Yeah , I first heard "Love Me" on the superior UK comp , "Off The Bone"....I have'nt heard too many bands that had the chutzpah to take it on , now.....The Bananamen /Stingrays , Moondogs ....Robert Gordon lifted one line from it , Cramps style , on "Too Fast To Live , Too Young To Die " . But , Axel is right on two counts - That this is about covers of Cramps songs , And that it's hard for people to separate the originals from the covers , or songs they lifted the hubcaps from to create their own songs. Good artists borrow , great artists steal.
On the other hand , The Cramps have been accused of lifting from songs that only sound similar , just not similar enough e.g. "New Kind Of Kick" resembles "He's Waitin' by The Sonics , just , not enough . Ditto for The Tune Rockers' "Green Mosquito" and "Human Fly". Ivy said they had'nt even heard the song , yet , when they wrote their signature tune.
Anyway - Crookshanks : Naked Girl Falling Down The Stairs.
That's one , I can think of others , but The Jehovah's Witnesses woke me up at 10:30 ,this (Saturday) morning.
Here's a few songs about The Cramps -
Alan Vega - Kid Congo ( I apologize for mispelling Kid's last name , earlier. It's actually spelled "Tristan". ).
Voodoo Idols - Forgot the name of the song ....Will look it up.
Gun Club - For The Love of Ivy.
