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band
the Cramps
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. It was released on the band's own Vengeance Records. It was mixed by Greg Heiter and recorded live on August 27, 1986, at the Galaxy in
Auckland, New Zealand
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. The track list was heavily drawn from the album ''
A Date with Elvis
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'' (1986,
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), released earlier that year. It was reissued in 1994 with the bonus tracks "Blue Moon Baby", "Georgia Lee Brown" and "Lonesome Town".
Track listing
All tracks composed by
Lux Interior
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Poison Ivy; except where indicated
# "The Hot Pearl Snatch" – 3:21
# "People Ain't No Good" – 3:18
# "What's Inside a Girl?" – 3:06
# "Cornfed Dames" – 4:49
# "Sunglasses After Dark" (Rosalind Michelle Pullens,
Link Wray
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# "
Heartbreak Hotel
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Mae Boren Axton
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,
Thomas Durden
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,
Elvis Presley
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# "Chicken" – 1:37
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Do the Clam
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Sid Wayne
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,
Ben Weisman
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,
Dolores Fuller
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) – 2:43
# "Aloha from Hell" – 2:41
# "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?" – 3:38
# "Birdfeed" (Al Frazier, Harris, Carl White, Turner Wilson) – 4:09
Reissue bonus tracks
# "Blue Moon Baby" (Meridan, Rowe, Satalsk) – 2:43
# "Georgia Lee Brown" (Robert Hafner, Phil Zinn) – 3:21
# "
Lonesome Town
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Baker Knight
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) – 3:37
Personnel
;The Cramps
*
Lux Interior
Erick Lee Purkhiser (October 21, 1946 – February 4, 2009), better known by the stage name Lux Interior, was an American singer and a founding member of the American rock band the Cramps from 1972 until his death in 2009 at age 62.
Early life
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– vocals
*
Poison Ivy Rorschach – guitar
*Candy Del Mar – bass guitar
*
Nick Knox
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– drums
;Technical
*Greg Heiter – sound mix
*David Cheppa – remastering
*Kent J. Smythe – front cover photography
Notes and references
{{The Cramps
The Cramps albums
1987 live albums