In The Trashcan
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"From Let's Get Fucked Up to Kizmiaz, they always
were in a Teenage Rage and went Wilder Wilder Faster
Faster..."
In 1985 New Rose Records from France released "Can your pussy do the dog?" b/w "Georgia lee brown", a Jackie Lee Cochran original.
I consider this as one of the Cramps' best originals, although Poison Ivy listened very carefully to Duane Eddy's "Lost island" from 1959. New Rose Records released it in 1986.
It's the B-side of "Let's get fucked up", issued by The Medicine Label at the end of 1994 and also featured on their "Flamejob" LP.
While the 12" promo release was on Creation, the 7" was released by The Medicine Label in 1994, b/w "How come you do me?"
"Creature from the black leather lagoon" was the Cramps' third single out of "Stay sick", released in 1990 on Enigma. Although Lux and Ivy are huge Elvis fans, they based their version on the demented Dean Carter recording from 1967. This version first appeared on "The last temptation of Elvis", a compilation album with Elvis movie tracks.
John Waters asked The Cramps to write three authentic 50s tunes for his "Cry baby" movie with Johnny Depp and Traci Lords and even Iggy Pop. The result was too authentic for Waters, so he asked Dave Alvin of The Blasters instead. Nevertheless, "Teenage rage", one of those three, was good enough to appear as flipside to "All women are bad" in 1990.
While New Rose chose "Georgia Lee Brown", Big Beat went for "Blue moon baby" as flipside for "Can your pussy do the dog?" from 1985. Originally it was performed by Dave "Diddle" Day.
This is still the most sought after 45 of all their regular releases as it was only released in France in small quantities in 1980. The A-side is "Garbageman". Actually it is "Road block" by The Teen Rockers from 1960 with added lyrics.
"Ultra twist" was released by Creation Records in the UK and by The Medicine Label in the US. It's the UK release that features this Cramps original on the flipside. Issued in 1995.
In 1991 Big Beat released "Eyeball in my Martini" b/w "Wilder wilder faster faster", a B-side not available on "Look mom no head".
"Kizmiaz" has several B-sides. "Give me a woman" appeared on the New Rose release from 1986. The promo release features "How far can too far go". Originally it's an Andy Starr song from 1956. Oh, The Cramps' version was also on the flipside of "What's inside a girl?", a Big Beat release from 1986.
A 1983 B-side of "Faster pussycat" on New Rose, also available as picture disc. "You got good taste" has been a live favourite for many years.
Originally it's an Embers song and it's covered brilliantly by The Cramps in 1997. Epitaph Records put it as B-side of "Like a bad girl should".
Lux was a big Headcoats fan and my personal biggest influences in the 80s-90s were Lux & Ivy and Billy Childish. Hence the inclusion of two Headcoats songs on this volume. This track was the flipside to Thee Headcoatees' "Jackie Chan does kung fu" on Damaged Goods from 1998.
In 1989 Enigma Records chose "Bikini girls with machine guns" as the first single to promote their "Stay sick" album. This is the flipside.
Released on the Danish label Karls Grammofonpladeselskab in 1996. This song is only available on this 45. Billy Childish also admitted that he loved the Cramps a lot.
