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Artist:The Cramps
Title:Smell Of Female
Label:  Big Beat
Country:UK
Catalogue:NED 6
Date:Nov 1983
Format:LP
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Community: 15 Own
Price Guide:$27
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1The CrampsThee Most Exalted Potentate Of LoveRorschach, InteriorRate
A2The CrampsYou Got Good TasteRorschach, InteriorRate
A3The CrampsCall Of The WighatRorschach, InteriorRate
B1The CrampsFaster PussycatBert ShefferRate
B2The CrampsI Ain't Nuthin' But A GorehoundRorschach, InteriorRate
B3The CrampsPsychotic ReactionEllner, Chaney, Atkinson, Byrne, MichalskiRate


Notes

Recorded live at The Peppermint Lounge, February 25th/26th 1983.

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Monolith
7th Jun 2015
 er............................. which bit of the female are we smelling here? and should I take some sorta precautions?
 
 
sladesounds
7th Jun 2015
 
 
 
sladesounds
7th Jun 2015
 Review
One gets the feeling from the title and cover art alone that if the Cramps could have released this live document in Glorious Smell-o-rama they would have jumped at the chance. Even without it one can almost sense the whiffs of perspiration and energy the group was cooking up; recorded at New York's Peppermint Lounge with Powers on guitar, the quartet slams out a then mostly entirely new set of songs with, as expected, appropriate covers as needed.

The wonderfully profane take on Hasil Adkins' "She Said" surfaces here, with Interior sounding like he's about to die more than once. The Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction" and the perfectly appropriate "Faster Pussycat," taken from the legendary Russ Meyer film of the same name, also give the band more than a little something to chew on.

As for the originals, the usual mess of swampy rockabilly and industrial strength noise comes together in just the right way from the start. "Thee Most Exalted Potentate of Love" gives Interior the chance to do his undead but still wired loveman thang right from the start, while Ivy and Powers hit the twang hard and Knox keeps everything going just right. "Call of the Wighat" is another highpoint, with Knox showing that he's up to more involved pounding and percussion when the need arises.

A studio cut, "Surfin' Dead," surfaces as a ringer at the end; if not quite the Cramps go Beach Boys, it arguably forecasts the Jesus and Mary Chain's "Kill Surf City" just enough.
AllMusic Review by Ned Raggett

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Linked Releases

USA - Enigma - 1983

France - New Rose - 1983


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Tags:  Producer: The Cramps,  Recording Date: 25, 26 February 1983
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