Big Beat from Badsville is the twelfth album by the American garage punk

Garage punk

Garage punk is a fusion of garage rock and punk rock. It is fast-paced lo-fi music characterized by a dirty, choppy guitar sound—usually played by bands who are on independent record labels or who are unsigned...

 band The Cramps

The Cramps

The Cramps were an American rock band, formed in 1976 and active until 2009. The band split after the death of lead singer Lux Interior. Their line-up rotated much over their existence, with the husband and wife duo of Interior and lead guitarist Poison Ivy the only permanent members...

. It was released on Epitaph

Epitaph

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 Records. It was recorded and mixed at the engineer Earle Mankey's house in Thousand Oaks, California

Thousand Oaks, California

Thousand Oaks is a city in southeastern Ventura County, California, in the United States. It was named after the many oak trees that grace the area, and the city seal is adorned with an oak....

 in May 1997. It was self-produced by Poison Ivy and Lux Interior.

The Cramps reissued the album on their own record label Vengeance Records in 2001 with 4 bonus tracks: "Confessions of a Psycho Cat," "No Club Lone Wolf," "I Walked All Night," and "Peter Gunn."

Track listing

Personnel

• Lux Interior - vocals
• Poison Ivy Rorschach - guitars, theremin
• Slim Chance - bass guitar
• Harry Drumdini - drums