot up/put another foot up, and youre on board the drug train."And then, a song that would make Ed Gein tap his foot, "TV Set"..."Well I put you inside my TV Set/I cut your head off and put in my TV set/I use your eyeballs for knobs on my TV Set...when I see you I get so obsessed." Oh, yeah, check it out.Free Music Review: Play it loud!!!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I first started listening to this CD(tape then) some time in 1985 or 1986. I was 12 or 13 and this was my favorite record. It drove everyone I knew crazy. They were all listening to pop music. You can't listen to "She Said" without jumping around a screaming. I used to play it over and over. "Human Fly" was killer as well. Perhaps this truly was "bad music" but I cannot think of another record that makes me feel 12 again quite like this one does.And maybe feeling 12 every now and then isn't such a bad thing.