The Cramps - Stay Sick!
Year: 1990
Type: CD
Label: Enigma Records
Catalog #: 7 73543-2
Track Listing
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01 - Bop Pills 2:26
02 - God Damn Rock & Roll 2:38
03 - Bikini Girls With Machine Guns 3:18
04 - All Women Are Bad 3:08
05 - The Creature From The Black Leather Lagoon 3:10
06 - Shortnin' Bread 2:45
07 - Daisys up Your Butterfly 2:28
08 - Everything Goes 3:46
09 - Journey To The Center Of A Girl 4:49
10 - Mama Oo Pow Pow 2:28
11 - Saddle Up A Buzz Buzz 2:40
12 - Muleskinner Blues 2:45
13 - Her Love Rubbed Off 2:56
Personnel
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Lux Interior (Vocals)
Poison Ivy (Guitar)
Candy Del Mar (Bass)
Nick Knox (Drums)
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The Cramps at their peak-a-boo, yummy foreplay...
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 !
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AMG Review by David Cleary
The Cramps waited four years after their top-notch A Date with Elvis before releasing their next studio album. The result is, unfortunately, one of the weakest platters in their canon. Most all the songs here follow the same rockabilly-based formula of previous releases; unfortunately, much of the group's usual fire is missing. Too many of the selections (such as "Daisys Up Your Butterfly," "Everything Goes," "All Women Are Bad," and a cover of "Muleskinner Blues") are cast in a moderate jogging tempo, and the instrumental playing shows minimal song-to-song contrast, lacking the manic craziness of their best work. Lux Interior's vocals are comparatively reserved (though there are some exceptions, such as the snarling cover of "Shortnin' Bread") and are often somewhat submerged in the sound mix. Lyrics, too, are a bit tame by Cramps standards, the major exception being "Mama Oo Pow Pow," which has gleefully tacky verses about spanking and discipline that rival their most tasteless. "God Damned Rock 'N' Roll" is, for all practical purposes, a middling parody of Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock and Roll." The biggest surprise is the atypically soaring vocal on the better-than-average song "Journey to the Center of a Girl." This album is not terrible by any means, but it's not an essential listen, either; in a nutshell, the biggest problem with Stay Sick! is that it's not sick enough.
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You can keep the reward, I'd just assume STAY SICK
This, or 'Date With Elvis, are my two favorite Cramps albums. The Cramps are punk rock at its best. "Creature From the Black Leather Lagoon" is one of my favorite songs, other great ones include; Bikini Girls With Machine Guns, Everything Goes, and Journey to the Center of a Girl. Don't miss it.
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