Juliana Hatfield C/D S&D

I love BECOME WHAT YOU ARE LP. Blake Babies' GOD SAVE THE BLAKE BABIES or whatever it's called is surprisingly good too.

She is quite tasty but also talented.

Anyway, the only record of hers I've really liked was a BBC radio session acoustic version of 'My Darling'.

Just played Hey Babe after maybe 8 years. And, after some heavy duty brain-adjustment during the first song to *that* indie- guitar sound, I was surprised to learn it's still very good. Lovely melodies, clever lyrics. Time to hit the second hand cd-shops.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the cover of the I See You (E)P.

loopstrange: i'm starvin' are you?
ronnylongjohns: sometimes i worry about juliana
loopstrange: yes?
ronnylongjohns: she needs a burger
loopstrange: oh,
ronnylongjohns: lets all three of us have a burger
ronnylongjohns: right now
loopstrange: RON!
ronnylongjohns: mm, my burger is tasty
loopstrange: mine is too
ronnylongjohns: juliana, how is your double cheeseburger?
ronnylongjohns: "mmm. it hits the spot"
loopstrange: mine hits the spot too
loopstrange: Juliana, would u like some of my fries?
loopstrange: ron, you have some too
ronnylongjohns: "yes please, rainy!" can i dip into your ketchup there?"
loopstrange: please do
ronnylongjohns: *dips*
ronnylongjohns: i like to dip my burger into the ketchup too
ronnylongjohns: oh gosh
ronnylongjohns: now i am wanting a burger for rilla
loopstrange: whos that?
ronnylongjohns: what have we done?
ronnylongjohns: oh thats me
ronnylongjohns: juliana is still chewing the fries
loopstrange: would she like a milkshake too?
ronnylongjohns: yes i was just thinking of getting one for her
ronnylongjohns: (you can be juliana too)
loopstrange: I'll pay for half of your milkshake Juliana, and ron will pay for the other half
loopstrange: "thanks rainy, then shall we all go to the swimming pool?"
ronnylongjohns: ron would like a root beer milk shake
loopstrange: okay ron, here you are
ronnylongjohns: "can we go to the ocean instead"
ronnylongjohns: "or is it too cold?"
loopstrange: yes, we can, but we should wait half an hour before swimming
loopstrange: it's plenty warm juliana,
ronnylongjohns: yes that would be prudent
ronnylongjohns: we will sit on the sand for a while
loopstrange: you can wear my sweater if you like tho
ronnylongjohns: and digest, while listening to your new demo
ronnylongjohns: on the boombox
loopstrange: boombox!
ronnylongjohns: "you guys will love my new songs"
loopstrange: oh juliana, have I mentioned how much I love "hey babe"?
ronnylongjohns: "this one is called 'radio static'"
loopstrange: it's the greatest!
ronnylongjohns: "thank you"
ronnylongjohns: juliana, i really love "nirvana"
loopstrange: "thank you ron, would you like me to teach you to play it on yr nice guitar?"
ronnylongjohns: oh yes!
loopstrange: "it's easy peasy, then we can all have a jam"
ronnylongjohns: juliana, can i sing the back up
loopstrange: "yes, and rainy can do the tambourine"
loopstrange: "there's no tambourine in it, but we'll add it in"
ronnylongjohns: "oh, we should write a song and i'll put it on my new album"
loopstrange: "yeah, i was hoping you'd want to do that ron"
loopstrange: oops, i'm mixed up
ronnylongjohns: hee
loopstrange: ron, i gotta go now
ronnylongjohns: ok
loopstrange: see you and julaina another day?
ronnylongjohns: yesm
loopstrange: cool cat
loopstrange: bye

I think I only like the Hatfield tracks no one else does - "Breeders," "Let's Get Married," "Swan Song," "I Want To Want You."

The good stuff of Beautiful Creature is SO GOOD. search songs 1-3, 6, and 11. esp.#11,'Hotels'. I always liked Only Everything too, plus the first too.

The Blake Babies reunion was maybe 1/3 super, search 1, 4, 5, and 10.

Wow, I never realized I was so into Juliana Hatfield... who knew?

does anybody have a lead on a clean copy of this 'god's foot' (?) thing???

haha i thought i was the only one!!

she's playing tucson in 4 days: i can't wait!

Ah mems. Newcastlte Riverside club. She was too loud (well, the band were, she was way too quiet herself). The last one I got was the 'hairy' one. One of my first purchases from CDNow back in the day. Dawn put her hand in the car glovebox, brushed against the CD and pulled her hand out very quick. "Is that meant to be....?" she asked. "Yeah, Probably" said I.

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/

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

new album of Olivia Newton John covers is due which is... unexpected

https://open.spotify.com/album/0x5HHvCJis3kkZL86Z4Ld8
sounds pretty good to me!

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)