Stay Sick!

Studio album by The Cramps

Released

February 12, 1990

Recorded

1989

Studio

Music Grinder Studios, Hollywood, California

Genre

Rockabilly, punk rock, rock and roll

Length

47:51

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 February 12, 1990 by Enigma Records. Recorded at Music Finder in Hollywood, California, the album was self-produced by Cramps guitarist Poison Ivy^[1] and engineered by Steve McMillan. It was the last studio album to feature founding drummer Nick Knox.

"Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" was the band's only UK Top 40 single, reaching No. 35 in 1989.

The Cramps reissued the album on their own Vengeance Records in 2001. This edition contained four bonus tracks: "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns (Live)", "Beat Out My Love," "Jailhouse Rock" and "Jackyard Backoff".

Track listing

All tracks written 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; arranged by Ivy Rorschach	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

The Cramps

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

Technical

Steve Macmillan - engineer
Lux Interior - front cover photography

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 Balam Bill "Buster" Bateman Jim Chandler Slim Chance Candy del Mar Scott "Chopper" Franklin Fur Dixon 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"
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