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“Surfin' Bird” by The Cramps
From the EP Gravest Hits (1979)
“Surfin' Bird” by The Cramps appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2003. It was first released in 1979 on the EP Gravest Hits. Its best result is #1664 on the Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,591 alternative song of all time.
The Cramps' "Surfin' Bird" first crawled out in 1978 as one of the band's first two singles on Vengeance, then turned up again in 1979 on Gravest Hits, their first 12-inch EP, next to "Human Fly" and a cover of "Lonesome Town". Alex Chilton produced it at Ardent Studios in Memphis back in 1977, with John Hampton engineering.
The song belongs to Al Frazier, Sonny Harris, Carl White and Turner Wilson, but the Cramps drag it somewhere darker and sweatier, with Lux Interior out front, Bryan Gregory and Ivy Rorschach both on guitar and Nick Knox on drums. Call it rockabilly dug up from the graveyard: Gravest Hits stands near the head of the line for both the rockabilly revival and psychobilly.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1664 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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