Check out the nasty, fierce, twangy, surf-meets-Western-guitar via Poison Ivy in this rager, "Thee Most Exalted Potentate of Love":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cz8LNdFdew
It doesn't get much better! Duane Eddy on cocaine, maybe.
You can see hints of the burlesque, trash culture, etc., milieu that wuld make people like Dita Von Teese possible in 2000, etc. Great band.
And Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat/Fugazi/ec. said the first punk show he saw in the late 190s was The Cramps.
-B.