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How To Make A Monster (CD)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for How To Make A Monster (CD) Album By Cramps
1   Quick Joey Small  
2   Lux's Blues  
3   Love Me  
4   Domino  
5   Sunglasses After Dark  
6   Subwire Desire  
7   TV Set  
8   Sunglasses After Dark  
9   I Was A Teenage Werewolf  
10   Can't Hardly Stand It  
11   Sweet Woman Blues  
12   Rumble Blues  
13   Rumble Blues (false start)  
14   Rumble Blues  
15   Rumble Blues  
16   Lonesome Town  
17   Five Years Ahead of My Time  
18   Call of the Wighat  
19   Hanky Panky  
20   Journey to the Center of a Girl  
21   Jounrey Backoff  
22   Everything Goes  
23   All Women Are Bad  
 
DISC 2 for How To Make A Monster (CD) Album By Cramps
1   Don't Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk  
2   I Was A Teenage Werewolf  
3   Sunglasses After Dark  
4   Jungle Hop  
5   Domino  
6   Love Me  
7   Strychnine  
8   TV Set  
9   I'm Cramped  
10   Way I Walk  
11   Love Me  
12   Domino  
13   Human Fly  
14   I Was A Teenage Werewolf  
15   Sunglasses After Dark  
16   Can't Hardly Stand It  
17   Uranium Rock  
18   What's Behind The Mask  
19   Baby Blue Rock  
20   Subwire Desire  
21   I'm Cramped  
22   TV Set  
 

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Review

Mojo (p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 - "A bountiful archaeological trawl for aficionados."

Uncut (p.162) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[T]hose already inducted into their weird world will find themselves admirably well served here."

Magnet (p.96) - "A pair of decent-sounding concerts, from '77 and '78, provide the real draw. Amid assorted chaos and audience-baiting, you hear classic Crampsabilly and random punk gibberish."

Product note

Includes previously unreleased tracks.
The Cramps: Lux Interior.
Recording information: Max's Kansas City, New York, New York (01/14/1977); 1976 - 1988; CBGB, New York, New York (01/13/1978).

Album Description

Part of the beauty of the Cramps is the consistency of their vision -- since 1976, their body of work has been one long fever dream of kinky sex, bug-eyed monsters, and switchblade-wielding juvies, married to the primal twang of an electric guitar and the malevolent thud of a drum kit. While the quality of their work has run through some peaks and valleys over the years (they've made plenty of good records, but just a few great ones), they seem to have known what they were shooting for from the very beginning. How to Make a Monster, a two-disc collection of demos, rehearsal tapes, and live recordings, documents the band's formative years (for the most part), and while a few of these takes push the boundaries of the word "primitive," this is the Cramps, alive and oozing, from the very first lo-fi run-though of "Quick Joey Small." The first two sets of recordings, from 1976, are plenty crude (in terms of both performance and audio quality), but the band's energy and abandon are already in place, and while later tapes (from 1981 through 1988) are cleaner, the band ultimately doesn't sound that much different, just tighter and better at what it's doing. While Lux Interior sounds a bit subdued in some of the earlier studio stuff, he's a live wire all through disc two, which preserves two early live shows, one at Max's Kansas City in 1977 and the other from CBGB's in 1978. The band has to put up with a too-cool-for-school audience for the Max's show, which periodically heckles the band (gotta wonder what those "hipsters" are up to today), but Poison Ivy Rorschach's deadly guitar is already on the case, and by the time the CBGB's gig rolls up, the Cramps sound loud and proud, and the crowd is with 'em all the way. How to Make a Monster is hardly the definitive Cramps anthology (this is one band that has earned a box set by now), but it's a fun and fascinating look at their early days, and if you subscribe to the notion that the older the Cramps record is, the better, then this little item's a must. Great notes from Lux and Ivy, too, along with some classic flyer art and provocative photos. ~ Mark Deming

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