What a Bunch of Sweeties

WHAT A BUNCH OF SWEETIES

What a Bunch of Sweeties is a 1972 album by the UK underground group Pink Fairies. Twink had left the band before the recording of this album. Former The Move guitarist Trevor Burton occasionally joined the band for gigs and contributes to a couple of tracks. The sleeve came in a gatefold cover by Edward Barker, the front showing a box full of goodies mostly taken from roadie Boss Goodman's personal collection of underground badges etc. The lyrics for "Pigs Of Uranus" are taken from a Gilbert Shelton comic strip Wonder Warthog versus the Pigs from Uranus. "Walk Don't Run" is a cover of The Ventures song, and there's a cover version of The Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There". "Marilyn" features a drum solo. (More from Wikipedia)

I found one of the Pink Fairies' albums plus a retrospective album right away, but I didn't get my copy of the album that I actually heard, What a Bunch of Sweeties until I ordered it off the Internet 20-some years later.

(March 2010)

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After Twink left the band, the remaining trio in the Pink Fairies recorded What a Bunch of Sweeties which includes another song on my All-Time Top Ten, "Marilyn". This album was at the top of my Want List for decades before I finally mail-ordered a copy – just in time for Hurricane Katrina. The album also includes covers of two familiar 1960's tracks: the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There" and the instrumental "Walk, Don't Run" (originally by the Ventures). As described by Wikipedia: "The sleeve came in a gatefold cover by Edward Barker, the front showing a box full of goodies mostly taken from roadie David "Boss" Goodman's personal collection of underground badges etc." The album is mostly a sonic assault that also includes the playful song "Pigs of Uranus" – but even that song ends with a fabulous electric guitar solo.

(March 2014/1)