Babies Are for Petting

Babies Are for Petting Artist: Vue
Label: RCA
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: EP
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 078636064420
EAN: 0078636064420
ASIN: B0000894PL


Release Date: 2003-03-04

Babies Are for Petting


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Tracks:

  1. Look Out For Traffic
  2. Hey Hey Not In Here
  3. Babies Are For Petting
  4. Find Your Home (Live At KVRX)
  5. It Won't Last

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Following on from 2001's bold <I>Find Your Home</I> independent album, San Francisco's the Vue take baby steps toward their first major-label effort with this five-song EP. Featuring songs overseen in the studio by superstar producer Don Was, Davy Vain (namesake of '80s hair-metal also-rans Vain), and the band itself, the results are predictably heady. Tumbling psychedelic melodies crash against explosive punk riffs and nervous new wave rhythms, creating a sound uniquely endemic of a band that lists the Stooges, My Bloody Valentine, and Duran Duran among its influences, and considers skinny ties and khaki fedora hats the latest in high style. Hopefully more one-dimensional touring partners, like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and the White Stripes, took notes. This is the stuff that cults are formed around. <I>--Aidin Vaziri</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Promising blend of psychadelia, punk, and blues-rock........2003-07-07

From the opening riff of "Look Out For Traffic", one might make the mistaken assumption that The Vue are just another "nu-garage" band. It only takes a few seconds for the band to dash that apart with the inclusion of a rather psychadelic-style riff into the song itself. Indeed much of the band's strength lies in a fusion of garage-punk, old-school blues-rock, and some psychadelia that isn't as noticeable as the other two, but it's still there. The title track, despite its name comes off as a more raucous get-drunk-at-bar-and-meet-strange-ladies-and-follow-them-back-to-their-place-"tipper gore"-all-night-and-sleep-all-day song. The live rendition of "Find Your Home" owes obvious influence to Led Zeppelin and the fifth track, "It Won't Last" could do any rocker proud. In fact if you ask me, the rest of it could be half-... covers of Puddle of Mudd songs and it would still be worth it just for the final track. This EP's flaws however would be that sometimes the instruments take center-stage over the vocals and the elements of the styles aren't perfectly combined yet.

4 out of 5 stars Junkmedia.org Review - Stomping out the minimum blues!.......2003-04-30

San Francisco-based Vue has been slowly climbing the industry ranks since 1999 and a steady buzz has continued to follow them. After releasing two albums on Sub Pop, the band has graduated to the majors for its latest effort. Babies are for Petting is a short, attention-getting EP designed to prime the masses for a forthcoming full-length -- and it succeeds. With help from heavyweight producer Don Was (Not Was), the band plays bluesy-rawk a la the Stones' Exile on Main Street. At least that is the initial reference point, but after a few listens you are bound to hear the crunchy pop swagger of the Replacements as well. This sort of thing has been done a million times before, but Vue is one of the more capable bands to try it recently.

The first two tracks jumpstart this slab with snotty vocals, skuzzy twin-guitars and sing-along-in-the-car choruses. "Look Out For Traffic" has a crisp, punchy sound and Westerbergian guitar lines that beg to be played loud. Much like the Mats, Vue displays a sardonic wit with quips about the rock star life like "we don't have to worry about anything, because we know that it's just pretend." "Hey Hey Not In Here" combines the above ingredients with an irreverent bounce that waxes nostalgic for worn Chuck Taylors.

Unfortunately the EP missteps with the title track, which finds the band playing a set at the Black Crows' roadhouse and then trying to salvage the thing by inserting a bunch of spacey squiggles and ray guns toward the end. Or maybe the roadhouse crowd just turned the sound up on the Space Invaders game in the corner during this song. Thankfully the band comes back with a hair-raising, stripped-down live reading of "Find Your Home," from the Sub Pop album of the same name, and another new track, "It Won't Last" to make up for the detour.

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