How to Make a Monster (The Cramps album)

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How to Make a Monster
Compilation album by The Cramps
Released	2004
Genre	Psychobilly Punk rock Surf rock
Length	142:59 (70:05 (Disc 1) + 72:54 (Disc 2))
Label	Vengeance Records
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How To Make A Monster is a compilation of rare, previously-unreleased Cramps tracks. It is a 2-CD set and includes a 28-page book with extensive liner notes by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, as well as rare and unseen photos and flyers from their personal collection.

Disc 1 contains 1976 rehearsal material, some 1982 studio demos with Terry Graham of the Gun Club on Drums, as well as several other unreleased studio recordings.

Disc 2 contains two historic live performances of relatively poor recording quality, both from very early in their career: One at Max's Kansas City and the other at CBGB's.

[edit] Track listing

Disc 1

Summer 1976

 1 Quick Joey Small 02:08
 2 Lux's Blues 01:14
 3 Love Me 02:56
 4 Domino 02:34
 5 Sunglasses After Dark 01:16
 6 Subwire Desire 02:50
 7 TV Set 03:12
 8 Sunglasses After Dark 02:29

Oct. 1976

 9 I Was A Teenage Werewolf 03:08
 10 Can't Hardly Stand It 03:28

1981 Rehearsal

 11 Sweet Woman Blues 04:54
 12 Rumble Blues 01:49
 13 Rumble Blues (False Start) 00:49
 14 Rumble Blues 03:28
 15 Rumble Blues 02:32
 16 Lonesome Town 04:13

1982 A&M Studio

 17 Five Years Ahead Of My Time 02:10
 18 Call of the Wighat 04:35
 19 Hanky Panky 02:55

1988 Rehearsal

 20 Journey to the Center of a Girl 03:35
 21 Jackyard Backoff 03:04
 22 Everything Goes 01:53

1988 Home Demo

 23 All Women are Bad 03:47

Disc 2

Live At Max's Kansas City 1/14/77

 1 Don't Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk 02:06
 2 I Was A Teenage Werewolf 03:10
 3 Sunglasses After Dark 05:03
 4 Jungle Hop 02:20
 5 Domino 03:18
 6 Love Me 03:21
 7 Strychnine 04:19
 8 TV Set 03:25
 9 I'm Cramped 02:33

Live At CBGB 1/13/78

 10 The Way I Walk 03:27
 11 Love Me 03:01
 12 Domino 03:39
 13 Human Fly 03:04
 14 I Was A Teenage Werewolf 03:25
 15 Sunglasses After Dark 04:43
 16 Can't Hardly Stand It 03:34
 17 Uranium Rock 03:02
 18 What's Behind The Mask 03:00
 19 Baby Blue Rock 03:01
 20 Subwire Desire 02:53
 21 I'm Cramped 02:51
 22 TV Set 03:38