The Cramps discography
The Cramps performing in Belgium in 2006; original members Lux Interior and Poison Ivy pictured.
Studio albums9
Live albums2
Compilation albums4
Music videos8
EPs2
Singles23

American garage punk band the Cramps was active from 1976 until 2009. Its discography consists of nine studio albums, two live albums, four compilations, two EPs, and 23 singles. The band also produced eight music videos.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
AUS
[1] 		NZ
[2] 		SWE
[3] 		UK
[4] 		UK
Ind.
[5]
Songs the Lord Taught Us
  • Released: March 1980
  • Label: Illegal (ILP 005)
 — — — — 1
Psychedelic Jungle
  • Released: April 1981
  • Label: I.R.S. (IRS SP 70016)
 — 44 — — —
A Date with Elvis
  • Released: February 1986
  • Label: Big Beat (WIKA 46)
 98 23 41 34 1
Stay Sick!
  • Released: February 1990
  • Label: Enigma (ENVLP 1001)
 — — 26 62 —
Look Mom No Head!
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Big Beat (PDWIKD 101)
 — — — — —
Flamejob — — — — —
Big Beat from Badsville
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Epitaph (86516-2)
 — — — — —
Fiends of Dope Island
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Vengeance (675)
 — — — — —

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[4] 		UK
Ind.
[5] 		SWE
[3]
Smell of Female
  • Released: November 1983
  • Label: Big Beat (NED 6)
 74 1 44
RockinnReelininAucklandNewZealandXXX
  • Released: September 1987
  • Label: Vengeance (669)
 — 4 —

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[4] 		UK
Ind.
[5]
...Off the Bone
  • Released: May 1983
  • Label: Illegal (ILP 012)
 44 1
Bad Music for Bad People
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: I.R.S. (IRS SP 70042)
 — —
Greatest Hits
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: BMG (44840-2)
 — —
How to Make a Monster
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Vengeance (677)
 — —

Extended plays

Title EP details Peak chart positions
UK
Ind.
[5]
Gravest Hits
  • Released: June 1979
  • Label: Illegal/I.R.S. (ILS 12013)
 41
Blues Fix
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Big Beat (DNST 136)
 —

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[4] 		UK
Ind.
[5] 		US
Alt.
[6]
"Surfin' Bird" / "The Way I Walk" (Vengeance 666) 1978 — — — Gravest Hits
"Human Fly" / "Domino" (Vengeance 668) — — —
"Fever" / "Garbageman" (ILS 0017) 1980 — 12 — Songs the Lord Taught Us
"Garbageman" / "TV Set" (CBS 8401) — — —
"Garbageman" / "Drug Train" (IR 9014) — — — Songs the Lord Taught Us / ...Off the Bone
"Drug Train" / "Love Me" "I Can't Hardly Stand It" (ILS 021) — 5 — ...Off the Bone
"Goo Goo Muck" / "She Said" (IR 9021) 1981 — — — Psychedelic Jungle
"The Crusher" / "Save It" "New Kind of Kick" (PFSX 1008) — — —
"Faster Pussycat" / "You Got Good Taste" (New28) 1984 — 7 — Smell of Female
"I Ain't Nuthin' But a Gorehound" / "Weekend on Mars" (NEW33) — 2 —
"Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?" / "Blue Moon Baby" (NS 110) 1985 68 1 — A Date With Elvis
"What's Inside a Girl?" / "Give Me a Woman" (NS 115) 1986 78 2 —
"Kizmiaz" / "Give Me a Woman" (NEW 71) — 15 —
"Get Off the Road" — — — A Date With Elvis (reissue)
"Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" / "Jackyard Backoff" (ENV 17) 1989 35 — 10 Stay Sick
"All Women Are Bad" / "Teenage Rage" (ENV 19) 76 — —
"The Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon" / "Jailhouse Rock" (ENV 22) 88 — —
"Eyeball in My Martini" / "Wilder Wilder Faster Faster" (NS 135) 1991 — — — Look Mom, No Head!
"Lets Get Fucked Up" / "How Come You Do Me" (Medicine Label 7-1804 5) 1994 — — — Flame Job
"Ultra Twist" / "Confessions of a Psycho Cat" (CRE 180) 94 — —
"Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs" / "Lets Get Fucked Up" (CRE 196) 1995 — — —
"Like a Bad Girl Should" / "I Walked All Night" (LC 256) 1997 — — — Big Beat From Badsville
"Big Black Witchcraft Rock" / "Butcher Pete" (Vengeance 676) 2003 — — — Fiends of Dope Island

Music videos

Bootleg albums

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This is an incomplete list of bootlegs, which can or may never satisfy any subjective standard for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.

Album Notes
After Dark live at Hammersmith Odeon, London on 14 March 1986
All Tore Up demos recorded in Akron, Ohio in 1979
Beyond the Valley of the Cramps live at the Ritz, NYC in 1983 and the Lyceum, London in 1980
Booze Party live at the Ritz, NYC in 1989
Bikini Girls with Machine Guns Are Searching the

Creature from the Black Lagoon

live at Docks, Hamburg, Germany on 13 March 1990
Black Leather live in San Francisco, CA on 13 March 1980
CBGB's live at CBGB, NYC on 10 June 1977
Creatures from the Black Leather Lagoon Recorded in Offenbach am Main, Germany, in 1990
A Date with the Cramps live at the Free Wheels Festival, Cunlhat, France on 19 August 1995
Demon Seeds & Dastardly Deeds live at Toad's Place, New Haven, CT on 20 February 1992
Demons of the Swamp Vol. 1
Demons of the Swamp Vol. 2 live at Max's Kansas City, NYC in 1978
Don't Pummel & You Won't Pogo.

They Ooze & You'll Throb

live in Hamburg, Germany in 1986
Electric Cheese Tracks 1 -8 – live at Brixton Academy, London on 25 February 1990

Tracks 3–5 – live on MTV Europe on 2 February 1995
Track 6 – live in Montreal, QC on 6 May 16, 1984

Exorcism Night live at Club 57, NYC on 18 August 1979
Faster Pussycat live at the Hammersmith Palais, London on 28 May 1984
Fetischism Vol 2 live in France in 1980
Frank Further and the Hot Dogs live at CBGB, NYC on 13 January 1978
Haunt of the Cramps Tracks 1–8 – radio broadcasts from KFAT, Palo Alto, CA in February 1979

Tracks 9–13 – studio outtakes from 1979

Hot Club live at the Hot Club, Philadelphia in 1977
Human Fly live at the Gigant, Apeldoorn, Netherlands on 12 June 1981
Kizmiaz live in Frankfurt, Germany, on 17 April 1986
Last Time for Nick in Paris live at Elysee Montmartre, Paris, France, on 6 March 1990
Live at Harry's live at Harry's Hideaway, Toronto, Ontario, on 14 June 1982
Live Venus live at The Venue, London, on 19 April 1980
Most Exaltet Potentates of Trash mini-LP
N*zibilly Werewolfen, N'ont Pas De Bausparvertrag live in Palo Alto, California, in 1979
No More Cramped for Space live in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 4 December 1979
OFF AIR Semi-official four-disc compilation with demos recorded through entire career of the band (including NYC home demos' 1976; Richard Robinson's demos; Memphis demos' 1977; Chris Spedding' demos' 1978; Akron, Ohio' 1979; Hollywood demos' 1981/1982; Smell of Female rehearsals, 1983; Janice Long' session, 1986; Cahuenga Blvd Shack' 1988; suite For Cry Baby movie, 1989; and many other rarities).
Persecuted Prophets With B Movie Soul Track 1–4 – Smell of Female rehearsals

Track 5–8 – demos recorded with Terry Graham on drums

Psychedelic Safari live in Seattle, Washington, on 20 May 1982
Rock'N'Roll Monster Bash Recorded at The Edge, Toronto, Ontario, on 18 July 1980
The Secret Life of the Cramps B-sides collection
Sex & Cramps & Rock'N'Roll! live at Markthalle Hamburg, Germany, on 18 April 1986
Songs the Cramps Taught Us 2! live in Offenbach am Main, Germany in 1990
These Pussies Can Do the Dog live in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 3 April 1986
Totally Destroy Seattle!! live in Seattle, Washington, on 20 May 1982
Transylvanian Tapes Side A produced by Chris Spedding in December 1978; Side B live at Max's Kansas City, NYC in 1978
Voodoo Idols live in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1981
Voodoo Rhythm Tracks 1–4 – studio outtakes

Tracks 5–8 – soundchecks
Tracks 9–12 – live at CBGB, NYC in 1982

Wild Psychotic Teen Sounds demos recorded in Akron, Ohio in 1979

References

  1. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 76. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  2. ^ "The Cramps". Charts.org.nz. Hung Medien. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  3. ^ a b "The Cramps". Swedish Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d "The Cramps Full Official Chart History". Official Charts. Archived from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d e Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1989. Cherry Red Books. Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  6. ^ "The Cramps Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
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