Spirit Review / The Cramps Preview (Album 22)

(Spirit preview here) So I was kinda impressed with Spirit, in a general sense. They weren't overly impressive, but it was kinda cool to hear about this band that did pretty well during the 70's that I had never heard of before. Maybe that's why it was special. It was rocky, with a sort of 70's calmness to it. Maybe there were drugs involved. I wouldn't doubt that at all, but that doesn't change anything. I doubt that this will hear any play on my iPod, but I do really like the cover art, if it was a bit bigger. Throwback to basic photo manipulation.

Favorite Songs:
     Animal Zoo
     Street Worm

Album: Songs The Lord Taught Us

Artist: The Cramps

Release Year: 1980

"Songs The Lord Taught Us celebrates the trashiest elements of twentieth-century Americana. The Cramps' debut chewed up rockabilly riffs, punk rebellion, and B-movie imagery, andspat it out a gloriously primeval gob of rock'n'roll noise... Songs The Lord Taught Us should have been a smash. Critics raved, but problems in the band nixed any chance of success. During a 1980 tour in the United States, guitarist Bryan Gregory drove off with a van full of their equipment - sold to fund his growing drug addiction - and was never seen by the band again." Theunis Bates

01 - T.V. Set

02 - Rock On The Moon

03 - Garbageman

04 - I Was A Teenage Werewolf

05 - Sunglasses After Dark

06 - The Mad Daddy

07 - Mystery Plane

08 - Zombie Dance

09 - What's Behind The Mask?

10 - Strychnine

11 - I'm Cramped

12 - Tear It Up

13 - Fever

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: Songs The Lord Taught Us

Spotify: The Cramps

Sounds very strange. Sounds very 80s. Hopefully it's awesome.

~mfm