Big Beat from Badsville

Studio album by The Cramps

Released

1997

Recorded

May 1997

Genre

Garage punk, psychobilly

Label

Epitaph

Producer

Poison Ivy & Lux Interior

The Cramps chronology

Flamejob
(1994)

Big Beat from Badsville
(1997)

Fiends of Dope Island
(2003)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Big Beat from Badsville is the seventh studio album (and 12th album overall) by the American garage punk band The Cramps. It was released 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 with all original songs.

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 songs written and composed by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach.

Side one
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

Side two
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

2001 CD reissue bonus tracks^[2]
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

Lux Interior - vocals
Poison Ivy Rorschach - guitars, theremin
Slim Chance - bass guitar
Harry Drumdini - drums

Notes and references

1 2 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.

The Cramps

Lux Interior Poison Ivy Harry Drumdini Nickey Alexander Pam Ballam Bill "Buster" Bateman Jim Chandler Slim Chance Candy del Mar Scott "Chopper" Franklin Fur Bryan Gregory Julien Grindsnatch Jen Hanrahan Touch Hazard SugarPie Jones Ike Knox Nick Knox Miriam Linna Click Mort Kid Congo Powers Jim Sclavunos Doran Shelley Sean Yseult

Albums & EPs	Gravest Hits Songs The Lord Taught Us Psychedelic Jungle A Date with Elvis Stay Sick! Look Mom No Head! Blues Fix Flamejob Big Beat from Badsville Fiends of Dope Island

Live albums	Smell of Female Rockin n Reelin in Auckland New Zealand

Singles	"Surfin' Bird" / "The Way I Walk" "Human Fly" / "Domino" "Fever" / "Garbageman" "Garbageman" / "TV Set" "Garbageman" / "Drug Train" "Drug Train" "Goo Goo Muck" "The Crusher" "Faster Pussycat" "I Ain't Nuthin' But a Gorehound" "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?" "What's Inside a Girl?" "Kizmiaz" "Get Off the Road" "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" "All Women Are Bad" "Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon" "Eyeball in My Martini" "Let's Get Fucked Up" / "How Come You Do Me?" "Ultra Twist!" "Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs" "Like a Bad Girl Should" "Big Black Witchcraft Rock"

Compilations	...Off the Bone Bad Music for Bad People How to Make a Monster The Secret Life of the Cramps

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