Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us

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Free Music Review: fine, well aged cheese
Hit: 5 Stars

This band is seminal to a certain sensibility that seems sadly lacking in much of today's music. These folks were about having fun, but more than that there was a will to revel in junk culture and general freakishness that today just doesn't seem to exist.

Lux Interior screams and howls like a cross between Elvis Presley and Vincent Price, Ivy Rorschach plays guitar cheaply but serviceably, in keeping with rockablilly - cum - garage / psychedelic spirit, Bryan Gregory was a fuzz & feedback monster and Nick Knox found the primitive beat Mo Tucker left behind when she escaped from New York. There was a lot of griping about this band in their pre-halcyon days; people said they couldn't play even at a punk rock level of proficiency, but Songs The Lord Taught Us shows quite well that they not only had their instruments well in hand, but were actually quite innovative. There were literally thousands of bands through the next decade (the eighties, baby) who owed this band their very lives.

This record contains many skewed classics. For instance, there's T. V. Set, which is truly sick and repulsive, Garbage Man, which is the Cramps Manifesto no doubt, What's Behind the Mask? which shows the band's knack for twisted novelty, I Was A Teeenage Werewolf, which really, really draws out Lux Interior's sympathies, and a whole mess of others equally as disturbed and amusing.

If you're looking for truth & beauty, you'll find neither here. If you hope to find a really great party record for your next Hallowe'en bash, you won't find anything better, I guarantee it. Or, if you just plain like throbbing, primitive roots rock, this here is your oyster. But then you already knew that.

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