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A Date With Elvis

Cramps

A Date With Elvis

Vengeance
LP $16.00

11/25/2014 655035167114 

VEN 671 LP 

CD $12.00

11/04/2014 655035167121 

VEN 671 CD 

MP3 $9.90

10/28/2014 655035167121 

 

FLAC $11.99

10/28/2014 655035167121 

 

Originally planned for 1985 to join in the onslaught of Elvisʼs 50th Anniversary commemorative reissues, A Date With Elvis came out in early 1986 in Europe only, where it went on to sell more than 200,000 copies. The only album featuring The Cramps as a three-piece band (Poison Ivy doubled on bass), it careens from the sociopathic advice of “People Ainʼt No Good” (later covered by Nick Cave) to mind-on-vacation odes like “Aloha From Hell” and “Kizmiaz” (where The Cramps prove they were exotic when exotic wasnʼt cool), in the process offing more paeans to poontang than you can shake a snake at and fittingly finishing off with a soulful lovesick cover of the Charlie Feathers’s “Itʼs Just That Song.” “Can Your Pussy Do The Dog” was voted single of the year for 1986 in Playboyʼs annual music issue!

Continuing in the tortured tradition of stark rockabilly ballads, three of the bonus tracks—“Blue Moon Baby,” “Georgia Lee Brown” and Andy Starrʼs frighteningly horny “Give Me A Woman”—were originally available only as rare B-sides. “Get Off the Road” (theme song from the Herschell Gordon Lewis Z-movie She-Devils on Wheels) was the only time Ivy (publicly) sang a song to satisfy Lux Interiorʼs fetish request (what did he have to do in return?) and in an attempt to create a realistic sound effect, one of their biker pals almost turned a peel-out on his Harley into a wipe-out in the studio parking lot.

First pressing on colored vinyl

Tracklist

  1. #1 How Far Can Too Far Go? By The Cramps

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  3. #2 The Hot Pearl Snatch By The Cramps

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  5. #3 People Ain't No Good By The Cramps

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  7. #4 What's Inside A Girl? By The Cramps

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  9. #5 Can Your Pussy Do The Dog? By The Cramps

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  11. #6 Kizmiaz By The Cramps

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  13. #7 Cornfed Dames By The Cramps

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  15. #8 Chicken By The Cramps

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  17. #9 (Hot Pool Of) Womanneed By The Cramps

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  19. #10 Aloha From Hell By The Cramps

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  21. #11 It's Just That Song By The Cramps

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  23. #12 Blue Moon Baby By The Cramps

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  25. #13 Georgia Lee Brown By The Cramps

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  27. #14 Give Me A Woman By The Cramps

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  29. #15 Get Off The Road By The Cramps

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