Off the Bone [Import, Original recording remastered]

Cramps | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 23, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Zonophone/EMI
• ASIN: B00000889Y
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,689 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #47 in Music > Alternative Rock > American Alternative > Psychobilly

Editorial Reviews

Import-only compilation featuring 17 of the best recordings from the band's late '70s and early '80s period, originally issued by the IRS and Illegal labels. This 1998 reissue on Zonophone adds the live version of 'Good Taste' from Smell Of Female, alongside classics like 'Garbageman', 'Goo Goo Muck', 'The Crusher', `Uranium Rock', 'Surfin' Bird' and 'New Kind Of Kick'. Whether you prefer your Rock raw and sweaty or twisted and crazy, The Cramps give it their all...and more! First released in 1983, Off The Bone is a great introduction into the murky swampland of The Cramps. EMI.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You Got Good Taste, October 15, 2001

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Kathy Fennessy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Off the Bone (Audio CD)

This British collection includes the entirety of The Cramps' first release, the Gravest Hits EP, along with selections from Songs the Lord Taught Us, Psychedelic Jungle, and a live version of Smell of Female's "You Got Good Taste" (shortened to "Good Taste"). It covers the years 1979-1983, a formative period in the band's career. Ten tracks can also be found on the domestic comp, Bad Music for Bad People, which was released the following year. Although the bulk of the material consists of covers, you can hardly tell (barring an intimacy with the originals). Once The Cramps get hold of a song, they always make it their own--even the more recognizable numbers like "Surfin' Bird, "Lonesome Town," and "Fever." All benefit from Lux Interior's vocal prowess. He's a proto-punk screamer like Screamin' Jay Hawkins or The Sonics' Gerry Roslie on the rockin' numbers, but can caress a ballad like mid-period Elvis when the need arises. Not one of the songs sounds as if it could've been written anytime after the '60s. Alex Chilton produced the first 10 tracks, The Cramps the remaining seven.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWSOME COLLECTION!, July 14, 2006

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Alonzo Zavala "Alvicious" (Laredo, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Off the Bone (Audio CD)

This CD has all the early singles, many crazy covers and is very good sound quality. Includes booklet with early pictures and album covers. I like it!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cramps - 'Off The Bone' (Zonophone), July 6, 2005

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Off the Bone (Audio CD)

For any old school Cramps fans,this seventeen track compilation disc is a should-have.When I looked more closely to the track listing,I realized it was a combination of the 'Gravest Hits' five-song EP along with their 'Bad Music For Bad People' lp.Even though all these vintage psychobilly tunes have indeed been released several times before,'Off The Bone' is STILL worth owning a copy of.It's always fun to hear "Human Fly","Surfin' Bird","Drug Train","Go Goo Muck" and "Uranium Rock" as well as the others.Nice mysterious cover.Enjoy.