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The Cramps - I Ain't Nothin' But A Gore Hound - 1983


Well, I don't know about art, but I know what I like
I'll be a-surfin' in a swamp on a Saturday night
Well, I've been to the mountain and it's just a big hill
I guess I'm nuthin' but a gorehound, born to thrill
The devil gets dizzy at the stuff I dig
I go crazy, and crazy, 'til I flip my lid

'Cuz
I ain't nuthin' but a gorehound
I ain't nuthin' but a gorehound
All I ever do is go around
'Cuz I ain't nuthin' but a gorehound

Well, ain't it nice to be nice when you can't be nice?
Oooh, gee, you're swell as hell, pussycats on ice
Well, the devil with a blue dress, blue dress on
I go crazy and crazy, goin' goin' gone
Well, ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Easy come, easy go, ain't no big fuss

'Cuz
I ain't nuthin' but a gorehound
I ain't nuthin' but a gorehound
All I ever do is go around
'Cuz I ain't nuthin' but a gorehound

Oh, no, no...

Well, I don't know about art, but I know what I like
I'll be a-surfin' in yer blood on Saturday night
Yeah, the devil with a blue dress, blue dress on
I go crazy and crazy, goin' goin' gone
Yeah, the devil with a blue dress, blue dress on
I go crazy and crazy, goin' goin' gone

'Cuz
I ain't nuthin' but a gorehound
I ain't nuthin' but a gorehound
All I ever do is go around
'Cuz I ain't nuthin' but a gorehound

I ain't nuthin' but a gorehound
I ain't nuthin' but a gorehound
I ain't nuthin' but a gorehound
 
The Cramps - The Call of the WigHat


Well, how do you keep a moron
In wighat suspense?
I'll tell you that later,
But first I'll tell you this...
Ah, hoo!
(screaming) Hoo!

Well now Willy tore his hair out
And Sally grew a beard
Vince went apeshit
And cut off his ears
Ruby went to town
Completely upside down
Sally spilled some powder
And had a tantrum in her gown
She went hoo!
(screaming) Hoo!

Well my mama had twin babies
On one sweet summer day
She beat one in the head
And I'm the one that got away
Protected by my wighat
And my Frederick's snakeskin pants
I rode my horse to Hollywood
And did a wondrous dance
I went hoo!
(screaming) Hoo!

Well my granny jumpin' catfish
Do the limbo on my face
But no one seems to notice
When my wighat is in place
My wighat lifts me higher
Than I've ever been before
You can go and buy yours
At all better wighat stores
Just ask for hoo!
Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!

Yeah, they wear them in Exotica
When they get the blues
They voted them the best
When worn with matching shoes
It's the call of the wighat
That brought you to this place
It's just a big, fat,
Hairy fashion race
Yeah, hoo!
(screaming) Hoo!

Well, I trained a dinosaur
For the prehistoric stage
But the discovery of the wighat
Is what made me the rage
Now some things come,
And some things have gone,
But wighats are forever
Yeah, they just go on and on
And on and hoo!
Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!

But I can still hear Mama callin',
"Junior! Git home!
What's got into you?
What's that on your dome?"
It's the call of the wighat
It's the modern age taboo
For they forever separate
The old from the new
Yeah, hoo!
(trilling) Hoo!

Bye bye!
Bye bye, wighat!
Bye bye, wighat!
Bye bye, you big fat...
 
AreWeThereYet said:
The Other Heartbreakers

L.A.M.F. (originally released only on cassette) - 1978 r 79

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Ah, that Johnny Thunders guitar tone. Influenced everyone from Black Flag's Greg Ginn to Slash to hair bands like Poison and Motley Crue. His New York Dolls may have invented a new genre-sleaze rock.
 
Northside Hawk said:
Ah, that Johnny Thunders guitar tone. Influenced everyone from Black Flag's Greg Ginn to Slash to hair bands like Poison and Motley Crue. His New York Dolls may have invented a new genre-sleaze rock.
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The Dolls never got popular with the public though. A little to explicit with the gender bending weirdness for the U.S. market. Too crude and noisy with the sound. The industry didn't know what to do with it. They might have been on the verge of popularity in Britain with their appearance on the Old Gray Whistle Test. I think their first drummer drank himself to death shortly thereafter. It took them the better part of a year to get their sound & act back to where it was. By that time is wasn't happening and the lifestyle was killing the band. Malcolm McLaren didn't come on as a manager until right at the end. He didn't know how to promote that sort of thing yet. He made every mistake imaginable, and than a few more. The whole enterprise spun off in a number of directions at the end. Other bands that were in the same scene picked it up,
 
AreWeThereYet said:
The Dolls never got popular with the public though. A little to explicit with the gender bending weirdness for the U.S. market. Too crude and noisy with the sound. The industry didn't know what to do with it. They might have been on the verge of popularity in Britain with their appearance on the Old Gray Whistle Test. I think their first drummer drank himself to death shortly thereafter. It took them the better part of a year to get their sound & act back to where it was. By that time is wasn't happening and the lifestyle was killing the band. Malcolm McLaren didn't come on as a manager until right at the end. He didn't know how to promote that sort of thing yet. He made every mistake imaginable, and than a few more. The whole enterprise spun off in a number of directions at the end. Other bands that were in the same scene picked it up,
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Obviously the Dolls were known for more than Johnny Thunders. You had the androgynous personna of David Johansen and substance abuse throughout the band. If they had stayed together a little longer and not been mismanaged by McLaren they may have enjoyed success similiar to The Ramones, Talking Heads, or Blondie, some of the "other bands" in the scene that you mentioned at the end of your post.
 
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