Strychnine

Gerry Roslie wrote "Strychnine", and he sang and played piano on the track with Larry Parypa on guitar, Andy Parypa on bass, Bob Bennett on drums and Rob Lind on saxophone. Lind told Beat magazine in 2012 that Roslie brought it into the studio and sang it from a sheet of paper, the band had no idea what it was about, and that it came from the demented mind of Gerry Roslie; after recording it they promptly forgot about it and rarely played it live. A review blog describes warp speed R&B with ragtime-style piano. It was one of three Sonics songs on the 1998 Rhino edition of Nuggets, track 55 of 118, and is on Explosives (Buckshot, 1973), compiled from needle drops because the Etiquette masters were unaccounted for.

The Cramps covered it on Songs the Lord Taught Us (1980, produced by Alex Chilton at Phillips Recording in Memphis), as track ten of side two, 2:24, credited to Roslie. Setlist.fm lists it in 86 of 356 Sonics setlists, close behind "Psycho" (90) and "The Witch" (89). We found no video or chart history and do not know which version our upload carries.