Track Listing 1. Greenfuz 2. Goo Goo Muck 3. Rockin' Bones 4. Voodoo Idol 5. Primitive 6. Caveman 7. Crusher 8. Don't Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk 9. Can't Find My Mind 10. Jungle Hop 11. Natives Are Restless 12. Under The Wires 13. Beautiful Gardens 14. Green Door
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes 2 LPS on 1 CD: PSYCHEDELIC JUNGLE (1981)/GRAVEST HITS [EP] (1979).Digitally remastered by Mike Reese (A&M Studios, Hollywood, California).PSYCHEDLIC JUNGLE:The Cramps: Lux Interior (vocals); Ivy Rorschach, Congo Powers (guitar); Nick Knox (drums).Producer: The Cramps.Engineer: Paul McKenna.Recorded at A&M Studios, Hollywood, California in January 1981.GRAVEST HITS [EP]:The Cramps: Lux Interior (vocals); Poison Ivy (Ivy Rorschach), Bryan Gregory (guitar); Nick Knox (drums).Producer: Alex ChiltonEngineer: John Hampton.Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee in October 1977. Originally released in, respectively, 1979 and 1981, these two albums now joined on a convenient single CD function as a textbook of the Cramps' deliberate trash esthetic, a combination of rockabilly primitivism (no bass guitar) with thematic and musical elements B-movies, surf records, and the general detritus of pop culture. A couple of covers in particular illuminate the band's roots, including a haunted reading of Jim Reeves' paranoid country classic "Green Door"; a raging version of "The Way I Walk," which probably would have frightened its auteurs Johnny and Dorsey Burnette; and a "Surfing Bird" whose dementia level exceeds the original. Essential stuff, obviously.
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