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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.
Losing faith in this project.
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.
Terrible.
Dreadful
I was wondering why this was so grating to hear, and I realized its because its Rockabilly garbage, weird how we havent heard any of it up until now. There is really awful droning through a number of these songs that kind of masks the vocals a little, it also borders on surfer rock a little bit, maybe its supposed to? I dunno, I felt weirdly queasy listening to this. You can skip this one.
Sehr affektiert. Rock n roll Langweilig
Eh
The lord denies teaching them
I now have ear cramps!
Pretty shite. Not a good listen.
The band’s name is literal. Listen to this, and It will give you actual stomach pain.
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
Öregember zene
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