Other Mixes By Pop Kulcher
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Gimme Some Mirth: The Collected Blake Babies (& Juliana Hatfield)
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| Blake Babies |
Take Your Head Off My Shoulder 
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| Blake Babies |
Cesspool
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| Blake Babies |
Alright
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| Blake Babies |
Your Way Or The Highway
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| Blake Babies |
Grateful
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| Blake Babies |
Loose
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| Blake Babies |
Out There
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| Blake Babies |
I'm Not Your Mother
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| Blake Babies |
Look Away
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| Blake Babies |
I'll Take Anything
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| Blake Babies |
Kiss And Make Up
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| Blake Babies |
Temptation Eyes
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| Juliana Hatfield |
Everybody Loves Me But you
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| Juliana Hatfield |
Forever Baby
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| Juliana Hatfield |
Raisans
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| Juliana Hatfield | My Sister | |
| Juliana Hatfield | Spin The Bottle | |
| Juliana Hatfield |
Sellout
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| Juliana Hatfield |
Down on Me
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| Juliana Hatfield | Only Love Can Break Your Heart | |
| Blake Babies | Disappear | |
| Blake Babies | Nothing Ever Happens | |
| Blake Babies | Unitl I Almost Died | |
| Juliana Hatfield |
Dirty Dog
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| Juliana Hatfield |
Get In Line
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| Juliana Hatfield |
Sunshine
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Comment:
Another weekend clearing the cd racks of the stuff I pretty much never listen to any more and distilling it down to a mix before boxing it up. The two full-length albums from the original Blake Babies were actually pretty solid, dominated by Juliana's wispy vocals and jagged but jangly indie guitars; they may not be remembered by many, but they still hold up ok, and "Out There" remains an essential track from the early 90's. I'm far less fond of Juliana's subsequent solo career, which, aside from a handful of catchy tunes, lurched between somewhat jarring guitar-driven rock and verging-on-Sheryl-Crow territory sappy singer-songwriter fluff (though with a bit more lyrical edge than usually found in the genre). The BB reunion disc wasn't much of a keeper, either. Still, the lukewarm reviews aside, it wasn't easy getting this down to 80 minutes.Feedback:
good tribute - probably about all the juliana you need.
Marc, just how many boxes of CDs do you have now and where do you store them? Which one is Juliana..they all look like blokes! Didn't she go out with Evan Dando of The Lemonheads? Yeah, what I heard by her was certainly wispy but I never heard Blake Babies.
Can't get enough of Blake Babies and Juliana Hatfield--love 'em!
Dom -- as with many AOTM'ers, I've got far more discs than I know what to do with (and that's not even counting the hundreds of bootleg/live cdr's). I've got room for about 1,000 on the shelves in my living room, so I'm gradually boxing up the ones I don't listen to and putting the boxes in a closet. They still end up piling up on random cabinets and countertops, driving my wife batty. BTW, Juliana is the one on the right, who actually was kinda cute and aged well (visually).
Geez! Could you have picked a worse picture of the Blake Babies!? I thought it was going to be a Rush mix! Like the Darling Buds (the previous single artist mix), I used to adore the Blake Babies. The first two BB records are fantastic -- filled with folky, catchy pop songs with Juliana's lovely squeaky vocals. I continued to buy her records after the split, but they were never quite as good as the BB stuff -- thought still quite good. Have you heard the Some Girls CD? It has some pretty decent songs on it. Yes, I'm sure my wife would love it if I started boxing up all my CDs (I've got lots of piles everywhere too), and then dropped them into the ocean.
For what very little it's worth, I disagree about the worth of Juliana Hatfield's solo work. The first two albums were lovely. And "Total System Failure" repays a couple of plays. That aside, there's no way you should omit "Ugly" from any Juliana compilation.
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Yeah, I have a weak spot for both the Blake Babies and Ms. Hatfield (at least her early solo stuff). Hey Babe was the first COMPACT DISC that I ever purchased (I stuck to vinyl, for the most part, all the way through '93). She and I used to be pen pals and I had the hugest crush on her... Nice mix, although you somehow managed to leave off my favorites, "Nirvana" and "Girl in a Box."
Rob indeed did have the hugest crush on her. My old band did a playful song dedicated to him/her, "Dear Juliana,".