The Cramps?

A Date With Elvis is good, but not as good as the first few albums. Still worth getting but I'd get the others first.

Track listings:

Off the Bone
1. Human Fly
2. The Way I Walk
3. Domino
4. Surfin' Bird
5. Lonesome Town
6. Garbageman
7. Fever
8. Drug Train
9. Love Me
10. I Can't Hardly Stand It
11. Goo Goo Muck
12. She Said
13. The Crusher
14. Save It
15. New Kind Of Kick
16. Uranium Rock
17. Good Taste(Live)

Bad Music for Bad People
1. Garbage Man
2. New Kind of Kick
3. Love Me
4. I Can't Hardly Stand It
5. She Said
6. Goo Goo Muck
7. Save It
8. Human Fly
9. Drug Train
10. TV Set
11. Uranium Rock

Mysteriously, I have still not yet played my copy of How To Make a Monster after some months, so I cannot quite help there. : (

I just heard that Nick Knox just died.
Sorry to hear he's gone .

rip. geez, how could he have been just 60? he must've been a kid when he was in the electric eels.

Lux Interior would have been 79 today

Saw a couple of photos this week of Poison Ivy, alive and well and seemingly happy.

She could make a hell of a Wanda Jackson-style comeback if she wanted to, but I doubt she will.

I listened to that three-part podcast No Dogs in Space on this band. I didn't know much about the Cramps, to be honest, but it was pretty illuminating!

I only saw them live once, and it was pretty late (the Flamejob tour in 1996), but it was one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. Lux was tottering around in black latex pants and spike heels, deep throating the microphone, and climbing up on top of and humping the amps, and the whole time, Ivy just kept impassively cranking out the riffs like whatever he was doing was his business and had nothing to do with her.

Saw a couple of photos this week of Poison Ivy, alive and well and seemingly happy.

She could make a hell of a Wanda Jackson-style comeback if she wanted to, but I doubt she will.

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I saw a purportedly-recent picture of Ivy this week too! She was sitting at a table in someone's backyard or something?

fans should check out their interview in the Incredibly Strange Music book, so great

has there been a Cramps poll? now that I would run.

is this the main cramps thread? whoa if so, it's small!

after liquidating my entire (physical) music collection, i recently started buying a handful of CDs to listen to in the car. Songs the Lord Taught Us has been blasting constantly ever since

garbageman is soooooo good

no I'm sure there's another thread

and we did do a poll

ILM Artist Poll No. 105 · THE CRAMPS · Results Thread

here's the main thread

tell me things about The Cramps (RIP Lux Interior)

in 1990 myself and some buddies left school at lunchtime and got a train to Newcastle (NSW Australia Newcastle) to see the Cramps at the University there - we then ended up spending the night camped out at the train station waiting for the first service back to Sydney - it was a good life choice from a bunch of 16-17 year olds

Poison Ivy would make a really good long form interview subject.

I kept thinking after I saw that skit that John Mulaney did in L.A. with all the old punk rockers that someone needs to get all these people and do some oral history interviews.

Maybe this is also linked on that others Cramps thread , but in 2009 Miriam Linna, who was the Cramps drummer in 1976 into 1977, wrote about her experience in the band

https://kicksville66.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-first-band-cramps-1976-pt-1.html

We had the smashed windscreen from a SM57 that had previously been in Lux's mouth before getting dislodged after getting slammed into the stage as a kind of holy relic in our apartment for yrs & yrs