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Look Mom No Head

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I'm telling you the Cramps give you a kick in the pants with this album. They don't only kick you they murder you with a machete! This album is everything great about rock n' roll raw, raunchy, hard, fast and wet, kind of like sex. They mix all the alchemical musical elements in: Rockabilly, Surf, Garage punk, nose pin punk and a heavy dose of hard rock. Bam! The thing in the lab explodes killing everybody in sight! There is not one bad song in this album from start to finish. Of course they use stuff of different songs in the past like making a collage out of your favorite comics and magazines. For instance they use the back drop of a great surf instrumental called "Margaya" by the Fender Four for a insane Lux ramble about the joys of being a hedonist on the song "Wilder Wilder Faster Faster", they redo the awesome blue collar ode song originally by Captain Beefheart "Hardworking Man" its a low down bluesy song they do to devastating effect, another is "Miniskirt Blues" a rockin' garage 60's sleazoid musical bit by The Flower Chldren they do it Cramps style with a harder rocking beat and its a duet with who else but the king of Garage rock himself Iggy Pop! Iggy and Lux sound like demonic twin brothers. They also do "Hipsville 29 BC" a song by the Sparkles it is a insane moaning 60's snot punk anthem that the Cramps own and make their own before the song ends. Then there is the great "Strangeness in Me" by the unknown Rockabilly group the Runabouts. The original is errie and it seems like something a serial killer would sing to his victim before decapitating the person. The Cramps don't mess with this song they keep it the way it was recorded, Lux even sounds like the messed up hillbilly singing the original.
There is alot of their own originals and they are all damn good! "Dames, Booze, Chains and Boots" starts off the album with a rip snorting bonfire. This track just kicks. Then it goes onward. "I Wanna Get in your Pants" is great. The song sounds as if its a sap 50's love song sang by Lux, double entendres in this song make it sound like Lux wants to indulge his inner transvestite and put on his girlfriend's pants and clothes. Yet it sounds like he literally wants in her pants! Only the Cramps could pull that one off. My personal favorite is "Eyeball in a Martini" the song being about a guy who sees eyeballs all over the place. Ivy plays a cool little surf riff in this song the best line being "Went to Lover's Lane to scan for UFO's /You Just imagine what I saw when I pulled down her pantyhose."
This is my favorite Cramps album and thats saying alot. They put out consistently good stuff all the time. For my money this is the best. Its a damn shame that their stuff now seems to be out of print. Shouldn't happen to a band of this influence and caliber. It seems in these times that all the good bands get shafted. So if you see this at all buy it you won't be disappointed.

Looks to be The Cramp's ninth 'proper' release.Certainly not their best work,but it'll do,very much so.Tunes here are very decent,regardless like the rather demented "Two Headed Sex Change",the uptempo "Alligator Stomp","I Wanna Get In Your Pants","Eyeball In My Martini" and "Hipsville 29 B.C.".If you're an old school Cramps fan,you shouldn't be dissapointed with,'Look...',it simply isn't likely to change your life.Check out the disc's closer,"Wilder Wilder,Faster Faster" - about as psychobilly as ANYONE can muster up.Plus,on "Miniskirt Blues",Iggy Pop duets with Lux.Wow!Line-up,here:Lux Interior-vocals,Poison Ivy-guitar,Slim Chance-bass and Jim Sclavunos-drums.Not a bad CD to have in your stash.

The Cramps have been around for over 20 years. Are they punk? Well, yes and no. With song titles like "Two Headed Sex Change" and "Bend Over, I'll Drive", what they are is a weird hybrid of punk, rockabilly and a dash of Screamin Jay Hawkins Voodoo and sexual inuendo. Their songs are often very funny. They can also be rude and vulgar, but not too much so. On "Look Mom, No Head" you get a good picture of the band led by lead singer Lux Interior, and female guitarist Poison Ivy. For me, "Dames, Booze, Chains and Boots" is worth the price of admission alone. Interior's vocal delivery is hysterical there. The Cramps are also a very tightly wound band. My introduction to them was a concert. They are really good musicians, whereas most of todays punk acts can't go beyond two or three chords.

With all the much more serious music I listen to, it's nice to have such a guilty pleasure as The Cramps in my collection.

Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, the core of The Cramps, have an amazing legacy behind them. So many albums, so many gems. Even an amazing gig at a mental institution that there's record of--check out YouTube. Anyone who wants to try to say that there are no good Cramps music after Bad Music for Bad People just don't know what they're talking about. Even the revitalization of rockabilly, with releases of Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk and Rockabilly and the like prove that their obsession is purely for good music--they've known the virtues of Hasil Adkins and twangy punk for ages. And to even get Iggy Pop onto this one further proves that the Cramps are a force of music that can't be denied.

But this album, as a whole, doesn't quite satisfy. Lux is a little too harsh at times in tracks like "Alligator Stomp" and "Blow Up Your Mind," and other original Cramps tracks just don't satisfy. Fortunately, "Miniskirt Blues," the track that includes the Popmeister, works out fine, and the album even has a sharp start with "Dames, Booze, Chains and Boots." "I Wanna Get In Your Pants" is a genius song about sex and cross-dressing, and the primal lust of "Bend Over, I'll Drive" is just marvelous and a great reminder of what good rock is all about, but beyond those gems, this album doesn't really offer a whole bunch of interest.

I will still prize my fav Cramps discs, like Date with Elvis and Psychedelic Jungle, and if you haven't seen them do "Tear It Up" for the movie Urgh! A Music War, then you have no idea what you're missing. Don't let this album alone generate or diffuse your interest in this seminal band.

This is by far one of the cramps best albums it is and instant classic from beginning to end. Lux Interior is my hero. Long live Kid Congo Powers

This cd has the long forgotten cramps track "eyeball in my martini" which if you never heard it sounds like Sinatra's zombie at the copa. This cd is a must have for any psychobilly fan

This album starts out driving with white-trash weirdness, and never stops mixing punk, psychobilly, and the blues to make it something you'd expect to hear in the local double-wide trailer park bar on the beach. The album starts out with 'Dames, Booze, Chains, and Boots', a great riff that includes in it everything a red blooded American Bud Light drinker and Packers fan could want. They keep on blowing up your mind with increasingly bizarre, humourous lyrics. 'Hardworking Man' is a venture into the blues ala 'The Ballad of John Henry' mixed with 'Porky's'. 'Miniskirt Blues' includes the vocal stylings of Iggy Pop, and there was never a better team up than between him and Lux Interior since Chevy started including T.V. dinners with their Vegas! 'Bend Over I'll Drive' visits the American tragedy of the mixture of sex and high speed car chases. 'Eyeball In My Martini' is followed up by the sobering song 'Strangeness In Me', all this, plus 'Wilder Wilder Faster Faster' (which could be a title for this album). This album doesn't slow down until you stop pedaling!

This was a 1991 release by the legendary rockabilly influenced punk band (or should it be punk influenced rockabilly band?). This album features their typical mix of strange, innuendo laced originals and obscure cover songs. This is a strong album by the group. It has more of a blues feeling than usual for them, which works well in this case. Fans of the group should enjoy this album.