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Look Mom No Head!
Out of print since 2014!! Look Mom No Head! dresses rock ʼnʼ roll in its full regalia, with its many knobs, buttons and doo-dads. Man! The electric guitar sounds like it might launch a rocket! Replete with celebrations of intoxication and sexual prowess, The Cramps’ 1991 album sports “Dames, Booze, Chains and Boots” from the movie Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, a torchy rendition of Jack Nitzscheʼs slow-fuck blues “Hardworkinʼ Man” and the cross-dressing classic “I Wanna Get In Your Pants.” Minute…
A Date With Elvis
Originally planned for 1985 to join in the onslaught of Elvisʼs 50th Anniversary commemorative reissues, A Date With Elvis came out in early 1986 in Europe only, where it went on to sell more than 200,000 copies. The only album featuring The Cramps as a three-piece band (Poison Ivy doubled on bass), it careens from the sociopathic advice of “People Ainʼt No Good” (later covered by Nick Cave) to mind-on-vacation odes like “Aloha From Hell” and “Kizmiaz” (where The Cramps prove they were exotic wh…
Gravest Gravy
Recorded at Ardent Studios in October 1977 as part of the sessions that birthed Gravest Hits, the tracks on Gravest Gravy were contained on seven 1/4 inch reels. The tapes were transferred by Brian Kehew, the tracks were selected for inclusion by Henry Rollins, engineered by Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara at Inner Ear Studios and mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Sound.
Originators of a mutant and primal, stripped-down sound with its roots in the primordial soup of Rock 'n Roll - The Cramps cra…
Exposure (LP)
Original Italian edition on EG of the superb 1979 experimental rock / new wave first solo album by King Crimson leader, featuring Brian Eno, Peter Hammill, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Daryl Hall and many others.
Discipline (LP)
Original Dutch edition on Polydor/EG of the surprising first album of the renewed, both musically and in the line-up, KC of the early 1980's, released in 1981.
Beat (LP)
Original Italian edition on Polydor/EG of the great second album of the renewed, both musically and in the line-up, KC of the early 1980's, released in 1982.
Three Of A Perfect Pair (LP)
Original Italian edition on EG of the great third album of the renewed, both musically and in the line-up, KC of the early 1980's, released in 1984.
Rhapsody (2LP)
Rare unofficial 2LP set on Haro Records with the entire concert at Sun Plaza Hall in Tokyo in 1984.
The League Of Gentlemen (LP)
Original UK edition on Polydor/EG of the electrifying debut album by Fripp's new wave band with XTC's Barry Andrews, released in 1981.
Your Last Chance To Get Lucky (LP)
Unofficial 1981 LP on Raven Records with a live recording of Fripp's new wave band under the name Robin Hood & The Bunch Of Women.
Big Beat From Badsville
Dangerous, bizarre, but most of all cool, The Cramps one again prove themselves as leaders in skull-fracturing rock ʼnʼ roll, delving even deeper into a wicked netherworld where few have dared to tread. They are the architects of a sound that has spawned an entire subversive subculture. Originally released in 1997, Big Beat From Badsville is a haul-ass, careening monster of a record featuring more songs of mutilation, shape-shifting, psycho frenzies and she-devil-worship. The four rare bonus tra…
Stay Sick!
Sex-classic Stay Sick! was originally released in 1990 and features more of the dark side of rockabilly in a jugular vein. The opener, a hopped-up cover of obscure Sun Records tune “Bop Pills,” proves that rumors of amphetamine usage by the original Memphis rockabilly cats was not exaggerated, and sets the pace for the rest of the album.
Hog-wild covers of “Shortninʼ Bread” and “Muleskinner Blues” probably have the original writers dancing on their graves, and The Cramps’ version of the perverse…
Challenge
2026 stock “Challenge” was released in 1981 on Bootleg, a record label born inside a record store in Pavia with the same name. “Challenge” keeps the original and uncompromising punk attitude alive. 3 groups: No Suicide (from the Udine province), Mercenary God (from Gemona), No Submission (from Treviso), all sick children of the industrious, rich and Christian Democratic north-eastern part of Italy.
Rough Trade 1982 (calendar)
Rare Rough Trade calendar for the year 1982 designed by Martyn Lambert.
What You See... Is What You Are (LP)
1978 split LP on Deptford Fun City with live recordings by one of the most seminal and experimental punk bands shared with the Gong-related raw space-rock prychedelic group.
Virus Meadow (LP)
Original 1986 UK edition on Reflex Records of the arty, folky goth-tinged second album.
The Millpond Years (LP)
Original 1988 UK edition on Reflex Records of the arty, folky goth-tinged third album.
In The Flat Field (LP)
Original UK edition of simply one of the best debut albums of the British new wave, dark and innovative, released in 1980 by the new-born 4AD label. Essential.
The Sky's Gone Out (LP)
Original German edition of the excellent third album by "gothic" new wave initiators, released by Virgin in 1983.
Bela Lugosi (LP)
Unofficial early 1980's German LP on Geebo Geebo Records with recordings of the live shows at Scamps Disco, Oxford, August 11, and at the University Of London, October 31, 1980.