Bad Music for Bad People

Bad Music for Bad People is the second compilation album of previously released material by the American garage punk band the Cramps. It was released in 1984 on I.R.S. Records and was seen by most fans as a cynical cash-in by the record label, following the departure of the band. Sounds, the now defunct UK music paper, gave the album a 5-star review but said, "Miles Copeland's IRS label pick the carrion of their former label mates even cleaner by releasing a watered down version of the ...Off the Bone singles collection that was released in the UK...The music's still great even if the scheming behind Bad Music for Bad People stinks of decay and corruption".[3]

Bad Music for Bad People
Album art by Stephen W. Blickenstaff (artist)
Compilation album by the Cramps
Released	1984
Recorded	Various
Genre	Garage punk, psychobilly
Length	31:17
Label	I.R.S.
Producer	Poison Ivy
The Cramps chronology
...Off the Bone (1983) Bad Music for Bad People (1984) A Date with Elvis (1986)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Tom Hull – on the Web	B+ ()[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach; except where indicated.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Garbageman"		3:33
2.	"New Kind of Kick"		3:27
3.	"Love Me"	Marty Lott	1:59
4.	"I Can't Hardly Stand It"	Jody Chastain, Charlie Feathers, Jerry Huffman	2:40
5.	"She Said"	Hasil Adkins	3:13
6.	"Goo Goo Muck"	Ronnie Cook	3:01
7.	"Save It"	Mary Biggs, Hargus Robbins	2:55
8.	"Human Fly"		2:13
9.	"Drug Train"		2:35
10.	"TV Set"		3:12
11.	"Uranium Rock"	Warren Smith	2:26

Personnel

• Lux Interior - vocals
• Bryan Gregory - guitar
• Kid Congo Powers - guitar
• Poison Ivy Rorschach - guitar
• Nick Knox - drums

Notes

1. Raggett, Ned. "The Cramps: Bad Music for Bad People Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
2. Hull, Tom (October 12, 2020). "Music Week". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
3. Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, March 3, 1984