A Date With Elvis [Import]

Cramps | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 25, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 2011
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Big Beat UK
• ASIN: B000025IIH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,023 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #20 in Music > Alternative Rock > American Alternative > Psychobilly
  • #37 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > American Alternative
  • #59 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo Fi

Track Listings

1. How Far Can Too Far Go?

2. The Hot Pearl Snatch

3. People Ain't No Good

4. What's Inside a Girl?

5. Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?

6. Kizmiaz

7. Cornfed Dames

8. Chicken

9. (Hot Pool Of) Womanneed

10. Aloha from Hell

11. It's Just That Song

Editorial Reviews

Originally released in 1986, this Vengeance reissue is completely remastered and contains the 4 bonus tracks 'Blue Moon Baby', 'Georgia Lee Brown', 'Give Me a Woman', and 'Get Off the Road'. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cramps - 'Date With Elvis' (Restless Records) 4 1/2 stars, April 5, 2006

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Date With Elvis (Audio CD)

Originally released in 1986,as this was their fifth 'actual' record(is that all?).Either way,'Date With Elvis' showcases some great rockin' psychobilly for your listening pleasure.Just about every track here kicks ass,like the swinging "The Hot Pearl Snatch","What's Inside A Girl?","Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?","Cornfed Dames"(forgot all about this superb cut),the boot-stompin' "Chicken" and "Aloha From Hell".As with most Cramps releases,'Date...' is most worth repeated spins.Simply a must-have.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wish you were here., February 20, 2006

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Date With Elvis (Audio CD)

This album features the Cramps usual brand of rockabilly influenced punk (or punk influenced rockabilly), with a bit of surf music tossed in this time. This is one of the Cramps better albums. A lot of fun, raunchy songs like the classic "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?". It even includes a rare lead vocal by Poison Ivy on "Get Off the Road". A must get for Cramps fans.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Cramps at the Top of their Game, September 19, 2011

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Kasey G (Toronto, ON) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Date With Elvis (Audio CD)

By 1986 the core members of The Cramps had been together for a decade and thus the basic formula for a good album was probably like second nature to them by this time.

"A Date With Elvis" kicks off with the eerie, Suicide-like drone that appeared on 1984's "New Kind of Kick". But then the drums immediately kick off one of The Cramps catchiest, toe-tapping-est numbers in "How Far Can Too Far Go", in which Lux's vocals seem more upfront that ever.

There's some humorous and racy songs in the pounding "Hot Pearl Snatch", twist-friendly "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog" and the play-on-words "Kizmiaz"--a real departure--with it's dreamy, fairy-tale atmosphere and female backup vocals.

The super-fast "Chicken" is Lux in Jerry Lee Lewis soundalike mode; the spritual "(Hot Pool of) Womanneed" is his best Elvis-as-an-evangelist impersonation. "Aloha From Hell" has much in common with Elvis movie melodies like "Viva Las Vegas". There's a twangy ballad called "It's Just That Song" but it doesn't amount to much.

"People Ain't No Good" is straight-ahead rock and roll that features a children's chorus; "Cornfed Dames" has to be their most explosive song ever; the best number is "What's Inside a Girl" which reaches its boiling point at the third verse when those drumsticks start clicking away (Rock-n-roll just doesn't get any better than this).

Make sure you get the remastered version with the four bonus tracks: The western-sounding "Blue Moon Baby", slinky "Georgia Lee Brown" and "Give Me a Woman" as well as the rare 'girls-on-lead-vocals' "Get Off The Road".

"A Date With Elvis" is The Cramps at the top of their game. Along with 1980's "Songs The Lord Taught Us", this is a Must-Have!