Cramps: Big Beat From Badsville (coloured) LP

Dangerous, bizarre, but most of all cool, The Cramps one again prove themselves as leaders in skull-fracturing rock ʼnʼ roll, delving even deeper into a wicked netherworld where few have dared to tread. They are the architects of a sound that has spawned an entire subversive subculture.

Originally released in 1997, Big Beat From Badsville is a haul-ass, careening monster of a record featuring more songs of mutilation, shape-shifting, psycho frenzies, she-devil-worship and pussy. The four rare bonus tracks on the CD include the nutty psycho-delic audio inkblot “Confessions of a Psycho Cat” and Poison Ivy’s chilling instrumental assault-weapon blast “Peter Gunn.