Gravest Hits

EP by The Cramps

Released

July 1979

Recorded

Ardent Studios, Memphis
October 1977

Genre

Garage punk, psychobilly

The Cramps chronology

Gravest Hits EP
(1979)

Songs the Lord Taught Us
(1980)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Gravest Hits is the first 12" EP by the American garage punk band The Cramps, compiling both sides of their first two 1978 Vengeance singles, "Surfin' Bird" and "Human Fly", with an added fifth track, a cover version of "Lonesome Town". It was released in July 1979 on Illegal Records and I.R.S. Records. The tracks were all produced by Alex Chilton and recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis in 1977. It had liner notes by "Dr. J.H. Sasfy, Professor of Rockology, American Rock'n'Roll Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A.". Gravest Hits is one of the first records of both the rockabilly revival and the psychobilly genres. The photograph on the back of the original sleeve, of the band in performance, was taken at the Palladium theater in New York.

"Human Fly" appeared in episode 4 of the UK ITV comedy drama series Married Single Other as Clint scaled four floors of a block of flats in Leeds to try to recover his relationship with Abbie. A cover version of the song by Hanni El Khatib also appeared in a Nissan television advertisement.^[2] Another cover version was recorded by the Serbian alternative rock band Supernaut on their 2006 album Eli.^[3]

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Human Fly"	Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach	2:15
2.	"The Way I Walk"	Jack Scott	2:43
3.	"Domino"	Sam Phillips	3:08

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Surfin' Bird"	Al Frazier, Sonny Harris, Carl White, Turner Wilson (credited to "Wahrer")	5:08
2.	"Lonesome Town"	Baker Knight (credited to "B. Knight")	3:15

Personnel

Lux Interior - vocals
Poison Ivy Rorschach - guitar
Bryan Gregory - guitar
Nick Knox - drums

References

↑ Cleary, David. "The Cramps: Gravest Hits Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
↑ "Nissan Qashqai – Ultimate Urban Car". November 24, 2011.
↑ http://www.discogs.com/Supernaut-Eli/release/1876672

The Cramps

Lux Interior Poison Ivy Harry Drumdini Nickey Alexander Pam Ballam Bill "Buster" Bateman Jim Chandler Slim Chance Candy del Mar Scott "Chopper" Franklin Fur Dixon Bryan Gregory Julien Grindsnatch Jen Hanrahan Touch Hazard SugarPie Jones Ike Knox Nick Knox Miriam Linna Click Mort Kid Congo Powers Jim Sclavunos Doran Shelley Sean Yseult

Albums & EPs	Gravest Hits Songs The Lord Taught Us Psychedelic Jungle A Date with Elvis Stay Sick! Look Mom No Head! Blues Fix Flamejob Big Beat from Badsville Fiends of Dope Island

Live albums	Smell of Female Rockin n Reelin in Auckland New Zealand

Singles	"Surfin' Bird" / "The Way I Walk" "Human Fly" / "Domino" "Fever" / "Garbageman" "Garbageman" / "TV Set" "Garbageman" / "Drug Train" "Drug Train" "Goo Goo Muck" "The Crusher" "Faster Pussycat" "I Ain't Nuthin' But a Gorehound" "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?" "What's Inside a Girl?" "Kizmiaz" "Get Off the Road" "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" "All Women Are Bad" "Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon" "Eyeball in My Martini" "Let's Get Fucked Up" / "How Come You Do Me?" "Ultra Twist!" "Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs" "Like a Bad Girl Should" "Big Black Witchcraft Rock"

Compilations	...Off the Bone Bad Music for Bad People How to Make a Monster The Secret Life of the Cramps

Related articles	Discography Psychobilly

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