Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lux and Ivy's Favorites!!!
Welcome to Volume 13.
Visit Volumes 1-11 here and Volume 12 here.
This is the first Lux and Ivy's Favorites to include artwork. I worked closely with a friend of mine to come up with some cool artwork that would fit in with the theme of the series.
At some point, all of the other volumes will have artwork as well.
This one was a tough one to put together. It just took a lot out of me for some reason. As time goes on, there are less and less L and I interviews, etc to take from.
You'll notice a bunch of "modern bands" this time around. An interview with Lux and Ivy from the 90's was posted online some point after Lux's passing. L and I mentioned some current bands that they liked. Of these bands (The Mummies, The Oblivians, The Gories, The Demolition Doll Rods, the 5.6.7.8's), I picked songs that I thought fit in (i.e. Queen Bee Drag Racin because of the car theme, Pinball party because of the Cramps riff lifted in the middle of the song, they mentioned The Mummies, who "covered Sonic's tunes!"). I didn't think it was too much of a stretch to include them on this edition.
Lux also said in effect, "The most Cramps influenced band he had heard in a long time was Guitar Wolf." He mentioned that the album they were working on was called "Planet of the Wolves", so I chose that song. Plus with the theme of the last volume being outer space, I thought it made a good continuation of that theme.
I also lifted bits from some of their favorite movies; The Devil on Wheels, and The Horror of Party Beach (Zombie Stomp).
The Devil on Wheels was interesting in that I read an interview with The Cramps that appeared in "the ancient knowledge" book and it mentioned "cassette tapes" in their hotel room and that one of them was the "soundtrack" of the film The Devil on Wheels. I searched for a while, but came up empty on an actual soundtrack. I don't think one was ever issued. What I DO think is that Lux recorded the whole movie (it's a slick 70 minutes or so) onto audiocassette and listened to it while driving around!
The last thing I want to mention is that for years people have been asking me about covers for this series. I was really hesitant to do anything, because I thought that it would lead to bootlegging. I am adamant about these cd's being as free as free can be. There is no fucking way anyone should be paying for these. Download them, copy them for friends, but please do not sell these cd's!
In the long run, I decided to take an active part in coming up with "official" covers for the series. So that's all these are. I hope you like what we come up with. There also might be a guest artist or two. Keep an eye out for them, and the re-mastered editions of some of the early volumes of LAIF on my blog, http://kogarsjunglejuice.blogspot.com/
Enjoy everybody!
- Kogar the Swinging Ape
Cover concept by Kogar
Everything else by Adam Fitch 2009
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Posted by: Andrew | July 23, 2009 at 08:21 AM
Thanks Kogar!
I downloaded vol. 1-12 last Feb., and they've been my sdtk for living since.
Cheers!
Posted by: EC Brown | July 23, 2009 at 06:56 PM
Great Work. You're the master.
Posted by: korla | July 24, 2009 at 06:08 AM
Great stuff! One thing - surely the movie concerned is She-Devils on Wheels, whose theme tune - Get Off the Road - was covered by the Cramps?
Posted by: Paul | July 24, 2009 at 06:59 AM
sure, they did cover GET OFF THE ROAD, but the movie he was definitely referencing was THE DEVIL ON WHEELS from 1947. its in the public domain now, so its pretty cheap to pick up. it's considered one of the first "hot rod" movies and has some great "hip" dialogue, etc. it was listed as one of lux's favorite movies somewhere, and referenced a few times in various places that he never left home without a copy of that tape in his pocket...
Posted by: kogar | July 24, 2009 at 11:42 AM
Kogar-- thanks a bunch. I dig all the comps and very much appreciate all your hard work and devotion to this project.
Posted by: Zillagord | July 24, 2009 at 03:14 PM
Thanks for all these great comps, Kogar! Filed ´em under Sacred Music.
Posted by: Ramone666 | July 26, 2009 at 04:01 AM
Cheers.
RIP Lux
Posted by: S drinker | July 27, 2009 at 05:57 PM
I am overwhelmed with your efforts and your generosity. Many thanks.
Posted by: bama | July 30, 2009 at 04:44 PM
Hmmm, hearing "There's a New Sound" for the first time in over thirty years is an extremely disturbing experience. The Dr. Demento-era cuts sprinkled through the 13 volumes are all particularly nice, but this one used to, and still does, creep me out. Thanks also for the tracklist---I appreciate not having to type those titles up myself! Cheers
Posted by: Mindwrecker | July 31, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Re: "The Devil on Wheels" - Going through a back issue of Psychotronic Magazine I came across this review of the film completely by accident:
"The Devil On Wheels/ 1947/Director/Screenwriter: Crane Wilbur('Tomorrow's Children'),Producer: Ben Stoloff. In this especially entertaining and outrageous PRC release, post war upper middle class suburban kids drag race in jalopies (or 'meat grinders'), which leads to chases,crashes, deaths and several courtroom scenes. Micky(Darryl Hickman, later in 'The Tingler')has a reckless father and a Korea vet older brother who falls for the judge's daughter. In a segment that could have been in a horror movie, blonde Rusty (young Jan Ford, later aka Terry Moore)is trapped in a morgue at night ('Jeepers!'). These kids aren't bad, just reckless and spoiled and they say things like 'gives me the whammies,' and 'whistle bait.' One of the 'loopy dames' says 'I'm PN!'(Psycho neurotic)!"
----Thanks to Michael Weldon
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