Product Review

When Lux Interior & Poison Ivy, founder members of the legendary Cramps, were invited to a New Jersey radio station to discuss their rarities collection 'How To Make A Monster', they barely mentioned the product in question. Instead they sang the virtues of the records they had accumulated during a lifetime of collecting obscure 45s, which we were told had 'a sound to die for'. This 2CD set includes 1 disc of thirty original recordings of the songs that this fiendish duo mentioned in this interview, or covered, sang the praises of or otherwise made public during their delightfully colorful career. 'Chop Suey Rock', 'Do You Mean Jelly Bean' and 'Caterpillar Crawl' rub shoulders with twenty seven other gems, a rare glimpse of the music which informed the work of one of America's finest ever acts is presented here for all to enjoy and learn from. Disc 2 includes the full recording of the very interview mentioned above, plus other discussions made throughout the golden age of The Cramps