The Cramps: Fiends Of Dope Island (pink translucent vinyl) [VENGEANCE]

Why you'll love it

Back on Vengeance, the band's own label, pressed on pink translucent vinyl. This is the last studio record Lux Interior and Poison Ivy made together, produced by the pair themselves in Hollywood, with "Big Black Witchcraft Rock", "Dopefiend Boogie" and "Hang Up".

This edition

• Pink translucent vinyl
• Vengeance Records reissue
• Thirteen tracks

About the album

By 2002 the Cramps had been at it for a quarter of a century, and they did this one entirely their way: Lux Interior and Poison Ivy produced it themselves, recorded it in Hollywood that August and revived their own Vengeance Records to put it out in 2003. The title comes from a 1959 B-movie, Fiend of Dope Island, which tells you most of what you need to know about the source material.

It's the band doing what only they could, rockabilly swagger and garage-trash fuzz wrapped in drive-in horror camp, from "Papa Satan Sang Louie" and "Mojo Man From Mars" to "Wrong Way Ticket". "Fissure of Rolando" is dedicated to John Agar, the B-movie actor who died in 2002. Some of the song titles can't be read aloud in a family shop, so we'll let you discover those yourself.

Tracklist

Listen

On Vengeance Records (cat# VEN675), a reissue of the 2003 album.