Tuesday, May 27, 2014

FLEX YOUR CLICKER CREEP

If you've been lurking around here a while, you know all about the Lux and Ivy's Favorites series of mixes put together by Kogar the Swinging Ape. For the uninitiated, each one is roughly 25-30 songs that Lux and Ivy, from the Cramps, mentioned in interviews, or covered at one time or another. They were avid record collectors even before the Cramps, and that was roughly thirty five years ago, so there's a lot of music to draw from. With seventeen volumes that adds up to conservatively about four hundred songs. And they aren't just any songs, they've all got at least a bit of Cramps-like oddballness.



Kogar is the host of Kogar's Jungle Juice, a great blog in and of itself, and he also contributes to Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban. In other words, he's part of that whole WFMU and Ichiban mob that includes plenty of other East coast diehards. Not satisfied with compiling seventeen volumes of rockin', crazy, and weird records that you and I will probably never run across, he's going back and redoing them, one by one, with new rips, or rips of 45s in better condition. He's just remastered Volume Five, and it, like the others, is a no brainer. That is, if you're into rockin', crazy, and weird.

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Listen:
Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 5 (Remastered) at Kogar's Jungle Juice 29 songs in a zip
The others:
Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 1 (Remastered) at Kogar's Jungle Juice
Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 2 (Remastered) at Kogar's Jungle Juice
Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 3 (Remastered) at Kogar's Jungle Juice
Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 6 (Remastered) at Kogar's Jungle Juice
Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 12 (Remastered) at Kogar's Jungle Juice
Lux and Ivy's Favorites, Volumes 1-11 (pre-remastering) at Beware of the Blog
Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 13 (pre-remastering) at Kogar's Jungle Juice
Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 14 (pre-remastering) at Kogar's Jungle Juice
Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 15 (pre-remastering) at Kogar's Jungle Juice
Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 16 (pre-remastering) at Kogar's Jungle Juice
Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 17 (pre-remastering) at Kogar's Jungle Juice
Related:
Past Cramps posts with assorted songs, videos and whatnot

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