The Cramps – Stay Sick!
"I dig that god damn rock & roll/The kind of stuff that don't save souls." Less than three minutes into 1990's Stay Sick!, the Cramps had summed up their entire aesthetic in a mere 16 words, and even if Lux Interior hadn't bothered to wail that deathless phrase, the buzzy, reverb-soaked report of Poison Ivy Rorschach's guitar and the primal earthquake stomp of Nick Knox's drums reminded us this band liked its music dirty, both sonically and thematically.
If 1986's A Date with Elvis was an impressive return to form after a long recording layoff, 1990's Stay Sick! was in some respects an even more powerful example of the Cramps' singular oozing psychobilly madness. Songs the Lord Taught Us was arguably Lux Interior's high point as a vocalist, but he rarely sounded as strong and committed as he does on Stay Sick!, howling and hiccupping like a madman and keeping up with the band at all times.
Stay Sick! would prove to be the band's last album with Nick Knox on drums, and the Cramps were never quite this good again, but these wild grooves are a pulsating reminder of what they could achieve at the height of their powers.
Vinyl, LP, Reissue
Tracklist:
A1 Bop Pills 2:24
A2 God Damn Rock 'N' Roll 2:38
A3 Bikini Girls With Machine Guns 3:18
A4 All Women Are Bad 3:08
A5 The Creature From The Black Leather Lagoon 3:10
A6 Shortnin' Bread 2:49
A7 Daisys Up Your Butterfly 2:38
A8 Everything Goes 3:46
B1 Journey To The Center Of A Girl 4:49
B2 Mama Oo Pow Pow 2:33
B3 Saddle Up A Buzz Buzz 2:43
B4 Muleskinner Blues 2:49
B5 Her Love Rubbed Off 2:59
B6 Her Love Rubbed Off (Live) 5:04
B7 Bikini Girls With Machine Guns (Live) 3:30
"I dig that god damn rock & roll/The kind of stuff that don't save souls." Less than three minutes into 1990's Stay Sick!, the Cramps had summed up their entire aesthetic in a mere 16 words, and even if Lux Interior hadn't bothered to wail that deathless phrase, the buzzy, reverb-soaked report of Poison Ivy Rorschach's guitar and the primal earthquake stomp of Nick Knox's drums reminded us this band liked its music dirty, both sonically and thematically.
If 1986's A Date with Elvis was an impressive return to form after a long recording layoff, 1990's Stay Sick! was in some respects an even more powerful example of the Cramps' singular oozing psychobilly madness. Songs the Lord Taught Us was arguably Lux Interior's high point as a vocalist, but he rarely sounded as strong and committed as he does on Stay Sick!, howling and hiccupping like a madman and keeping up with the band at all times.
Stay Sick! would prove to be the band's last album with Nick Knox on drums, and the Cramps were never quite this good again, but these wild grooves are a pulsating reminder of what they could achieve at the height of their powers.
Vinyl, LP, Reissue
Tracklist:
A1 Bop Pills 2:24
A2 God Damn Rock 'N' Roll 2:38
A3 Bikini Girls With Machine Guns 3:18
A4 All Women Are Bad 3:08
A5 The Creature From The Black Leather Lagoon 3:10
A6 Shortnin' Bread 2:49
A7 Daisys Up Your Butterfly 2:38
A8 Everything Goes 3:46
B1 Journey To The Center Of A Girl 4:49
B2 Mama Oo Pow Pow 2:33
B3 Saddle Up A Buzz Buzz 2:43
B4 Muleskinner Blues 2:49
B5 Her Love Rubbed Off 2:59
B6 Her Love Rubbed Off (Live) 5:04
B7 Bikini Girls With Machine Guns (Live) 3:30
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