Flamejob

Cramps | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 11, 1994)
• Original Release Date: October 11, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002L31
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,885 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #13 in Music > Alternative Rock > American Alternative > Psychobilly
  • #59 in Music > Alternative Rock > Hardcore & Punk > Garage Punk

Track Listings

1. Mean Machine

2. Ultra Twist

3. Let's Get F*cked Up

4. Nest of the Cuckoo Bird

5. I'm Customized

6. Sado County Auto Show

7. Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs

8. How Come You Do Me

9. Inside Out and Upside Down (With You)

10. Trapped Love

11. Swing the Big Eyed Rabbit

12. Strange Love

13. Blues, Blues, Blues

14. Sinners

15. Route 66

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: CRAMPS
Title: FLAMEJOB
Street Release Date: 10/11/1994
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Square 1 for all the squares...., October 13, 2000

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Monkey Knuckle Asteroid - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flamejob (Audio CD)

This album is a perfect introduction to just what it is that makes the Cramps such a special slice of pure, unadulterated rock and roll. The thing is, the Cramps have been around since the mid-70's and have never let up being the hardest-working band around, never relenting and never slowing down for a second. This album only proves that they set the pace and everyone else is out of breath trying to catch up. This is a 1994 album and outdoes the whole bratpack of rockabilly and garage rock newcomers 20 years their juniors. Lux and Ivy have got it down on this album, an album that never lets up for a second; even when it dips into the slower numbers, it's still got you firmly by the throat, it's just shaking you a little bit softer.

There are so many good songs on here that the mind reels. Stuff that could easily make for a decades worth of underground classics and minor-league hits all get crammed together here. From "Let's Get F'd Up" (a personal favorite and an anthem for all time) to "Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs" to "Strange Love" to their knee-trembling cover of "Route 66." This surely ain't the best that the Cramps have to offer, but, if anything, it's a clearly marked billboard announcing they never left and they surely aren't going away anytime soon.

Get it, redeem your faith in rock and roll.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High Water Mark, September 29, 2002

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"mencken61" (Metairie, La. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flamejob (Audio CD)

Here we find Lux and Ivy (and hired guns) at their best. Here is the album to pop on at the party, and a good one to play when driving 100 mph late at night. The production and performances are superb.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty damn good., February 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Flamejob (Audio CD)

Well, I've been buying on average of two Cramps albums a week for the past three weeks after having Smell of Female for years, but never taking the step. Something hit me. When I first listened to Stay Sick, after having listened nonstop to A Date for Elvis, I thought "ahh, well," then it grew and grew on me, with the exception of the last three bonus tracks. Flamejob has worked a similar effect. At first it seems inferior, but then with "I'm Customized," "Nest of a Cuckoo Bird" (great absurdist sexo-apocryphal lyrics), "Ultra Twist," and a slew of other greats... "Inside Out and Upside Down with You," "Swing the Big Eyed Rabbit," "Sinners," and "Naked Girl..." This album is admittedly not as good as Stay Sick or A Date with Elvis, a little too heavy on the rock n roll and light on the punk and the sleaze (though when it is sleazy, it is in full force: "She's got a look on her puss like she was weaned on a pickle."), but it is a great album from, at this point, a musically mature band.