Songs The Lord Taught Us

This wasn’t it. One good track. Hangover nostalgia.

2.5/5

The B-52s if they were less good and also vaguely Halloween-themed. I thought the Cramps were a punk band?? 2.5

2.5 - Meh

Not familiar with The Cramps. They sound a lot like B-52s to me. Decent rockabilly sound, high energy, and a bit silly. Mystery Plane, Strychnine, and I’m Cramped are the best songs. The Cramps limp in at (2.2*s)

I guess it's a different take on garage punk I guess. Almost seemed like they don't take it seriously and just want to get on stage, act like a bunch of clowns and sling some weird punk songs at you. I really couldn't tell if they were good musicians as it mainly comes off as manic punk vocals with a steady back beat. It's not the worst thing but it also gets annoying pretty quickly as most songs sound the same. 30 minutes was about all I needed of that. 2.09 stars

Got a bit bored

I’ve never really watched any of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies but there is like a family of grimy inbred hillbilly murderers in those movies, right? Well, I suppose if those guys got together with the California beach town vampires from The Lost Boys for a concert on Halloween and this band played then they would all have a really nice time. But I didn’t. You know what I think it is that I don’t like about this and any spooky or spooky-adjacent music? Menace. I don’t like music or vocals that sound menacing. I find life in general plenty menacing. I don’t need any more menace than I get from youths walking by my car when I’m stopped at a redlight after 6pm. Sell menace somewhere else. I’m all stocked up.

It's not bad....but it isn't great. Every song kinda sounds like the last. I understand what they mean by this being "gothabilly" as a genre.The vocalist kinda starts to get on my nerves after a while...the guitars are interesting but very repetitive. Actually a 2.5. Liked Songs: "Rock On The Moon" , "Garbageman" , "Sunglasses After Dark" , "Zombie Dance" , "Tear It Up" , "Twist And Shout"

Was very repetitive

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Not my cup of tea. I’m sure it’s important for music growth but goth rockabilly was not on my bingo card today

Weird Halloween vibe

not for me

Теперь понятно, у кого Звуки Му взяли своё звучание

Len suffered from the cramps quite severely when Houmous & Chutney were on stage in Nuneaton back in ‘84. It’s funny cos the sounds he was making at the time were quite reminiscent of the sounds on this album. Terrible really. 2.1

They do one thing and they do it well. Gets a little old

i fear that this spooky album was scarily boring. listened on the plane though.

Wish the lord never taught me these

I’ve heard Fever before but that’s it. Another album where I can’t understand what he’s saying. I thought I heard Frigidaire at one point and turns out I was right. Which was bizarre. Not the album for me.

Not doing an hour of this

Poorly recorded rockabilly. Sounds like a local band at a dive bar, not an album you Must Hear Before You Die.

Was playing red dead redemption whilst listening to this and it fit that vibe very well, but outside of that it’s just rock which I’m not too much of a fan of

Sounds like word vomit, with just 60s rock and roll elements. Nothing special.

This was a little bit of a weird album. Their "The Mad Daddy" song sounded "The Bird is the Word" song but it wasn't it, which was a bit disappointing. But then so did "Zombie Dance" and even more - "Tear It Up", so I guess that's just their style, but I checked the it was "The Trashmen" that released the bird song. Nothing too exciting throughout, we survived listening to all the songs but overall a bit meh.

It's ok. Very easy to ignore. Which is... A good thing and a bad thing I guess.

I was so bored every song sounded the same but loved fever

There was one song I genuinely enjoyed on this album, and a few others had some elements I liked, but overall, I struggle to get into The Cramps. They’ve always come across as trying too hard to be edgy and ahead of the curve. Somehow, though, they managed to convince a lot of people that they were just that, and in turn, those same people ran with it because they wanted to feel the same way. That’s why, to me, The Cramps feel more like a band built on image rather than substance—overhyped and overrated.

It might have a place in history, but it all sounds very novel to me. Not enough to be blown away.

Never knew about the rockabilly sound from The Cramps, decent enough just found the singer to be a little annoying

This album should not be on this list. I think anyone with a keyboard could come up with this type of music.

As a mediocre/not professional pianist I could do here than this crap

This was unpleasant. Did not like. Dude's voice was all kinds of wonky that I didn't like, the lyrics were wack, the instruments sounded pretty good thought which is why this isn't a 1. I get it was pioneering a sound, but it's a sound I don't like.

campy, over the top punk. not a fan. really didn't care for vocals, but at least they can play instruments.

Another reviewer mentioned the genre being Punkabilly, which I find very fitting, as I drew a blank when trying to come up with a fitting term. Trouble is, I don't like the kind of music the term describes. 2/5

Some of the albums on here make me a little sad as I think I would have loved them if I'd heard them when I was 15. Now this just sounds like yer basic rock & roll with a Halloween accent :(

I bet this was played at every Halloween party in the 80's

Maybe my rating would be higher if it was September/October, but not my current vibe.

Halloween kitsch and rockabilly revival. Doesn’t seem to belong on this superlative list, but hey, what do I know? It was only okay

One of the albums of all time

It was ok

I usually am a sucker for rockabilly, and this is full of that rhythm. But the lack of melody really is bothersome.

Nervtötendes Punk & Psychodellic Album mit kaum ansprechenden Passagen. Trotz des krampfhaften Versuches rockig zu sein, klingt ein Song wie der andere und das nervt.

It's like Elvis got really smashed and they couldn't get him off the stage.

Πολυ επαναλαμβανομενα κομματια δυστυχως. Σαν να ακουω 1 κομματι 20 φορες. Ενω μαρεσει η punk ενεργεια/ φυση του αλμπουμ δεν ειναι στα γουστα μου. Ρισπεκτ στον φαδερ και οποιον ακουγε εκεινες τις εποχες τετοια μουσικη.

I didn't take to this; it sounded extremely dated.

It was okay. Poor recording quality but then again its early punk so what can we expect.

Rubbish

It was okay

01) TV Set - 5,5 02) Rock on the Moon - 5,5 03) Garbageman - 7,0 04) I Was a Teenage Werewolf - 5,5 05) Sunglasses After Dark - 5,5 06) The Mad Daddy - 5,5 07) Mystery Plane - 5,5 08) Zombie Dance - 5,5 09) What's Behind the Mask - 5,5 10) Strychnine - 5,5 11) I'm Cramped - 7,0 12) Tear It Up - 5,5 13) Fever - 7,0 TOTAL: 5,85 (59/100) Current ranking: 309/376

I don't care

This was like listening to a cover band that played a slightly too long set list at a dive bar. I sort of enjoyed it at first but half through it I was ready to pay uo and leave.

Too noisy.

I like punk, but I don't like surf rock, and I think my dislike of surf rock outweighs my liking for punk here. I wanted to enjoy this more, but just didn't.

Диковатое рокабилли, такое готическое и немного более одноплановое, чем хотелось бы. Лучшая песня - Fever.

not enjoyable, very angsty, spencer might love it

I found Psychobilly later in life and enjoy it live, but this was not as enjoyable.

Ok. Not great

Eh

I can see why this is on the list, the weird punk / glam / rockabilly hybrid is certainly unique I didn't enjoy it, the songs all sound very samey and the vocals are irritating. The only track that adds something is Fever which is the closer, and I'd checked out by then

For the amount of good stuff I’ve heard about the cramps, this album was disappointing to say the least. Vocalist was bad and the lyrics were just plain nonsense.

no de mi agrado corte elvis

While I like the idea of The Cramps, the product is a bit come-and-go for me. It has a minimal appeal. Camp is always borderline with me. Are you edging too far into the different for different's sake? Or weird for weird's sake. Hard to listen to a whole album's worth. Attitude on its own only goes so far before it becomes just tedious.

I like the description and the notion of The Cramps a lot more than I like the music of The Cramps.

Blondie lite

Punk yelling no

Wilder Rock 2/5

Kuullostaa ihan hirveältä. Jotkut kappaleet yrittää kummiskin kuullostaa ees hyvältä. Jotain sekopää rokkia. Parhaat: I Was A Teenage Werewolf,

yeah I don’t care

Wanted to like it, but didn't get there

It was alright. Nothing special. They have one song and it wasnt even this album.

Jeez, no thanks! Not good punk rock. In fact, very bad punk rock. It might actually have been OK if it had come in at 25 minutes or something, like the recent-ish Minor Threat album, but it dragged on, and that's the one thing the genre isn't meant to do.

Feisty. Yelly. Chaotic. Stresses me out. Ok I tried. I can’t.

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What the fuck is this. It has the makings of a great album but just stays slightly shy of achieving those goals. Neo-Rockabilly isn't something I had heard of before this, and one that I hope to not hear much from again...

Uninspiring

Not really sure about this psychobilly stuff, quite interesting for a track or two but there really isn't anywhere for it to go so you get a dozen variations of the same song. I don't mind the sound of it but it Im not a convert.

The psychobilly genre is not for me. I struggled to pinpoint why I didn't like this album, as it wasn't particularly long, or irritating, and the music and singing was just fine. I maybe found it uninspired - appreciate they started the type of music, but you can't force yourself to like something. Plus it is all far too long and repetitive.

Not sure this is my thing. Reminded me of the rocky horror picture show somehow. A bit showy Don't think this "psychobilly" thing is for me. Not terrible, but not for me. 2

Boring

Not bad, but mostly background listening for minor characters in Grease who don't get to hear all the main songs

I guess we’re not supposed to take this too seriously, but that being the case it’s surprisingly not that fun to listen to. Maybe it’s the production, maybe it’s the songs, but it’s all a bit samey and uninspiring to me.

Mostly just cra(m)p clammy goth new wave. Not doing it for me. 2.4/5

Not for me

I don't know. It sounded cool in the beginning, but got annoying after a while. 2.4*

Boring and not particularly pleasant to listen to. Glad it finished.

It's a no from me. I've already completely forgotten about this album

This did absolutely nothing for me

Gave up half way through. Don’t get rockabilly/psychabilly… seems a bit sillybilly.

cute but no

No variety, everything sounds the same

My ears cramped

Just annoying. I don't understand. It sounds like birds the word.

This is fun for one track This is not fun for more than one track

Los ramones

If Meatloaf’s character Eddie from Rocky Horror Picture Show recorded an album produced by Riff Raff, l think you’d get The Cramps. I enjoyed this album more when they leaned into minor chords. The major chord screaming songs got very old very quickly.

With the exception of the remake, pretty much every song is the same with slightly faster or slower tempo… Something of a one Trick Pony, and the trick ain’t that good?

Despite being pretty much garbage as far as I'm concerned, it's lucky to narrowly escape a 1 star rating, but only because the bluesy instrumentation was tolerable.

2/5

I imagine seeing these live would’ve been great fun, but sat in my living room listening to a whole album didn’t really do it for me.

If these are the songs that the Lord taught you, well I'm sorry but he's just not a very good musician. I had higher hoper given the Halloween, zombie visuals and song titles but most of this was very one note.

If Tom Waits had ever been a teenager, particularly an unoriginal teenager with no particular talent that started a garage band after seeing The Misfits, he may have sounded something like this record.Link Wray's brain damaged children. I'm sure they were fun at the time. Rather pointless. Mostly harmless.

2.9 almost my cup of tea!

This list of albums seems to be heavily weighted towards one genre...

Hyvä soundi mutta mitä väliä. Musiikki on parhaimmillaan silloin, kun bändi lähestyy eniten sitä 50-lukua, jonka imagollisia käytäntöjä vääntelemällä he pyrkivät esittämään itsensä kiinnostavina. Silti tonk-tonk-tonk-tonk ja täng-täng-täng-täng käyvät raskaaksi.

weird gimmick halloween 60s rock. teenage werewolf

I was very excited for this to be over! Not my type of thing. No headaches from this, but not really anything worth returning to for me and my delicate sensibilities.

Very rockabilly, very DIY. I wish the vocals sounded a little more thought-out and the production was a little more intentional, but solid debut from a band that would help solidify a whole subgenre.

Eh, wouldn't turn it on again. Best song on the album is a cover.

I feel like this is for people that really like the B52’s but are a little bit shy. Not really my thing.

I guess I can appreciate its place, and it has a cool roomy aesthetic to it, but is possibly a tad too rock and roll/straight ahead for me. Favourite tracks: The Mad Daddy, Tear It Up.

Feels like something that would be on in the background of the diner scene in pulp fiction.

They sound like a bootleg Elvis Presley.

Huh.

I enjoyed the nostalgia of this album. I didn’t think I would enjoy a whole album of psychobilly rock but I did! Probably wouldn’t go looking for it, but it was nice to find it! Again - fuck those bonus tracks!

There is a time and place for this kind of music and in my opinion, it's during a montage of a B level horror movie. Not really a big fan of the album.

Mix Rockabilly, a bit of Punk, RnR and a lot of 50s movie themes together and you get this.

Halloween themed rock with Elvis screamo in there. This album was not quite up my alley. It was hard for me to be invested in it because of how difficult it is to hear the singer for a lot of the songs. Definitely a garage sound, which I can commend, but still wasn’t quite what I like. Fever is a cool closer track. A very defined first album for the band. Standouts: I Was A Teenage Werewolf, Zombie Dance, Tear It Up.

Only "Fever" is worth listening to.

This sounds like it was recorded in the mines of Tajikistan, roughly 3000 feet below the ground. Weird caveman mosquito music. Not a fan.

Not really my thing

Huh

I can here The Shadows, Hank Mizell, Link Wray, and all sorts of other influences - but none of it helps. This is terrible.

Too much noise

Allemaal hetzelfde, 1 brei

This is kinda shit but also kinda fun and I will never listen to it again.

This album has not stood the test of time well. It's raw garage appeal is apparent, but by no means is this album in the top 1000. Good enough "vibe", but that's about it. 2/5.

Wenig interessanter Garage Rock.

Everything sounded like a bad version of the Surfin' Bird

The Cramps will always be a sideshow band. Much like Southern Culture On The Skids. They can have a few good songs, but the tin can production and rockabilly sound will always make it scene music.

This wasn’t as grating as some other 80s punk rock albums I’ve gotten on this list but it still gets a two. Just because it wasn’t *that* bad doesn’t mean I’m not still sick of getting these types of albums. The mad daddy was a good song.

I listened to 2 songs and that was enough

enough!! enough!! enough with the 12-bar blues prog!! i've counted at least 6 or 7 songs that had it and it's genuinely pissing me off!! jfc what did you guys do, smoke a blunt, find that progression and think "HOLY SHIT WE COULD MAKE AN ENTIRE ALBUM OUT OF THIS"? the lord taught you that?? the whole aesthetic is so cool but it's just been taken down so much by the lack of compositional value.

Rhythm guitar sound is cool when it's doing simple chord stabs. Hard not to think of worse bands that used the template when listening to this, both direct style and uninspiring 'punk as theatrical performance' stuff. Before psychobilly was an obnoxious genre it might have been fun to see the early days of the Cramps. B-movie schtick isn't for me, just didn't enjoy this and didn't make it through. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

There’s only room for one punk band that sounds spiritually similar to Vincent Price saying “Ghouls and goblins! Spiders and snakes!” and they’re called the Misfits, and even they aren’t that good.

Awful. 1.69

No this wasn't for me at all. I'd be pretty annoyed if I had to listen to this again.

Garbageman is fun but the album as a whole is pretty bad. It kind of feels like they were trying to make bad music though. Am I playing into their hands here?

I’ve never really been a punk rock fan and this album is no exception. Nothing about it really impressed me, not the writing, playing or singing. sure it had its moments but I don’t think i’ll ever listen to it again.

I'm sure it's hugely influential, but I just didn't enjoy this.

Frantic surf punk meets psychobilly. I can imagine it being the pre-match music at a roller derby game. It would be an important album in the subgenre, it's just not for me. Overall: 3/10

Not really my thing but it's got something to it

Nicht so besonders 1.9

Ok

Pretty meh. A lot sounded the same. I can see why included but prob won’t listen again

Sounds like the soundtrack to a Jim Jarmusch film. Wait, was Jim Jarmusch actually in this group?

The album title is great, but punk Elvis? Pass. I liked the cover of Fever the most, but there are much better versions of it out there. Rating 2 stars.

Good energy on "TV Set" but the solo was mostly noise lmao. I think as a starting tune it's not the best one. "Rock On The Moon" is good so far. Super rock with the classic blues progression. Nothing fancy but gets the job done. So many blues progression god damn. 1 year before the 90's come on... Lol at the riff/tuning "Sunglasses After Dark" Skipping the rest of the album for now. It's not my thing and I LOVE rock.

Not a rockabilly fan

This all felt the same. There was one good jam towards the end, that was about it for me.

This was a strange mixture of genres I feel like. Really would like some surf rock parts but then it would crumble into something I didn't necessarily dig. 2.5 but rounding down.

Niet zo heel goed

Let's be honest. The Cramps were not famous for being great musicians. Their main claim to fame is the manic freakshow they put on live. That was really something. The music is a very punk version of rockabilly. Horror lyrics, but the real horror is the music: out of tune, off the beat. Favorite song by far: their cover of Fever.

Really did not enjoy. Not many understandable words and every song seemed to flow together with guitar.

Not my bag. I'm sure it's good if you're into the edgy and weird vibe and listening to the same song over and over again.

Groovily atmospheric at times, with the retro-vintage feel and surf and rockabilly vibes of a cool-kid sort of projects. But both the jokes and sounds get samey after a time. They are still touring which may be as embarrassing for them as their fans.

Pari hittiä sieltä tunnisti

Niet interessant

It’s not terrible but the whole Psychobilly thing gets old pretty quickly.

As a concept, a sort of gothic type of punk rock does sound pretty intriguing, but the overall idea is much better than the execution for me here. This whole album just felt like a mess of overly simple punk songs drowned in endless reverb with overly shrieky and oddly unsteady vocals (which I could barely understand with the reverb) Some of it was alright mind you, like the interesting surf rock feel Strychnine had would have been an interesting way to go.

- meh - sounds like 70s rock - get a sorta spooky Halloween vibe from them

This should fit for me, but the album just didn't hit.

The aesthetic and the vocals are fun but the music is just so derivative. The mixing fucking sucks as well, it’s so soaked in reverb that it loses any sense of immediacy that might make it sound like a punk album. There are a couple of standout tracks but it’s mainly just a wash of bland rock n roll

2.5

boffaff , c'étati très garage punk. Un peu rock, j'aime pas trop la voix et le style. Je trouve que le rockabilly est un peu dure a trouver. Juste un chanteur punk tout le long. et c'est quand meme long. 2.5

Wack

Nope, not for me. Psychobilly just ain't my sound. The cover of Fever was good though.

I don't like punk, and I don't really like the whole rock 'n' roll/rockabilly thing, so this album was really boring for me. Felt like nothing was going on in the songs, and despite most song being only around 3 minutes, they felt so long. I can't say I expected a cover of Fever on here. But yeah, not great. I kind of like the album cover though. My favourite song was What's Behind The Mask.

The singers voice is awful, it sounds like a shitty impression of a Big Band singers voice from the 50’s. The music was also terrible.

Some cool early noise elements here which I dig. The rockabilly aspects aren't my thing as much. Not my go to brand of punk but I can respect it.

Spooky not for me

Ok come on... enough with this early 80s CRAP. That chick's hairdo and makeup say it all: ugh. Band logo says "ha ha it's gonna be the punk monster mash!" Ok yeah, pretty much. But a bit weirder than expected. Lots of rockabilly, terrible production, nonsensical lyrics, and the worst solo ever in garbageman. 2/5.

4/10. TV set was a good introduction to this album, the lyrical content matched the form of the music well. Made me think of the Telltale Heart. Sadly, that was not enough to make me actually enjoy the sound of the music.

The Cramps have always befuddled me, even though I can't say I have ever listened to them that much. Their reputation and image always makes me think they should be some terrifying psychobilly band going absolutely balls to the wall, yet what comes out is just some slightly above gentle rockabilly that would have your grandma reaching for the volume. It's alright, but I never felt like it really got going, gets downright cheesy in some places and really starts to drag towards the end. I really want to like this more, but I can't. 2.5 / 5 stars (will be rounding down to 2 stars on the generator site)

The singer’s weird shrieky voice detracts from the original, cool sound

Whilst sounding quite heavy, it's overall rockabilly sound was something unexpected. It felt very "underground" in composition and very garage rock band. Overall, not too great but something that I wouldn't mind hearing again if it was on. Best: I Was A Teenage Werewolf Worst: The Mad Daddy

The singing is awful. And so is various other factors in this album! First I thought it was just the singing that made this awful. But no. So much of it makes this album awful. And I normally find music from the 80s good to ok. But this is definitely below an O.K. album.

Rare combinatie toch, rockabilly en punk. Ik kan me helemaal voorstellen dat hier een markt voor is (was?).

For me rockabilly of this kind achieve at two things, making boring punk and making boring rock n roll simultaneously. Some fun bits here and there, but overall pretty uninspired, uninteresting and frankly quite bad. 5/10

Day 8 Hi. Don't mind me if I don't add comments to most of these songs. I'm in a rush and also this album just kind of sucks. TV Set - 5 - When I was looking up the band, the song Goo Goo Muck came up. I knew the name but I didn't know why. It's apparently a song from Wednesday. If you played these songs one after the other I could not tell you the difference. Rock On The Moon - 3 - hard listen. Garbageman - 4 - the guitar is so much louder and noticeable than the voice and it's playing like two strings for the whole song. I Was A Teenage Werewolf - 6 - less stupid sounding than the other songs but the vocalist just sucks. Sunglasses After Dark - 6 - the guitar is fine and the vocals are less bad than usual. The Mad Daddy - 4 - I like the screams at the beginning. The guitar isn't awful but it's a guitar line the album has shown like 5 times now. The guitar and lyrics get jumbled a lot. Mystery Plane - 5 Zombie Dance - 2 - Take every problem I've said about every one of the last songs and throw it into one song. Sucks cause Zombie Dance is a cool name. What's Behind The Mask - 4 - the same. exact. guitar line. Strychnine - 7 - a different guitar sequence for once! the voice also doesn't sound super awful here. I'm Cramped - 5 - it starts exceptionally dumb but then goes back to a slightly better version of the guitar mush we've been hearing. This is one of the better ones purely because we aren't hearing much voice. Tear It Up - 3 - fun fact: the Elvis album I reviewed previously was 24 years before this album came out. So not only is this poorly dated now, it was even poorly dated then. Fever - 5 - this is a slower, low tempo song which works to it's advantage because when this band does faster songs they sound like hillbillies. It's not really interesting though. Overall: idk I just kind of think this band sucks or at least that's my opinion from this album alone 59/130 or 45%

Not as heavy as expected. Listenable but all very samey

Songs The Lord Taught Us has some good moments, most of it is a bit late-era glam rocky and not in a good way, but then I Was A Teenage Werewolf gets bluesy and I liked that, same for What's Behind The Mask. The glam rock/punk stuff is a poor effort, it's all about a 2/5 overall.

Need to be in the mood for this one. Its the Ramones meets Rocky Horror Picture Show...

Olihan tää nyt melkosta kuraa. Rokkibiliä säröllä tai ilman ei vaan toimi. Onko tämä ollut aikansa EMO-juttu?

This is pretty harmless, but hardly a classic. The Cramps were more of a lifestyle than a music band. The whole psychobilly thing was pretty cool at the time. This probably made more sense live than listening to via Spotify. The songs blended into one. It's a little music by dots with no great variation or surprises.

Meh

I can hear how this was influential on some other bands - bands that I enjoy listening to more than I did listening to the Cramps.

eh, it was ok. pretty repetitive. maybe a 5/10 i didn’t love it even tho it had some tarantino songs

Bit too hectic for me

Would put it 2.5 if half stars existed

Alright album. Don’t really care for the singer that much, but I love the blues influence. Most of the songs went through one ear and out the other. 4/10 Fav song: fever Least fav: mad daddy, rock on the moon

Yeah nah. Gimmick music.

Same problem most of the stuff from this era has...the music is played by incompetent people and is supremely uninteresting. Band has to then rely on a compelling vocalist to pass the "I won't throw these people off a bridge" test. The Cramps don't have that. Lux Interior...please. track 4 was fair. Combining an overall bad genre of music (surf) with a mediocre genre of music (punk) is not a fantastic idea. Some of it sounds like a bad version of Sha-Na-Na

There were some decent songs on this album. Sunglasses after dark and I'm cramped were pretty good songs. Other than those I didn't really like any of the others. The singer screams and gets pretty crazy which sometimes is good, but I'm not a fan of it here. If they calmed down a bit, I think this would be better. CHILLAX 3/10

To like this you'll need to like rockabilly style and it's offshoots. I don't particularly. Also I think the vocalist will be a polarizing point for your liking of this band. I mostly think he's kinda awful and annoying, but I can see why some people would like his vocals. The only thing that saves this album from a 1 is the occasionally fun punk beats provided by the drummer.

Sounds sort of new wave, reminds me of the B-52s

Interesting but so much not for me

Favorite songs: Strychnine, Fever (I remember this one from Queen's Gambit) Otherwise, not interesting to me.

On another day I may have given this a 3.

The Craps lol

Not my jam. It is a bit of a weird mish-mash of styles. It’s got some weird punk, rockabillly, surf band vibes. I feel like if you threw Billy Idol, Brian Setzer, the Ramones, and the B-52’s in a blender, this is what would get spit out.

On paper, this should have been a win for me. Rockabilly-tinged garage punk? Sign me up. Sadly, it just doesn't work. The Cramps took all the bad parts of rockabilly and all the no-skill thrashing of punk, tossed 'em at the wall, put the stuff that wouldn't stick onto an album, and called it "something new." And I guess it was new? This was the first psychobilly band, after all. They might have been first but others did it better. Even they did it better later on. And then there's the lyrics to take into account. When they're not just stupid, they're offensive in that manufactured, artificial way that one expects from shock jocks and kids whose dads wouldn't hug them. Just lame. Points for starting a thing, I guess, but it wasn't an enjoyable listening experience.

Screamy Rockabilly.

The Songs the Lord Taught Us frequently felt like a mix of The B-52s and The Stray Cats, and something from Iggy Pop. Perhaps on a different week, this album might get 3 stars, but I kept looking to see how long before the album was over. The Cramps are a new band for me and the album was new music. I never felt like the album made it to a full "okay".

I think that the raunchy rockabilly garage sound would be more entertaining if they wrote catchy tunes, but their originals get tired quickly. The album ends with Fever and their next album was 50% covers. The live videos I've seen certainly catch your attention but that doesn't translate well to an album. Between a 5/10 for me.

J'ai un peu plus apprécié mon écoute cette fois-ci. Je sais que c'est voulu, mais un bassiste ne serait pas de trop. J’aime le tone des guitares et les solos. Leur version de Strychnine des Sonics se démarque du lot et est pas mal ma préférée de l'album.

I have tight feeling in my stomach. Tighter than the band..

A bit scruffy and scrappy, not quite what I was after today

Psychobilly…

Rockabilly with theatrical punk energy and vocal. Not as good as Ramones

Punk and hilbilly??? Hmm. Not into it.

Un dels discos fundacionals del psychobilly. El títol i la portada són molt engrescants, les lletres i l'esperit de tot plegat encara més. Simplement és que la banda mai va tenir temes que sobresortissin. I el seu so és descarnat, en el seu pitjor sentit, i sense gaire substància

This is as if Elvis had ideas of reference, some homicidal ideation sand delusions of grandeur thrown in for good measure.

Swamp monster music, primordial, gloopy, and rough as arseholes. They freak but don't get freaky enough.

Very generic, balnd, and forgettable. Not the best representant of a genre I'm not too fond of honestly. Not much to say here, it just did not impress me much.

Aggressive, violent punk. Not my forte.

Didn't really get on with it

I get why this album matters. But not much to me.

Loved how it started, but within the first ten seconds of song #2 I knew what the rest of the album was going to sound like. I wished they had lyrically embraced the macabre even more; the content of “TV Set” is gruesome and fun and I really wanted much more of that. Instead, the rockabilly creep got pretty old pretty quick to my ears. Still, “Mystery Plane” pulled me back in and that’s a track I would return to. At the end of the day though, I’d rather just listen to The Misfits. And speaking of, I’m so curious how it came to be that several punk bands gravitated towards these forms of early pop rock. Cramps, Misfits, Ramones - it’s like they all watched Grease and decided to form their own gangs at the same high school. I don’t understand how that happened, as opposed to, say, mimicking the Sex Pistols. I’m sure there’s an essay somewhere…

Too much rockabilly

C’est sûrement voulu, mais ça manque de basse. J’aime le tone des guitares et le solo dans TV Set qui rappelle instantanément le genre de solos de Tom Morello, mais c’est à peu près tout. Il y a Strychnine qui se démarque du lot au début et qui a probablement incluencée The Hives (du moins c’est ma référence instantanée en entendant les premières mesures).

Esperava mais

They felt far away. I got through it but didnt enjoy

2/5 nothing much.

Appreciate the level of chaos, but most of it just seemed a bit samey. The mix is not the best either, making some bits hard to work out.

Noisy not great for calm Saturday morning

Didn't like it.

Oli siellä pari ihan hyvää melodiaa, mut jotenkin tämmönen vanha punk-soundi ei nappaa ihan kauheasti.

Muutama hyvä biisi ja fiilasin kyl meininkiä. Mut ehkä pitää korkkaa itekin 2/5 ja tää vois olla sen paikka.

Gothic punk? Rough around the edges Favorite Track: Teenage Werewolf Relisten: No

Garage rock, rimelig råt, lidt blandet

First listen. This is my kind of music. Never heard of them before though. I enjoyed it and like to hear more of it in the future. 2/5 for now.

Not bad but wouldn't listen again.

It wasn't bad, but nothing amazing either. I kind of enjoyed What's behind the mask and Garbageman.

Kasst

Nicht ganz scheiße, aber immer langweilig. Ich hab‘ die Platte über 2 Monate gar nicht hören wollen und sie dementsprechend auch erst später bewertet, wenn ich sie gar nicht gehört hätte, hätte ich auch nichts verpasst.

Rockabilly is not my thing, but there are a couple good songs on here.

One track is probably enough for lively, loud, undead rockabilly. A whole album has you frequently checking to see how long there is left…

Well, when you start with "TV Set" you really get off on the wrong foot. "TV Set" is an awful mess. "Rock on the Moon" had a somewhat promising start, then devolved into a cacophonous mess. And hey, turns out "Rock on the Moon" is a cover. Because the start of that track shows the potentially of the "psychobilly" style, I guess. It takes the rockabilly sound and amps it up, distorts it, turns it on its head. Later in the album, there is some stuff that is an actually not-terrible mix of rockabilly, surf rock, and punk. However, it is plagued by some terrible production (intentionally terrible?). They don't seem to know how to restrain their excesses. The hissing distortion that just hangs in the background of multiple songs, the singer sounding like he's in a different room than the lead guitar... The lead singer's name is Luxe Interior. He met his wife, also a member of the band, when he picked her up hitchhiking. Also according to Wikipedia, his "specialty is the microphone blowjob." I agonized for a while on * vs. **, but in the end there's enough interesting stuff there to elevate it above Venom or the Cocteau Twins or Brian Eno for me.

hurts my ears but some of the music is kinda neat

Surf punk!

Didn't love it, not quite melodic enough

знаю, что у этих парней угарные лайвы, но к музыке это слабое отношение имеет, супер вторичный и унылый материал, как будто роллинг стоунз играть разучились. последняя песня классная, впрочем, 3/10

я думал это они поют авона эрибади сей абаут да бэ бэбэбэ бэ бэ бэ бэбэ бэ бэ

Vähän kummastuttaa, että miksi levy on listalla mukana. Vuosiluvun perusteella ei olla ihan punkin etulinjassa menossa, mutta kuitenkin pari vuotta ennen Misfitsin albumeita. Ehkä nämä ovat sitten innoittaneet Misfitsiä, jotain samaahan näissä on?

Rock excéntrico e irreverente.

Early punk music. It's alright, not that great. Song with most plays was a cover. 5/10.

ripetitivo

Proto punk nonsense

No está mal pero no lo sentí muy básico y plano. He dicho

not my cup of tea too weird for me

Some of it was alright got repetitive very quickly though.

The beginning of punk starts here, and I really don't have much to say about it. Is it because I'm so far away from being punk that I just don't get it? The lyrics are pointless, the anger isn't felt, and nothing is catchy enough to stay in my head. I dunno, I was hoping to like it, and got disappointed.

Matig album, niet echt mijn smaak met dat overdreven gezang en neppe rockabilly gedoe

Interesting album, I had only heard "I Was A Teenage Werewolf" but it all seems in that vein, punk rockabilly. The lo-fi production and overall aesthetic doesn't quite work for me, but I definitely don't mind it.

It was alright to listen to but it's supposed to be punk and in my opinion it was quite boring for it to be punk...

I'm sure this would've been sick to see live but doesn't come across great in album format for me

I can't stand the guitar after a few songs... Did not fully listen I'm sorry.

Pretty shite. Not a good listen.

Not for me

Did not enjoy this album. It’s on the low end of bad punk.

Did not enjoy this and had to skip a lot of it

Terrible. There's actually some psychobilly that I enjoy (The Reverend Horton Heat and The Legendary Shack Shakers). This is not in the same league. 1 star.

Dated and rubbish. All the same

Rockabilly and weird punky pop has never been for me. This sounds like the weird stuff that would be on some gonzo late night program about aliens set in the southwest US on '80's cable TV.

Awful reverb

sorry moest m afzetten is niet mijn ding

Just so not my thing like.

I wish (s)he hadn’t

Mucha mezcla, me termina pareciendo sucio. No me convence.

This was atrocious. They sound like they were constantly trying to play 50’s rock n roll songs but putting their own “controversial” stamp on each. The result is embarrassing. Absolute bollocks.

No me gusto para nada, parecen ruidos de obra, moledora, taladro, mezcladora

I listened to the first four songs, then I couldn't take it any more and just skipped through parts of the remaining ones. The album is a true display of low-shelf composition and musicianship. Psychobilly my ass, that's a made-up niche name for 'rockabilly by guys who are not good enough to play rockabilly well'. I think it was all natural to make overly simplistic songs with the same I-IV-V chords in the 50s, as the music we know today was still in its infancy. But 'Songs The Lord Taught Us' came out in 1980. We're talking about artists like Michael Jackson, The Police and Prince laying the foundations for some of the coolest staples in musical history. And, just to bring us back to rockabilly, there was Brian Setzer, who was absolutely playing the shit out of the genre at that time. Compare him to these jokers, and it becomes evident how pathetic they were.

I don't know if it was because I just listened to Bob Dylan, but this fucking sucked as well.

That was rough. The mix, the songs, the vocals… even the cover. If I never listen to the cramps again that will be too much. 1.4.

I’d give this negative stars if I could. Z-

I was looking forward to this one, but what a let down. It's a cliche, but how did bands like this get signed? And what does this do for anyone 45 years later except inspire some nostalgia? Next.

Horrible

captures the authentic garage rock experience by being physically painful to listen to even at low volume.

Full Album Thoughts: Album Rating: 0.13 (D-) I dont know why this album is here. Its generic punk rock, heavy on the punk. Its knock off B52s. I checked out. This is an album that feels phoned in (lots of cover songs apparently) and so is this review. Track Thoughts: "TV Set" D Generic blues riff with the weird B52's lyrical delivery. Huge fuzz sound drenched in reverb, with the surf rock drums? Sure why not. Its meant to be a WALL of sound, but its not my cup of tea. "Rock on the Moon" D- Oh this album is a shitpost. Understandable. I can apricate a shit post. I do not have to enjoy a shitpost. "Garbageman" C Louie Louie and Bird is the Word shade! You really do just get to make a song about the garbage man, I take out the trash, and its a hit and gets in a book about the 1001 albums you gotta listen to... I mean, I can see why, you need some Weird Shit thrown in... but this is beyond me. "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" C+ I present for the consideration of The Dark Universe, the DEEP CUT trailer song for the hypothetical Native American Werewolf in Paris movie. "Sunglasses After Dark" C- Its no I Wear My Sunglasses At Night. Again, I feel like this was just an excuse to show off what "Real Punk" was. "The Mad Daddy" D If they were making songs like this still... I mean, I think I could get in on the market? "Mystery Plane" B- You know what? This is actual a hell of a song. Its actually got some... build to the intro, its still the generic surf rock, 12 bar blues structure, but I can absolutely see this being The Standout From The Album. The guitar tone is actually doing something... strange? The rhythm section then the doubled bumblebee buzz overtop. "Zombie Dance" This is still more knock off B52s. "What's Behind the Mask" From here on out I checked out of this album and am awarding everything an honorary D tier "Strychnine" "I'm Cramped" "Tear It Up" "Fever" F How do you take this song and make it boring

Bullshit hillbilly vampire nonsense. 1.5/5

It’s like they took everything I hate about this genre and put it on wax. It’s like they’re circling around me just laughing and pointing at my misery.

Not for me in the slightest

Self indulgent, pretentious, twaddle

The lord did not teach you these

That's 3 dogshit ones back to back, already considering dropping this lmao. Fourth bad one and I'm out.

genuinely insane album, just a crazy voice over terrible rock music

I can’t really find any redeeming qualities to this other than the fact that it’s weird. The songs are either complete noise or painfully boring

So many bands try. Lead vocal tries too hard and music arrangements mostly noise in my opinion. A bad album.

Nope

Sorry, but no. Just no. I suppose it's a cult hit and it'll have a band of devoted followers and fair enough, each to their own. If I was in my teens and at a party, I'd probably have a bit of fun with it, but I'm not and it's just tedious! After each song, I got to wondering if there'd just be one song that could say was alright, but no. There are special places in hell's jukebox for I'm Cramped and Tear It Up. No redeeming features. A low 1 star.

I can't do this man. This style of rock is so unappealing to me. Didn't finish.

I have failed to suffer through this, multiple times. I just can't palate the trashy surf punk aesthetic, I find it so grating and overshadowing of any positive elements the album may have

Weird, stompy, camp glam rock garbage. Why the hell is this here? The singer is awful. The songs are dire. And somehow the production is even worse. It sounds like it was recorded on a Nokia 3210 inside a bin in a studio. Either I was in a foul mood when I pressed play on this today or it was truly dreadful. I suppose it might be a bit of both.

Trash. The only takeaway from this was a cover of Fever, kinda hard to fuck that up. Other than that it sounds like a bunch of Jr. High kids put a band together and found some dork adult loser to sing.

This was not my vibe I fear

Didn’t really enjoy this and not really sure why it’s in here tbh, the vocals were kinda annoying. Kudos at least for making a song called I’m cramped given the context I guess though 1.5

Ich will nicht düster und krawallig. Auffallen ohne Musikalität ist Mist. Punk ist tot! Das nächste verfickte 0-Sterne-Album! Ich quäle mich weiter wie auf der Suche nach dem Bernsteinzimmer durch Unmengen an Geröll.

GOING IN: No strong feelings LISTENED WHILE: clearing out kitchen cupboards FAMILIARITY: New to me SKIP RATE: Gave up entirely REPLAY VALUE: Once was plenty DISCOVERY CURVE: Never happened ALBUM ARC: All over the place VERDICT: Bit disappointing BODY'S VERDICT: Statue mode FAVOURITE TRACK: My Rating: 1

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