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Songs the Lord Taught Us (May 1980) - The Cramps

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Songs the Lord Taught Us kicks up a notch from The Cramps' debut EP, Gravest Hits. Also produced by Big Star's Alex Chilton, this record is a sonic masterpiece of rhythmic distortion.

The songs are a mix of original tracks by Lux Interior and Ivy Rorschach, cover songs, and hybrids where The Cramps mix in obscure rockabilly riffs and early blues/jazz ditties such as "Stick Out Your Can, Here Comes the Garbageman."

I'm not sure why, but both of my vinyl copies of this album have a different track listing from that shown on the cover. "Drug Train" is shown as the first song, but it's not on the actual vinyl. I do have "Drug Train" on a 7-inch single that probably came with one of the albums.

This album sounds best when played on vinyl turned up real loud.

-- March 17, 2011 (DDT)

The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us Original Album Tracks

These are the songs on my vinyl LPs: Side One: TV Set Rock on the Moon Garbage Man I Was a Teenage Werewolf Sunglasses After Dark The Mad Daddy Side Two: Mystery Plane Zombie Dance What's Behind the Mask Strychnine I'm Cramped Tear It Up Fever

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Here's what's listed on the album cover exactly as it's printed (including spelling and capitalization).

Side One:

1. Drug Train
2. Garbageman
3. Rock On the Moon
4. I Was a Teenage Werewolf
5. Sunglasses After Dark
6. Strychnine
7. Mad Daddy

Side Two:

1. Mystery Plane
2. Zombie Dance
3. I'm Cramped
4. What's Behind the Mask
5. Tear It Up
6. Fever

Vintage Playlists With Songs From The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us

• Saturday Deaconlight - Halloween - 31 October 1981
• Sunday Deaconlight - 6 December 1981

More Albums by The Cramps at Deaconlight.com

• The Cramps - Gravest Hits (1979)
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• The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle (1981)
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