Stay Sick

Cramps | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 23, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Restless Records
• ASIN: B000003BK2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #354,509 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bop Pills

2. God Damn Rock & Roll

3. Bikini Girls With Machine Guns

4. All Women Are Bad

5. The Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon

6. Shortnin' Bread

7. Daisys up Your Butterfly

8. Everything Goes

9. Journey to the Center of a Girl

10. Mama Oo Pow Pow

11. Saddle Up a Buzz Buzz

12. Muleskinner Blues

13. Her Love Rubbed Off

14. Her Love Rubbed Off [*]

15. Bikini Girls With Machine Guns [*]

Editorial Reviews

Originally released in 1990, this Vengeance remastered reissue and includes the 6 bonus tracks 'Her Love Rubbed Off(studio)', 'Her Love Rubbed Off (live)', 'Bikini girls With Machine Guns (live)', 'Beat Out My Love', 'Jailhouse Rock', and 'Jackyard Backoff'. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kiss kiss! Bang bang! Everything Goes! ;D, August 14, 2003

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Pamela Scarangello (Middletown, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stay Sick (Audio CD)

1989's "Stay Sick!" is another energetic rock album that clearly marks the highest point of the Cramps' musical creativity. Interestingly, the songs of this particular CD have rejuvenated lyrical elements of the band's outrageous obsession with cheesy science fiction films and off-the-wall frightfests (which were temporarily lost in 1986's "A Date with Elvis.") In fact, the title of "Stay Sick!" was once a spooky catchphrase spoken by Ghoulardi, an early television horror host who became popular in Lux Interior's home state of Ohio. As a whole, this record is fueled by twisted rockabilly tunes, simplified chorus hooks and groovy pop rhythms. Supported by Poison Ivy's raw, vibrating guitar strings, Lux the frontman adapts an audio persona more warped than ever before; while belting out his vocals, he emits a fury of bestial growls, puppy dog yelps and strangely sexy croons. "Stay Sick!" has, of course, quite a few highlights. The CD's upbeat single "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" is an underground party hit heavily drawn from alcohol binges, psychedelic drugs and a whole other variety of forbidden excesses. "All Women are Bad" is definitely the most well written track here, as it briefly explains how enticing vamps in history led men to their ruin (and why we all love them for it!). In "Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon," (obviously dedicated to the Hollywood monster of the same name) good ol' Lux shimmers his hips in a hilarious Elvis Presley spoof! Speaking of the King, the Cramps' dizzying cover of his celebrated hit "Jailhouse Rock" can best be described as a hyperactive noise riot done after swallowing one too many Twinkies! Beware, freaks and riff raffs: the sexual content on "Stay Sick!" is the most explicit ever presented (other than 2003's "Fiends of Dope Island"). There is no doubt in my mind that it was intended to press the panic buttons of mainstream censorship. "Everything Goes" is a throbbing country tune where Lux pushes fetishism to its most absurd level! "Mama OO Pow Pow" is a naughty barnyard ditty about spankings, bondage and other acts of kinky behavior. However, one of the CD's bonus tracks, a nostalgic cover of Carl Perkins's "Her Love Rubbed Off," is probably the ONE Cramps track that officially crosses the invisible line of obscenity. Snatch this incredible album...IF YOU DARE! ;)

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Cramps at their peak-a-boo, yummy foreplay..., May 22, 2001

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Josef K "person" (LA, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stay Sick (Audio CD)

Psychadelic rockabilly lovemaking music that would've turned Elvis onto B&D. If you can imagine Scarlett O' Hara and James Dean collaborating with Betty Page, Twiggy, David Lynch, and Charles Manson, and they all made love to each other on the set of a possible Troma Entertainment remake of "Night Of The Living Dead", then zoomed back in time to 1957... Throw in a dash of "Behind The Green Door" and a splash of Jerry Lee Lewis... a twist of lemon... and a tall, ice-cold, Sky Vodka Martini, shaken and extra, extra dirty... You'd have this must-have rockabilly sex-classic. It's as if Lords Of Acid did country and read Robert Crumb comics... The Cramps R fancy cats !

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the cramps best ever., August 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Stay Sick (Audio CD)

this is the best cramps music ever.great songs like bop pills and shortin' bread are true examoles of how the cramps rule rock-a-billy and punk.of course you gotta love daisies up your butterfly.i highly recommend this purchase.