I was a big punk rock fan when I first heard the Cramps, and yet I hated them. Their extreme retro style (heavy echo, no bass, minimalist song structure) and obsession with b-movie imagery was too much for my pop-bred tastes. Hell, the Cramps made the Ramones sound (and look) like Shaun Cassidy. Years later, I came to appreciate where they were coming from, in part because their later records sounded marginally more normal. Those early records are the definitive Cramps, though; Gravest Hits and Psychedelic Jungle are now on one CD, and Songs The Lord Taught Us is available separately. Bad Music For Bad People is a good sampler and has some non-LP material. They really haven't cut a bad record, but my interest ends with the live Smell Of Female and A Date With Elvis (which contains the priceless "Can Your Pussy Do The Dog").