....With fulltime bassist Candy Del Mar joining the lineup and Ivy in the producer’s chair, Stay Sick! maintains the Cramps’ high low-culture standards with colorful enthusiasm. While “Bikini Girls With Machine Guns,” “All Women Are Bad” and “Journey to the Center of a Girl” all spring from Lux’s bewildered bedevilment by the opposite sex, “Mama Oo Pow Pow” takes a good swig from the cultural trashcan that originally fueled the Cramps’ wild- eyed vision. (The artistic reasons for covering “Shortnin’ Bread” and “Muleskinner Blues,” however, are completely open to debate.) The CD adds a nifty version of Carl Perkins’ “Her Love Rubbed Off.” The 12-inch of “All Women Are Bad” contains three additional B-music tracks: “King of the Drapes,” “Teenage Rage” and “High School Hellcats.”...

- Trouser Press