Stay Sick!

Studio album by The Cramps

Released

February 12, 1990

Recorded

1989

Genre

Rockabilly, punk rock, rock and roll

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 fourth studio album (and ninth album overall) 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 reissued 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" was 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"	Macy Skipper; Arthur Melton McNatt	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"	Traditional	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; George Vaughan	2:51

1990 CD bonus track
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Her Love Rubbed Off"	Carl Perkins	2:58

1993 CD reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Her Love Rubbed Off" (Live)	Carl Perkins	5:05
14.	"Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" (Live)		3:19

2001 CD reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Beat Out My Love"	Lee Dresser	2:15
14.	"Jailhouse Rock"	Jerry Leiber; Mike Stoller	2:28
15.	"Jackyard Backoff"		3:17

Personnel

Lux Interior - vocals
Poison Ivy Rorschach - guitar
Candy Del Mar - bass guitar
Nick Knox - drums

Notes and references

1 2 Cleary, David. "The Cramps: Stay Sick! Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved September 10, 2011=.
1 2 McDonnell, Evelyn (May 3, 1990). "The Cramps: Stay Sick! [Bonus Tracks]". Rolling Stone (Wenner Media) (RS 577). ISSN 0035-791X. Archived from the original on November 6, 2007.

The Cramps

Lux Interior Poison Ivy Harry Drumdini Nickey Alexander Pam Ballam Bill "Buster" Bateman Jim Chandler Slim Chance Candy del Mar Scott "Chopper" Franklin Fur Bryan Gregory Julien Grindsnatch Jen Hanrahan Touch Hazard SugarPie Jones Ike Knox Nick Knox Miriam Linna Click Mort Kid Congo Powers Jim Sclavunos Doran Shelley Sean Yseult

Albums & EPs	Gravest Hits Songs The Lord Taught Us Psychedelic Jungle A Date with Elvis Stay Sick! Look Mom No Head! Blues Fix Flamejob Big Beat from Badsville Fiends of Dope Island

Live albums	Smell of Female Rockin n Reelin in Auckland New Zealand

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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