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What a stellar day Jesus has had! Thank you Lord for finally laying waste to Lux Interior, the creep who fronted the hugely unfamous rockabilly band that yesterday's youth knew as the Cramps.
How thoroughly vile Lux Interior and his Cramps' so-called-music was... White jungle rhythms dredged from the bottom of Sam Phillips' music catalogue coupled unnaturally to Dick Dale's orgiastic surf stomping. Kids from good True Christian™ homes didn't stand a chance when Lux Interior ululated his goo goo muck upon them -- as he insisted on doing, practically unceasingly, for the last thirty years.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTNCES should anyone look up the Cramps' inconsequential and unlistenable EP from 1979, "Gravest Hits," which is among the most ghastly things Jesus ever heard. Every cut is even more uniquely blasphemous and undanceable than the one that preceded it. (For your reference, do not go here to download this bad music for $9.49.)
What a relief Jesus felt when 1980 brought "Songs The Lord Taught Us," which -- as compared with "Gravest Hits" -- actually eased off the accelerator-to-Hell and sounded like pabulum fit for a sick baby (which Jesus thought was a hopeful improvement, despite the album's inclusion of such redneck classics as "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" and, uhm, that was about it...)
What Jesus didn't see coming was that Lux's total immersion under motel lighting only caused the Cramps formula to solidify into unholy predictability and produce nonhit after nonhit, such as "Smell of Female," "Like a Bad Girl Should," and of course "Don't Eat Stuff off the Sidewalk." *shudder*
Brothers and Sistern, rejoice with me in the death of this very Human Fly
How thoroughly vile Lux Interior and his Cramps' so-called-music was... White jungle rhythms dredged from the bottom of Sam Phillips' music catalogue coupled unnaturally to Dick Dale's orgiastic surf stomping. Kids from good True Christian™ homes didn't stand a chance when Lux Interior ululated his goo goo muck upon them -- as he insisted on doing, practically unceasingly, for the last thirty years.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTNCES should anyone look up the Cramps' inconsequential and unlistenable EP from 1979, "Gravest Hits," which is among the most ghastly things Jesus ever heard. Every cut is even more uniquely blasphemous and undanceable than the one that preceded it. (For your reference, do not go here to download this bad music for $9.49.)
What a relief Jesus felt when 1980 brought "Songs The Lord Taught Us," which -- as compared with "Gravest Hits" -- actually eased off the accelerator-to-Hell and sounded like pabulum fit for a sick baby (which Jesus thought was a hopeful improvement, despite the album's inclusion of such redneck classics as "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" and, uhm, that was about it...)
What Jesus didn't see coming was that Lux's total immersion under motel lighting only caused the Cramps formula to solidify into unholy predictability and produce nonhit after nonhit, such as "Smell of Female," "Like a Bad Girl Should," and of course "Don't Eat Stuff off the Sidewalk." *shudder*
Brothers and Sistern, rejoice with me in the death of this very Human Fly
Cramps founder Lux Interior dies at 60
08:51 PM PT, Feb 4 2009
Lux Interior, the singer, songwriter and founding member of the pioneering New York City horror-punk band the Cramps, died Wednesday. He was 60.
Interior, whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser, died at Glendale Memorial Hospital of a previously-existing heart condition, according to a statement from his publicist.
With his wife, guitarist "Poison" Ivy Rorschach, Interior formed the Cramps in 1976, pairing lyrics that expressed their love of B-movie camp with ferocious rockabilly and surf-inspired instrumentation.
The band became a staple of the late '70s Manhattan punk scene emerging from clubs like Max's Kansas City and CBGB and was one of the first acts to realize the potential of punk rock as theater and spectacle.
Often dressed in macabre, gender-bending costumes onstage, Interior evoked a lanky, proto-goth Elvis Presley, and his band quickly became notorious for volatile and decadent live performances.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/musi...s-founder.html
08:51 PM PT, Feb 4 2009
Lux Interior, the singer, songwriter and founding member of the pioneering New York City horror-punk band the Cramps, died Wednesday. He was 60.
Interior, whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser, died at Glendale Memorial Hospital of a previously-existing heart condition, according to a statement from his publicist.
With his wife, guitarist "Poison" Ivy Rorschach, Interior formed the Cramps in 1976, pairing lyrics that expressed their love of B-movie camp with ferocious rockabilly and surf-inspired instrumentation.
The band became a staple of the late '70s Manhattan punk scene emerging from clubs like Max's Kansas City and CBGB and was one of the first acts to realize the potential of punk rock as theater and spectacle.
Often dressed in macabre, gender-bending costumes onstage, Interior evoked a lanky, proto-goth Elvis Presley, and his band quickly became notorious for volatile and decadent live performances.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/musi...s-founder.html
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