Stay Sick!

Stay Sick
Studio album by The Cramps
Released February 12, 1990
Recorded 1989
Genre Garage punk, psychobilly
Length 47:51
Label Enigma
Producer Poison Ivy
The Cramps chronology
Rockin n Reelin in Auckland New Zealand
(1987)		 Stay Sick
(1990)		 Look Mom, No Head!
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]

Stay Sick! is the ninth album by the American garage punk band The Cramps.[2] It was released on Enigma Records. It was engineered by Steve McMillan and recorded at Music Finder, Hollywood California. It was self-produced by Poison Ivy.[1]

The Cramps re-released the album on their own Vengeance Records in 2001 containing the bonus tracks "Bikini Girls With Machine Guns" (live), "Beat Out My Love," "Jailhouse Rock" and "Jackyard Backoff." 'Bikini Girls With Machine Guns' became the band's only UK Top 40 single, reaching #35 in 1989.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Lux Interior and Ivy Rorschach; except where indicated. 

Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Bop Pills"   McNatt, Macy Skipper 2:24
2. "God Damn Rock & Roll"     2:38
3. "Bikini Girls With Machine Guns"     3:17
4. "All Women Are Bad"     3:09
5. "The Creature From the Black Leather Lagoon"     3:06
6. "Shortnin' Bread"     2:50
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Daisys Up Your Butterfly"     2:38
2. "Everything Goes"     3:46
3. "Journey to the Center of a Girl"     4:49
4. "Mama Oo Pow Pow"     2:33
5. "Saddle Up a Buzz Buzz"     2:43
6. "Muleskinner Blues"   Jimmie Rodgers 2:51

Personnel

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b Cleary, David. "The Cramps: Stay Sick! > Review" at Allmusic. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
  2. ^ a b McDonnell, Evelyn (3 May 1990). "The Cramps: Stay Sick! [Bonus Tracks]". Rolling Stone (Wenner Media) (RS 577). ISSN 0035-791X. Archived from the original on 6 November 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071106071334/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/118771/review/5945024/staysick. 
The Cramps
Albums & EPs
Live albums
Singles
"Surfin' Bird" / "The Way I Walk" · "Human Fly" / "Domino" · "Fever" / "Garbageman" · "Garbageman" / "TV Set" · "Garbageman" / "Drug Train" · "Drug Train" · "Goo Goo Muck" · "The Crusher" · "Faster Pussycat" · "I Ain't Nuthin' But a Gorehound" · "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?" · "What's Inside a Girl?" · "Kizmiaz" · "Get Off the Road" · "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" · "All Women Are Bad" · "Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon" · "Eyeball in My Martini" · "Let's Get Fucked Up" / "How Come You Do Me?" · "Ultra Twist!" · "Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs" · "Like a Bad Girl Should" · "Big Black Witchcraft Rock"
Compilations
...Off the Bone · Bad Music for Bad People · How to Make a Monster · The Secret Life of the Cramps
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