The 1981 Listening Post - The Stepmothers - You Were Never My Age

 The Stepmothers - You Were Never My Age

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October 15 1981

The Stepmothers

You Were Never My Age

Genre: The nexus of glam and metal…before it became a cash cow. 

3.75 out of 

Highlights:

I Hear a Rumble

Guardian Angel

Inland Empire

Requisite 80s cover: “To Sir with Love” a song I never knew needed a punk version but, yes, it indeed did. 

A glam rock band had intense but loving sex with an up and coming (yes, on purpose) metal outfit in the bathroom of The Whiskey A Go Go on Sunset and gave birth to a weirdly heady and fun bunch of leather clad losers who know their way around a hook. They stay away from them by being “around” the hooks but, nevertheless, each track they come up with is trashy and kind of terrific. 

This is 1981 but the sound is decidedly mid-80s rock/metal. And it’s a hoot. 

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