i loved 'become what you are' and it remains my fave juliana album. although 'total system failure' has given it competition. 'only everything' had some good songs, but it seemed to be the beginning of a long period of successive identity crises for the woman. i felt so bad for her, trying to find her voice, niche, whatever, and putting out fairly dull records (please do not disturb, bed) i was pleasantly surprised with the double release. as i said, juliana's pony i think is lots of fun and exactly the kind of record she should be making. beautiful creature seemed to continue along the adult contempo path she'd been on for a few years, although i'd say it was stronger than the previous two records.
i have not heard the blake babies reunion record, ive heard its terrible, but i'd still like to check it out.
SEARCH: all versions of 'nirvana', 'put it away' (my sister cd single), 'feed me', 'i got no idols' (and the piano version on 'for the birds' 7"), 'houseboy' and the guitar solo in 'hotels'
DESTROY: well, there are are many but i wont go into that because i lurve her...
― Ron, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― cuba libre (nathalie), Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ron, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Me too, rather predictably.
Haven't listened to that album in ages but I'll say Search that one plus the first four songs on the 3rd album.
― Omar, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Lynskey, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
funnily enough Amazon reports about 5 albums since then ! where on earth did they come from ? 'bed' is meant to be a classic, a la 'become...' but i see there's also one called 'juliana's pony' which was written in 1 week, and one called 'beautiful creature' which indeed she is/was. oddly she popped up as a waiflike singer-with- accoustic-guitar on My So-Called Life a good half decade back now.
anyone heard 'bed' then ? the follow-up to 'become' was pitiful if memory serves, so yeah destroy that.
― piscesboy, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jeff W, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― David, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I love BECOME WHAT YOU ARE LP. Blake Babies' GOD SAVE THE BLAKE BABIES or whatever it's called is surprisingly good too.
She is quite tasty but also talented.
― the pinefox, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Anyway, the only record of hers I've really liked was a BBC radio session acoustic version of 'My Darling'.
― N., Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ron, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Just played Hey Babe after maybe 8 years. And, after some heavy duty brain-adjustment during the first song to *that* indie- guitar sound, I was surprised to learn it's still very good. Lovely melodies, clever lyrics. Time to hit the second hand cd-shops.
― Omar, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the cover of the I See You (E)P.
― Andy K, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― houseboy, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mark M, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ron, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ron, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
loopstrange: i'm starvin' are you? ronnylongjohns: sometimes i worry about juliana loopstrange: yes? ronnylongjohns: she needs a burger loopstrange: oh, ronnylongjohns: lets all three of us have a burger ronnylongjohns: right now loopstrange: RON! ronnylongjohns: mm, my burger is tasty loopstrange: mine is too ronnylongjohns: juliana, how is your double cheeseburger? ronnylongjohns: "mmm. it hits the spot" loopstrange: mine hits the spot too loopstrange: Juliana, would u like some of my fries? loopstrange: ron, you have some too ronnylongjohns: "yes please, rainy!" can i dip into your ketchup there?" loopstrange: please do ronnylongjohns: *dips* ronnylongjohns: i like to dip my burger into the ketchup too ronnylongjohns: oh gosh ronnylongjohns: now i am wanting a burger for rilla loopstrange: whos that? ronnylongjohns: what have we done? ronnylongjohns: oh thats me ronnylongjohns: juliana is still chewing the fries loopstrange: would she like a milkshake too? ronnylongjohns: yes i was just thinking of getting one for her ronnylongjohns: (you can be juliana too) loopstrange: I'll pay for half of your milkshake Juliana, and ron will pay for the other half loopstrange: "thanks rainy, then shall we all go to the swimming pool?" ronnylongjohns: ron would like a root beer milk shake loopstrange: okay ron, here you are ronnylongjohns: "can we go to the ocean instead" ronnylongjohns: "or is it too cold?" loopstrange: yes, we can, but we should wait half an hour before swimming loopstrange: it's plenty warm juliana, ronnylongjohns: yes that would be prudent ronnylongjohns: we will sit on the sand for a while loopstrange: you can wear my sweater if you like tho ronnylongjohns: and digest, while listening to your new demo ronnylongjohns: on the boombox loopstrange: boombox! ronnylongjohns: "you guys will love my new songs" loopstrange: oh juliana, have I mentioned how much I love "hey babe"? ronnylongjohns: "this one is called 'radio static'" loopstrange: it's the greatest! ronnylongjohns: "thank you" ronnylongjohns: juliana, i really love "nirvana" loopstrange: "thank you ron, would you like me to teach you to play it on yr nice guitar?" ronnylongjohns: oh yes! loopstrange: "it's easy peasy, then we can all have a jam" ronnylongjohns: juliana, can i sing the back up loopstrange: "yes, and rainy can do the tambourine" loopstrange: "there's no tambourine in it, but we'll add it in" ronnylongjohns: "oh, we should write a song and i'll put it on my new album" loopstrange: "yeah, i was hoping you'd want to do that ron" loopstrange: oops, i'm mixed up ronnylongjohns: hee loopstrange: ron, i gotta go now ronnylongjohns: ok loopstrange: see you and julaina another day? ronnylongjohns: yesm loopstrange: cool cat loopstrange: bye
― Ron, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think I only like the Hatfield tracks no one else does - "Breeders," "Let's Get Married," "Swan Song," "I Want To Want You."
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 17 July 2003 20:41 (twenty years ago) link
The good stuff of Beautiful Creature is SO GOOD. search songs 1-3, 6, and 11. esp.#11,'Hotels'. I always liked Only Everything too, plus the first too.
The Blake Babies reunion was maybe 1/3 super, search 1, 4, 5, and 10.
Wow, I never realized I was so into Juliana Hatfield... who knew?
― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 17 July 2003 22:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Burr (Burr), Friday, 18 July 2003 21:00 (twenty years ago) link
does anybody have a lead on a clean copy of this 'god's foot' (?) thing???
― ron (ron), Friday, 18 July 2003 23:30 (twenty years ago) link
haha i thought i was the only one!!
she's playing tucson in 4 days: i can't wait!
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 21 June 2004 07:36 (twenty years ago) link
Ah mems. Newcastlte Riverside club. She was too loud (well, the band were, she was way too quiet herself). The last one I got was the 'hairy' one. One of my first purchases from CDNow back in the day. Dawn put her hand in the car glovebox, brushed against the CD and pulled her hand out very quick. "Is that meant to be....?" she asked. "Yeah, Probably" said I.
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 21 June 2004 08:38 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 21 June 2004 08:40 (twenty years ago) link
― di, Sunday, 6 February 2005 03:56 (nineteen years ago) link
jd you have to be kidding
― di, Sunday, 6 February 2005 03:57 (nineteen years ago) link
The new album from last summer isn't that exciting.
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 6 February 2005 08:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 6 February 2005 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link
The first four tracks on Bed are so great: "Down On Me," "I Want To Want You," "Swan Song," "Sneaking Around."
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 6 February 2005 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link
there were a few tracks on exile that i really liked, but also some i quite disliked. i'll give it a go tomorrow and summarize.
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 6 February 2005 08:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Surmounter, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― baaderonixx, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rich Smörgasbord, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
why does she always look so cross?
― henry s, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I went and saw her read from the book. Did anyone else?
Also only just heard about her and Ryan Adams being 'kindred souls'.
― the pinefox, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I just started following Juliana on twitter today, and I'm already sort of wishing I didn't. She seems to get on just before midnight and rambles for an hour like a 16-yo girl about this and that (tonight it's American Idol). Image shattered.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 21 May 2009 04:35 (fifteen years ago) link
she did this about lindsay lohan very recently (and then wrote a song about her)
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 May 2009 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I just finished her Memoir book.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
and?
― you have to forgive me (surm), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
was just humming some tunes from become what u are.
― you have to forgive me (surm), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
And it was alright.
It's what you'd expect, probably, but none the less entertaining and enlightening, and so on...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
New album - Peace & Love
― Australia, the world's suburb (SeekAltRoute), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Not bad on the first couple of listens - lots of acoustic guitar, so certainly peaceful. Not sure that I love it yet though...
― Australia, the world's suburb (SeekAltRoute), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
huge dud
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i want to listen but i worry it's going to be awful
― you have to forgive me (surm), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/minor-feelings/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 1 July 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/articles/juliana-hatfield-three-my-sister-history-violent-femmes-del-fuegos/
― john. a resident of chicago., Wednesday, 28 August 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
That was pretty cool..
(oh, and check out the 1 comment)
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 August 2013 08:27 (ten years ago) link
question -- did juliana hatfield do a cover of this song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ9nvljscEk
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 25 November 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
I had no idea until a few days ago she was even recording, never mind releasing, an album with Nada Surf's Matthew Caws. The fifteen-year-old in me is feeling a lot of feelings on first impressions.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 25 November 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
I forgot how totally cool she was and then I reminded myself by listening to her cover of "Raisans" today -- but I can't remember whether it was her or someone who sounded like her who sang a cover of Yeh Yeh.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 25 November 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
her cover of "Yeh, Yeh" appears on the Fathers & Sons OST, but I've never heard it before.
― when skrillex just stood there (unregistered), Monday, 25 November 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link
huhi have definitely heard it before. maybe i taped it from the library or something? i can see that happening in 10th or 11th gr.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 25 November 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
I was way into her in the '90s. I'm surprised to discover that I might be even more into her '90s material now than I was back in the day. Only Everything was particularly slept on by me. What an album.
I never went any further than Bed but I think I wanna make the push and catch up on her complete works. Setting myself up for disappointment? Possibly.
― Say Goodbye To That Blood (Old Lunch), Monday, 23 November 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
I'm just gonna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSIOk9UkVk0
― Say Goodbye To That Blood (Old Lunch), Monday, 23 November 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
Beautiful Creature is excellent and I recall Total System Failure being very good. I've dipped in and out over the years and I don't think she has done much that isn't pretty enjoyable.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Monday, 23 November 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
So, she lives around the corner from me and last week our dogs made friends and I was standing there like, "hey, nice dog" meanwhile I know the dog's name is Charlie and I've seen her twice. I wasn't going to be obnoxious and say anything but man was that a weird few minutes.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 23 November 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
Wow. I've generally been decidedly un-starstruck meeting/running into celebrities but I honestly don't know how I'd react in that situation. There would be some gushing, I'm sure.
― Say Goodbye To That Blood (Old Lunch), Monday, 23 November 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
yeah I don't think a few friendly words would be obnoxious at all
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Monday, 23 November 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
I think I wanna make the push and catch up on her complete works. Setting myself up for disappointment? Possibly.
How to Walk Away is my favorite of her 21st century solo albums, and the the short-lived band she had with Freda and Heidi Gluck called Some Girls is her best full band project.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 01:47 (eight years ago) link
X-post yeah you might be right. I see her pretty often so if the dogs meet again maybe I will say something nice. :)
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 26 November 2015 02:59 (eight years ago) link
I guess your dogs never met again.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 26 February 2018 09:39 (six years ago) link
sometimes i think Feed Me will be her legacy song, as long as anorexics keep sharing it with each other on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PvJfxnCXtU
― mig (guess that dreams always end), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 07:36 (six years ago) link
Feed me with lyrics
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 08:02 (six years ago) link
new album of Olivia Newton John covers is due which is... unexpected
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/album/0x5HHvCJis3kkZL86Z4Ld8sounds pretty good to me!
― niels, Saturday, 14 April 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link
The Newton-John album is really lovely.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
yes, one of my favorites this year, not familiar with anything else she's done (hardly any of the Newton-John songs either) but loving the melodies, the energy/spirit of it
― niels, Sunday, 3 June 2018 10:10 (six years ago) link
Always liked her, but just now wallowing in nostalgia and connecting with my inner '90s indie rocker by listening to the Blake Babies' Sunburn and then Hey Babe, Become What You Are, and Only Everything. What a great run that is. If she had come up in the '60s she would've been a famous Brill Building hitmaker.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 23:19 (two years ago) link
still love her so much
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 23:19 (two years ago) link
John Strohm has been publishing these great Blake Babies tour diaries on Facebook, check it out for sure if you are a fan
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 23:54 (two years ago) link
I would but I'm not on Facebook. If they were anywhere else...
― Josefa, Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
gimme a few
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
good news, it's actually on Wordpress not FB
https://johnpstrohm.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/blake-babies-tour-diary-excerpts-pt-1
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
Oh cool, thanks!
― Josefa, Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:11 (two years ago) link
1988-1990 was such an interesting period, when the American Underground of the mid-'80s had made its impact and grunge was bubbling up, and everyone was influenced by similar things but taking those influences off in different directions.
― Josefa, Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
Thought I actually did read something John wrote on FB, but maybe it was just a link to the Wordpress.
― Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link
correct
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 7 April 2022 01:09 (two years ago) link
I played her newest album Blood the other day, mostly out of goodwill and nostalgia, and even though my personal tastes have shifted from what I was listening to twenty years ago I'm amazed that after nineteen albums she's still writing such strong choruses.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 7 April 2022 08:01 (two years ago) link
Thank you for that link, sleeve.My gf was telling me about someone who lives in her friend's building the other day and I realized at some point that she was talking about Freda Love Smith. Neither of them knew that she was in Blake Babies.
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 April 2022 10:34 (two years ago) link
!
― Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 April 2022 12:50 (two years ago) link
Haha I keep waiting to run into her around town. I feel like it’s inevitable!!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 April 2022 13:29 (two years ago) link
Her = Freda (not Juliana though that would be awesome too)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 April 2022 13:30 (two years ago) link