Blue Skies Over Dundalk

Mary Prankster | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 21, 1998)
• Original Release Date: May 21, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fowl Records
• ASIN: B00000HYYW
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,767 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tits & Whiskey

2. Piss Off

3. Mac & Cheese

4. Blue Skies Over Dundalk

5. Sadie Hawkins Day

6. Breakfast

7. Green Eggs & Hamlet

8. Student Loan

9. Mercyfuck

10. Valentine

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hot Rock from a Bad Girl, December 27, 1999

By 

Spencer K. Stephens (Rockville, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Skies Over Dundalk (Audio CD)

Mary Prankster's enthusiasm for full-throated rock and roll may be exceeded only by her fondness for the f-word. The combination is one virtually any rock and roll fan will appreciate. Her sound is reminiscent of The Beat Farmers, with an eastern feel. Mary's work teems with references to her native Maryland, down to her Natty Bo cover art. The appeal of her stage personna, evident in her lyrics, is sure to cross gender lines. Her hurried entreaty for male company on the beach to share "tits and whiskey" sets the tone. Later, she pines for a boy who is not a violent sociopath. (So Mr. Beach has a few skeletons, does he?) Later still, she delights in breaking a heart that instills the kind of pain that would prompt Cal Ripken to take a day off. (See ya, Mr. Beach.) Who among us can't appreciate the humor in that? Best of all, Mary Prankster really, really rocks.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I have an overwhelming compulsion, September 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Blue Skies Over Dundalk (Audio CD)

to go eat at IHOP after listening to Mary's song "Breakfast". I can't get the song out of my head; I've been humming it, thinking it, whistling it, singing it, and generally annoying the crap out of my coworkers with it for the last two weeks.

Mary clearly knows her drugs. Only acid could animate a syrup bottle in such detail.

I got lucky -- someone posted a couple of tracks to an MP3 newsgroup. Thank God for MP3; without it, I probably never would have heard of this weird little album.

All the songs are generally great, notably "Blue Skies" "*** Off" and "Mercy***", but "Breakfast" deserves to hit #1. Buy it, you'll love it. You too can get lucky.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Liz Phair, but funnier!, December 8, 1999

By 

William A Scher (SF, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Skies Over Dundalk (Audio CD)

Mary Prankster's Blue Skies Over Dundalk is a brilliant debut that showcases the bravado and insightfulness of Liz Phair mixed with the humor of Jeanne Garafaolo. Like her influences, women will surely look up to her, and men will surely want to sleep with her. My only complaint is that the CD runs less than a half hour. Even so, I've yet to be tired of listening to it.