The soundtrack of my life actually & a whole culture of music books movies lifestyle & attitude that todays youths can't even imagine. Sadly but they can only blame themselves & not the olds who gave em enough food for thinking. That's their problem really,not thinking or searching just swallowing anything the media says Enough
The CRAMPS were SHOCK-A-BILLIES finest hour. So pleased I got 2 C them @ their peak - as great, if not better, live than on their stellar recordings. 🧟♂️
They used to play around Cleveland/Akron before they released any records. Miriam on drums, replaced by Nick from the Electric Eels in 1977. Fantastic from the very first show onward.
I was at this concert, and I'm on the back of this album cover, but you can only see the back of my blonde head. Amazing concert especially when Lux almost jumped over me!
Tracks on 'Gravest Hits' (1979): Side One 1- "Human Fly" (1978 single) Written by: Poison Ivy Rorschach, Lux Interior (both of The Cramps) 2- "The Way I Walk" (originally performed by Jack Scott; B-side of "Surfin' Bird" single, 1978) Written by: Jack Scott 3- "Domino" (originally performed by Roy Orbison; B-side of "Human Fly" single, 1978) Written by: Sam Phillips Side Two 1- "Surfin' Bird" (originally performed by the Trashmen; 1978 single) Written by: Al Frazier, Sonny Harris, Carl White, Turner Wilson (credited to Steve Wahrer) 2- "Lonesome Town" (originally performed by Ricky Nelson) Written by: Baker Knight Source: Wikipedia
" 'Gravest Hits' is the first 12" EP by the American garage punk band the Cramps, compiling both sides of their first two 1978 Vengeance singles, "Surfin' Bird" and "Human Fly", with an added fifth track, a cover version of "Lonesome Town". It was released in July 1979 on Illegal Records and I.R.S. Records. The tracks were all produced by Alex Chilton and recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis in 1977. The EP's liner notes were credited to "Dr. J.H. Sasfy, Professor of Rockology, American Rock'n'Roll Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A.". Gravest Hits is one of the first records of both the rockabilly revival and the psychobilly genres. The photograph on the back of the original sleeve, of the band in performance, was taken at the Palladium theater in New York". Source: Wikipedia
I was at a record store and i bought "bad music for bad people" never heard em just loved the album art. So i bought it. I listen to all sorts of music i liked the album my friends didnt get it!! But a few years after the cramps started getting popular with there live act and people started seeing them in a different light. Most my friends liked em years after i tried to get em into their music. Better late than never. Same thing happened when i played my friends the b-52s!!! I swear my friends are all slow learners...... LMAO
Walking one rainy night in the fall of 1970's through the dark streets , wearing my black leather jacket and sunglasses after dark , on the Lower East Side of NYC.. I had been in a fight earlier , but, you wouldn't tell your Mom, you were a man of teens.. as the blood ran from the nose and started to coagulate.. I stood in the "CUBE" at Cooper Union.. I said I would meet some friends at club CBGB"S for a few drinks at what they said what was 'Halloween' like band known as THE CRAMPS. I was embarrassed that I fought off two of the 23rd Street boys cause I refused to cross the street and got a bloody nose.. In short by the time I got there the bleeding had stopped.. , but, I had shiner.. Ricky D, Sharon, Pat , Nico and Andreas were there along with my fave at the time Lisa 'the Punk' . She felt bad and gave me kiss to make it feel better, 🙂.. whatever happened to such girls.. 😕 Anyway, the details are sketchy as it's been nearly 45 years since these events that happened in what was drunken stupor of sorts.. It was getting close to my decision to leave and become a 'Man'.. But, that night belonged to THE CRAMPS. Halloween came early Sept.. The songs on this Album is what they played as week later I brought it at a store near a place called 'Trash' It said on the back it was like a late night TV, when TV and movies were annual events and not streamed or even available for viewing year round.. In any event the Cramps were Rockabilly from an ED WOOD movie with a Twist of ELVIS .. It was a time I can't fully remember, but, never forget.. it was a time I had friends, Girls I knew and ;loved and liked .. it was time now long gone like the singer LUX Interior who looked like a Demented Elvis, with his GF Poison IVY.. on guitar. Years later I heard LUX had died in LA he married IVY and they lived together till the end. You had to be there to understand
this is t. cramps First album isnt it .not heavily knowing of cramps catalog, how does this one rate.sounds good to me.dont really understand why no comments here. I bet the Latest poop , poser ,fake rocabilly site is busy. tTKS. for Post JOE TIGER Iggy/the soldier, pre.95 GEORGE JONES/ HANK 111 .
nothin beats the tones of those guitars on human fly
You aren't wrong about that album! It's so cool 😎
except for the guitar tones on The Way I walk
Great band of my time one of the bests
They are just like red wine ❤
The Cramps were one of the best rock n' roll bands ever!🤪🤪🤪
Yes , this is true !!
amen to that
The greatest live band that ever was, is, or will be!!!
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
And psychobilly
Siempre que los vuelvo a escuchar me dan ganas de vivir ❤
This is my favorite Cramps album. Human Fly still gives me goosebumps after almost 40 years.
Hi XZ ! Yes ,should be like that !! And me still got the same fresh impression of the cramps after 38 years , when i heard them the first time !!!
And me..
this is my youth. I feel sorry for the kids now just a little.
pop culture now...just doesn't cut it as cool that much
The soundtrack of my life actually & a whole culture of music books movies lifestyle & attitude that todays youths can't even imagine. Sadly but they can only blame themselves & not the olds who gave em enough food for thinking. That's their problem really,not thinking or searching just swallowing anything the media says Enough
Human Fly 00:00
The Way I Walk 02:15
Domino 04:56
Surfin' Bird 08:06
Lonesome Town 13:13
Thank you , Noah !!!
Nick great drumer Ivy on guitar vocals by Lux the best ever love Cramps
The CRAMPS were SHOCK-A-BILLIES finest hour. So pleased I got 2 C them @ their peak - as great, if not better, live than on their stellar recordings. 🧟♂️
Well its nearly halloween so time to increase the amount of time i listen to the cramps... mind you any time is the right time for them 👻🎃😈
They used to play around Cleveland/Akron before they released any records. Miriam on drums, replaced by Nick from the Electric Eels in 1977. Fantastic from the very first show onward.
Yeah, the sound of my soul, the sound of her gretcsh, with a So-Oh-Oh-OH amazing Lux
I was at this concert, and I'm on the back of this album cover, but you can only see the back of my blonde head. Amazing concert especially when Lux almost jumped over me!
Wow .... Amazing !!
Tracks on 'Gravest Hits' (1979):
Side One
1- "Human Fly" (1978 single)
Written by: Poison Ivy Rorschach, Lux Interior (both of The Cramps)
2- "The Way I Walk" (originally performed by Jack Scott; B-side of "Surfin' Bird" single, 1978)
Written by: Jack Scott
3- "Domino" (originally performed by Roy Orbison; B-side of "Human Fly" single, 1978)
Written by: Sam Phillips
Side Two
1- "Surfin' Bird" (originally performed by the Trashmen; 1978 single)
Written by: Al Frazier, Sonny Harris, Carl White, Turner Wilson (credited to Steve Wahrer)
2- "Lonesome Town" (originally performed by Ricky Nelson)
Written by: Baker Knight
Source: Wikipedia
Thanks Flip !!!!
You're welcome, Joe!
thanks
" 'Gravest Hits' is the first 12" EP by the American garage punk band the Cramps, compiling both sides of their first two 1978 Vengeance singles, "Surfin' Bird" and "Human Fly", with an added fifth track, a cover version of "Lonesome Town". It was released in July 1979 on Illegal Records and I.R.S. Records. The tracks were all produced by Alex Chilton and recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis in 1977.
The EP's liner notes were credited to "Dr. J.H. Sasfy, Professor of Rockology, American Rock'n'Roll Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A.". Gravest Hits is one of the first records of both the rockabilly revival and the psychobilly genres. The photograph on the back of the original sleeve, of the band in performance, was taken at the Palladium theater in New York".
Source: Wikipedia
I was at a record store and i bought "bad music for bad people" never heard em just loved the album art. So i bought it. I listen to all sorts of music i liked the album my friends didnt get it!! But a few years after the cramps started getting popular with there live act and people started seeing them in a different light. Most my friends liked em years after i tried to get em into their music. Better late than never. Same thing happened when i played my friends the b-52s!!! I swear my friends are all slow learners...... LMAO
A Hymn!!!!🤩
I'm Mike ant coote of brid East Yorkshire iv given u thease dwn loads enjoy x
Thanks Joe, this is a rnr masterpiece. Rip Lux, I wish Poison Ivy record some riffs again sooner or later.
Tombstone Blues ....... would be great to hear something from Ivy again !!!!
Lejos... Lo mejor de cramps
Lux used to call this their best. Produced by the legendary Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton !!?? Waouw
I dont why love this song buzz buzz
here We are .. boys and girls, Ladies and Jerks. 😊
cracking ep thanks dude,,,,
thanks Mad Daddy !!!
Top Classic Album By Top Classic Band 👿😈👺👹
The quintessential Cramps record
Yes , that's true !
So good
“they ooze, you’ll throb”
Get it in
Walking one rainy night in the fall of 1970's through the dark streets , wearing my black leather jacket and sunglasses after dark , on the Lower East Side of NYC.. I had been in a fight earlier , but, you wouldn't tell your Mom, you were a man of teens.. as the blood ran from the nose and started to coagulate.. I stood in the "CUBE" at Cooper Union.. I said I would meet some friends at club CBGB"S for a few drinks at what they said what was 'Halloween' like band known as THE CRAMPS. I was embarrassed that I fought off two of the 23rd Street boys cause I refused to cross the street and got a bloody nose.. In short by the time I got there the bleeding had stopped.. , but, I had shiner.. Ricky D, Sharon, Pat , Nico and Andreas were there along with my fave at the time Lisa 'the Punk' . She felt bad and gave me kiss to make it feel better, 🙂.. whatever happened to such girls.. 😕 Anyway, the details are sketchy as it's been nearly 45 years since these events that happened in what was drunken stupor of sorts.. It was getting close to my decision to leave and become a 'Man'.. But, that night belonged to THE CRAMPS. Halloween came early Sept.. The songs on this Album is what they played as week later I brought it at a store near a place called 'Trash' It said on the back it was like a late night TV, when TV and movies were annual events and not streamed or even available for viewing year round.. In any event the Cramps were Rockabilly from an ED WOOD movie with a Twist of ELVIS .. It was a time I can't fully remember, but, never forget.. it was a time I had friends, Girls I knew and ;loved and liked .. it was time now long gone like the singer LUX Interior who looked like a Demented Elvis, with his GF Poison IVY.. on guitar. Years later I heard LUX had died in LA he married IVY and they lived together till the end. You had to be there to understand
lux you fucking rock
🤙😎
La banda más deskiziada que a existido
And i say bsssssssssss
Gojus.
this is t. cramps First album isnt it .not heavily knowing of cramps catalog, how does this one rate.sounds good to me.dont really understand why no comments here. I bet the Latest poop , poser ,fake rocabilly site is busy. tTKS. for Post JOE TIGER Iggy/the soldier, pre.95 GEORGE JONES/ HANK 111 .
Hi Peter , i wonder not anymore how people react / comment :-)
I hope you enjoy this Cramps Album / First EP !!
Thanks Peter and Roll on !!
Wow.. I'm just mad about The Cramps, the Mad Mad Cynderella!
Hi Cynderella , i am very glad that you like it :-D
My crazy dad who beat the fuck out of me for listening to punk rock has this record and the rare Germs LP produced by Joan Jett. Fun fact.
beats the fuck out of you for listening to punk rock yet owns two kick ass punk records, how???????? lol
Sounds like he was a clueless pos
100% Psychobilly!