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The Cramps – A Date With Elvis

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  • Garage? Rock 'n' Roll? Psychobilly? Punk? The Cramps are all that and then some! The Cramps have exhumed their first-born and brought back Vengeance Records, their own label that originally issued the two classic singles "The Way I Walk / Surfin' Bird" and "Human Fly / Domino" in 1978.

    Originally planned for 1985 to join in the onslaught of Elvis's 50th Anniversary commemorative reissues, A Date With Elvis came out in early 1986 in Europe only, where it went on to sell more than 200,000 copies. The only album featuring The Cramps as a three-piece band (Poison Ivy doubled on bass), it careens from the sociopathic advice of "People Ain't No Good" (later covered by Nick Cave) to mind-on-vacation odes like "Aloha From Hell" and "Kizmiaz" (where The Cramps prove they were exotic when exotic wasn't cool), in the process offing more paeans to poontang than you can shake a snake at and fittingly finishing off with a soulful lovesick cover of the Charlie Feathers's "It's Just That Song." "Can Your Pussy Do The Dog" was voted single of the year for 1986 in Playboy's annual music issue!

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  • Artist: The Cramps
    Label: Big Beat Records
    Format: LP
    Units: 1
    Country: UK

  • A1 How Far Can Too Far Go?
    A2 The Hot Pearl Snatch
    A3 People Ain'T No Good
    A4 What'S Inside A Girl?
    A5 Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?
    B1 Kizmiaz
    B2 Cornfed Dames
    B3 Chicken
    B4 (Hot Pool Of) Womanneed
    B5 Aloha From Hell
    B6 It'S Just That Song