Biography

Conjuring a fiendish witches' brew of primal rockabilly, grease-stained '60s garage rock, vintage monster movies, perverse sex, and the detritus and effluvia of 50 years of American pop culture, the Cramps are a truly American creation much in the manner of the Cadillac, the White Castle hamburger, the Fender Stratocaster, and Jayne Mansfield. Often imitated, the Cramps celebrate all that is dirty and gaudy with a perverse joy. The entire psychobilly scene would be unthinkable without them, and their prescient celebration of the echoey menace of first-generation rock & roll had a primal (if little acknowledged) influence on the rockabilly revival and the later roots rock movement. ~ Mark Deming

Top Tracks

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• Alligator Stomp

• Badass Bug

• Big Black Witchcraft Rock

• Bikini Girls With Machine Guns

• Blow Up Your Mind

• Bop Pills

• Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?

• Dames, Booze, Chains And Boots

• Devil Behind That Bush

• Don't Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk

• Dr. Fucker M.d. (musical Deviant)

• Garbageman

• God Damn Rock & Roll

• Goo Goo Muck

• How Far Can Too Far Go?

• Human Fly

• I Ain't Nuthin' But A Gorehound

• I Can't Hardly Stand It

• I'm Cramped

• I'm Customized

• Like A Bad Girl Should

• Lonesome Town

• Love Me

• Naked Girl Falling Down The Stairs

• Natives Are Restless

• New Kind Of Kick

• Oowee Baby

• People Ain't No Good

• Quick Joey Small

• Rock On The Moon

• She Said

• Sunglasses After Dark

• Tear It Up

• The Crusher

• The Mad Daddy [original Mix]

• The Way I Walk

• Thee Most Exhalted Potentate Of Love

• Trapped Love

• What's Behind The Mask

Discography

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• Big Beat from Badsville

  Epitaph

  1997

• Flamejob

  Medicine / Medicine Label/Warner Bros.

  1994

• Look Mom No Head!

  Restless Records

  1991

• Stay Sick!

  Restless Records

  1990

• What's Inside a Ghoul

  Pow Wow

  1988

• Smell of Female

  Vengeance Records / Restless Records

  1983

• Psychedelic Jungle

  EMI

  1981

• Songs The Lord Taught Us

  IRS

  1980