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ARTIST: The Cramps
TITLE: Big Beat From Badsville
FORMAT: LP (Color Vinyl, Import)
LABEL: Big Beat
PRODUCT #: WIKAD-210
RECORD CONDITION: NM! LOOKS AWESOME!
JACKET CONDITION: NM! STILL IN SHRINKWRAP BUT OPENED, HAS TEAR ON MIDDLE OF TOP EDGE (price adjusted accordingly)
DESCRIPTION: 
"As the Cramps approached their 20th anniversary, they showed no signs of changing their signature kitschy psychobilly style. In so many ways, Big Beat From Badsville is no different from its immediate predecessor, Flamejob, or any of the group's other records -- it's a collection of campy songs about sex, horror, violence, leather and perversion. Sonically, it's slightly rawer than Flamejob, and the group's performances are as inspired here as they are on any of their other '90s albums." - Stephen Thomas Erlewine & allmusic.com

"Conjuring a fiendish witches' brew of primal rockabilly, grease-stained '60s garage rock, vintage monster movies, perverse and glistening sex, and the detritus and effluvia of 50 years of American pop culture, the Cramps are a truly American creation much in the manner of the Cadillac, the White Castle hamburger, the Fender Stratocaster, and Jayne Mansfield. Often imitated, but never with the same psychic resonance as the original, the Cramps celebrate all that is dirty and gaudy with a perverse joy that draws in listeners with its fleshy decadence, not unlike an enchanted gingerbread house on the Las Vegas strip. The entire psychobilly scene would be unthinkable without them, and their prescient celebration of the echoey menace of first-generation rock & roll had a primal (if little acknowledged) influence on the rockabilly revival and the later roots rock movement." - Mark Deming & allmusic.com


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