Big Beat from Badsville

Big Beat from Badsville
Studio album by The Cramps
Released	1997
Recorded	May 1997
Studio	Earle's Psychedelic Shack, Thousand Oaks, California
Label	Epitaph
Producer	Poison Ivy, Lux Interior
The Cramps chronology
Flamejob (1994) Big Beat from Badsville (1997) Fiends of Dope Island (2003)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide	[2]

Big Beat from Badsville is the seventh studio album by the American rock band the Cramps.[3] It was released in 1997 on Epitaph Records.[4]

The album was recorded and mixed at engineer Earle Mankey's house in Thousand Oaks, California, in May 1997.[1] It was produced by Poison Ivy and Lux Interior. It is the only Cramps album to consist solely of original songs.

The Cramps reissued the album on their own record label, Vengeance Records, in 2001 with four bonus tracks: "Confessions of a Psycho Cat", "No Club Lone Wolf", "I Walked All Night" and "Peter Gunn".

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach

Side 1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Cramp Stomp"	3:25
2.	"God Monster"	4:06
3.	"It Thing Hard-On"	2:48
4.	"Like a Bad Girl Should"	3:05
5.	"Sheena's in a Goth Gang"	2:44
6.	"Queen of Pain"	3:50
7.	"Monkey With Your Tail"	3:37

Side 2

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Devil Behind That Bush"	3:33
2.	"Super Goo"	2:27
3.	"Hypno Sex Ray"	2:26
4.	"Burn She-Devil, Burn"	2:23
5.	"Wet Nightmare"	3:36
6.	"Badass Bug"	2:25
7.	"Haulass Hyena"	2:48

2001 CD reissue bonus tracks[5]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
15.	"Confessions of a Psycho Cat"	Interior, Rorschach	3:32
16.	"No Club Lone Wolf"	Interior, Rorschach	2:28
17.	"I Walked All Night"	Hargus "Pig" Robbins	2:49
18.	"Peter Gunn"	Henry Mancini	3:10

Personnel

The Cramps

• Lux Interior - vocals
• Poison Ivy Rorschach - guitars, theremin
• Slim Chance - bass guitar
• Harry Drumdini - drums

Technical

• Earle Mankey - engineer
• Nick Rubenstein, The Cramps - art direction
• Lux Interior - front cover photography

Notes and references

1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Cramps: Big Beat from Badsville" at AllMusic. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
2. (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 197.
3. Thompson, Dave (November 10, 2000). "Alternative Rock". Hal Leonard Corporation – via Google Books.
4. "The Cramps Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
5. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Cramps: Big Beat from Badsville [Bonus Tracks"] at AllMusic. Retrieved September 11, 2011.