Gravest Hits is the debut 12" EP

Extended play

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 by the American garage punk

Garage punk

Garage punk is a fusion of garage rock and punk rock. It is fast-paced lo-fi music characterized by a dirty, choppy guitar sound—usually played by bands who are on independent record labels or who are unsigned...

 band The Cramps

The Cramps

The Cramps were an American rock band, formed in 1976 and active until 2009. The band split after the death of lead singer Lux Interior. Their line-up rotated much over their existence, with the husband and wife duo of Interior and lead guitarist Poison Ivy the only permanent members...

. It was released in July 1979 on Illegal Records

Illegal Records

Illegal Records is a record label founded by Miles Copeland III with his younger brother Stewart Copeland and the manager of The Police, Paul Mulligan in 1977. The label released The Police's debut single, Fall Out....

 and I.R.S. Records

I.R.S. Records

I.R.S. Records was a record label, started in the United States in 1979 by Miles Copeland III along with Jay Boberg and Carl Grasso. Miles was also the manager of Wishbone Ash, The Police, and later, Sting, as well as other bands. I.R.S. was the sister label of Copeland's Illegal Records .I.R.S...

. It was produced by Alex Chilton

Alex Chilton

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 and recorded at Ardent Studios

Ardent Studios

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 in Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

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 in 1977. It featured liner notes by "Dr. J.H. Sasfy, Professor of Rockology, American Rock'n'Roll Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A." It is one of first documents of the rockabilly

Rockabilly

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 revival genre, and the psychobilly

Psychobilly

Psychobilly is a fusion genre of rock music that mixes elements of punk rock, rockabilly, and other genres. It is one of several subgenres of rockabilly which also include thrashabilly, trashabilly, punkabilly, surfabilly and gothabilly...

 genre. The photograph on the back of the original sleeve of the band in performance was taken at New York's Palladium

Palladium (music venue)

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 theatre.

“Human Fly” appeared in episode 4 of the UK ITV

ITV

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 comedy drama series “Married Single Other

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” as Clint scaled four floors of a block of flats in Leeds

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 to try to recover his relationship with Abbie.

A version of the song also appeared in a Nissan television advertisement.

Track listing

Personnel

• Lux Interior - vocals
• Poison Ivy Rorschach - guitar
• Bryan Gregory
  Bryan Gregory
  Bryan Gregory was an American rock musician, and founding member of and guitarist for The Cramps....
  
   - guitar
• Nick Knox
  Nick Knox
  Nick Knox was the drummer with the psychobilly band The Cramps. He replaced Miriam Linna in 1977 and left in 1991. Knox was with The Cramps during the peak of their worldwide popularity when they toured Europe extensively in 1986 with the "A Date with Elvis" tour...
  
  - drums