Stay Sick! Explained

Stay Sick!
Type:studio
Artist:the Cramps
Cover:Cramps Stay Sick.jpg
Released:February 12, 1990
Recorded:1989
Studio:Music Grinder Studios, Hollywood, California
Genre:
Length:47:51
Label:Enigma
Producer:Poison Ivy
Prev Title:Rockin n Reelin in Auckland New Zealand
Prev Year:1987
Next Title:Look Mom No Head!
Next Year:1991

Stay Sick! is the fourth studio album (and ninth overall) by the American rock band the Cramps. It was released on February 12, 1990, by Enigma Records, recorded at Music Grinder in Hollywood, self-produced by guitarist Poison Ivy and engineered by Steve McMillan. It was the last made in studio with long-time drummer Nick Knox.

"Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" was the band's only UK Top 40 single, reaching No. 35 in 1990.

The album name pays homage to a saying from Ghoulardi.[1] [2] [3]

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". It also featured a slightly different cover.

Personnel

The Cramps

Technical

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Schneider . Martin . Stay Sick: Cleveland’s Legendary 1960s Horror Host ‘Ghoulardi’ is Paul Thomas Anderson’s Father . Dangerous Minds.
  2. Web site: Turovsky . Sophie . Psychobilly Monsters: the Cramps’ Threefold Relationship With Horror Cinema . The B-Side.
  3. Web site: Hernandez . Jason . Things I Will Keep #8: The Cramps, Psychedelic Jungle . The Constant Bleeder.