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* AgentPeacock: Lux Interior wore high heels and lipstick on stage, dressed in drag from time to time offstage too, and was referred to affectionately as a "tall girl" by Poison Ivy. Best described in the song "Elvis Fucking Christ", a BlasphemousBoast about being the world's greatest rock star, with very gender-bending lyrics including lines like "I'm the queen of outer space".
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--> "Got the shiverin' ills\\

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--> "Got ''Got the shiverin' ills\\



But I ain't getting well"

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But I ain't getting well"well''
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* AddictionSong: Unlike their usual lighthearted approach to drugs, "Dopefiend Boogie" describes heroin addiction and withdrawal as a miserable experience, though still with a darkly comedic touch as the title suggests.
--> "Got the shiverin' ills\\
Like a snowball in Hell\\
More and more and more medicine\\
But I ain't getting well"
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* TheyCalledMeMad: "The Most Exalted Potentate of Love:"

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* TheyCalledMeMad: "The "Thee Most Exalted Potentate of Love:"
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* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: "You Got Good Taste": "You got good taste! / You got good taste! / You, come here / Sit on my... lap" (as opposed to [[IntercourseWithYou "face"]]).
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* {{Scatting}}: Like the original, their version of "Surfin' Bird" quickly becomes little more than "pa-pa-pa-pa-pa", "ma-ma-ma-ma-ma", and other assorted noises.
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The Cramps are remembered for their energetic live shows and their melding of punk, GarageRock, and {{Rockabilly}} with their love of {{B Movie}}s, {{Exploitation Film}}s and UsefulNotes/LasVegas trash culture.

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The Cramps are remembered for their energetic live shows and their melding of punk, GarageRock, and {{Rockabilly}} with their love of {{B Movie}}s, {{Exploitation Film}}s and UsefulNotes/LasVegas trash culture.
culture. They retired in 2006, but Purkheiser died of an aortic dissection (the same thing which killed Creator/JohnRitter) on February 4, 2009.
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* {{Stripperiffic}}: Ivy's stage outfits.

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* {{Stripperiffic}}: Ivy's stage outfits.outfits, occasionally. Lux's much more frequently.
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The Cramps are remembered for their amazing live shows, and their melding of punk, GarageRock, and {{Rockabilly}} with their love of {{B Movie}}s, {{Exploitation Film}}s and UsefulNotes/LasVegas trash culture.

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The Cramps are remembered for their amazing energetic live shows, shows and their melding of punk, GarageRock, and {{Rockabilly}} with their love of {{B Movie}}s, {{Exploitation Film}}s and UsefulNotes/LasVegas trash culture.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The "classic" lineup. Left to right: Poison Ivy Rorshach, Lux Interior, Bryan Gregory and Nick Knox.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:The "classic" lineup. Left to right: Poison Ivy Rorshach, Lux Interior, Bryan Gregory Gregory, and Nick Knox.]]



The Cramps are remembered for their amazing live shows, and their melding of punk, GarageRock and {{Rockabilly}} with their love of {{B Movie}}s, {{Exploitation Film}}s and UsefulNotes/LasVegas trash culture.

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The Cramps are remembered for their amazing live shows, and their melding of punk, GarageRock GarageRock, and {{Rockabilly}} with their love of {{B Movie}}s, {{Exploitation Film}}s and UsefulNotes/LasVegas trash culture.
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The Cramps were an American PunkRock band from Sacramento, UsefulNotes/{{California}}, who were one of the major innovators of garage punk and [[PsychobillyGenre psychobilly]] music.

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The Cramps were an American PunkRock band from Sacramento, UsefulNotes/{{California}}, who were one of the major innovators of garage punk and [[PsychobillyGenre psychobilly]] {{psychobilly}} music.
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* TheyCalledMeMad: "Thee Most Exalted Potentate of Love:"

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* TheyCalledMeMad: "Thee "The Most Exalted Potentate of Love:"

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* {{Spoonerism}}: "Backyard Jackoff" contains several examples, including the title.



* TheyCalledMeMad: "Thee Most Exhaulted Potentate of Love:"
-->''Mad! You call me mad?! Haha. I have the secret of eternal love! You call me mad?!!''

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* TheyCalledMeMad: "Thee Most Exhaulted Exalted Potentate of Love:"
-->''Mad! You call me mad?! Haha. I who have the secret of eternal love! love? You call me mad?!!''
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* AnswerSong: "Sheena's in a Goth Gang" was a follow-up to Music/TheRamones' "Sheena is a Punk Rocker".
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* HumanMomNonhumanDad: "Mystery Plane"
-->''My daddy he’ll come back again\\
And take me from this mystery plane\\
Hey, maybe if I go reeeeeeeal slow\\
He’ll let me drive his UFO?''
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The Cramps were an American PunkRock band from Sacramento, CA, who were one of the major innovators of garage punk and [[PsychobillyGenre psychobilly]] music.

The band were formed in 1976 by the CreatorCouple of Lux Interior (aka Erick Purkheiser) and his wife Poison Ivy Rorshach (aka Kristy Wallace). They quickly entered the CBGB scene in [[BigApplesauce New York]], dominated by bands like Music/TheRamones. Their first LP, ''Songs the Lord Taught Us'', is often considered their best release.

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The Cramps were an American PunkRock band from Sacramento, CA, UsefulNotes/{{California}}, who were one of the major innovators of garage punk and [[PsychobillyGenre psychobilly]] music.

The band were formed in 1976 by the CreatorCouple of Lux Interior (aka Erick Purkheiser) and his wife Poison Ivy Rorshach (aka Kristy Wallace). They quickly entered the CBGB scene in [[BigApplesauce New York]], UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, dominated by bands like Music/TheRamones. Their first LP, ''Songs the Lord Taught Us'', is often considered their best release.
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* TheUnreveal: The end of "What's Behind the Mask". The audience never learns the answer, but the narrator does... [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor and he wishes he hadn't]].

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Author Existence Failure (now renamed to Died During Production) is a trope for dying before finishing a work, not anytime a creator died.


* HappilyMarried: Lux and Ivy, until...
** AuthorExistenceFailure: Lux died in 2009.

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* HappilyMarried: Lux and Ivy, until...
** AuthorExistenceFailure:
until Lux died in 2009.

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