Shakespeare’s Sister “Hormonally Yours” CS (1992)

Details: Shakespeare's Sister concept album inspired by the 50's movie "Cat-Women Of The Moon," released on London Recordings in 1992. Previously owned very good! Clear cassette shell.

Description: "Hormonally Yours, released in February of 1992, was an utterly unexpected reinvention of the band’s sound. Originally conceived as a concept album written as a sort of soundtrack to a schlocky ’50s-era B-film by Arthur Hilton called Cat-Women of the Moon, many of the songs’ lyrical content were derived from the film’s storyline. The band initially sought to secure the rights to the film in order to expand on the album’s concept with planned music videos built directly on actual footage from the film. The idea was shot down by the record company. The influences from the film that do remain on the album have given it a fey, moonlit quality that suggests a host of love songs beamed in from the galaxies of sci-fi.

In true rock ‘n’roll fashion, Detroit and Fahey played their respective roles in the band up to the hilt, each woman embodying a dressed-up, glitzed-over soubrette of vociferous demeanor. Hormonally Yours presented Detroit as a sleek, coifed Art Nouveau mistress, awakened from her post-mortem sleep, and Fahey as an unruly (and still dead) gothic scapegrace, with coiled black tresses and pancaked white makeup, her eyes racooned with the black of Victorian death. Like their name suggested, it was high Shakespearean drama, a strange detour into a pop music hinterland that owed much to dramaturgy as it did punk-rock." - PopMatters

Grade: NM (Cover/Cassette)

TRACK LISTING SIDE A:

A1. Goodbye Cruel World
A2. I Don’t Care
A3. My 16th Apology 
A4. Are We In Love Yet
A5. Emotional Thing
A6. Stay

TRACK LISTING SIDE B:

B1. Black Sky
B2. The Trouble With Andre
B3. Moonchild
B4. Catwoman 
B5. Let Me Entertain You
B6. Hello (Turn Your Radio On)