The Strangeness in Me

When you got the blues
Who do you tell them to ?
When you’re all alone, what do you want to do ?
Do you want to die
Or is it the strangeness in me ?

When your heart is sad do you not want to die ?
When your baby’s gone do you dare the breeze of sigh
Do you want to weep
Or is it the strangeness in me ?

I’ve come and said goodbye
I won’t be seeing you no more
Already I have tried
I stopped when I was on the floor
Should I try to leave
Or bring back the strangeness in me ?

Tales From The Cramps

The Cramps - Black Christmas (2004)

Here is a cd compiled by Lux Interior and Ivy Rorschach of The Cramps. Artwork care of Lux himself. This was originally put together for some magazine, but I can't recall which.

Brain Steak Bikini

!!! Enter !!!

The Cramps - Sunglasses After Dark

From 1981, inner tube TV

The Cramps - Psychotic Reaction

The Cramps - Like A Bad Girl Should

i love your ass for bad or worse i love your nasty way you curse when you sit down, it's wild how you sit grind your heel in the ground.....the groovy way you spit. ooh you look good ooh you smell good ooh you taste good like a bad girl should when i need love, i love how you feel when i need dough, i love how you steal i love your sick way you think the way your perfume makes you stink i love your boots...your fancy clothes your boufant hair...your pantyhose i blow a gasket for your pink jellybean your picnic basket splits my spleen

The Cramps - How to Make a Monster (2004)

How To Make A Monster is the third compilation by the American garage punk band The Cramps. Comprising rare, previously-unreleased tracks, the release is a 2-CD set that includes a 28-page book with extensive liner notes by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, as well as rare and unseen photos and flyers from their personal collection.

Disc 1 contains 1976 rehearsal material, some 1982 studio demos with Terry Graham of the Gun Club on drums, and several other unreleased studio recordings. Disc 2 contains two historic live performances of relatively poor recording quality, both from very early in their career: One at Max's Kansas City and the other at CBGB's.

Disc 1

Summer — 1976

1. Quick Joey Small (Joey Levine/Arthur Resnick) — 2:08
2. Lux's Blues — 1:14
3. Love Me (Rosalind Michelle Pullens/Link Wray) — 2:56
4. Domino (Sam Phillips) — 2:34
5. Sunglasses After Dark (Marty Lott) — 1:16
6. Subwire Desire (Sam Phillips) — 2:50
7. TV Set — 3:12
8. Sunglasses After Dark (Marty Lott) — 2:29

October 1976

9. I Was a Teenage Werewolf — 3:08
10. Can't Hardly Stand It (Jody Chastain/Charlie Feathers/Jerry Huffman) — 3:21

1981 Rehearsal

11. Sweet Woman Blues (Sonny Terry) — 4:54
12. Rumble Blues (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 1:49
13. Rumble Blues (False Start) (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 0:49
14. Rumble Blues (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 3:28
15. Rumble Blues (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 2:32
16. Lonesome Town (Baker Knight) — 4:13

1982 A&M Studio

17. Five Years Ahead of My Time (Evans/Pike) — 2:10
18. Call of the Wighat — 4:35
19. Hanky Panky (Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich) — 2:55

1988 Rehearsal

20. Journey to the Center of a Girl — 3:35
21. Jackyard Backoff — 3:04
22. Everything Goes — 1:53

1988 Home Demo

23. All Women are Bad — 3:47

[edit] Disc 2

Live at Max's Kansas City, 1/14/77

1. Don't Eat Stuff Off the Sidewalk — 2:06
2. I Was a Teenage Werewolf — 3:10
3. Sunglasses After Dark — 5:03
4. Jungle Hop — 2:20
5. Domino — 3:18
6. Love Me — 3:21
7. Strychnine — 4:19
8. TV Set — 3:25
9. I'm Cramped — 2:33

Live At CBGBs 1/13/78

10. The Way I Walk — 3:27
11. Love Me — 3:01
12. Domino — 3:39
13. Human Fly — 3:04
14. I Was a Teenage Werewolf — 3:25
15. Sunglasses After Dark — 4:43
16. Can't Hardly Stand It — 3:34
17. Uranium Rock — 3:02
18. What's Behind the Mask — 3:00
19. Baby Blue Rock — 3:01
20. Subwire Desire — 2:53
21. I'm Cramped — 2:51
22. TV Set — 3:38

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RIP: Lux Interior

Erick Purkhiser (October 21, 1946 – February 4, 2009), better known as Lux Interior, was an American singer and a founding member of the legendary garage punk band The Cramps. Born in Stow, Ohio, he grew up in the Akron area with a brother, Mike Purkhiser. He met his wife Kristy Wallace, better known as Poison Ivy, in Sacramento in 1972 allegedly while she was hitchhiking. ^[2] The couple founded the band and moved from California to Ohio in 1973 and then to New York in 1975 where they became part of the flourishing punk scene. Interior's name came "from an old car commercial" while his wife's name change was inspired by "a vision she received in a dream". The couple called their musical style psychobilly, originally claiming it to have been inspired by a Johnny Cash song, and later saying that they just using the phrase as "carny terms to drum up business." Purkhiser died at 4:30am on February 4, 2009, in Glendale, California of a pre-existing heart condition.

The Cramps - Confessions of a Psychocat (1997)

01 Cramp Stomp 3:23
02 God Monster 4:06
03 It Thing Hard-On 2:49
04 Like a Bad Girl Should 3:05
05 Sheena's in a Goth Gang 2:44
06 Queen of Pain 3:50
07 Monkey With Your Tail 3:38
08 Devil Behind That Bush 3:33
09 Super Goo 2:27
10 Hypno Sex Ray 2:26
11 Burn She-Devil, Burn 2:23
12 Wet Nightmare 3:36
13 Badass Bug 2:25
14 Haulass Hyena 2:53
15 Confessions of a Psycho Cat (*) 3:32
16 No Club Lone Wolf (*) 2:28
17 I Walked All Night (*) 2:49
18 Peter Gunn (*) 3:10

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The Cramps - Big Beat From Badsville (1997)

1 Cramp Stomp 3:25
2 God Monster 4:06
3 It Thing Hard-On 2:49
4 Like a Bad Girl Should 3:05
5 Sheena's in a Goth Gang 2:44
6 Queen of Pain 3:50
7 Monkey With Your Tail 3:38
8 Devil Behind That Bush 3:33
9 Super Goo 2:27
10 Hypno Sex Ray 2:26
11Burn She-Devil, Burn 2:23
12 Wet Nightmare 3:36

13 Badass Bug 2:25
14 Haulass Hyena 2:53

15Confessions of a Psycho Cat 3:32
16No Club Lone Wolf 2:28
17I Walked All Night 2:49
18Peter Gunn 3:10

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The Cramps - Look Mom, No Head (1991)

01 - Dames, Booze, Chains and Boots
02 - Two Headed Sex Change
03 - Blow up Your Mind
04 - Hard Workin' Man
05 - Miniskirt Blues
06 - Alligator Stomp
07 - I Wanna Get in Your Pants
08 - Bend over, I'll Drive
09 - Don't Get Funny With Me
10 - Eyeball in My Martini
11 - Hipsville 29 B.C.
12 - The Strangeness in Me

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The Cramps - Stay Sick (1990)

01. Bop Pills
02. God Damn Rock 'n' Roll
03. Bikini Girls With Machine Guns
04. All Women Are Bad
05. Creature From The Black Leather Lagoon
06. Shortnin' Bread
07. Daisys Up Your Butterfly
08. Everything Goes
09. Journey To The Center Of A Girl
10. Mama Oo Pow Pow
11. Saddle Up A Buzz Buzz
12. Muleskinner Blues
13. Her Love Rubbed Off

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The Cramps - "Rockin'n'reelin in Auckland New Zeeland" (1986)

01. The Hot Pearl Snatch
02. People Ain't No Good
03. What's Inside A Girl?
04. Cornfed Dames
05. Sunglasses After Dark
06. Heartbreak Hotel
07. Chicken
08. Do The Clam
09. Aloha From Hell
10. Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?
11. Birdfeed
12. Blue Moon Baby
13. Georgia Lee Brown
14. Lonesome Town

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The Cramps - A Date Will Elvis (1986)

01. How Far Can Too Far Go ?
02. The Hot Pearl Snatch
03. People Ain`t No Good
04. What`s Inside A Girl ?
05. Can Your Pussy Do The Dog ?
06. Kizmiaz
07. Cornfed Dames
08. Chicken
09. (Hot Pool Of) Womanneed
10. Aloha From Hell
11. It`s Just That Song
12. Blue Moon Baby
13. Georgia Lee Brown
14. Give Me A Woman
15. Get Off The Road

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The Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People (1984)

tracklist:

01 - Garbage Man
02 - New Kind Of Kick
03 - Love Me
04 - I Can't Hardly Stand It
05 - She Said
06 - Goo Goo Muck
07 - Save It
08 - Human Fly
09 - Drug Train
10 - TV Set
11 - Uranium Rock

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The Cramps "Off The Bone" 1983

This British collection includes the entirety of The Cramps' first release, the Gravest Hits EP, along with selections from Songs the Lord Taught Us, Psychedelic Jungle, and a live version of Smell of Female's "You Got Good Taste" (shortened here to "Good Taste"). It covers the years 1979-1983, a formative period in the band's long career. Ten of the tracks can also be found on the domestic comp, Bad Music for Bad People, which was released the following year. Although the bulk of the material consists of covers, you can hardly tell (barring an intimacy with any of the originals). Once The Cramps get hold of a song, they always make it their own--even the more recognizable numbers like "Surfin' Bird, "Lonesome Town," and "Fever." All benefit from Lux Interior's vocal prowess. He's a proto-punk screamer like Screamin' Jay Hawkins or The Sonics' Gerry Roslie on the rockin' numbers, but can caress a ballad like mid-period Elvis when the need arises. Not one of the songs sounds as if it could have been written anytime after the '60s. Alex Chilton produced the first 10 tracks, The Cramps the remaining seven. - Reviewer: K. C. Fennessy "freelance writer" (Seattle, WA USA)

trax:
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)

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The Cramps - Smell of Female (1983) Live

1. "Thee Most Exaulted Potentate of Love"
2. "You Got Good Taste"
3. "Call of the Wighat"
4. "Faster Pussycat"
   
5. "I Ain't Nuthin' But a Gorehound"
   
6. "Psychotic Reaction"
   
7. "Beautiful Gardens"
8. "She Said" (Hasil Adkins)
9. "Surfin' Dead"

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The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us (1979)

Side A

1. "T.V. Set"
2. "Rock On The Moon"
   
3. "Garbageman"
4. "I Was a Teenage Werewolf"
5. "Sunglasses After Dark"
   
6. "The Mad Daddy"

Side B

1. "Mystery Plane"
2. "Zombie Dance"
3. "What's Behind the Mask?"
4. "Strychnine"
   
5. "I'm Cramped"
   
6. "Tear It Up"
   
7. "Fever"
   

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The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle + Gravest Hits

Tracks:

01. Green Fuz
02. Goo Goo Muck
03. Rockin' Bones
04. Voodoo Idol
05. Primitive
06. Caveman
07. The Crusher
08. Don't Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk
09. Can't Find My Mind
10. Jungle Hop
11. The Natives Are Restless
12. Under The Wires
13. Beautiful Gardens
14. Green Door
15. Human Fly
16. The Way I Walk
17. Domino
18. Surfin' Bird
19. Lonesome Town

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