Big Beat from Badsville
Big Beat from Badsville is the seventh studio album (and 12th album overall) by the American garage punk band the Cramps. It was released in 1997 on Epitaph Records. It was recorded and mixed at engineer Earle Mankey's house in Thousand Oaks, California, in May 1997.[1] It was self-produced by Poison Ivy and Lux Interior. It is notable as the only Cramps album to consist solely of original songs.
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| Released | 1997 | |||
| Recorded | May 1997 | |||
| Studio | Earle's Psychedelic Shack, Thousand Oaks, California | |||
| Genre | Garage punk, psychobilly | |||
| Label | Epitaph | |||
| Producer | Poison Ivy, Lux Interior | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
The Cramps reissued the album on their own record label, Vengeance Records, in 2001 with four bonus tracks: "Confessions of a Psycho Cat", "No Club Lone Wolf", "I Walked All Night" and "Peter Gunn".
Track listing
All tracks are written by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Cramp Stomp" | 3:25 |
| 2. | "God Monster" | 4:06 |
| 3. | "It Thing Hard-On" | 2:48 |
| 4. | "Like a Bad Girl Should" | 3:05 |
| 5. | "Sheena's in a Goth Gang" | 2:44 |
| 6. | "Queen of Pain" | 3:50 |
| 7. | "Monkey With Your Tail" | 3:37 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Devil Behind That Bush" | 3:33 |
| 2. | "Super Goo" | 2:27 |
| 3. | "Hypno Sex Ray" | 2:26 |
| 4. | "Burn She-Devil, Burn" | 2:23 |
| 5. | "Wet Nightmare" | 3:36 |
| 6. | "Badass Bug" | 2:25 |
| 7. | "Haulass Hyena" | 2:48 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15. | "Confessions of a Psycho Cat" | Interior, Rorschach | 3:32 |
| 16. | "No Club Lone Wolf" | Interior, Rorschach | 2:28 |
| 17. | "I Walked All Night" | Hargus "Pig" Robbins | 2:49 |
| 18. | "Peter Gunn" | Henry Mancini | 3:10 |
Personnel
- The Cramps
- Lux Interior - vocals
- Poison Ivy Rorschach - guitars, theremin
- Slim Chance - bass guitar
- Harry Drumdini - drums
- Technical
- Earle Mankey - engineer
- Nick Rubenstein, The Cramps - art direction
- Lux Interior - front cover photography
Notes and references
- Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Cramps: Big Beat from Badsville" at AllMusic. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
- Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Cramps: Big Beat from Badsville [Bonus Tracks"] at AllMusic. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
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