Juliana Hatfield C/D S&D

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

but i don't know It Should Have Been you so.

You must've really been disappointed with In Exile Deo! "It Should Have Been You" was on that one.

ugh her blog writing has such an irritating tone

i was fucking disappointed. were you not?

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

geez, wow. I thought the link was mixed up, but, nope.

I'll probably buy her book, but her writing on her site is pretty something. Not surprising, maybe, and nicely... expansive.

I actually think 'Exile' is one of her best, although I completely understand the dismay at the (over)production. I still listen to it quite often - 'Tourist', 'Sunshine' and 'Jamie' are faves - and have listened to it many more times than 'Made In China'...

it terrified me. overproduction can be a gift, but this was paired with something i wasn't familiar with, with regard to her -- sub-par songwriting? but i do need to give it another chance

She's the new Ray Davies!
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/music/productions/juliana-hatfield-42403

This is the homeless lady who will magically make your mother understand you if you give her your new pair of Doc Martens, right?

why does she always look so cross?

I went and saw her read from the book. Did anyone else?

Also only just heard about her and Ryan Adams being 'kindred souls'.

I just started following Juliana on twitter today, and I'm already sort of wishing I didn't. She seems to get on just before midnight and rambles for an hour like a 16-yo girl about this and that (tonight it's American Idol). Image shattered.

she did this about lindsay lohan very recently (and then wrote a song about her)

I just finished her Memoir book.

and?

was just humming some tunes from become what u are.

And it was alright.

It's what you'd expect, probably, but none the less entertaining and enlightening, and so on...

New album - Peace & Love

Not bad on the first couple of listens - lots of acoustic guitar, so certainly peaceful. Not sure that I love it yet though...

huge dud

i want to listen but i worry it's going to be awful

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/minor-feelings/

http://www.spin.com/articles/juliana-hatfield-three-my-sister-history-violent-femmes-del-fuegos/

That was pretty cool..

(oh, and check out the 1 comment)

question -- did juliana hatfield do a cover of this song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ9nvljscEk

I had no idea until a few days ago she was even recording, never mind releasing, an album with Nada Surf's Matthew Caws. The fifteen-year-old in me is feeling a lot of feelings on first impressions.

I forgot how totally cool she was and then I reminded myself by listening to her cover of "Raisans" today -- but I can't remember whether it was her or someone who sounded like her who sang a cover of Yeh Yeh.

her cover of "Yeh, Yeh" appears on the Fathers & Sons OST, but I've never heard it before.

huh
i have definitely heard it before. maybe i taped it from the library or something? i can see that happening in 10th or 11th gr.

I was way into her in the '90s. I'm surprised to discover that I might be even more into her '90s material now than I was back in the day. Only Everything was particularly slept on by me. What an album.

I never went any further than Bed but I think I wanna make the push and catch up on her complete works. Setting myself up for disappointment? Possibly.

I'm just gonna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSIOk9UkVk0

Beautiful Creature is excellent and I recall Total System Failure being very good. I've dipped in and out over the years and I don't think she has done much that isn't pretty enjoyable.

So, she lives around the corner from me and last week our dogs made friends and I was standing there like, "hey, nice dog" meanwhile I know the dog's name is Charlie and I've seen her twice. I wasn't going to be obnoxious and say anything but man was that a weird few minutes.

Wow. I've generally been decidedly un-starstruck meeting/running into celebrities but I honestly don't know how I'd react in that situation. There would be some gushing, I'm sure.

yeah I don't think a few friendly words would be obnoxious at all

I think I wanna make the push and catch up on her complete works. Setting myself up for disappointment? Possibly.

How to Walk Away is my favorite of her 21st century solo albums, and the the short-lived band she had with Freda and Heidi Gluck called Some Girls is her best full band project.

X-post yeah you might be right. I see her pretty often so if the dogs meet again maybe I will say something nice. :)

I guess your dogs never met again.

sometimes i think Feed Me will be her legacy song, as long as anorexics keep sharing it with each other on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PvJfxnCXtU

Feed me with lyrics