The Cramps - Ohio Demos 1979 3×7" set - RARE garage punk vinyl
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Super rare 3x7" set- color vinyl. I've seen the set come with a box with the sticker on it, I got this as the 3 EPs along with the sticker in a separate 7" bag so I don't have a box. The sticker is not usable, the back has totally dried. It's in perfect shape, just won't work as a sticker. As for condition, the vinyl all looks almost mint. The covers are all great except the green one has a corner bend. I'm not positive about how many of these were made, but I saw a site that said only 300 were pressed.
Side A Tracks:
1. Twist & Shout
2. All Tore Up
Side B Tracks:
3. Mystery Plane
4. T.V. Set
Green Vinyl (NR16735)
Side A Tracks:
1. Rockin Bones
2. What’s Behind The Mask?
Side B Tracks:
3. Uranium Rock
4. Under The Wires
Blue Vinyl (NR-16736)
Side A Tracks:
1. Teenage Werewolf
2. Sunglassess
3. After Dark
Side B Tracks:
4. Jungle Hop
5. Mad Daddy
unofficially released as an LP called “Ohio Demos” and a 3x7” box set called the same thing, as well as a CD called “All Tore Up” with a different cover than the one that is pictured here. Every song is a total raw-assed blast, full of hot fuzz and ultra-reverbed chords, as well as minimalist drumming recorded so up front & alive you’ll swear that Nick Knox was an understated genius (as I do). The lineup includes what are arguably their best set of tunes not called “Human Fly” or “The Way I Walk”; they are: Teenage Werewolf/Jungle Hop/Mad Daddy/Rockin' Bones/What's Behind The Mask/Sunglasses After Dark/All Tore Up (also known as “I Can’t Hardly Stand It”)/Twist And Shout (essentially what later became “Drug Train”, but with totally different lyrics)/Uranium Rock/Subwire Desire (this was on the “Psychedelic Jungle” LP as “Under The Wires”)/Mystery Plane/T.V. Set. Everything that was great about 1950s rockabilly was vacuumed up and then owned by The Cramps, and they happened to infuse what was already a wild form with a simultaneous punk rock abandon and a sense of detached cool that made for a pretty goddamn compelling package. You’ll never hear them better than on this collection; the set that came out soon thereafter as “Songs the Lord Taught Us” sounds so thin and lifeless by comparison – and I love that record.
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