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Songs the Lord Taught Us | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Cramps
Label: Fontana a&M
Category: Music
Buy New: $14.98
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 16451
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.6 x 0.5
MPN: 970007
UPC: 044797000720
EAN: 0044797000720
ASIN: B000001I09
Release Date: September 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | TV Set | | • | Rock On The Moon | | • | Garbageman | | • | I Was A Teenage Werewolf | | • | Sunglasses After Dark | | • | The Mad Daddy | | • | Mystery Plane | | • | Zombie Dance | | • | What's Behind The Mask | | • | Strychnine | | • | I'm Cramped | | • | Tear It Up | | • | Fever | | • | I Was A Teenage Werewolf (With False Start) | | • | Mystery Plane | | • | Twist And Shout | | • | I'm Cramped | | • | The Mad Daddy |
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The Cramps got away with their Z-movie, zombie-rock schtick because they were so intense in their conviction that it had more value than middlebrow humanist pop. Descending on Memphis to cut their debut album with Big Star legend Alex Chilton, the band served up a thirteen-song punkabilly testament to drive-in anti-culture, replete with garage-band guitars and booming voodoo drums. Versions of "Fever" "Strychnine," and the Johnny Burnette Trio's "Tear It Up" competed with Lux Interior-Poison Ivy originals like "T.V. Set" and "I Was a Teenage Werewolf." Songs the Lord Taught Us was also the first and last Cramps album to feature scary-looking guitarist Bryan Gregory. --Barney Hoskyns
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 Rockin' the graveyard with the Cramps!!! November 17, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Cramps were a filthy, perverse, deranged, and brainlessly brilliant band of rock `n' roll zombie punks. Their music was a raw, rude, and ruckus-raising celebration of rock `n' roll at its most heroically gruesome, an unholy combination of backwoods hell bound rockabilly and snarling punk rock. It's a greasy, apocalyptic screech, a stomach-rupturing good time that sounds like nothing else you've ever heard. It's friggin' jeen-ee-us!
Released in 1980, Songs The Lord Taught Us is the group's rip-roaring, feedback `n' eco soaked debut, and good golly what a record it is! "T.V. Set" is pure Hasil Adkins-afflicted psychosis, while the "Garbageman" Is an apocalyptic hillbilly-metal blaster masterpiece. "Rock On The Moon" is a quadruple-time explosion that threatens to rip the moon in half, while "Zombie Dance" is cool enough to wake the dead. "Sunglasses After Dark" is furious, "What's Behind The Mask" is hilarious, and their rendition of "Fever" is the sound of corpses gettin' it on. They've even got a version of the 60s garage rock classic "Strychnine," and a barnstorming semi-group-anthem entitled "I'm Cramped." Classic!
Rock out, guys and ghouls.
Get Down & Do the ZOMBIE DANCE! May 13, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Cramps began as a Rock band who was influenced by the Blues and in turn possibly created the genre that is psychobilly.
Early on they entered into CBGB's and the early Punk scene along with Television and The Ramones.
In 1979 The Cramps released "Songs the Lord Taught Us" produced by Alex Chilton(Big Star).
"Songs The Lord Taught Us" is The Cramps at their Best -starting things off right. And this is definately dangerously Raw and exciting.
I don't own all of The Cramps' albums, but of the six that I do own - this is the one that I keep coming back to, it's more fun w/ energetic & psychotic Madman anger! ...Kind of like Elvis a bit more Revved up!
There are many of my Favorite Cramp songs on here: "Garbageman" - "The Mad Daddy" - "ZOMBIE DANCE" - "I Was A Teenage Werewolf" - "Fever" and so on...Takes Punk music to a whole new level!
I do wish I bought this one back when I was in High School, instead of starting off with "Flamejob" - which I never really appreciated until I heard "Songs the Lord Taught Us" - another one of my Favorite full-length debuts and The Cramps are a Band who inspired many others.
- Yes, if you at all are into Psychobilly music, or if you are interested - Do yourself a favor and pick up "Songs the Lord Taught Us" - Another Favorite of mine is The Gun Club: Fire of Love; and Kid Congo Powers(guitar) was a part of Both bands.
Orphic Mystery January 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Still my favorite Cramps album, for it contains my favorite Cramps cover of The Sonics' "Strychnine." This is rock-a-billy, punk, garage, lo-fi production, and vocals straight out of the gothic school of Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
But it is better than all that and transcends that from which it was born.
Probably difficult to overstate how influential this album is, and the lame "you had to be there" is inadequate. For both The Cramps and DEVO were products of Ohio, low rent art scenes, and desperation to smash back at the sludge coming from the payola radio of 1970s America. What is ironic is the Cramps were accused of embracing a cartoonish version of Satanic theatrics as part of their image, while meanwhile head-banger music as ludicrous as a spandex pentagram was chronicled with precision and admiration by CREAM.
For anyone starting a band and considering your placement in the pantheon of rock genre, this is a must listen.
Awesome Album by the Greatest Band Ever? November 10, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Cramps are very polarizing. Most people hate the very concept of them and loathe their existence. But if the idea of rockin' monsters, a big rockabilly beat, and the rantings of a wildman sound like something you'd be interested in, then this record is the place to start. Songs the Lord Taught Us was the debut album by the Cramps, following their EP Gravest Hits released the previous year in 1979. In this first full length, the Cramps unleashed a sickness that the country wasn't ready for - and, frankly, still isn't. The album sounded fantastic, despite the weird lyrics (full of werewolves, psycho killers, and other assorted unsavory members of society) and the extreme guitar work. Imagine Sonic Youth, perhaps, in a rockabilly context; that begins to scrape the top layer of the solos of Bryan Gregory. Alterniatively, it has been described as a five car pileup i on the Jersey Turnpike. That vision gives a sense of the evident dementia at work in this lovely record.
Recommended for anyone who loves the idea that Elvis Presley might have been replaced by Frankenstien's monster, and what that might have been like.
 File Under Sacred Music December 14, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
From the opening riffs of "TV Set" to the psyched out cover of the old torch-jazz classic "fever" this album comes out swinging and doesn't let up.
Rockabilly and Psychobilly fans alike should have a good time with this one.
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