> This is The Cramps at their peak.
>
> 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.
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Not sure why... but if there's an obscure punk music thread I'm in!!!
Here's some of "The Moodists":
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wDYtI4xTMMI
And of course, the best band ever formed (aka "Crime and the City Solution"):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=brrfn4ekyaI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=w0vT1W6bfzM