Brought up on the radio shows of the legendary rock ’n’
roll DJs, the moondogging Alan Freed, Mad Daddy and,
later, the ghostly Ghoulardi, it was hardly surprising that
The Cramps’ Lux Interior and Poison Ivy began trawling
the thrift stores for juvenile delinquent tunes, lip curling
bad boy rock ’n’ roll, strange exotica, bizarre novelty
45s, dysfunctional doo wop, psychedelic weirdness and
instrumentals made by madmen. In America in the 1950s
and 1960s there seemed to be small town versions of
such vinyl madness everywhere that, by the 1970s were
remaindered and to the majority of people unwanted. To
the fledgling Cramps this was nothing short of heaven.
The duo filled their house with novelty memorabilia,
schlock horror furniture and a record collection to die
for. Lux eventually gravitated to his own Purple Knif
Radio show and the Cramps delivered their versions of
some of the stuff they’d found. The duo name-checked
many a 45 along the way and seeking them out and
sampling their eccentricities is nothing short of mind
blowing.

This 24-track collection positively effervesces with
eccentricity. Again the vinyl only double-10“ is divided
into 4 themes: „The Rock`n´Rollers“, „New Dance
Trend“, „Instrumentals“ and „The Mad Daddies“.
Every track pirouettes dangerously and at times hap
hazardly around the expected. These are songs for
strange times by what can definitely be considered
strange people. Gems and nuggets that sparkle even
more bright in today’s manufactured music maelstrom.
The population of Badsville welcomes you aboard.