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Roulette Girl

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This album is truely amazing. The songs are catchy, the lyrics are funny yet full of truth, and her voice is awsome. The songs are full of crude humor as she talks extensively about drinking and sex. Somehow though, even a more conservative girl like me can grow to loooove her music. The reason is because of how deep her lyrics can be, even though, at a first lisen, it might not appear that way. Her songs can range from very funny like, The World is Full of Bastards, which almost any girl can relate to, and guys laugh about, and Mata Hari, about a fake and slutty girl to more somber like Takes His Place, about relationships never working out. Her songs speak to everyone as she speaks about messing up in life and about bad relationships. Everyone needs to get this cd, support lil local bands...also see her in concert, that is the most amazing experience!

Mary Prankster is the best music I have happened upon in the last few years. Roulette Girl is tamer than Blue Skies Over Dundalk, but the MP magic is there. Buy this album. ^_^

Ms. Prankster has proven to herself and the world that she is not a wacky one-CD wonder. She is a superb musician and a way funny lyricist. She smiles coyly as she sings on topics from Mata Hari's men to her years in the Anne Arundel County public school system. And she lets her guitar do her talking. You Rock, Sister.

After listening to Mary's first release, Blue Skies Over Dundalk, I thought it couldn't get any better than that. Well, Mary has proven me wrong. Roullete Girl is a half hour of deeply emotional yet still witty songs. Anyone with a pulse should own this album.

I heard Mary "ride shotgun" as a guest on the morning show at Annapolis, MD alternative/modern rock station 99.1 FM - WHFS. A great music and very fun station in the D.C. area if you are ever in town.

Mary was just hillarious. Her comments were good. She was funny, relaxed, and not out of control. But you had the feeling she could be, if she wanted to.

They played a couple of tracks off her album and it was good.

I bought her first album a short time later. It was easy to find for sale on the Internet. Much easier than driving to a record store and paw through racks for half an hour. When it arrived, I had the best time listening to it. Mary's music sounds good, and her lyrics make you laugh.

She has a natural ability to just spin out these songs like a story-teller just spins out their yarns. You get the feeling that if you went out drinking with her and her friends on a Saturday night, as you walked from bar to bar she would just start making up and singing these songs...

She sounds like she is really having fun and is really good at it.

Probably because she really is having fun and is really good at it.

The band has its own web site with the same name as the band and there you can always find the latest upcoming and recent performance information. I saw them perform May 5, 2000 after midnight in Ocean City on my birthday.

Mary was incredible. She was dressed in a sleeveless black top, tight red leather pants - and a matching red V-shaped guitar. She sang and played for almost a couple of hours. I have never had so much fun at a rock concert in my life - and I have been to quite a few.

Her lyrics are pretty much the kind of language little kids use on playgrounds when adults aren't around, college kids use in their dorms, and we adults don't use around either of them. :-)

So don't buy this album for any little kids because you will wind up hearing them sing the lyrics all the time! It's great to play at parties or when you are hanging with your friends or driving to work.

When I played this at a party of a friend of mine's, he played it 3 more times in a row - the whole album - right after that. I'd never seen anyone do that with any album. But you know, it didn't get old. I thought he was going to make me leave it there. I escaped with it only after making the pledge to order him a copy of the album when I got home - and that is why I am on Amazon right now.

I happened upon this group when I went out to see Jimmy's Chicken Shack at the Chameleon Club in Lancaster, PA. I wasn't expecting much from the opening act, but was blown away by not only Mary's powerful stage presence, but the wicked lyrics and wham-bam rock chords.

In fact, I was so impressed by the band that I bought one of their CD's -- not something I usually do at a show.

Was I ever glad I did. And I've been exposing Mary to every friend that I know -- friends who live everywhere from Toronto to San Francisco to Sydney, Australia.

EVERYONE MUST TAKE A LISTEN TO THIS DISC!

The lyrics, the variation of theme and musical sound, change from song to song, but there is a certain "smartness" about them that resonates from the first funky tune to the last goodbye.

I'm a big fan of smart people and this group is up there. Coupled with very groovable tuneage -- you've got an explosive CD that will stay in your player for a long time.

Buy this disc.

Mary Prankster may offend the meek...but they can go elsewhere, 'cause Mary scores another hit. It's great!

her CD is far from bitter trust me. The lyrics (language wise) are tamer then her last CD and the sound varies a lot more (mainly because they've been together longer as a band now) but different definatly does NOT mean bad. This cd rocks.

After listening to Mary's first release, Blue Skies Over Dundalk, I thought it couldn't get any better than that. Well, Mary has proven me wrong. Roulette Girl is a half hour of deeply emotional yet still witty songs. Anyone with a pulse should own this album.

Roulette girl is the album of the year. The lyrics are catchy and you want to repeat them over again. Best of all, 10 new tracks for listening enjoyment. Mary has shown us that anything can be accomplished.