I have much scarier compact discs in my collection but this is my favorite one to play on Halloween (after I've listened to the song "thriller" of course) #thecramps are a spooky sleazy mess, their songs are campy endeavours about teenage werewolves and dancing zombies all wrapped up in reverb soaked drunken shrunken-head surf punk. It's fun music wrapped in a vampy monster aesthetic and really resonates with me on this holiday. Upon relistening to this this morning I'm a little surprised I never connected the dots between the vocalist Lux Interior and David Yow of the Jesus Lizard. The both have this wild man yalp that is viseral but also very character filled. I'm kind of shocked I never made that connection before. Anyway, I'm in the kitchen eating Ramen noodles with my youngest song as this disc is playing in the living room. It's a strange mixture of old sensations and new ones. I'm enjoying music I listened to in my early twenties and the food that kept me alive that decade (that and pockets filled with stolen almonds from the chocolate factory I worked at for a while) and watching this little boy slurp and throw those familiar noodles while dancing in his high chair. It's a mash up of the nostalgic and the nostalgia-in-making. I'm looking forward to taking them all trick or treating tonight, I'll probably have "what's behind the mask" stuck in my head the whole time and that'll suit me just fine. Happy Halloween!
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