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Fiends Of Dope Island

Now that Lux Interior and Ivy Rorschach's strictly retro sound as performed by the current wave of garage rockers is literally all the rage, the Cramps still hold one card those other bands don't: Outrageousness. Twenty-five years on, the Cramps have managed to take their voodoo bash and tiki trash ...

2003 RS: 3of 5 Stars

FlameJob

1994

Stay Sick! [Bonus Tracks]

1990

Bad Music For Bad People

1984

Songs The Lord Taught Us

1980

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Holing up at the corner of rockabilly raunch and sick psychedelia, the Cramps gleefully embody all of early rock's sleaziest impulses. Their first release, Gravest Hits, (which has since been released on CD with Psychedelic Jungle) contrasts the itchy anxiety of "Human Fly" against an earnest cover of the Trashmen classic "Surfin' Bird." A similar dichotomy can be found on Songs the Lord Taught...

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