Album · The Cramps
Stay Sick! by The Cramps
Stay Sick! is an album by The Cramps, released in 1989. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Bikini Girls With Machine Guns”, on 5 lists with a best position of #98.
Stay Sick!, the Cramps' fourth studio album, crawled out on Enigma with guitarist Poison Ivy producing it herself at Music Grinder in Hollywood and Steve McMillan engineering. The title nods to a saying from Ghoulardi, and the music is exactly the kind of B-movie rockabilly-punk voodoo the band had been brewing since the '70s: twanging, reverb-soaked guitars, a greasy stomp and Lux Interior yelping like a creature from a drive-in double feature.
"Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" is the gleefully trashy centrepiece, and it gave them their only UK top 40 single. It was also the last studio record with long-time drummer Nick Knox. The band reissued it on their own Vengeance label in 2001 with four bonus tracks, "Jailhouse Rock" among them, and a slightly different cover.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Stay Sick! on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bikini Girls With Machine Guns | 5 | #98 | – | 1990–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.