Songs the Lord Taught Us

Cramps | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fontana a&M
• ASIN: B000001I09
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,771 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #1 in Music > Alternative Rock > American Alternative > Psychobilly
  • #8 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > American Alternative
  • #14 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo Fi

Track Listings

1. TV Set

2. Rock On The Moon

3. Garbageman

4. I Was A Teenage Werewolf

5. Sunglasses After Dark

6. The Mad Daddy

7. Mystery Plane

8. Zombie Dance

9. What's Behind The Mask

10. Strychnine

11. I'm Cramped

12. Tear It Up

13. Fever

14. I Was A Teenage Werewolf (With False Start)

15. Mystery Plane

16. Twist And Shout

17. I'm Cramped

18. The Mad Daddy

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The Cramps got away with their Z-movie, zombie-rock schtick because they were so intense in their conviction that it had more value than middlebrow humanist pop. Descending on Memphis to cut their debut album with Big Star legend Alex Chilton, the band served up a thirteen-song punkabilly testament to drive-in anti-culture, replete with garage-band guitars and booming voodoo drums. Versions of "Fever" "Strychnine," and the Johnny Burnette Trio's "Tear It Up" competed with Lux Interior-Poison Ivy originals like "T.V. Set" and "I Was a Teenage Werewolf." Songs the Lord Taught Us was also the first and last Cramps album to feature scary-looking guitarist Bryan Gregory. --Barney Hoskyns

Product Description

No Description Available
No Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: CRAMPS
Title: SONGS THE LORD TAUGHT US
Street Release Date: 08/15/1989
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I was walking by a pawn shop..., November 3, 2005

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KCJW (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs the Lord Taught Us (Audio CD)

...and I heard the song "Sunglasses After Dark" being played from behind the door. Before that I had never heard The Cramps, yet I ran in and bought the CD right out of the stereo for $4. This rocks from start to finish, and is the best straight-through listen album I own.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Saved rock 'n' roll, January 15, 2005

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TimothyFarrell22 (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs the Lord Taught Us (Audio CD)

We are all indebted to this band still. One of the single greatest testaments of punk, rockabilly, horror rock, and rock 'n' roll ever recorded. Greasy, primal, sleazy, primative, raw - just a few adjectives well suited at describing this album. And unlike many albums, the cover songs are just as good as the originals. I can honestly not see how anybody could hate this album, unless of course if you are an art snob who thinks "The Wall" is the greatest album ever. Hard rocking and catchy as hell.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "I got somethin' to say/and you better lissen!, April 24, 2000

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DAC Crowell - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs the Lord Taught Us (Audio CD)

...I'm gonna tell ya 'bout _cool_/in one easy lesson! GO!" Yep...had to quote that, the beginning of this album's "Sunglasses After Dark", as that song really sums up the mad, crazed, dark-as-a-Memphis-alley-at-midnite badness of this amazing slab of rockabilly psychosis. There is nothing like the sound that is the Cramps, and for me, this album distills that cross of swampwater, moonshine, and nitro down to a dangerous and unstable musical substance, captured live like a crazed animal in these tracks cut at the legendary Sun Studio. Echo machines go mad, drums thud like someone pounding the furniture into matchsticks, and guitars slice through the speakers like some meat-saw-wielding mad butcher as Lux Interior howls, wails, spits like fury, and...yeah, tells you 'bout _cool_. Truly the sound of the South going horrifically wrong with total J.D. madness, rockabilly is supposed to be 'bad music'...but this is the baddest of the badness! It'll make you put a voodoo 8-ball gearshifter in your _life_! BUY!