Songs the Lord Taught Us
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Songs the Lord Taught Us is the debut album by the American rock band the Cramps. It was released in 1980 on I.R.S. Records in America and Illegal Records in England. In 2020, Rolling Stone included Songs the Lord Taught Us in their "80 Greatest albums of 1980" list, praising 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".[1]
Music
Eric R. Danton of Paste Magazine called the album "a gleefully raw, thoroughly campy collection." He said the album contains "blaring guitars and Lux Interior’s unhinged vocals on songs steeped in the twin influences of rockabilly and garish B-movie horror imagery."[2]
Reception
Eric R. Danton of Paste Magazine said the album's tracks were "weird, funny and loud."[2]
Track listing
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Personnel
The Cramps
- Lux Interior – vocals
- Poison Ivy Rorschach – guitar
- Bryan Gregory – guitar
- Nick Knox – drums
Additional musicians
Technical
- Alex Chilton – producer
- John Hampton – engineer
- Carl Grasso – art direction
- The Cramps – sleeve concept, mixing
- David Arnoff – photography
References
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External links
- Songs the Lord Taught Us (Adobe Flash) at Radio3Net (streamed copy where licensed)