![]() ![]() The short-lived Sharks, formed in Bristol in 1980, followed closely behind The Meteors with their influential album Phantom Rockers. Fans of The Meteors, known as 'the Wrecking crew', are often attributed with inventing the style of slam dancing known as 'wrecking', which became synonymous with the psychobilly movement. ![]() The Meteors also articulated psychobilly's apolitical stance, a reaction to the right- and left-wing political attitudes which divided other British youth cultures. Their 1979 album Songs the Lord Taught Us is considered influential to the formation of the psychobilly genre. The Cramps' music was heavily informed by the sound and attitude of 1950s American rockabilly, including Hasil Adkins, whose song 'She Said' they covered on 1984's compilation album Bad Music for Bad People, along with other songs from the Sun Records catalog. ![]() It wasn't meant as a style of music.' Nevertheless, The Cramps, along with artists such as Screamin' Jay Hawkins, are considered important precursors to psychobilly. The Cramps have since rejected the idea of being a part of a psychobilly subculture, noting that 'We weren't even describing the music when we put 'psychobilly' on our old fliers we were just using carny terms to drum up business. The Cramps, who formed in Sacramento, California in 1972 and relocated to New York in 1975 where they became part of the city's thriving punk movement, appropriated the term from the Cash song and described their music as 'psychobilly' and 'rockabilly voodoo' on flyers advertising their concerts. ![]() Since then the advent of several notable psychobilly bands, such as the US band Tiger Army and the Australian band The Living End, has led to its mainstream popularity and attracted international attention to the genre. The genre soon spread throughout Europe, inspiring a number of new acts such as Mad Sin (formed in Germany in 1987) and the Nekromantix (formed in Denmark in 1989), who released the album Curse of the Coffin in 1991. The second wave of psychobilly began with the 1986 release of British band Demented Are Go's debut album In Sickness & In Health. The music gained popularity in Europe in the early 1980s, with the UK band The Meteors, but remained underground in the United States until the late 1990s. Psychobilly has its origins in New York City's 1970s punk underground, in which The Cramps are widely given credit for being progenitors of the genre and the first psychobilly band to gain a following. ![]()
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