The Cramps - Smell of Female (1983)

One of those all-time-great live-albums. Goes hard and has a nice story attached: label issues, Cramps not allowed to release anything, bootlegged like crazy, old songs, again and again, sound bad, bootlegged, after all, such is the nature of, but then, Smell of Female detailing transition between two periods for the band, public thirst, hungry band, some fun covers, some fun originals, would be important enough if it weren't so good, but it is, so good, Call of the Wighat, She Said (bonus), (also included)

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The Cramps - Rockinnreelininaucklandnewzealandxxx (1986)

Smell of Female is my jam and all but holy fucking shit have you heard this? That one's important as an album and a document- b-movie-obsessed freaks kept from recording anything for two years finally get to release something and it's somewhere between the reverby freakiness of where they'd been and the aggression of where they'd go. This one's pretty much all the way there- tiny pants, noise guitars, and animal singing

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