The Cramps

[YoungSavage77]

In the spring of 1976, The CRAMPS began to fester in a NYC apartment. Without fresh air or natural light, the group developed its uniquely mutant strain of rock’n’roll aided only by the sickly blue rays of late night TV. While the jackhammer rhythms of punk were proliferating in NYC, The CRAMPS dove into the deepest recesses of the rock’n’roll psyche for the most primal of all rhythmic impulses -- rockabilly -- the sound of southern culture falling apart in a blaze of shudders and hiccups. As late night sci-fi reruns colored the room, The CRAMPS also picked and chose amongst the psychotic debris of previous rock eras - instrumental rock, surf, psychedelia, and sixties punk. And then they added the junkiest element of all -- themselves.

- Quoted from the Cramps website; http://www.thecramps.com/

That pretty much sums up the Cramps right there.. Definately check them out if a fan of any kind of rockabilly or psychobilly band. I've been listening to them nonstop ever since I got ahold of my first Cramps album. Listen to their album "Bad Music for Bad People" to hear what they're all about. If you don't like that album, you won't like most of their other stuff.

Recommended Songs:
Surfin' Dead
Domino
Green Door
Miniskirt Blues (With Iggy Pop?)
Goo Goo Muck
Garbage Man

The list goes on....

[EightMilesHigh]

The Cramps are awesome, I discovered them a while ago. I Was A Teenage Werewolf is sweet.

[Ghostfire3]

The Cramps are a pretty sweet band.

[RetiredAt21]

I love the Cramps.

[victimofreality]

So did Minor Threat

[Nocturne]

Zombie Dance :cool:

[Pseudo Man]

So did Minor Threat
So did minor threat what? Other than suck...
and not do drugs, which also sucks because drugs make you cool and give you more toys.
The cramps PWNand do lots of drugs and give me toys. I love the cramps, I love them Goood.

No one's mentioned Human Fly yet.
The BZZZZZZZZZZ solo is better than pretty girls.

[Ghostfire3]

So did minor threat what? Other than suck...
and not do drugs, which also sucks because drugs make you cool and give you more toys.
The cramps PWNand do lots of drugs and give me toys. I love the cramps, I love them Goood.

No one's mentioned Human Fly yet.
The BZZZZZZZZZZ solo is better than pretty girls.

He was saying that Minor Threat loved the Cramps too. And Minor Threat definitely didn't suck.

[AIRIC]

So did minor threat what? Other than suck...
and not do drugs, which also sucks because drugs make you cool and give you more toys.
The cramps PWNand do lots of drugs and give me toys. I love the cramps, I love them Goood.

No one's mentioned Human Fly yet.
The BZZZZZZZZZZ solo is better than pretty girls.

Shutup.

[Liebensaft]

The Cramps are pretty good. I haven't heard a lot of their stuff, but what I've got so far is awesome.

[skateMASTERbater2]

awesome band, haulass hyena is my favorite song.

[RetiredAt21]

awesome band, haulass hyena is my favorite song.

Mine too.

[white_riot]

I have heard one of their songs but I didn't like it very much. I think i should check more of their stuff out because a lot of people speak highly of them.

[EightMilesHigh]

I'll cut your head off and put it in my TV set, I'll use your eyeballs for dials on my TV set.

Arguably some of the most badass lyrics ever.

[emobasher]

I like new kind of kick and bikini girls in machine guns those songs rock

[fatpunk]

psycho cat, sweet

[Converge]

I love the cramps, garbage man was one of the first songs i really liked.

[Bukowski]

I'll cut your head off and put it in my TV set, I'll use your eyeballs for dials on my TV set.

Arguably some of the most badass lyrics ever.

Indeed. The Cramps in general are badass.

[Lazybassplr56]

The Cramps are tight. Not much else to say.