Showing posts with label cramps. Show all posts
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Friday, February 6

Smells good


The Cramps 'Smell Of San Diego Live!' 7" (1985)
This bootleg was recorded June 2nd 1984, at the North Park Lions Club, just days after ending their first headlining UK tour. There are two limited numbered editions of this record, one on red vinyl and one on black (475 each, but I've only seen red). RIP Lux...

Friday, April 25

Buzz, buzz, bzzzzzz



The Cramps 'Human Fly/Domino' and 'Surfin' Bird/The Way I Walk' 7"s (1978)
First two Cramps singles are absolute schlock classics!
In the spring of 1976, The CRAMPS began to fester in a NYC apartment. Without fresh air or natural light, the group developed its uniquely mutant strain of rock’n’roll aided only by the sickly blue rays of late night TV. While the jackhammer rhythms of punk were proliferating in NYC, The CRAMPS dove into the deepest recesses of the rock’n’roll psyche for the most primal of all rhythmic impulses -- rockabilly -- the sound of southern culture falling apart in a blaze of shudders and hiccups. As late night sci-fi reruns colored the room, The CRAMPS also picked and chose amongst the psychotic debris of previous rock eras - instrumental rock, surf, psychedelia, and sixties punk. And then they added the junkiest element of all -- themselves. - J. H. Sasfy, Professor of Rockology, from the liner notes of 'Gravest Hits'