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Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

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Although psychobilly’s original rumblings can be heard in lively ’60s garage rockers and rockabilly outlaws, the genre revved up and fully roared to life thanks to The Cramps. In the late ’70s, the NYC-via-Ohio group—fronted by impossibly cool married couple Poison Ivy and Lux Interior—smeared together gritty blues and surf licks with rousing punk antagonism and a dash of B-movie horror allure. That template charted the genre’s course for decades to come, as psychobilly bands flourished in Europe (Nekromantix) and the U.S. (Tiger Army) amid support from loyal fans and labels such as Hellcat Records.

Equally inspired by the do-it-yourself energy of punk and the kitschy thrills of low-budget exploitation movies, the unhinged duo of bassist Lux Interior and guitarist Poison Ivy formed The Cramps in the late ‘70s, and together they took the rhythms of '50s rockabilly and the riffs of '60s garage rock to a deranged new extreme. With their chaotically raw sound and trashy retro style, The Cramps helped to launch the psychobilly scene, and on this wild collection, the band bashes out riotously abrasive and deliciously tongue-in-cheek anthems in praise of depravity.