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The Cramps - Lux Interior, Candy Del Mar, Poison Ivy Rorschach and Nick Knox 1990

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Poison Ivy & Candy Del Mar of The Cramps holding cocktails at the Ritz in NYC in 1988

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Released on this day (12 February 1990) by Enigma Records: Stay Sick!, the joyous and life-affirming fourth studio album by punkabilly deities The Cramps. Stay Sick! represented something of a comeback for the perverse black leather-jacketed Addams Family of punk: due to legal hassles with their former record label there had been a four-year gap since their previous album A Date with Elvis (1986). This one will always be a sacred text and sentimental favourite of mine: I interviewed Cramps’ fiercely glamorous guitarist and co-founder Poison Ivy Rorschach (she was a vision in leopard skin and diamanté cat glasses) on the Stay Sick! tour for my university newspaper when they performed at The Rialto in Montreal. (Read it here!). As she explained to me then, in a suitably macabre touch, The Cramps signed their record contract with Enigma over the grave of actor Bela Lugosi at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City (“It just seemed like an appropriate thing to do”). Anyway, Stay Sick! pulsates with The Cramps’ everyday-is-Halloween voodoo-hillbilly black magic, would be the final LP with Nick Knox on drums, the first and last with bubble-gum-cracking bassist Candy Del Mar (she was great!) and would feature The Cramps’ highest-charting single ever (“Bikini Girls with Machine Guns” reached number 35 on the UK Top 40 in 1990). And the lyrics offer the wit and wisdom of frothing mad man Lux Interior, like “You might believe the world is sweet / And fine as sugar candy, but I myself believe in whatever comes in handy …” (from “Daisys Up Your Butterfly”) and “Now they say that virtue is its own reward / But when that surf comes in I'm gonna get my board / Got my own ideas about the righteous kick / You can keep the rewards, I'd just as soon stay sick …” (from “Bikini Girls with Machine Guns”). Swallow a fistful of bop pills and crank Stay Sick! up LOUD today! Pictured: portrait of Poison Ivy by Rocky Schenck, 1990.