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Which of the compilations is a must have?

― meister, Thursday, 17 March 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like that recent one - How To Make a Monster.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 17 March 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link

If you're just starting to listen to them, get Off The Bone and Bad Music For Bad People and you're pretty much all set. If you wanna get everything you're ever gonna need in one wallet-busting spree, get individual discs: Songs The Lord Taught Us, Psychedelic Jungle/Gravest Hits, Bad Music For Bad People, Smell Of Female and maybe A Date With Elvis (others like it way more than I do) and Rockinnreelininaucklandnewzealand (which I like more than others do). Then you're done, forever.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 17 March 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Isn't Off The Bone basically Bad Music For Bad People with a couple of extra songs? I don't think you need both.

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.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 17 March 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Off the Bone's a better value, me thinks. But, no "TV Set."
Songs the Lord Taught Us is pretty essential, too.

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

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

SONGS TEH LORD TAUGHT US

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

you kinda need TV Set tho
i'd say Bad Music is the one disc to get
best cover art ever anyway
quality > quantity

― Silky Sensor (sexyDancer), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm a big fan of A Date with Elvis, myself.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

...though it's not a compilation.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Get Off the Bone AND Songs The Lord Taught Us, which has "TV Set." There ya go ---

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link

you need that cheap two-fer-one pack of Off The Bone and Songs The Lord Taught Us that I've seen in a few shops.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link

man I've had a really hard time finding "Songs the Lord Taught Us" on vinyl, sadly. One of the best bands ever. Bad Music for Bad People is a definite must-have.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link

the 'off the bone' double disc thingy is a nice primer... also, have you guys heard 'songs we taught the cramps'? a bootleg compilation containing all the old rockabilly, surf rock etc that makes up the cramps oevre. awesome triple cd set, compiling the likes of charlie feathers, the fendermen, link wray, hasil adkins etc

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

The selections that find themselves together on Psychedelic Jungle/Gravest Hits could make that something of a contender. So, yeah, that pair of twofers alone might even be all you want to swallow.

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

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw them in Buffalo in October. So rad.

― scout (scout), Friday, 18 March 2005 08:04 (nineteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

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

― Stevolende, Friday, 15 June 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link

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

― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 16 June 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link

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