The Rock Pretty compilation. Very simple concept really. Four UK bands, two songs each, hopefully some of 'em rock, and hopefully some of 'em are pretty. Big shots on the record at the time were Marionette, because of Ray Zell, Kerrang, etc...then you've got The Babysitters, who were pretty much Marionette with a better sense of humor...and The Grip and the excellently-named Napalm Hearts were competent enough....but it's Aunt May who steal this record. And to this day I still have no idea who the fuck Aunt May were or are. This is the only record I've ever seen 'em on, and internet searches of the band or members return nothing. Yet their two songs on Rock Pretty are gloriously terrible and unbelievably addicting at the same time. I mean, I know these songs are terrible, but if they're so terrible how come the adult me remembered every word of both songs the teenage me listened to 20 years earlier? Aunt May, you've tortured me for decades now. I don't know where the band members - Aunt May, Marcus Sparticus, Lee Van Starz and Lance the Creature - are now, but hopefully they're somewhere in the UK living the good life off the massive royalties they made from Rock Pretty. More likely they're dead or driving a bus. Rock pretty glam fiends.
Track Listing:
The Grip "Two Hearts"
The Babysitters "Rock en Roll Chicken"
Marionette "Gettin' Sticky"
Aunt May "Flesh of the Devil"
Napalm Hearts "Little Miss Teazer"
Marionette "You Better Believe It"
Babysitters "The Beard Song"
Napalm Hearts "Suzy (was a Live Wire)"
Aunt May "Respect the Dead"
The Grip "Tension"
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Amazing! Thanks, but where is The Babysitters tracks? :S
ReplyDeleteProblem has been fixed for all 11 of your that downloaded the record already. Download again for full record including Babysitters tracks.
ReplyDeleteThanks man..for reposting
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And could you specify the date release of this,,,
ReplyDeleteI found 2008 as date but can you find the 80's date...approximately of course????
MARIONETTE - Blonde secrets & dark bombshells
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If anyone wants it!!!
And the year might be around 1985!
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ReplyDeletemany thanks, been looking for this for years
ReplyDeleteI was in the version of Aunt May that played in the 90s and in the 25th anniversary show in 2007, and Flesh of the Devil was my favourite song of the whole set to play! :-D I can tell you Auntie himself is still going strong, albeit enjoying a second career singing in a rock covers band.
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