God Bless the Blake Babies

Artist: Blake Babies
Label: Zoe Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 601143101427
EAN: 0601143101427
ASIN: B000059RUZ

Release Date: 2001-03-06

God Bless the Blake Babies

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Tracks:

Disppear
Nothing Ever Happens
Baby Gets High
Waiting For Heaven
UntiI I Almost Died
Picture Perfect
When I See His Face
What Did I Do
Brain Damage
Civil War
Invisible World
On

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Customer Reviews:

Babies come back for more.........2006-07-31

The Blake Babies' have been known in the college scene from late 80s/early 90s for jangle pop with a harder edge, creating 3 minute pop songs that were alwasy catchy and sweet. But a decade after their breakup, their reunion album is much better than Earwig or Sunburn. The sound of the album is much more focused and you can clearly see where each song links to the next whereas on their previous albums it was like a bunch of demos put together, although great didn't fit well together.

Although Juliana Hatfield is clearly the star with her relatble lyrics, its great to see others step out into the spotlight. Personally, Juliana's voice can get a bit nerving at times, even though I find her voice much less 'girlish' on this album than her early days. Nice to hear from John Storhm who leads two of the strongest tracks on the whole album while Freda Love's lead track is even better than I expected.

Lastly, alwasy great to hear from sometime Baby, Evan Dando whose voice has always matched perfectly with Juliana's.

Overall this is a great album where the reunion of a band leads to even greater workings than the work they put out in the first place.

the blake babies still have the old magic.......2002-09-08

god bless 'em, all right. I have been greatly enjoying this album since purchasing it a couple of months ago. Definately a more mature sound, with less of the Sunburn angst - but they still manage to capture the catchy nature of their old stuff. I especially like hearing Juliana again in a way that I haven't heard since her first solo album. Not that her new stuff isn't good, but it was kind of nice to hear the kind of stuff again that made me love the group in the beginning. I'm glad freda, john, and juliana made it back together to produce this winner - and i hope they can find time in the future to recreate this magic again...

good stuff.......2002-01-13

Funny how a simple one-off reunion album by the Allen Ginsberg-christened Blake Babies can blow away many other high-profile releases. No, they're not out to break new ground musically; John Strohm, Freda Love-Smith, and the irreplacable Juliana Hatfield just casually got back together for the first time since 1991 and quickly whipped up a good little record before going back to their own respective projects.

God Bless The Blake Babies is nothing but good alt-pop, and all three members share the lead vocals, the highlights being Hatfield's terrific 'Disappear', 'What Did I Do', and 'Until I Almost Died', Strohm's 'Picture Perfect' (featuring lovely, lilting backing vocals by Hatfield), and Love-Smith's pretty 'When I See His Face'. There are also two excellent covers, Madder Rose's sublime 'Baby Gets High', and 'Brain Damage', written by Evan Dando and Ben Lee (recorded as a duet between Dando and Hatfield).

There's nothing really new or original on God Bless The Blake Babies, just some very good tunes, with no disappointing moments, that shows that the same chemistry that made the Blake Babies one of the better alt-rock bands of the early nineties still remains. This is an understated beauty of a cd. Bless 'em indeed.

fails to reach the heights of their early work..........2001-10-30

I was really very excited about this release and must confess to being somewhat disappointed.

I love Sunburn, it is one of the great indie albums of the 90s and still gets played on sunny days in my house.

Since they split I have followed the various incarnations with interest. John has always been intriguing without producing anything essential. Juliana has occasionally threatened mainstream domination but her albums have been patchy at best (now a Best Of her solo years would be very good).

This is a good album, but it is not amazing. I am not sure how many of these tracks would have made it onto Sunburn had they been written then.

It is nice to hear them again but the real proof of this album is that I will still turn to Sunburn when I fancy a bit of Blake Babies action.

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