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| Lux Interior, vocals Poison Ivy Rorschach, guitar |
This weeks list is just that.
On February 4th, 2009, the musical world lost a great artist, Lux Interior, the lead vocalist of the Cramps, who died of an aortic dissection.
The Cramps were a band that mixed good ol' rock 'n' roll with a love of monster movies, trash culture and things that are so wrong, they are good.
Over the course of their 3 decades, the Cramps, with their core of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, helped bring the music world a vision of delinquency, political incorrectness and good times for all to enjoy.
Many great artists were a part of the Cramps galaxy, including Kid Congo Powers from the Gun Club and Jim Sclavunos from Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (who has been described as an "infamous elegant degenerate").
With their sound firmly rooted in blues and rockabilly, the Cramps have performed many great covers over the years and, one day, I'll begin a series of "songs the Cramps taught us" (a phrase that not only plays on the Cramps album "Songs the Lord Taught Us", but is also the name of a great series of albums)
As a side note, if you want to see something beyond description, check out the Cramps Live at the Napa State Mental Hospital, a live show the band actually held and recorded at the Napa State Mental Hospital in California in 1980.
Crazy, man, crazy!!!
This week's list includes tunes from many of their albums along with a few live recordings.
Enjoy!
1. TV Set
2. Subwire Desire
3. What's Behind the Mask
4. I'm Cramped
5. The Natives are Restless
6. Thee Most Exalted Potentate of Love
7. New Kind of Kick
8. Drug Train
9. Cornfed Dames
10. (Hot Pool of) Womanneed
11. God Damn Rock 'n' Roll
12. Bikini Girls with Machine Guns
13. All Women are Bad
14. Dames, Booze, Chains and Boots
15. Miniskirt Blues
16. Ultra Twist
17. Let's Get Fucked Up
18. Cramp Stomp
19. Like A Bad Girl Should
a sad day indeed.
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