Songs The Lord Taught Us

this the only thing thats gotten me in the halloween mood all october. really silly and spooky stuff.

Probably saved from a lower rating as primero, I quite like a bti of rockabilly, segundo, it's Halloween season for it's more gothabilly elements and Ultimo it's Friday. Not great though.

Really fun energy and Lux Interior is such a funny stage name. Crazy that Alex Chilton produced it? I don't know that I'm gonna have any of these songs stuck in my head but I had a great time.

take the band that did Surfin' Bird, make them way more annoying, and then record them in a dumpster. I just cannot get over how bad the mixing here is

The idea of pumping your punk sound full of rockabilly to get to something more interesting and engaging, and then recording it all in your garage so it has that fuzz, is a pretty good one, I’ll say. I just think it does get a bit boring over 13 tracks with variety saved up until the end, and the goth-horror lyrics and styling are also not really my bag. I’m far more inclined to the kitschy-surfer-rock-revival side of this sound, that’s my lane of gay.

It seems like a perfectly fine album, just not at all my taste

When it comes to "Psychobilly", I heard before The Gun Club's "Fire of Love" and I didn't really like it, but this was actually very fun. What really grabs my attention about this album is the singer's incredibly outlandish performance. His singing is full of attitude and expression, and hearing him talking about monsters, aliens and other horror themes makes the exaggerated voice work even better. In terms of instrumentation, it is a blend of very common chord progressions and melodies from the classic rock and roll and rockabilly genres, with the faster rhythms from punk, giving the album a lot of energy. It also counts with a lot of distortion and specially reverb, which has a huge amount of, to the point where sometimes is hard to clearly hear the melodies or what the singer is saying. Furthermore, the album is very simple, relying in very similar ideas and formulas, making it a bit too one-noted. And with that there is not much more to comment, other than the experience is quite solid and fun.

I have better things to do with my life than listen to more of this

Fun schtick but I do not need an entire album of this.

I love the Cramps

Good gimmicky album.

3.5

Not bad, but not very memorable. Just yet another classic rock type album.

I get the vibe, but I just dont feel it too much. Wring era, wrong country, whatever the reason, it just doesnt click with me. Fever cover raises it to a 3 though.

Halloween music. Fun for the season but I wouldn’t listen to it regularly

Didn't enjoy this. Which lord taught them these songs?

Cool album. I like this group’s style.

Rockabilly punk. B52s crossed with slowed down Ramones and worse than both- yes even the B52s. No redeeming qualities. 1.6

Ropey. Teenage Dirtbag one was acceptable

Goofy, dated, generally a bit simplistic and, uh, shite.

Im sick of 80s albums

Rock and roll crawling out of the cave - feral, primitive, wild, and magnificent.

4/10

Early B-52's vibe

schon witzig, aber an dem 3. lied wird es irgendwie anstrengend. aber 1 davon in ner playlist wäre ok

Just noise. Not my jam at all.

Way too random for me. Crappy production and the delivery is all over the place. Not sure if this is an early meme band or an attempt to convey an actual message.

I mean when/if in the mood for messy rockabilly this is a strong go to but honestly not really the kind of thing I enjoy often. Violent Femmes did this kind of music much better. 2/5

Fast, raw, gotta give it another listen

- I didn't know what to expect going in, but I really enjoyed this. - It feels like polished fun rockabilly punk (just learned that's called psychobilly or punkabilly). I really can't describe this better than the short Wikipedia page did. But, I agree with all of that. - Wish I had been able to see them live! - I think it's a 3.5, but I think I'll round up because I was feeling the campiness when I listened to it.

Upbeat, surfer rock-essence, with some punk. Interesting record that doesn't really captivate me, but it has some cool character.

I can appreciate the campiness of it all but it still annoys me.

Fantastic Rhythm… Diversity Good Rock; and Rock‘n‘Roll Rock … Like tear it up… Alright I like it very much. I didn‘t know this band

Favourite song: - strychnine

realistically a 2.5 album. gonna round down because i wouldn't come back to it much. i think that it was fine, but kinda got old after the first few songs

I listened to this last week sometime and I honestly don't remember much about it, nothing really stood out to me.

Some glimpses of greatness, but overall I found this album really annoying.

Slightly spooky surf punk rock. I liked it, it was fun, especially Garbageman. This review says what I wanted to:"It is, in many ways, an objectively terrible record -- poorly recorded, badly played, juvenile in spirit, obnoxious and wild -- and for all those things, I love it. It is a tonic to my soul after enduring so many pretentious, overproduced, too refined albums". Hell yeah.

Horrible music but I love the idea of it and the aesthetic.

All the songs kinda sounded the same to me.

A wonderfully weird and raw punk album to kick off the October spooky szn.

Enjoyed the style somewhat, album was cohesive and sounded exactly what I expected (only knew one Cramps song before listening today). A bit of fatigue by the end but that’s just on me. 3/5

According to the book, one of the band members drove off with the instruments to pawn and feed his drug addiction. Also, apparently this band influenced two other bands I have never heard of. This seems about right.

I’m never gonna vibe with this. Can you just try to write and play something pleasant or catchy or good? It’s not the worst culprit, but I just can’t find appreciation for noise for the sake of noise. 1.5/5

You know, I actually liked it. It's that classic case of something being so bad it's good. The guitar sound is both hilarious and admirable at the same time — though really, you could say that about the whole album.

Really fun kinda all over the place but I love this early punk stuff. Gotta take off a star for that wholly unnecessary Fever cover.

Solid album

Look. I Was a Teenage Werewolf. UFOs. that's all

Punk Rock, 1980 -> 2

I wasn't a huge fan of this, but the references to rockabilly music really do elevate this album quite a bit and make it into an interesting piece. I do appreciate that the Cramps don't take themselves too seriously, and I can see the genesis of later music creeping in here. Favorite track(s): "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" into "Sunglasses After Dark" was admittedly pretty cool

This looks like 80s New Wave or post punk going off the album cover. Never heard of them otherwise. Cramp sucks though. _____________________________________ Raw surf rock and roll. A bunch of punks dug up the 50's, reanimated it, and sent it out on stage. I really like this. It's honest, pounding weirdness. Technically all over the shop, thematically tight. Foggy production, horror themed - it's October. 4*

Não entendi. Não peguei a visão, nem um pouco. Nenhuma canção clicou. Fiquei esperando o momento mágico que tudo faria sentido, mas ele nunca veio. Bem chato e tosco. Tô fora. 1/5

Asså tror jag skulle njutit live men på platta njaa. Var typ bättre första lyssningen än andra. Stark tvåa

så svag för en spooky vibe!

Kul och läbbigt

This is very loud and overestimulating, and I find it very hard to engage with this. I really don't have much to add to this. It's just so unmemorable, there's nothing that really stuck out to me that was good, but also means there's nothing that stuck out to me that was bad enough to care about. I literally can't tell you any the song names or what any of them sound like apart from each other. Fav Track: I'm Cramped

This album has that early '80s vibe and a post punk feel. By smashing 1950s rockabilly with 1970s punk rock, The Cramps pioneer the psychobilly genre here, using two distorted guitars and no bass player to create a muddy, mid heavy garage sound. Combined with Lux Interior's horror obsessed, B movie style lyrics, the tracklist ends up bleeding together into one noisy stretch. Sadly the songs all sounded very similar and nothing really stood out for me. I can't say I’d recommend this album to anyone. 4/10

back in the day this record made me discover so much vintage artists

Punkabilliy from the CBGB era. Maybe gothabilly. Okay, not great, but needs to be heard.

У ребят своя атмосфера

Очень люблю такое

Спуки скери скелетон тайпа мьюзик Нраица

вайб cramps чувствуется, но другие их альбомы и отдельные песни мне нравятся больше, тут максимум 3 готов проставить

Hahaha I'm loving this album. It's kinda funny but also gothic in a weird way. It's pretty great. It is after all spooky season already. 5 stars.

2/5

Unexpectedly enjoyable Standout songs: Sunglasses after dark Whats behind the mask

Cramp me up, I'm cramped

This music's not even riveting enough to give me the cramps. Maybe a wet fart or two.

If there's ever going to be a jackass-style montage of me getting terribly hurt doing something stupid, any song on this album could be the backing track to it. Just throw a dart at the playlist. And then visit me in the hospital and laugh at me.

I imagine they are a love or hate band. I love them

This is pretty much my exact flavor of rockabilly-tinged punk. The kind of stuff that fits right in at a Halloween party even if the song isn’t spooky-themed. Okay i definitely knew a song or maybe two before this but I REALLY LIKE THE CRAMPS NOW.

Lawerence from school of rock: "I'm not cool enough!" That's how I feel listening to this. some cool surf punk

Blessed to exist in the same timeline as gothabilly

I say this in the best way possible, but this sounds like Scooby Doo music. Fav Tracks: "I Was A Teenage Werewolf", "Sunglasses After Dark" and "Strychnine".

Forty minutes of absolute idiocy masquerading as music. The Cramps take rockabilly, garage, death songs, cheap horror and teen exploitation, then remove whatever restraint once made any of it respectable. Their vocabulary is tiny: twang, drums, filthy riff, Lux Interior losing his mind, guitar solo competing to be the stupidest in rock history. Repeat. That’s the point. Don’t develop. Don’t refine. Hammer the same building blocks until they become a world. Teenage werewolves have braces on their fangs. Sunglasses after dark lead to unsuccessful knife fights. Zombies barely move but still find time to write graffiti. Even “Fever” ends up belonging to them. The joke works because they commit so completely that it becomes faintly disturbing. Absolute fucking idiots. Absolute glorious fucking idiots. Get out of your mind or get out of my way.

Felt raw and real. I enjoyed it

7/10 loved the vibes

divertido

Positiivinen ylläri itelle. Uppos mukavasti työpäivän alkuun

Voisi ehkä kieltää, ettei kehitysvammaset sais laulaa. Muutenhan tämä olisi ollut melkein jopa siedettävää.

Ens alkuun mietin, että onkohan liian larppia. Mutta kyl tää ihan hauskaa ilmettä tarjos omallekin pärställe. Pändi toki tuttu, mutta kuuntelu vähästä. Tän perusteella vois heikolla hetkellä kuunnella lisääkin, mutta ei kyl kuitenkaan mullista mittee.

No jopas oli kova! Vähän semmosta Kings of Nuthing -meininkiä, mutta toki ennen Kings of Nuthingia. Kovaa punkin, surffimusan ja rockabillyn sekoitusta. Paikkapaikoin tuli Clashin Brand new Cadillac myös mieleen. Diggailin, mutta ei nyt ihan vitskan arvoisesti kuitenkaan!

Not the type of punk that I'm all that into, but will give it props for adding in rockabilly and surf. It's slightly verging on a post-punk sound I don't like, but it's punk enough to not bother me. The vocals are kinda throwing me off though, which is where that post-punk sound is coming from. Decent album though.

Losing faith in this project.

This is #day763 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… I've heard the band's name before, but never paid them a visit, so this is another first-timer. There's something about rockabilly/psychobilly that sort of draws me in. The gothic element? Hello, Dead Neighbours, a former rockabilly band led by Craig Lawrenson of the Scottish post-punk/dream-pop band Lowlife, if you know what I mean. The fact that it grew out of '70s punk? I don't know, but it surely is an important facet of alternative rock music. I'm landing on a 3 out of 5. Looking forward to #day764.

I understand the historical significance of punk, and I can see why people were fed up with the overproduced, saccharine music churned out by established bands in the mid-to-late 1970s. However, musically speaking, punk rock and I are no longer on speaking terms. To me, when punk is combined with rockabilly, it's like choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea. Clearly, this music was written for reasons other than my own: "Songs The Lord Taught Us" is about rebellion, danceability, irony and simplicity — music to experience at a gig and bond with others over (while pogoing). Musical originality, brilliance, virtuosity and artful composition are not the focus here. To me, it all sounds like a bunch of drunken Elvis impersonators. But that would be doing the iconic Cramps a disservice. They certainly knew what they were doing. I just don't have to like it or choose to listen to it again.

Makes me want to pound cheap beers and be a nuisance

Rockabilly's various offshoots, but especially psychobilly, offers very little for me to chew on. It seems like nothing but pastiche, so the only place I can imagine I would enjoy it would be if a band showed up unexpectedly at some dive bar I'd been drinking at and started playing loudly.

Terrible.

Solid. Will return to some of these songs when the vibe is right.

Accidentally put the wrong songs on but I kinda enjoyed them but in a “if it was Halloween” way. Novelty music.

Raw and primal sounding, this album may not be the best sounding one you'll ever hear, but it is a hell of a lotta fun. They may not have intended 'psychobilly' to be a genre term, but it fits.

a bit boring honestly. 2/5.

Judging by the cover art and logo, one might assume The Cramps were simply a second version of the Misfits (never mind that the Misfits actually released their debut album later). However, it’s not quite that simple. The band’s lyrics consist almost entirely of dark humor and tales about werewolves, zombies, and other B-movie horror staples — themes that immediately led the public to label them a punk band. In reality, though, there is very little punk rock here; the album sounds like a blend of rock 'n' roll and country — essentially pure rockabilly, albeit with a somewhat funereal vibe. In fact, The Cramps actually pioneered the psychobilly genre. So, the sound is far closer to Elvis than to the Ramones. You might feel the urge to turn the record off after the first few tracks, as they sound rather flat. But if you stick with it, you’ll soon be treated to a dose of wild — albeit somewhat dark — dance music that feels straight out of the 1950s.

Not a genre I enjoy very much and something I never really pick when listening to music. That said it wasn't bad over all. Something I could see playing in the background at a party without me wanting to change the music.

Well i was not expecting an oldies and rockabilly album with a couple of vampires on the cover. I thought i was gonna get some cure like music or some other goth rock thing. One of the biggest surprises ive had in a while. And I think its for the better even. Makes it stand out alot. Ive heard a million records with revitalist leanings. Not one that leans so heavily into it. And does it this well. They nail the sounds of yesteryear with pin point accuracy. Their own twist for sure but if you turn the edge down a single notch it could be one of the harsher of the time they are emulating. So damn cool. They still are kinda punk and kinda gothy. Those angles are cool too. Maybe im downplaying that aspect somewhat because I was so shocked by what the main thing was. Not sure. All i know is i wanted to dance to a bunch of this and was happy for that. It kicks ass in a way I couldnt have foreseen but im glad it is what it is

I can appreciate the effort and the aesthetic, but it kinda sounds like shit, doesn't it?

Rockabilly made dangerous again by injecting the rebellious sensibilities of 70s punk. This makes me think of the Fallout TV series.

Dreadful

#472 / 1089 Heard before? ❌ Revisit? ❌ ✅ I'm familiar with Cramps, but never really got into them that much. I always liked my psychobilly aggressive and punk hardcore, outside of Tiger Army (and Nekromantix to some extent), I like the edgier stuff to the soft poppier ones and The Cramps always came across as pop and mainstream. To me this album plays like few neighbourhood over excited pre-teens found Link Wray and right after their parents old instrument stash. I mean these cats know how to play, but it comes across as sloppy and strange none the less. It's the wrong kind of strange, if you ask me. Yeah, this is why I never really got into them. Barely 2/5.