Weirdness

Friday, May 25, 2007

The Cramps cover The Green Fuzz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Q-4Js8fYg

Green Fuzz is one of the great lost rock'n'roll records, originally recorded by someone named Randey (sic) Alvey on a 45 so obscure that I doubt anyone owns it and with such terrible sound quality that it sounds as if a cardboard box was placed over the mic during the recording. It is one of the greatest rock songs ever made, (in my not so humble opinion). It was thankfully rescued from total oblivion by being reissued on one of the old Pebbles collections, (which are themselves now collector's items); and from there we get this cover by those masters of the dangerous and the obscure - The Cramps. This video has nothing to do with any of the above, but it is a nice collection of old Weird Tales covers and somehow it seems totally appropriate that one more strange little kink be added to the glory and the legend that is The Green Fuzz...

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