Blake Babies (Juliana Hatfield) - 1989-05-09, WERS Studios, Boston, MA US - FM
Superior sound blast from Juliana's brilliant distant past at last here brand new to DIME.
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BLAKE BABIES
WERS "Metrowave"
Emerson College
Boston, MA
May 9, 1989 [Tuesday]
FM Broadcast
SET LIST:
01. Outta My Head >
02. Lament
03. Look Away >
04. Your Way Or The Highway
05. Dead & Gone
06. From Here To Burma
07. Grateful
08. Alright
09. You Don't Give Up [ -> station ID -> ]
10. Don't Suck My Breath
11. Tom & Bob [+ plug for upcoming intv]
12. interview [w/ band]
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[Found flaw : Track 05 D&G @ 3:00 - drop-out (in g solo) ]
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Files as found c/o the uploader, teenagedogsintrouble.blogspot
Uploader's Description (from thursday, january 31, 2013)
"...The show I've posted is the earliest Blake Babies (or Juliana Hatfield) I have and it's a gem of a recording! The band was just hitting their stride with the release of Earwig and they were still a couple years from their breakthrough album, Sunburn. I received this in a trade over 10 years ago and I've been hoarding it ever since, but I want to share it because it's one of my personal favourites. I don't recall seeing this available anywhere else online, but I'm sure there must be others that have heard or own this recording. This is an in-studio live radio session followed by an interview with the band. The sound quality is excellent and it's another in a series of recordings from Metrowave on WERS at Emerson College that I have previously posted. This is a must listen for any Blake Babies/Juliana Hatfield fans!.
Enjoy!"
[There is no request there not to post elsewhere -- plus it's been over a year now since the initial share -- so I think it's safe to spread them lossless legs. -ed. md]
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BLAKE BABIES
[Wikipedia's Background Info]
Juliana Hatfield - vocals, bass and guitar [also head songwriter]
John Strohm - guitar and vocals
Freda Boner (also known as Freda Love) - Drums
Origin Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Genres Alternative rock
Years active 1986�1993, 1999�2001
Label Mammoth
"Blake Babies were an American alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts. The three primary members were John Strohm, Freda Love (born Freda Boner), and Juliana Hatfield, with Evan Dando, Andrew Mayer, Seth White, Anthony DeLuca (who played drums in place of Freda for the group's last European tour in early 1992), and Mike Leahy each also performing as members of the band at times.
The name "Blake Babies" was provided by the poet Allen Ginsberg; following a reading at Harvard University, the group (which had just begun to play together) raised their hands and asked him to name their band. Ginsberg's suggestion was likely inspired by the first half of William Blake�s 'Songs of Innocence and Experience.' The name proved quite apt in regard to what was perhaps the group's most distinctive aspect: the juxtaposition of Hatfield's pure, somewhat thin and childlike (yet forceful) vocal quality with often surprisingly acerbic lyrics.
Musically, the Blake Babies' songs are highly melodic, with instruments supporting rather than covering vocals; in this way, their music falls somewhere between pop and rock and could be described as "power pop". Songs are generally upbeat and the group's work features both female (Hatfield) and male (Strohm) vocals, often together in harmony or in octaves. Strohm's intricate guitar picking style and preference for a "clean" (as opposed to distorted) guitar tone owes much to R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, although Neil Young and punk rock are other important influences. Close listening shows that Hatfield's bass playing is particularly expressive, using octaves and sliding tones to create melodies as well as anchoring bass lines. Songs are carefully constructed, with sophisticated harmonic and dynamic shifts showing the results of the band members' training at the Berklee School of Music..."
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Earwig (released Fall, 1989) : 4 Stars in the Rolling Stone and...
allmusic - the album review, by Stewart Mason:
"A giant step beyond the Blake Babies' scattershot 1987 debut, Nicely Nicely, 1989's Earwig is an utter delight. Although it was recorded during a period of personnel instability, before the group had once and for all settled into the trio format of Juliana Hatfield on bass and vocals, John P. Strohm on guitar, and Freda Boner on drums, there's a cohesion to this album that makes it greater than the sum of its individual parts. Opening with the mildly petulant ecological rant "Cesspool," the album quickly settles into the niche that would remain the Blake Babies' for the rest of their career: first-person songs about life among the young and disenchanted. "You Don't Give Up," "Don't Suck My Breath," and the sneering "Take Your Head off My Shoulder" initiate the rocky relationship with romance that's the hallmark of Hatfield's lyrics, and songs like the moody, almost ambient "From Here to Burma" indicate a wider frame of musical reference than many groups of their ilk. Though the band would quickly outshine it with the mini-masterpiece Sunburn, Earwig was the album on which the Blake Babies proved that they were among the most important groups on the nascent indie rock underground."
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2014-04-26, mikedreams on...DIME
- In the Metrowave interview the band tell the story of playing at Norfolk State Prison, where an actual band of lifers called The Lifers, a 70's mainstream rock cover band, opened and killed it.
"...Come on, indie rock! Just gimme indie rock!"
- WERS : 88.9 FM
Here's to you my silver rocket 88, for giving me an awful lot of earful back in the post-college daze of this Boston baked bean's fast fading youth often best spent listening far left of the dial.
- A jewel of a Juliana Hatfield show brand new to DIME still to come to.
- Full-song sound samples in comment down below.
Par moi pour vous -> Burn down the Mission of Burma on the road again to Nirvana!
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