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