How to Make a Monster (album)
How to Make a Monster | ||||
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Released | 2004 | |||
Genre | Garage punk, psychobilly | |||
Length | 142:59 | |||
Label | Vengeance Records | |||
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How To Make A Monster is the third compilation album by the American garage punk band the Cramps. Comprising rare, previously-unreleased tracks, the release is a 2-CD set that includes a 28-page book with extensive liner notes by members Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, as well as rare and previously unseen photos and flyers from their personal collection.
Content included[]
Disc 1 contains 1976 rehearsal material, some 1982 studio demos with Terry Graham of the Gun Club on drums, and several other previously unreleased studio recordings. Disc 2 contains two historic live performances of relatively poor recording quality, both from very early in the band's career (one at Max's Kansas City and the other at CBGB).
Track listing[]
All songs by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, except where otherwise noted
Disc 1[]
Summer 1976
- 1. "Quick Joey Small" (Joey Levine, Arthur Resnick) — 2:08
- 2. "Lux's Blues" — 1:14
- 3. "Love Me" (Marty Lott) — 2:56
- 4. "TV Set" — 3:12
- 5. "Love Me" (Marty Lott) — 2:29
- 6. "Domino" (Sam Phillips) — 2:34
- 7. "Sunglasses After Dark" (Dwight Pullen) — 1:16
- 8. "Subwire Desire" (Sam Phillips) — 2:50
October 1976
- 9. "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" — 3:08
- 10. "Can't Hardly Stand It" (Jody Chastain, Charlie Feathers, Jerry Huffman) — 3:21
1981 Rehearsal
- 11. "Sweet Woman Blues" (Edwin Bruce) — 4:54
- 12. "Rumble Blues" (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 1:49
- 13. "Rumble Blues" (False Start) (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 0:49
- 14. "Rumble Blues" (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 3:28
- 15. "Rumble Blues" (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 2:32
- 16. "Lonesome Town" (Baker Knight) — 4:13
1982 A&M Studio
- 17. "Five Years Ahead of My Time" (Rusty Evans, Vicky Pike) — 2:10
- 18. "Call of the Wighat" — 4:35
- 19. "Hanky Panky" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich) — 2:55
1988 Rehearsal
- 20. "Journey to the Center of a Girl" — 3:35
- 21. "Jackyard Backoff" — 3:04
- 22. "Everything Goes" — 1:53
1988 Home Demo
- 23. "All Women are Bad" — 3:47
Disc 2[]
Live at Max's Kansas City, 1/14/77
- 1. "Don't Eat Stuff Off the Sidewalk" — 2:06
- 2. "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" — 3:10
- 3. "Sunglasses After Dark" — 5:03
- 4. "Jungle Hop" — 2:20
- 5. "Domino" — 3:18
- 6. "Love Me" — 3:21
- 7. "Strychnine" — 4:19
- 8. "TV Set" — 3:25
- 9. "I'm Cramped" — 2:33
Live at CBGB, 1/13/78
- 10. "The Way I Walk" — 3:27
- 11. "Love Me" — 3:01
- 12. "Domino" — 3:39
- 13. "Human Fly" — 3:04
- 14. "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" — 3:25
- 15. "Sunglasses After Dark" — 4:43
- 16. "Can't Hardly Stand It" — 3:34
- 17. "Uranium Rock" — 3:02
- 18. "What's Behind the Mask" — 3:00
- 19. "Baby Blue Rock" — 3:01
- 20. "Subwire Desire" — 2:53
- 21. "I'm Cramped" — 2:51
- 22. "TV Set" — 3:38
Personnel[]
- Lux Interior - vocals; guitar on "Lux's Blues"
- Poison Ivy, Bryan Gregory (tracks 1-1 to 1-10, 2-1 to 2-22), Kid Congo Powers (tracks 1-11 to 1-19) - guitar
- Candy Del Mar - bass (tracks 1-20 to 1-22)
- Miriam Linna (tracks 1-9, 1-10, 2-1 to 2-9), Nick Knox (tracks 1-11 to 1-16, 1-20 to 1-22, 2-10 to 2-22), Pam Balam (tracks 1-1 to 1-8), Terry Graham (tracks 1-17 to 1-19) - drums
- Technical
- Earle Mankey - assembly and mastering
References[]
- ^ Deming, Mark. "The Cramps: How To Make A Monster Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
- The Cramps albums
- 2004 compilation albums
- 2004 live albums