...Off the Bone

Compilation album by The Cramps

Released

1983

Recorded

1978–1983

Genre

Garage punk, psychobilly

Length

45:20

Label

Illegal

Producer

Alex Chilton, The Cramps

The Cramps chronology

Smell of Female
(1983)

...Off the Bone
(1983)

Bad Music for Bad People
(1984)

...Off the Bone is the first compilation of previously released material by the American garage punk band The Cramps. It was released in 1983 in the United Kingdom on Illegal Records. The original release had an anaglyph on the cover and a pair of paper red and blue "3D glasses" inside the sleeve for viewing it.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

The British weekly Sounds gave the album a 5-star review, calling it "...a hell-fire cocktail of gutter riffing and chattering Rockabilly voodoo strum into which is dropped an electric sugar cube of psychedelic power".^[2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, except where noted.

Side One
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Human Fly"
2.	"The Way I Walk"	Jack Scott
3.	"Domino"	Sam Phillips
4.	"Surfin' Bird"	Steve Wahrer
5.	"Lonesome Town"	Baker Knight
6.	"Garbage Man"
7.	"Fever"	John Davenport, Eddie Cooley

Side Two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Drug Train"
2.	"Love Me"	Marty Lott
3.	"I Can't Hardly Stand It"	Charlie Feathers, Jerry Huffman, Jody Chastain
4.	"Goo Goo Muck"	Ronnie Cook
5.	"She Said"	Hasil Adkins
6.	"The Crusher"	Bobby Nolan
7.	"Save It"	Hargus Robbins, Mary Biggs
8.	"New Kind of Kick"

Personnel

Lux Interior – vocals
Bryan Gregory – guitar
Kid Congo Powers – guitar
Poison Ivy Rorschach – guitar
Nick Knox – drums

Notes

↑ Fennessy, Kathleen C. "The Cramps: Off the Bone Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
↑ Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, June 18, 1983

The Cramps

Lux Interior Poison Ivy Harry Drumdini Nickey Alexander Pam Ballam Bill "Buster" Bateman Jim Chandler Slim Chance Candy del Mar Scott "Chopper" Franklin Fur Bryan Gregory Julien Grindsnatch Jen Hanrahan Touch Hazard SugarPie Jones Ike Knox Nick Knox Miriam Linna Click Mort Kid Congo Powers Jim Sclavunos Doran Shelley Sean Yseult

Albums & EPs	Gravest Hits Songs The Lord Taught Us Psychedelic Jungle A Date with Elvis Stay Sick! Look Mom No Head! Blues Fix Flamejob Big Beat from Badsville Fiends of Dope Island

Live albums	Smell of Female Rockin n Reelin in Auckland New Zealand

Singles	"Surfin' Bird" / "The Way I Walk" "Human Fly" / "Domino" "Fever" / "Garbageman" "Garbageman" / "TV Set" "Garbageman" / "Drug Train" "Drug Train" "Goo Goo Muck" "The Crusher" "Faster Pussycat" "I Ain't Nuthin' But a Gorehound" "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?" "What's Inside a Girl?" "Kizmiaz" "Get Off the Road" "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" "All Women Are Bad" "Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon" "Eyeball in My Martini" "Let's Get Fucked Up" / "How Come You Do Me?" "Ultra Twist!" "Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs" "Like a Bad Girl Should" "Big Black Witchcraft Rock"

Compilations	...Off the Bone Bad Music for Bad People How to Make a Monster The Secret Life of the Cramps

Related articles	Discography Psychobilly

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