Songs The Lord Taught Us

I ain’t finishing this shite. Album was crust

Terrible. No redeeming features for me. The Lord should have taught them to Shut The F*ck Up.

While "acoustic punk" works well, "rockabilly punk" does not

I instantly dislike the vocals on this and the music doesn’t offer much to cancel that overriding feeling. I was a teenage werewolf at least has an enjoyable and recognisable tune to it. The cover of Fever is a highlight if only because it sounds different to the rest of the album

Vond vooral de bangers die ik al kende erg leuk en “Humble Mumble”. En vette afspeel-visual

traté de darle una oportunidad pero no es el tipo de música que me gusta sorryyy

I get it, they are trying to be silly. Sure the lyrics are campy in a way that only John Waters would dig, but the instrumental arrangements and performances are a lazy rip off of 50s and 60s standard song arrangements recorded and performed poorly, but marketed as being "more authentic", which is just a bullshit way to say it was recorded with too much cocaine and not enough budget or care. I prefer my psychobilly done by folks with more chops and imagination. Do yourself a favor and go listen to Cherry Poppin Daddies FEROCIOUSLY STONED, from the same decade instead, or anything from Reverend Horton Heat.

More like The Crapps - Songs A Spazlord Taught Us. This is a vigorously terrible album with the same crappy punk riffs throughout and what sounds like the bloke from B-52s yelping all over if he happened to be more mentally handicapped. The Mad Daddy which their utmost equivalent to Surfin’ Bird would have been the most dismal thing here if it weren’t for the cover of Fever at the end but truthfully all of this record is lousy.

You don't need to hear the whole thing, just a track or two. You'll get the idea. 1/5 for that reason. It's not an album, just a collection of songs.

I felt like stopping it in the middle but my husband said he “loved” this one, so I insisted. As of right now I’m kind of mad with him because I definitely should have stopped in the middle. It does not get better. I liked Whats Behind the Mask, though

awful

Wholly uninteresting. Playing essentially the same riff for the entire album duration with incoherent shouting, echoey production effects and some boring covers make this a total snoozefest. Barely qualifies as an album

Nope

Fairly unremarkable tedious stuff. Id struggle to see why anyone could think highly of this 1.5*

1+ Stars (3/15)

Meh. Too screamy and depressed for my taste. Listened to it (in part) while tidying my apt on a Thursday evening. Switched to Taylor Swift’s evermore to soothe my soul. That Thursday before saying goodbye to Kevin’s family and friends in Ireland in 2025.

No. Oh my goodness no.

Ehhhhh..... Yea..... Not for me.

not my cuppa

Novelty band, ok for the odd Halloween track, but no one wants an album of this shit, do they?

1.5

Thrashing, crazy, big sound. But, as the Spongebob marching band has taught us all: louder is not always better.

Complete crap. Why id it even on this list?

I listen to some punk. I didn't like this at all.

Couldn't get into it. DNF

Not my vibe

"The Cramps" is a fitting band name. I almost got a cramp in my ear listening to this singing.

Sounds like an album made by 12 years olds. Poor, very poor.

Nah fam. This one wasn’t it. I tend to like bands similar in sound, but to me, these fellas were a little goofy. Couldn’t be caught playing this loud anywhere tbh.

Whiny guitars absolutely drowned in reverb was a bad choice. Also, Elvis did it better. I bet 80s punks loved this crap.

No los pillo

Wow, this album is something else. It feels like someone just hit record on a chaotic jam session of ugly sounds and off-key vocals and decided to call it music. It’s a wild ride, but not in a good way.

Ugh... please. This was just too difficult and weird to me. Song was horrible, music itself was not good either... very noisy. Now that I think of it, the song was probably the biggest issue. Anyways, not my cup of tea at all, not much more to say.

Punk B-52s is still B-52s, no thanks.

Отвратительно

Not for me.

Não gostei muito

agggghhhhh..... get me outa here

naja, für mich eher fragwürdig, wieso das album in der liste ist - punkrock, aber nicht mal gut. und auch nicht in einer anderen kategorie herausragend.

I hate this . Honestly It’s just people speaking in annoying tones . Don’t like the sound of. Don’t like the people . Just please never make me listen to this again

okay im sorry but that was ass, didnt like it, struggled to finish it, soz x

Ts so goofy bro

Just not my music

no. just no. bro sounds like a grim grinning ghost from haunted mansion. spooky scary skeleton type flow.

Sounds like it was recorded with tin cans and strings at the bottom of a disused backyard swimming pool. Can’t hear a goddamn thing. Every instrument and vocal is echoey and garbled. I can almost get behind "I Was a Teenage Werewolf," but, honestly, I only like the opening guitar riff. Then, they ruin the track. I really don't like anything else here. This is the sort of album that many people love because of how terrible it is. It’s raw and weird, and in some ways it’s what rock and roll is all about, but come on. This sounds like a band you hear in a friend’s garage in high school on a Tuesday afternoon, one week after they figured out how to plug in their amp. It’s not campy or fun, it’s just juvenile.

This might have been decently cool in the 80's but it didn't age very well. It sounds like it was recorded in a shed so its target audience is definitely teens who want to piss off their parents by playing this super loud and banging on shit around the house. The most interesting part is how the band members met (hitchhiker pickup) but I'm not a fan of their personas and stage-names. One of the more decent songs, "Strychnine" is a cover and The Sonics do it better anyway. This was not for me. 1.30 for goth, vampire, rockabillies doing a hoedown in a tin shed.

Heard of The Cramps around the punk scene but never gave them a listen. After hearing the debut, don't need to revisit them again. This was not good in my opinion and even though they may have started the psychobilly scene for stepping out of the box, they have a pretty annoying sound. "Garbage Man" was the only track with some appeal. Glad this one was a shorty cause I wouldn't have been able to take much more. They need to find a new instructor...1.33.

Sounds like a few drunks trying karaoke. This was bad

I would call this regressive music. It's doing the same thing as thirty years before, and makes no improvements whatsoever; in many ways, it's just worse. 1.5

I’m tired boss

nope

They took rockabilly, a genre that I already didn't think highly of, and shittified it even more! Impressive!

music for people that wear adult diapers

The only thing I liked about this album was the name of it. 😂 1

nah

A dreadful album. Punk meets Rockabilly and creates PsychoBilly. Apparently, in 2020, Rolling Stone praised the band for its "psychobilly sound that went way beyond the kitschiest moments of the Ramones or Blondie and into a whole new realm of garage-trash novelty" - what a load of pretentious crap, just like this album.

Er rokkabillý skemmtilegt? Það getur sloppið fyrir horn í algjöru hófi, en nei, það er ekki skemmtilegt. Er pönkrokkabillý skemmtilegt? Nei, ekki einu sinni í hófi. Og nei, ekki einu sinni hér.

No

Not fir me

Three really bad albums in a row! The perfect imperfect trifecta is completed thanks to The Cramps and their amazing and evocative achievement "Songs The Lord Taught Us". 4 songs in I just gave up - maybe I'm not feeling well today, but this album made it much worse. I'd like to go back the the World where cramps were much more enjoyable than this band.

Not for me. 1/5

If Songs the Lord Taught Us is truly divine inspiration, then I’m happy to remain an atheist. This album comes across as a cacophony of substandard musicianship, topped off with tuneless yelps that pass as singing. It’s chaotic, rough around the edges, and, while clearly aiming for a tongue-in-cheek style, it’s a joke that I just don’t find entertaining. I can see that this album has its fans, but the gritty, unpolished quality fails to resonate with me. The Cramps may have built a reputation for this raw, campy style, but, in my view, there’s a fine line between endearing and unbearable. Here, unfortunately, it lands on the latter. Standout Song: None Score: 1/5

I very much did not enjoy this.

Not entirely bad, but mostly

Ugh. Having a hard time coming up with anything redeeming about this. I guess the whole psychobilly schtick is interesting, but man is it unpleasant to listen to. Vocals are impossible to understand, the guitars sound like they were recorded over AM radio with a broken speaker. Just not for me at all.

The Lord taught us? TheybLord prayed for you to stop!

not my cup of tea

Garbage

Every song sounded the same

I felt the urge to upchuck -I cannot resist the temptation to go out and buy this album and defeate on it…

3.65 rym inutile 1/5

Nada relevante. Por lo general suena como un grupo que utiliza un poco la música como entretenimiento, pero no tiene a priori un mensaje muy profundo ni una música que llame especialmetne. Bastante repetitivo a mi gusto en general y nada a destacar, parece algo que haya oído mil veces en otros grupos, pero más estruendoso y hacer ruido por hacer. No me ha llamado nada la atención.

It’s shit, but I’m really liking covers of “Fever” by Little Wille John!! 1.5

Stray Cats did this ramshackle rockabilly chaos better. As did the Clash.

Nor enjoyable at all

I didn't like this album. The vocals are unintelligible, the instruments are boring, the mix is awful. It's deep fried rockabilly. Awful, nasty, and I think it took time off my life. 2/10 Would I listen again? No

As for The Cramps “Songs The Lord Taught Us” – they are definitely original and unique sounding – though pretty simple and basic, and there really wasn’t much diversity throughout the album, as most songs sorta sounded the same… Nothing special here, and the best track IMOP is “I’m Cramped” – and really thought they did a great job with their cover of “Fever”… Would probably give this a 1.25 if I could, but that’s it for this garage punk band…

I'm not sure why this album was made; it's got a monsters and aliens theme with a punk rock sound. Nothing about any of those things appeals to me. On the plus side, the songs were all short; on the downside, there were a lot of them.

Inte så bra.

Nope, this was awful, plodding horrible drums, nasty rockabilly guitar, dreadful vocals. I can't think of anything I liked about this, so it gets 1 star.

Rating this album halfway through and it’s been awful so far but not the worst…close though

Shitty and sliced my finger

Nope. Can’t get past the screeching guitar and screaming lyrics. I know Punk Rock is a music genre but why?????

Didn’t enjoy this one. They took the beloved rockabilly guitar tones and textures of the 50s and morphed it into punk garage rock… with sloppy results. “Garbageman” was the one exception for me: its spooky rhythm was engaging and had a nice atmospheric vibe that was mesmerizing, but that was about it.

Ik vind dit een beetje vreemde muziek. Best slecht eigenlijk. *

Oh god, if your unfamiliar with the music of this time you might think this has a few worthy elements to it. However if you know this time in space you know the cramps were the the crusty part of an infected scrotal pustule

This is awful. 1

If the lord taught you these songs you have a false God.

1/10 terrible but not as bad as the sex pistols

I highly doubt The Lord taught them any of those songs. I couldn’t understand a single word they were saying behind the garbage disposal concoction of guitar and other music. Did not enjoy this at all

I had to DNF it about halfway through. It was just too painful.

hyvä asenne...koulu vittu paskaa!!! fuck the cops THE PIIIIGS!!!! Fuck the TEACHERS!!!! en tee läksyjä VITTU ENÄÄN KOSKAAN.. .ja virkavalta hoi kun uuukkkometsoooo... ei tee politiilan pää kärki viher veikot leikkasi asumistuki!! joka 190 eurea massiivinen rahavuoto ottakaa pois siitä max money goes to him right now...cut in half...ai olikin perussuomolainen rock on the moon

The smiths but punk is what I thought and I don't like the smiths!

Yeah, no!

This is annoying. No thanks.

Non mi fa impazzire questo genere di musica voto 2 (se non 1) vedo come mi gira

I sometimes wonder what it would’ve sounded like that I played in a band in junior high school. It would’ve sounded like this crap. I hear nothing original or interesting in this music.

Een bloedvervelend album. Ze zijn helemaal losgegaan qua galm en dat maakt dat het vervelend is om naar te luisteren. Dead Kennedys met extra galm. Doe dan maar liever gewoon Dead Kennedys. De zanger doet ook echt z'n best om kut te klinken, als een soort hakkelende Elvis. Met galm dus. Godverdomme die galm. Eigenlijk alles wat ik vervelend vind aan oude punk komt hier bijna tot in het extreme tot uiting. En dan heb ik nog het geluk dat ik naar de remaster luister. Ik kom er nog niet achter of dit serieus bedoeld is of als soort grap/persiflage en dat stoort me. Zonder die galm was dit een 3 of 4 geweest. Nu moet ik gaan kiezen tussen een 1 of 2. Eigenlijk is het absurd dat ik een 1 overweeg, maar ik heb zo'n zin om het af te zetten dat ik er toch nog eens goed over moet nadenken. Ontzettend vermoeiend album.

Really struggling to see how this is essential listening by any stretch of the definition. I actually enjoyed their treatment of Fever, but otherwise there was really nothing appealing here to me.

Fuck me that's a difficult listening experience. Quite proud I made it through the whole album, once is more than enough though.

HOW BOUT NO! -Us

nice bass. ... "BUT IT'S ALL aTtItUuUuUdE!!!!!" ... 1/10 1 star.

Bad quality sound

Rating: 3/10 Awful production on this album. The guitars sound like total crap. The mix is absolute garbage as well. Some interesting ideas, but overall a little one-note. Combines punk rock with rockability with a gothic theme and doesn't deviate from that. Ideas are sometimes good, execution is what is lacking here. Definitely won't listen to this again. Rock on the Moon and Garbageman are good songs though and Fever is decent.

This sounds like if South Park were to make a parody of a punk band. The singing is just so ridiculous that I can't pay attention to anything else. And the generic ass guitar and drums makes it sound like a highschool band playing in a talent competition. I was hoping that I would be able to start liking the album more as the songs went on, but I just absolutely hate this singer and he keeps getting worse and worse. Them having ridiculous songs like Garbageman is not helping at all. This album stinks like garbage. PEEYEW!!

Barely enjoyable for me

So I just went to a Tool concert last night. You're telling me that today I have to listen to the Cramps? That's like spending the night with Scarlett Johannson then coming home to Lena Dunham. There's just no way to make it work.

A not very good novelty rock album. Plenty of not very good cover versions, the worst of which being 'Fever'. A few okish original compositions, the pick of which being 'I Was a Teenage Werewolf'. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: I Was a Teenage Werewolf Date listened: 10/10/23

More like the craps

The world would have been a better place if this band were atheists instead. Seriously, where did this website's curators dig this album up from?

I learned a new genre today - "psychobilly". I do not care for it.

If the Lord really taught them these songs, you should seriously consider renouncing your religion.

It pains me to pan anything with Alex Chilton associated with it. But this isn't Big Star, and Chilton was probably downward spiraling at the time.

Oh dear - one for the weird fetishists

Another album on the list of “why is this on here” Holy shit was this album hard to get through. the cramps, what a name, had such great songwriting ability they created a song called in cramped. And that’s all they say the whole song. That alone should tell you how good this album is. Felt like I was listening to a bunch of crack heads with mascara. This was bad. 2.6/10

This sucks. The covers are the bright spots.

No 1/5

This was very rough. I had to be trapped on a plane to be motivated enough to finish. Every song sounded like “the bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word”. It made an hour feel like a day

Annoying at times

Nope

Sounds like Bill Haley and the Comets singing circus music. What even is this? Don't think I'll listen again. At best musically uninspiring.

I hated this. Hated it. Hated it. Hated it. ...and I can't for the life of me see how anyone can appreciate this garbage, either. ...and believe me, I tried. I listed to the album twice on separate days and I can't wrap my brain around it. Every song sounds the same and it all drives me crazy. No more.

Honestly kinda good tunes but really garage rock sound to it which was hard to listen to.

Voorbips met Doyenné du Comice. Ofwel: Kut met peren.

Hate it.

fucking ass

There is a superfluous M in the groups name. Also, the album full title should be... Songs The Lord Taught Us Never To Listen To.

Nyt on ihan tarpeeks kuultu näitä levyjä. Ei vaan putoo ja tätä suorastaan vitutti kuunnella.

This was a bad album.

Interesting.

boring

Garage Trash, about right. I feel like I could multi-track this together in the shed over a long weekend. You know when your dog is barking, and your wife is in your ear about some thing inane, and your toddler has broken your good glasses so your wearing a pair too small and they pinch the bridge of your nose, and you go to see what your album of the day is… I’d probably give this a 2 for the poor adherence to rhythmic conventions but we’ll knock another star off for the logo being on Primark T-Shirts.

Guess you had to be there

The Garbageman can take this away

Thought it was a little strange and not super interesting. The songs were outdated and not super enjoyable. Too dramatic

Not creative, mundane musically, vocal range appears to be 3 notes.

Terrible corny rock album

Dog shit

Didn't like it at all. The whole time I was listening to it I was waiting for it to end.

Today I learned about the psychobilly genre. Today I also learned that I don’t like psychobilly.

Pretty average production. Nice riffs, rockabilly / garage dirty rock sound. Singings pretty bad/average. No standout wow songs. Shame to review it like this as some bands which show inspiration from The Cramps I love.

Nah.

Jak odkryłem, że końcówka płyty to już powtórzone utwory, to odetchnąłem z ulgą. Straszliwa kakofonia dla mnie, teoretycznie lubię takie klimaty, praktycznie tego się słuchać nie dało

Fred Armison did a sketch on SNL where he played an 80s punk singer reuniting at his daughters wedding. This sounds like that... Also - the album sounds like it was recorded on a potato

I can appreciate how this was influential, but I do not enjoy it at all.

Ça manque de bass😆 Je connaissais le nom the cramps C'est garage, ça sonne la bouette mais le son n'est pas l'idée ici j'imagine Sûrement que live au CBGB ça devait être cool en 1979... Que dire de fever... c'est croche, c'est faux, je suis pu capable d'entendre cette toune mais j'ai préféré à plusieurs versions proprette d'aujourd'hui Subversif pour l'époque et naissance du psycobilly mais je penses pas m'infliger ça souvent

J’était tanné après 2 tounes.

Probably decent live, but didn't get any energy from this at all

Nope. Not for me.

I understand the place that Punk is coming from (kind of) but this feels so sloppy and not in a good way. The lyrics are just random as hell (other than the werewolf theme from the whole album?) and I didn't love any of the musicians.

Not my style of music and recording quality was poor (but it makes sense for the genre)

Did not like.

Didnt like it

Got one track in

Audible excrement. Semi interesting riff on Teenage Werewolf. Starting to wonder why I’m doing this.

Dees is hem niet...

1.4 Trash! (vind ik) ik ken ook niemand van men peers die dit soort muziek nog luistert. geen aangename stem, vaak rommelig. i don't like it. Luister ik nooit meer

So The Saints (from yesterday) put out a Halloween album…

It sounds like a blend of a bad Elvis impersonator and bad punk music. The songs were mostly boring until they got unpleasant. I prefer bands that make sounds that sound good together rather than making sound for the sake of making noise.

This noise should not be permitted. Truly horrible.

Awful. Idk if it’s the band, genre, or specifically the lyricist but I wish I got the time I spent back listening to this dog poo.

I like rockabilly but not this. Crap

This definitely doesn't sound like what I expected from the album title. It actually sounds a lot worse (and my expectations were already extremely low, mind you). Instead, it sounds more like the band name. Horrible. Please no more. I didn't even last two full songs. I skipped through it a bit to hear what the rest sounds like though. Didn't seem to get any better.

I don't get it. It's one song, sludgy recording, all sounds the same. 👎

Sounded like the exact same song 13 times. And unfortunately that song of fucking shit. No album you fee this much of a chore

A joke of an album, thing is, the joke isn't funny or smart.

I mean I will give them the fact that they have an album called bad music for bad people. At least they know their limitations

Its supposed to be punk but it just felt lifeless to me. Wailing over bland guitars

Aika yhdentekevää punkkia. Levy saa tyytyä ykköseen. Viisi pistettä annan pariskunnalle, joka perustaa punk-bändin ja saa sekä bändin että liiton kestämään pitkälti yli 30 vuotta. Muiden bändijäsenten suhteen ovet kävi aika tiuhaan, joten Mr. and Mrs. olivat varmaan oikeat toisilleen, mutta väärät kenelle tahansa muulle.

Todella huono levy. Pariin kertaan taistelin läpi mutta en keksinyt oikein mitään positiivista sanottavaa.

Probably the worst one Ive heard so far. I can understand why its there, but I really didnt enjoy it at all. The singing is incredibly annoying, and overall is just has a really trashy feel to it.

Can see why. But not for me.