You Scare Me to Death

You Scare Me to Death
Studio album by Marc Bolan
Released 1981
Recorded 1966 at De Lane Lea Studios; 1981 at Radio Luxembourg Studios and The Townhouse
Genre Glam rock, acoustic rock
Label Cherry Red
Producer Simon Napier-Bell
Marc Bolan chronology
You Scare Me to Death
(1981)
Dance in the Midnight
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic[1]

You Scare Me to Death is a posthumous album credited to Marc Bolan of T. Rex. Released in 1981 by record label Cherry Red, it is first LP of material released after his death in 1977.

Content

The album consists of outtakes and demos recorded by Bolan in 1966. Some of the songs would later be recorded by Bolan's band, Tyrannosaurus Rex. Most of these tracks have also been released in their original form on the album, The Beginning of Doves (1974). In 1981, backing instrumentals were recorded and added to Bolan's original recordings.

Release

You Scare Me to Death was released in 1981 by record label Cherry Red. It album reached No. 88 on the UK Albums Chart.[2] The title track was originally called "Horrible Breath" and was written as a proposed television jingle for Amplex tablets.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Marc Bolan. 

No. Title Length
1. "You Scare Me to Death"   2:41
2. "You've Got the Power"   2:38
3. "Eastern Spell"   2:50
4. "Charlie"   2:41
5. "I'm Weird"   1:55
6. "Hippy Gumbo"   2:26
Side B
No. Title Length
1. "Mustang Ford"   2:39
2. "Observations"   2:38
3. "Jasmine '49"   3:02
4. "Cat Black"   2:33
5. "Black and White Incident"   2:50
6. "The Perfumed Garden of Gulliver Smith"   2:48

Personnel

1981 instrumentals

References

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