Look Mom No Head!

For the Cramps' fifth studio album, the band had a new bass player, named Slim Chance, and a new drummer on board. Lyrically, LOOK MOM NO HEAD! returns to the B-movie horror subjects that concerned the band at the start of its career, subjects like the one that inspired "Two Headed Sex Change" and the rampaging reptile in "Alligator Stomp". And musically, Poison Ivy's dexterous guitar is as agile as ever--see "Hardworkin' Man" and "Hipsville 29 B.C". for examples.
The record opens with the crunching "Dames, Booze, Chains And Boots", which contains a reference to Elvis, though unlike most of the Cramps' Elvis references, this one is about Elvis Costello, specifically the song "Pump It Up". Iggy Pop makes a guest appearance, dueting with Lux Interior on a cover of "Miniskirt Blues". "I Wanna Get in Your Pants" sounds like their version of "Louie Louie" and works a little cross-dressing into Interior's usual, amusingly crass, seduction lyrics, which are at their most crass and least amusing a mere one song later on "Bend Over, I'll Drive". "Eyeball in My Martini", with its fuzzed-out bass guitar, is a punchy rocker that delivers horror movie lyrics about a plague of--you guessed it--eyeballs.|