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THE CRAMPS/Smell of Female
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For the last two years The Cramps
have spent much of their time sorting
out legal problems associated with
their old record company.
Now that things are settled. The
Cramps' new EP is out and the band
is in top form.
Time spent in court prevented the
band from recording but allowed for a
lot of live gigs. Forced to make a living
this way, The Cramps worked up new
songs and incorporated them in their
sets.
Captured live in New York at the
Peppermint Lounge, Smell of Female
shows that all of the touring paid off.
The songs Exalted Potentate of
Love, Call of the Wig Hat, and Faster
Pussycat are classic Cramps. Poison
Ivy and Congo Power's guitars are
right up front where they belong.
Also, included is a version of the
Count Fives Psychotic Reaction.
Long a standard at Cramps' gigs the
song gets its best reading on this live
recording. The world's greatest psy-
chobilly band is back. But they never
really left.
Lux Interior of the Cramps
Jim Morrison with songs from
beyond the grave.
THE FACTION
No Hidden Messages
L.M. Records
2349 Carlton Ave.
San Jose, CA 95124
They sprung up from the slime of
the San Jose foothills, following a
long succession of new rock bands
in the area, the same area that
brought you the two mysterious lives
of LOS OLVIDADOS. THE FAC-
TION have spurned a mixed re-
sponse of appeal. THE SKOUN-
DRELZ vs. THE FACTION feud has
proved somewhat interesting. Some
people say they're wimpy, while
others suggest their allegiance as
significance to their band prefer-
ence. Well, besides all of that, these
maniacs of skating and stage have
put out this 10-song disc, No Hid-
den Messages. It's a little more
heavy edged and bottomed out than
their previously produced material.
The boys gingerly rock across the
vinyl grooves with Running Amok,
Being Watched and Fast Food Diet,
but converge and attack with a skate.
anthem, Skate and Destroy, and the
gutsiness of Since I Was a Kid
pulled the hair of little girls / Slid on
Cardboard down steep hills / I'd
ghostride my bike into walls and
broke windows while playing base-
ball. Their song Beyond the Mirror
has a striking resemblance to Rik L.
Rik's song Outback. Interesting
cover, it was supposedly created in
El Salvador.
THE DOORS
Alive She Cried
Elektra Records
I've been waiting for years and
years to hear something new from
that good old band THE DOORS.
Alive She Cried has its high and low
points. The low point being the
BLUES number Little Red Rooster.
There aren't that many songs on this
release of old live material to begin
with and this song could have very
well been substituted with one or
more classic live cuts that for sure
must've been available. Heck, this
bogus blues song is one of the
longest cuts on the platter. Other
than this gross fallacy in material,
the rest of the songs play very well
with the memories. Nice versions of
Love Me Two Times, Light My Fire
(an extra-long solo'd out disco ver-
sion), Moonlight Drive, a version of
the Van Morrison tune Gloria (which
happened to be taped during a
sound check), and an inspiring
rouse of You Make Me Real. It's ob-
vious that this record was made for
the masses. All I know is that my
roommate has got the Beatles'
White Album on white vinyl.
Album of the Month:
TOY DOLLS
Dig That Groove Baby
Volume Records
30 Ridley Place
Newcastle upon Tyne
"Welcome to the TOY DOLLS
L.P., the Good Side starts off just as
the band goes into an arousal of a
freaked out and demented jingle that
sounds like a ditty for a kiddie T.V.
show on channel hell.
This album is fun. The TOY
DOLLS are fun, no matter what
Glen E. Friedman says. These three
carousing goonies crush out some
energetic numbers that could possi-
bly be described as a silly combina-
tion of the power of THE JAM, the
speed of MINOR THREAT, and the
voice of a higher octaved Bon
Scott. And the songs, just check
some of the titles: Queen Alexandra
Road is Where She Said She'd Be
But Was She There To Meet
Me...No Chance, Nellie the Ele-
phant, Spiders in the Dressing
Room, Worse Things Happen at
Sea, Poor Davey, or Glenda and the
Test Tube Baby. Amusing listening
especially the overwhelming rendi
tion of Carl Perkins' Blue Suede
Shoes. "Thank you, thank you! Stop!
Stop! Thank you. Stop! Stop!"
NEGATIVE APPROACH
Tied Down
Touch and Go Records
P.O. Box 716
Maumee, OH 43537
In the photo on the back cover of
the album sleeve N.A. guitarist Rob
McCulloch is wearing a THRASHER
T-shirt. I wish you record people
would package your promos a little
better, a %-inch chunk was missing
from the edge of this record. So the
first song on each side, Tied Down
and Your Mistake, were unlistena
ble. Other than that minor setback,
all of the remaining 8 songs are ex-
cellent! Full power assault type
music. If the U.S. Marines blasted
this stuff over Beirut out of helicop-
ters like Robert Duvall did in
Apocalypse Now, the war over there
would stop in its tracks.
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