Beyond Bitchin'

Artist: Four Bitchin' Babes
Label: Shanachie
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 016351803528
EAN: 0016351803528
ASIN: B00004SQZR

Release Date: 2000-05-09

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Tracks:

Little Stars
Lovely Mistake
Body Is A Car
Toe To Toe With The HMO
My Kinda Man
This Town's All Right
Beautiful Fool
Viagra In The Waters
Italy And France
I Don't Wanna Know
If I Were Brave
Hold On To My Love

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Customer Reviews:

4 Bitchen Babes are Bitchen........2006-08-19

These ladies are great. I never heard their other songs except for Viagra in the Waters thus the reason I purchesed this CD I will purchase their others as well. My family also heard the CD for the first time and my teenage nephew wants their collection..
If you like folk type music with a twist you'll like these gals.

If you like this CD...........2005-07-02

Bitchin' babes are awesome...Viagra in the water is one of my favorite songs that I don't let my mother hear me playing...if you like that, you'd like Christine Lavin's CD Future Fossils...A musical apology.

A Lovely Mistake.......2001-08-22

The Four Bitchin Babes are great! Starting with their first CD on Rounder (listed under their four names with Christine Lavin first) to the 3 Shanachie releases, and despite revolving personnel, they seem to have a group identity that stays from CD to CD. My favorite is Gabby Road, the live CD, whose title was a play on the Beatles' Abbey Road. The cover art on Beyond Bitchin is also a play on the cover art from Meet the Beatles. With four strong personalities comprising the group, there is a comparison to be made. A mandolin gives the first track a distinctive arrangement with a great Debi Smith pop song, "Little Stars." Sally Fingerett's "Lovely Mistake" has a nice guitar part and a strong lyric, "We sit in judgment; that's why we don't get along." Megon McDonough's "Body in a Car" has the great idea that our body is the car that drives our soul around. A bouncy percussion section punctuates the lyrical advice "to take it easy so it doesn't get run down." "Toe to Toe with the HMO" a hilarious track about the plight of a woman with a sore toe. It's up there with "Bald Headed Men" as one of their best comedy songs. Debi Smith teams with Tom Paxton to write a bouncy tune called "My Kinda Man" about a guy who loves to cook. "This Town's All Right" is an uptempo Sally Fingerett tune. "Beautiful Fool" seemed more like an excellent treatise than a song. Martin Luther King, Walter Cronkite, Mahatma Ghandi and Jesus Christ are all mentioned with the lyric, "Dreams weren't meant to come true; that's why we call them dreams." The line, "We are resistant to love," kind of sums up the thesis. "Viagra in the Waters" is another humorous song. It has Johnny Horton (Battle of New Orleans) rhythm section with lots of phallic innuendo such as, "She knew something was up." I tend to skip over Debi Smith's "Italy & France." It seems more strings than melody to me. Having never traveled to either country, I didn't understand the significance of having mistakenly traveled to Italy when you were trying to get to France. "I Don't Want to Know" is a Clinton-era Monica-gate bouncy tune with the lyric, "There's a blue dress on the witness stand...I don't wanna know." Nice harmonies are on "If I Were Brave." It's kind of a cousin to the "Wind Beneath My Wings." "Hold On to My Love" is a nice pop tune with great Babe harmonies. I liked this CD very much. If you're just tuning into the Babes, I'd recommend Fax It or Gabby Road as the starting point. Like no other band, they combine great musician ship with wry humor, wit and uplifting positive songs. Check them out!

It Will Put a Smile on Your Face.......2001-01-23

I defy anyone to not have a smile on their face and a general warm feeling after listening to this CD. Anyone who has done battle with their HMO will love "Toe to Toe with the HMO". There is something special about each of the twelve songs on this wonderful album.

Wow!.......2000-11-26

I found this CD by accident in a book store. It was the line 30,000 pounds of Viagra that made me buy it. I'm so glad I did. I have listened to so many times I can't count, and I enjoy just as much each time. My favorite cut is "Italy and France"--just haunting.

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