# How to Make a Monster (album)

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How To Make A Monster is the third compilation album by the American rock band the Cramps. Comprising rare, previously-unreleased tracks, the release is a 2-CD set that includes a 28-page book with extensive liner notes by members Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, as well as rare and previously unseen photos and flyers from their personal collection.

## Content included

Disc 1 contains 1976 rehearsal material, some 1982 studio demos with Terry Graham of the Gun Club on drums, and several other previously unreleased studio recordings. Disc 2 contains two historic live performances of relatively poor recording quality, both from very early in the band's career (one at Max's Kansas City and the other at CBGB).

## Track listing

All songs by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, except where otherwise noted

### Disc 1

Summer 1976
    1. "Quick Joey Small" (Joey Levine, Arthur Resnick) — 2:08
    2. "Lux's Blues" — 1:14
    3. "Love Me" (Marty Lott) — 2:56
    4. "TV Set" — 3:12
    5. "Love Me" (Marty Lott) — 2:29
    6. "Domino" (Sam Phillips) — 2:34
    7. "Sunglasses After Dark" (Dwight Pullen) — 1:16
    8. "Subwire Desire" (Sam Phillips) — 2:50
October 1976
    9. "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" — 3:08
    10. "Can't Hardly Stand It" (Jody Chastain, Charlie Feathers, Jerry Huffman) — 3:21
1981 Rehearsal
    11. "Sweet Woman Blues" (Edwin Bruce) — 4:54
    12. "Rumble Blues" (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 1:49
    13. "Rumble Blues" (False Start) (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 0:49
    14. "Rumble Blues" (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 3:28
    15. "Rumble Blues" (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 2:32
    16. "Lonesome Town" (Baker Knight) — 4:13
1982 A&M Studio
    17. "Five Years Ahead of My Time" (Rusty Evans, Vicky Pike) — 2:10
    18. "Call of the Wighat" — 4:35
    19. "Hanky Panky" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich) — 2:55
1988 Rehearsal
    20. "Journey to the Center of a Girl" — 3:35
    21. "Jackyard Backoff" — 3:04
    22. "Everything Goes" — 1:53
1988 Home Demo
    23. "All Women are Bad" — 3:47

### Disc 2

Live at Max's Kansas City, 1/14/77
    1. "Don't Eat Stuff Off the Sidewalk" — 2:06
    2. "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" — 3:10
    3. "Sunglasses After Dark" — 5:03
    4. "Jungle Hop" — 2:20
    5. "Domino" — 3:18
    6. "Love Me" — 3:21
    7. "Strychnine" — 4:19
    8. "TV Set" — 3:25
    9. "I'm Cramped" — 2:33
Live at CBGB, 1/13/78
    10. "The Way I Walk" — 3:27
    11. "Love Me" — 3:01
    12. "Domino" — 3:39
    13. "Human Fly" — 3:04
    14. "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" — 3:25
    15. "Sunglasses After Dark" — 4:43
    16. "Can't Hardly Stand It" — 3:34
    17. "Uranium Rock" — 3:02
    18. "What's Behind the Mask" — 3:00
    19. "Baby Blue Rock" — 3:01
    20. "Subwire Desire" — 2:53
    21. "I'm Cramped" — 2:51
    22. "TV Set" — 3:38

## Personnel

* Lux Interior - vocals; guitar on "Lux's Blues"
* Poison Ivy, Bryan Gregory (tracks 1-1 to 1-10, 2-1 to 2-22), Kid Congo Powers (tracks 1-11 to 1-19) - guitar
* Candy Del Mar - bass (tracks 1-20 to 1-22)
* Miriam Linna (tracks 1-9, 1-10, 2-1 to 2-9), Nick Knox (tracks 1-11 to 1-16, 1-20 to 1-22, 2-10 to 2-22), Pam Balam (tracks 1-1 to 1-8), Terry Graham (tracks 1-17 to 1-19) - drums

### Technical

* Earle Mankey - assembly and mastering