Off The Bone is (I think) the British version of Bad Music For Bad People but has more songs on it?
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 3 October 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
"smell of female"!xpost
― Zeno, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Purple Knif Show = CLASSIC
― StanM, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
there are like a million of the purple knif/songs taught/lux and ivy's favorites, aren't there? the latter in particular are real goldmines - guitar gospel like charlie jackson, sweet rockabilly, lots of link wray, ric cartey, weird novelty doo wop and stuff.
― schlump, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
You need the song "Surfing Dead" from the "Return of the Living Dead" soundtrack, which is a blast (I think it might also be on the CD version of "Smell of Female."
Agreed - one of the best live shows I've ever seen. I saw Lux and Ivy walking down the sidewalk in Glendale once and my heart started beating really fast.
― Savannah Smiles, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
"(I think it might also be on the CD version of "Smell of Female."
it is, and that cd is a must
― Zeno, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
indeed its is. "surfing dead" is astonishing, and there's also the kill! kill! faster pussycat cover.
― Marco Damiani, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
IT is.
back to Psych Jungle:it's their darkest album, and the closest their sound got to the Gun Club/Birthday Party era (which came later!).also, Voodoo Idol is the best Crapms songs ever.
― Zeno, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
underrated: A Date With Elvis
― StanM, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
not for Priscilla
― Zeno, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
All of the supposedly bad ones are underrated! Even the Epitaph one has some great tracks.
― Savannah Smiles, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
my underrated fave. is Stay Sick!
― Zeno, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
"All of the supposedly bad ones are underrated!"
Absolutely OTM. "Look Mom, No Head!" is great. "Miniskirt Blues" with Iggy!
― Soukesian, Friday, 3 October 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
one of the best bands ever but yeah required listening is the first batch - Psych Jungle/Songs the Lord Taught Us/Bad Music For Bad People/Smell of Female.
Even Flamejob is great ("Naked girl FALLING DOWN THE STAIRS")
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 3 October 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
also whichever one has "What's Inside a Girl?" on it
there were a bunch of live vinyl albums making the rounds a few years ago, some of which are very entertaining. I think the one I stuck with was ROCKINANDREELININAUCKLANDNEWZEALAND
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 3 October 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
That would be A Date With Elvis, yeah. Also contains Chicken ("Buh Buh Buckee!")
― StanM, Friday, 3 October 2008 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard sean yseult from white zombie was going on tour with them this fall... wonder if that's still happening?
― Edward III, Friday, 3 October 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess it happened 2 years ago lol cramps update yr website
― Edward III, Friday, 3 October 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
did anyone hear that comp a couple of years ago, how to make a monster? it had a lot of really great scrappy covers on there, like a tav-falco-ish sweet woman blues. it's not my very favourite cramps stuff, but i like the songs that sound halfway to bobby vee - green door, lonesome town &c.
― schlump, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I still have never seen, but am dying to, the concert DVD of them playing live at that mental institution. Anyone seen this?
― Savannah Smiles, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's diverting but not something you have to die, or kill, to see. It's under half an hour so might be in bits on Youtube maybe?
― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Friday, 3 October 2008 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
the mental institution thing is like 15 minutes long and the footage is incredibly shitty (lolz early 80s video quality) but it has its moments. audio quality is terrible - really the only fun thing about it is watching the inmates get into it.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
well the cramps themselves are also fun I guess but you can't really hear/see what they're doing
I mean, LONESOME TOWN.The perfect cover of a perfect song.
― Marco Damiani, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I got it off Slsk years ago and can attest to ^
xpost
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 3 October 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
"audio quality is terrible - really the only fun thing about it is watching the inmates get into it"
this, and how band members are perfectly at ease, i.e. brian gregory grinning happily all the time.
― Marco Damiani, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
it's all on Youtube & video.google.com & stuff.
Saw them a couple of years ago and they're now embarrassingly old. Imagine your granddad in a bikini: that's Lux on stage now.
― StanM, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
how dare people age, who do they think they are.
cramps were always grotesque
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
lolz early 80s video quality
more like late 70s! it's smeary b&w but totally worth seeing at least once. also very easy to find.
lux is very old... 62 now?
― Edward III, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
the napa footage on youtube looks like somebody filmed their TV while watching the video
― Edward III, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
friend of mine says last time they toured Sweden, grown men were weeping with horror
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 3 October 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
buy the napa DVD
http://www.amazon.com/Cramps-Live-State-Mental-Hospital/dp/B00018D5RQ
watch this one online instead
― Edward III, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
there is something magnificent, about the cramps
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 3 October 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never seen the Cramps live. I should be smacked. Hard. Idiot!!!!
― peskypesky, Saturday, 4 October 2008 04:48 (fifteen years ago) link
What in the fuck?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAaT4btz-GA
Human Fly by The Cramps, revisited by a classical group. 12 violins, 1 solo violin, 4 Cellos, 1 piano and 1 soprano.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
Wow. Will have to check that out later.
Oh yeah, the RIP thread was a different one
tell me things about The Cramps (RIP Lux Interior)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
*wonders what's going on with Poison Ivy* :-(
She ruled at least as much as Lux did, IMHO.
― StanM, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
downloaded a crappy rip of the Purple Knif Show and this is still the best shit ever
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 6 May 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
OTM. (There's no better rip btw, I've only ever found shitty sounding copies - that's almost part of its charm)
― StanM, Sunday, 6 May 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://scaryideas.com/content/26375/
:-(
― StanM, Sunday, 6 May 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
Hanni El Khatib is fuckin horrible btw
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 6 May 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
they should just have used the original. no doubt some ad exec felt it needed to sound "modern".
― stirmonster, Sunday, 6 May 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe they didn't get permission or a cover was cheaper?
― StanM, Sunday, 6 May 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
that's possible. there's a great human fly cover by sonovac they could have used.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 6 May 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
such an amazing band
they really deserve a career-spanning box set
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
True - but I'd like to see a feature-length documentary even more. There's amazing local news clips from Memphis TV in that Big Star doc, must be tons more great stuff out there.
― brio, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
that panther burns footage is the shit
― szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
shitty quality version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUwbo_7pCnA
― brio, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
I wish Ivy would play guitar again - totally underrated.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah - would be nice to know how she's doing these days.
― brio, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
was just looking at the Cramps section of my local store, I could swear that all of the LP versions of their regular studio albums were counterfeit pressings. Really hope Ivy does some kind of comprehensive reissue campaign, and yes a box set would be v nice.
― money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
I can't blame Ivy for effectively retiring but seems like curating their legacy would be right up her alley. of course, there are probably legal/label problems up the wazoo, who knows who owns what
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
"just try and imagine how little I care"
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
"nobody stops a take of the fuckin Cramps in the fuckin studio!"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDpNNwJLcQQ
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
amazing
― brio, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
There seems to be many of these types of compilations, anyone hear this? What's recommended?
http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-beat-from-badsville-vol-1-trash-classics-from-lux-ivys-vinyl-mountain-mw0002410502
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 22 February 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
That looks like a fun set. I downloaded these years ago:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/02/lux-and-ivys-favorites-mp3s.html
but should upgrade to higher quality sets like this one when I get the chance.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 22 February 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
Ned pointed out on twitter that some of those have been cleaned up and the series expanded by the original compiler. Available here:
http://kogarsjunglejuice.blogspot.com/
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 22 February 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
who in the hell needs that cleaned up? it'd be better to have an unmastered underwater shortwave wax cylinder molten 96kbps cassette version
― massaman gai, Saturday, 22 February 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
exactly
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 February 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VDtPU2lJJE&feature=youtu.be
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
O_O
― schlump, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
Jesus they were great.
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
thanks!
Voodoo Idol 21:40! Love!
― nostormo, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
glad i saw them live..
― nostormo, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
yeah their Halloween shows were a treat
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
is this for real?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIsNGXEAL0v/
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 4 August 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/a_fan_made_the_cramps_a_fake_star_on_the_hollywood_walk_of_fame
― StanM, Thursday, 4 August 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link