Juliana Hatfield C/D S&D

jd you have to be kidding

The new album from last summer isn't that exciting.

The first four tracks on Bed are so great: "Down On Me," "I Want To Want You," "Swan Song," "Sneaking Around."

there were a few tracks on exile that i really liked, but also some i quite disliked. i'll give it a go tomorrow and summarize.

I saw this on her website. Anyone seen these so-called perverted posts?

"Someone purporting to be ‘Juliana Hatfield’ is disseminating disturbing email messages, postings, and e-cards throughout the Internet.
"Please ignore any and all unsolicited anti-Semitic, racist/fascist, or sexually perverted email or e-cards sent by ‘Juliana Hatfield.’ It is not coming from me.
"This has, sadly, been going on for quite some time. I thought that if I ignored the problem, or at least didn’t acknowledge it publicly, the perpetrator would eventually get this sickness out of his/her system and move on to happier, healthier, more productive pursuits. I was wrong.
"And now I feel I must issue this disclaimer, for the benefit of any of you who may yet be targeted: Please don’t open any unsolicited mail from
‘Juliana Hatfield’ if you don’t know me. Please don’t even look at this stuff.
It’s ugly and kind of heartbreaking."

geez

i'd be really disappointed to receive an e-card from 'juliana hatfield', only to find out it's not actually from her

esp. that sort of e card

New blog where J picks a song and writes about the context, inspiration, etc for the piece.

http://julianahatfield.com/blog/

jeez, those are some lengthy blurbs she writes

like that picture of her about halfway down the page (of her blog)

Me too, though not sure about the message.

You're right, that's a lot of words. I'll have to try to read them.

I decided that she has a hot face but the jaw/bone structure is too big or something. Either way she used to pretty hot in some of her videos and I'm looking forward to listening to her latest two offerings: Made In China and How To Walk Away (will be released August 19th).

She rocks.

I could add her to my fave guitarists thread.She had a way with the open string chords. I dug that Strohm guy from Blake Babies too for similar reasons.

Saw them (BB) open for Buffalo Tom years ago now. Julianna Hatfiled was a tiny bit easier on the eye than Bill Janovitz

what kind of chords? any examples of songs?

Rain by Blake Babies - How to play cool songs

After watching its video a few minutes ago, I'm embarassed that I didn't champion "Universal Heart-beat" a little more in spring '95. God, that tune was everywhere, wasn't it?

http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/2168/11179097cw2.jpg
This is a screen cap I took from her Blake Babies - Out There video.
I think she's hot in this video. Someone told me she looks like a boy. I told them to stfu.

I'm gonna join her myspace and post this screen cap and see if I get a reply.

Pinefox - not sure of any particular chords but if in standard tuning alot of her stuff sounds like loads of suspended and add nine stuff? Plenty of open strings - limited barre chords - apart from that Total System Failure.

Maybe alt tunings?

Possibly why I never made it. Yes, I play guitar but too lazy for theory and all that

Pinefox - not sure of any particular chords but if in standard tuning alot of her stuff sounds like loads of suspended and add nine stuff? Plenty of open strings - limited barre chords - apart from that Total System Failure.

this is true. i love it

universal heartbeat was the bomb. so was Dumb Fun

so was Dumb Fun

-- Surmounter, Monday, June 2, 2008 2:33 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

New album's a pleasant surprise--my favorite since the best-of or the first couple Blake Babies:

http://blogs.citypages.com/pscholtes/2008/08/juliana_hatfiel.php

She's got a book coming out too. I want to read it and Black Postcards at the same time and take a swim in 90s indie nostalgia.

this lonely love is not half bad. sounds like her. refreshing, after being really disappointed by in exile deo.

after being really disappointed by in exile deo

Did you skip right over her last album Made in China?

apparently.

good or bad?

More good than bad.

hey all you Strohm/Blake babies fans, John has been writing his autobiography here:

http://musicalfamilytree.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?user=34j2mdsgorhfo

lots of cool stuff about growing up in the US hardcore scene in the early 80's, Fer Ark you should check it out.

Of course there is a lot of stuff about J Hatfield as well.

Think I preferred "This Lonely Love" when it was called "It Should Have Been You".

I like the idea of sampling one of your own (I think weaker) songs for a better new one.

ohh wait is that what happened? i thought it sounded like something

The Newton-John album is really lovely.

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

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.

still love her so much

John Strohm has been publishing these great Blake Babies tour diaries on Facebook, check it out for sure if you are a fan

I would but I'm not on Facebook. If they were anywhere else...

gimme a few

good news, it's actually on Wordpress not FB

https://johnpstrohm.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/blake-babies-tour-diary-excerpts-pt-1

Oh cool, thanks!

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.

Thought I actually did read something John wrote on FB, but maybe it was just a link to the Wordpress.

correct

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.

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.

!

Haha I keep waiting to run into her around town. I feel like it’s inevitable!!

Her = Freda (not Juliana though that would be awesome too)

Hatfield has released two banger albums in the last three months -- Lightning Might Strike back in December, and Bets last week, which is a Collab with Eric Payne, her general contractor.

https://julianahatfieldandericpayne.bandcamp.com/album/bets