The Ragady Anne front cover was drawn our friend, artist Sean Aaberg of The Masked Men & Goblinko. We stayed up all night with him while he drew it and here's what he remembers...



~ thanks to soren for the scan ~

"The Ragadys asked me to do their 7" cover, & then wouldn't really tell me what they wanted. So, they all came over for one of these Masked Men//Ragady Anne sleepovers & told me what to draw. I didn't pencil it at all, it was just straight up pens with various band members telling what to draw next. Then I would add things, like I think the Masked Men are all standing on the building next to the ferris wheel. Also, if you look closely, that's me in the bottom right corner being abducted by aliens. They wanted an Ewok too, also Totoro & the cat-bus. The Orc in the front is wearing a "Jr. Stagedive Brazil" arm-band. He was some guy from Brazil Mtv that we met on the way to see Jello Biafra & DOA. I also remember the review in MRR said something like, "The cover looks like something a death-metaller drew on his binder", which is just about right. I think a candle burned through my rug that evening as well, & Michael hit me with a guitar. I was into this folked-out international crust-Punk thing at the time, which wasn't about careful image manipulation or anything like that... I was anti-pop savvyness at the time. What I think is maybe "most" interesting is that there are tons of Punk artists whose style still hasn't changed from that period. If I could do it again, I would paint a Garbage Pail Kids card type deal with a trashed out Ragady on there." - Mr. Sean

Ragady Anne eventually changed their name to the Electrocutes and released an album on SFTRI under the new name. You can check out that profile here.

5 unreleased Ragady Anne song demos from 1993 are now available for download. Go to ragadyanne.com ... and click on the furry bear.


Ragady Anne released one 7" vinyl on Radio Trash Records, this limited release is still floating around record shops and eBay. There were two versions of that 7", one on blue vinyl and one on black vinyl.

7" track listing: Nim, Faerie, Lupus, Furry, Feit, Freakshow


The 1993 unreleased demos were recorded separately from the songs on the actual 7". So while NIM is on the 7", this is a different recording. El Rey, Valley Girl, Pushkin, and Tammy were never released.

Unreleased demos track listing: Nim, El Rey, Valley Girl, Pushkin, Tammy

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Notes from a Donnas blog over @ The Donnaholics:

Ragady Anne tunes! Whoa! El Rey is sort of a sarcastic jab at people who worship Elvis to drastic measures. It still makes me laugh. My first guitar solo too. Nim is about the horrors of visiting the dentist, and was meant to be the first in a pair, the second one being Nym, with a similar subject matter about going to the doctor. I cant remember if we ever finished that one, and I know we never recorded it. Tammy was the first real Ragady Anne song and we re-arranged it and re-wrote it several times as we got bored easily. Its about a fictional character named Tammy who is totally ignorant on female rights, issues and agendas but claims ever-so-falsely to be a feminist, hence the chorus "Tammy, the NEW feminist." Yes ladies and germs, that was our big hit back then, or at least our most scoffed at and mocked tune. The Inspector Gadget snippet was something we learned at rehearsal as a joke thinking it might be a cool little half-song to play at our show, I was even thinking it would be cool to have it kick into a full band surf version after the initial intro...

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