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| The famous Whisky-A-Go-Go on the famous Sunset Strip. Photo by Mike Dillon. |
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My friend, Sheboyganboy Six 👌 > "Be seeing you" (a.k.a. Sixgun McItchyfinger, The Amazing Sixwell, Sir Six-A-Lot, Sir Sixy, and Six), had a birthday not so awfully long ago. I ain't sayin' what month it was, nor even what year it was. I'm jus' sayin' that it was "not so awfully long ago".
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Sheboyganboy Six and I met online briefly before BigBitch.com (a.k.a. Amazon.scum) "cancelled" me. He, along with Arlee Bird, was one of my earliest blog readers and is probably still the most regular reader of my blogs. So, this BATTLE OF THE BANDS' Battle Of The Booze installment is being posted in his honor!
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I'm not sure that Sir Six finds it as humorous as I do but, although our genuine friendship has been ongoing for about 18 years, there isn't much that we agree on -- especially when it comes to music. We call it "The Great Musical Divide".
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In fact, I maintain a rarely changing, very short list of things that we DO agree on. Here's the fully updated list as it appears today:
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MUSICAL AGREEMENTS:
1. Tom Petty
2. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
3. The 'Who's Next' album.
4. Louis Prima & Keely Smith
5. Joe Morello (best drummer ever).
6. Johnny Cash & U2 were highly overrated songwriters / singers / musicians.
7. The Dip
8. Rare Earth
9. The Babys
10. Loggins & Messina
11. 'Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee' by Jerry Lee Lewis (> is better than 'Rock This Town' by The Stray Cats).
12. Traffic
13. Brian Auger
14. Steely Dan
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NON-MUSICAL AGREEMENTS:
1. GOD Is!!!
2. Tiny Tim (er... 'The Tiny Tim Christmas Day Wish', that is).
3. Valerie Bertinelli was cute & hot!
4. Jean Gonzalez was a VERY hot girl!
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If you were paying attention, 9. The Babys should have stood out for y'all. Sir 6 and I both dug & still dig The Babys.
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Who are The Babys? A late '70s / early '80s English Rock band that had a couple big hits. Their first hit (#13 in Billboard), from their second album scored in late 1977, and was titled > 'Isn't It Time'. That song grabbed me immediately & I went out and bought both of their albums, 'The Babys' & 'Broken Heart'.
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Other than the hook-laden songs, I think 6 digs The Babys primarily because of John Waite's vocals. I dig them primarily because of Wally Stocker's "Paul Kossoff School of stun-vibrato guitar playing" and drummer Tony Brock's "rolling thunder style & sound". In fact, Brock is one of my all-time favorite Rock music drummers! So... 6 & I disagree even when we agree. GOL! 😄
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Originally, I was planning to tell y'all 3 short stories about my strongest memories associated with The Babys. Like, Eric & I listening to > 'Dying Man' while drinking Southern Comfort & Coke in Redondo Beach. Like, my Ma & I seeing some sort of "Baby" while we were having lunch at Le Dome, where > Even A Dog Can Shake Hands. Like, Eric & I seeing The Babys live at The Whisky-A-Go-Go on the Sunset Strip on December 31, 1978; and me yelling > "READ MY STARS!" all night, while The Babys pretended not to hear me. The Bloody British! I'd like to catch 'em sometime "in the town of New Orleans!" 😎
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But I can't tell ya them 3 stories because it would take too long. So, let's get on it! Let's get ON this thing!
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Please vote for the song you like best. And then please visit all of the other BOTBers and vote in their Battles. I plan to return here on March 22nd with my own vote and the Final Tally.
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"At home on the BoulevardCheap whiskey and Tarot cards
Man, she's outrageous!"
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"Feels like I'm falling on a whiskey sea
Come on, baby, and rescue me"
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RESCUE ME
by The Babys
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~ D-FensDogG
DogGtor of Alcohology &
King of Inebriation Nation
I'll have to admit that I was not familiar with the music of The Babys until the current century. I guess we were hearing and listening to other music back in Tennessee in those days.
ReplyDeleteI like their style of music and it is certainly up my alley of interest. I did buy one of John Waite's albums in the eighties. Loved "missing You".
Of these two songs it's a tough call for me. There is so much similarity, but that's what I would have probably liked about their albums. Consistency of a style that I like.
Give my vote to "Rescue Me" as there was something that stood out to me more so than the first tune.
Lee
BOIDMAN ~
DeleteI'm pleased as Grand Marnier-spiked punch that you enjoyed the tunes.
In an overall sense, I would describe The Babys as having the archetypical "Classic" Hard Rock sound. But, in a more nuanced statement, I would say that they added some "special" elements to the sound. They did some songs with really cool string arrangements, and the drumming of Brock & the guitar work of Stocker definitely set them apart from so many typical Hard Rock bands of that same time.
The fact that I can no longer listen to about 85% of the stuffs I loved as a teenager, but I still dig The Babys' sound is a solid recommendation.
~ D-FensDogG
They're both good, but I'll go with "Rescue Me" as well.
ReplyDeleteNow, now, Sir John! Chin up and all that sort of thing. A rescue's being thought of. Be brrr-aaa-ve, Sir John!
Delete~ D-FensDogG
Stephen -
ReplyDeleteI'm humbled that you are posting this battle in my honor! We do go back a long way at this point! Now... surprise, surprise: I will disagree with you about the following points:
1) You said: "there isn't much that we agree on..." I disagree. I think we agree on 95% or more of the things that really matter!
2) You said: "I think 6 digs The Babys primarily because of John Waite's vocals. I dig them primarily because of Wally Stocker's "Paul Kossoff School of stun-vibrato guitar playing" and drummer Tony Brock's "rolling thunder style & sound". In fact, Brock is one of my all-time favorite Rock music drummers!" WRONGO, Steverino! I AGREE with your assessment of Stocker and Brock. FANTASTIC musicians with style I love! I do not agree that I primarily like The Babys because of Waite. I loved the whole package, in particular the hook laden songs. One point I am firm on, however, is that The Babys would not SOUND like The Babys without the unique vocals of Waite. They would still be a really talented and tight group... but to me they would not be "The Babys." They still tour these days - old gents without Waite - as The Babys, BTW. They should change the name to The Toddlers.
3) You said: "So... 6 & I disagree even when we agree." On the contrary, I think we AGREE even when we DISAGREE!" Or something.
But I will agree with you that I do love the singing of John Waite. There is not anyone else that sounds like him. I take that back (disagreeing even with myself.) There is a great similarity of style with Adam Duritz of Counting Crows, another band I like a lot. Both those guys never sing right ON the melody, and never sing the same way twice. They always bounce up and down around the melody, embellishing, and either speeding the timing or slowing down from what you expect. I have had friends say "I don't like the voice! It sounds like 'talk-singing!'" I kinda see that point, but I hear a lot of soul and a great sense of what works with the melody from Waite.
I correctly guessed both songs (after one miss guess of a Waite solo number) from the hint you dropped last time. I love both songs, of course, but I particularly like the hook of "So come on, wipe your tears away..." of Broken Heart, so that one gets my vote.
Of course, since I am voting for this one, you will vote for that. But we will agree on the important point of just how excellent The Babys were.
You should put your stories in the vote summary at the conclusion. After all, what else ya gonna spend your time on?
Sixgun McItchyfinger
AMAZING SIXWELL ~
Delete>>... You said: "there isn't much that we agree on..." I disagree. I think we agree on 95% or more of the things that really matter!
I'll bet I'm the only guy on the planet who could call you an "optimist" and, by comparison, get away with it! :^D GOL!
>>... I AGREE with your assessment of Stocker and Brock. FANTASTIC musicians with style I love! I do not agree that I primarily like The Babys because of Waite. I loved the whole package, in particular the hook laden songs.
Methinks thou did overlooketh what I said before I said the aforementioned. Firsteth & Foremostest, I wrote this:
Other than the hook-laden songs(!!!), I think 6 digs The Babys primarily because of John Waite's vocals.
So, yes, we agree that the overarching attraction is "the whole package", certainly beginning with the (well-played) "hook-laden songs".
>>... One point I am firm on, however, is that The Babys would not SOUND like The Babys without the unique vocals of Waite.
"I don't know about tha-aa-t!" (to quote Martin Crane).
I think they could have replaced John Waite with Tom Waits and they still would have sounded about the same. ;^)
>>... They still tour these days - old gents without Waite - as The Babys, BTW. They should change the name to The Toddlers.
I read that remark to Nappy and he laughed-out-loud! That was a goot juan!
>>... I have had friends say "I don't like the voice! It sounds like 'talk-singing!'" I kinda see that point, but I hear a lot of soul and a great sense of what works with the melody from Waite.
But I'll bet those same idio-- er... I mean, "friends" of yours, probably LOVE Cash & Springsteen (who never, EVER sounded like they were "talk-singing").
>>... You should put your stories in the vote summary at the conclusion. After all, what else ya gonna spend your time on?
Clearly, you have NO understanding of the paradise that is the combination of Wild Turkey 101 bourbon & the movie 'Hollywood Or Bust'!! I'll keep prayin' fer yer enlightenment, [Link> "muh bruhthuh"
~ D-FensDogG
And Stephen.....,
ReplyDeleteYou know, I liked the Babys too and John Waite when he was on his own. I kind of forgot about them. But speaking of babies...was it Judge who said when a kid asked to be picked up by his mom.....hey don't baby that kid make him walk?
I like isn't it time better than these two songs as well as his solo Missing You better, protly my favorite song of his.
Now back to my vote: I go with Broken Heart because well, I've had a few of em and its a bit catchier of a tune in my opinion. But when did that ever matter.
JW,
Pooooooooooooooooooooohoooooo!
...AND, POOH, THAT'S NOT ALL!...
DeleteThanks for bringing a sixer of Pepthy Light to the party, ol' pal!
The Babys may not have had the best name in Rock history (only about the third or fourth worst), but they knew what they wuz doin' with all them instruments 'n' such.
Nappy, the Judge, remembers the incident more as that the mother was pushing the baby in a stroller when he told her that she should stop babying the baby and make him walk. GOL!
Say, someone sent me an E about some new book for sale. I'm planning to buy one (after the next S.S. check comes to me, because... we ain't all independently wealthy here in this mobile home park).
I can't wait to read my name in the Author's Credits:
"Special Thanks to Stephen T. McCarthy for straightening out my life."
You owe me another Pinocchio's Pizza, Punk! (I remember their food as being "alright").
Love Ya, Man
(John Wayne! John Wayne!),
~ D-FensDogG
DeleteThe Judge is correct, as usual. I been had mixed it up in the old file system. Damn that Mickey's Big Mouth for erasing some of the best moments of my life.
JW,
Pooh
Yeah, that Judge Al, [Link> he sho is hip, ain't he?
DeleteHe never made a bad rulin' in his life! ...Er-- I mean, 'cept for that time that he ruled we should all drive our hangovers down Mexico-way. What the hell was the Judge thinkin'?! He sho shoulda been disbarred fo' dat rulin'!!
Hey, thanks for the E with the 'Friends' discount code. I was hopin' for the 'Life Straighteners' discount code but... you never charged me for the Popcorn Machine's entertainment (I loved seein' lovebirds jump!), so it'z all goot, mang!
If there's a God in Heaven (or a devil in hell), my 'League Of Soul Crusaders' manuscript will someday be published (probably by [Link> lucis trust), and then we be livin' high on the hog 'n' shit like that!
Stay cool, man! Have a bitchin' Summer! See you in September!
~ D-FensDogG
Oohhh...you always have something interesting to say. My ex, we took him out for his birthday last night since ,on his birthday, Feb. 16th, there was a big snowstorm and everything was shut down. He is big into Facebook and Instagram and he got banned! Not just suspended but banned which is hilarious since he wouldn't hurt a fly. He made the error of friending the site " Canadians against Puerre Pollievre.". He didn't have a chance to look at the site until he came back a half hour later and he was taken off both sites!! We can't stand Peter Polyp but many like him because he's an ultra conservative ass who says a lot but does not say how he will implement change. Anyhoo, what's funny is they are the first to cry freedom of speech but when you like a page and join it( yes, he should havevread more before joining) , he got banned. How is that Freedom of Speech? Bejos and Zuckerberg cam kiss my grits! Oops, I ranted...
ReplyDeleteOk I prefer the first song which just sounds cleaner to me. I don't know if that makes sense. Happy birthday to your friend McItchenfinger
BIRGIT ~
DeleteI thanks ya for listening & "boting" here.
I don't know nuttin' about Puerre Pollievre. But I dislike ALL politicians equally. Except for Ron Paul, I believe every one of them has been sent here from the Dark Pit. I educated myself out of the fake Left/Right paradigm long ago. And I haven't had a president (a King, only!) since 1994.
Thanks again for your continued BOTB support! I sincerely appreciate it.
~ D-FensDogG
I don't remember this group at all. Where was I? Both songs are good. I think I like "Broken Heart" a wee bit more than the other, so am placing my vote on this song! Have a bandtastic week, Stephen!
ReplyDeleteCAThy, It's That YOU!!
DeleteThe Babys two biggest hits (nationally) were 'ISN'T IT TIME' and 'EVERY TIME I THINK OF YOU'.
I know Lee grew up in Tennessee, and you in West Virginia (yes?). I dunno, but maybe those Babys hits didn't get the same amount of radio airplay out there as they did here in the western states.
Muchos gracias for stopping by with your vote, my friend! This Battle is going to be another close one, methinx.
~ D-FensDogG
Al Bondigas here. I remember that you really liked THE BABY’S when we were youngsters. Man, you always had rock music blasting out of your bedroom while I was trying to watch educational T.V. like “ Happy Days “ “Sanford and Son”, “Chico and the Man”, etc. Well, everybody’s got their ‘thing’, right? Anyway, rulin’ fer “ Broken Heart “. That’s it!! That’s muh rulin’.
ReplyDeleteJUDGE AL BONDIGAS ~
ReplyDeleteLet us not forget some of those other educational T.V. shows you've always loved, such as...
The Munsters,
The Little Rascals,
& The Three Stooges.
The 3 Stooges gave us the law firm of 'Dewey, Cheatem and Howe'.
Rocky & Bullwinkle (one of *my* all-time favorite Educational T.V. programs) gave us the law firm of 'Cheated, Bamboozled and Hornswoggled'.
And I (with some help from The Holy Bible) gave us the law firm of 'Muppim, Huppim and Ard'.
As our Aunt Helen used to say:
"There's a lot to think about".
Thanks fer yer rulin', Judge-y!
~ D-FensDogG
Soitenly!!
DeleteVOTE = BROKEN HEART
ReplyDeleteI like the groove of this one a bit more, but just a bit. Dug this a lot! The Babys were never fully on my radar, though. This was a fun one, Esteebie. I'm glad you mentioned your BOTB in a comment on my blog! I did not receive a notification for this post. What up wit dat???
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DeleteI'm pleased as spiked punch (or even a six-pack of Odell beer), that you dug this match-up. Sheboyganboy Six & I agree on so few bands that I felt very fortunate to find one that also mentioned "evidence" (whiskey) in a couple of their songs.
~ D-FensDogG
Good grief! Stop already! McCarthy "doth protest too much, methinks." You and I agree on more than either you or I agree with Lee about musical choices, IMO. And I am not picking on Lee or you... we just have the largest sample by far of voting on BotB contests. We all have our preferences, but frankly, I challenge you to name anyone in this world who you would consider that DOES agree with you on music!
DeleteI like the Beach Boys. I also like the Beatles. But since you loathe the Beatles and I do not agree that they were inferior to The BB, you chalk that up to me not liking The BB.
I am glad you found the booze references in The Babys songs because they NEVER got the credit they deserved!
Six
Sixgun McItchyfinger:
DeleteGood grief! Stop already!...
Stephen T. McCarthy:
I'm not sure that Sir Six finds it as humorous as I do... "The Great Musical Divide".
Guffaw-Out-Loud!
~ D-FensDogG
I think I remember you mentioning The Babys on this blog some time before, and their name always stuck with me because the way they spell it rubs me the wrong way, which I just found out was their intention, as the band creator was quoted as saying he liked it because "it would piss mindless critics off."
ReplyDeleteWell, as a big fan of trolling, consider this 'mindless critic' now a supporter.
Not only that, but I did end up liking both songs. I give the edge to Broken Heart, which is just a little more catchy for me.
Besides, like any other male of the last few centurys, I love a good song poking fun at the ladys, and that includes those sugar daddys with their aging wives.
~Chief Julio (always fulfills his boting responsibilitys)
Chief Tom "Big Shooter" Harpberry ~
DeleteMethanx you for fulfilling your boting responsibilitys.
That source where you got the info about the spelling of The Babys (i.e., Wackypedia) also says this about their first album:
The influences of the songs came about from their first year in Los Angeles and the culture shock of their relocation there.
I find that peculiar because, to me, it's their SECOND album - 'Broken Heart' - that seems more L.A.-ish. However, I could be wrong (or right), since I was wrong once before, on Sunday, April 24, 1983, at 3:00 A.M.
Thanks again for hopping your white little cotton tail over here and addressing your responsibilitys. Roger Rabbit would be proud o' ya! ;^D
~ D-FensDogG
PART 1 OF 2
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BATTLE OF THE BANDS
Results For 2025, March 15th
'BROKEN HEART'
by The Babys
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'RESCUE ME'
by The Babys
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My thanks to everyone who took the time to visit and cast a vote in my BATTLE OF THE BANDS' Battle Of The Booze contest.
I guessed in advance that 'Broken Heart' would most likely win this Battle. However, I thought the contest would be a bit closer than it was.
I found the following observation on the part of Sixgun McItchyfinger to be humorously prescient:
"Of course, since I am voting for this one, you will vote for that. But we will agree on the important point of just how excellent The Babys were."
Yip! I like *both* songs but, between these two, I definitely like 'Rescue Me' better. Starting the song out with that guttural guitar lick, and then Tony Brock's "Boom-Boom" drum sound (not to be confused with Judy "Boom Boom" Landers). Then that toe-tappin' tempo kicks in & picks up at 1:55; and we get that new, super-slick guitar sound (almost sounds like a synthesizer!) sliding in at 2:08... Man! So damn cool!!
Nevertheless, the voting outcome looks like this:
FINAL TALLY:
'Broken Heart' = 7 votes
'Rescue Me' = 3 votes
THE BABYS WON!...
...& The Babys lost.
I met Eric A. on the second day of Fifth grade, and we remained best friends for many, many years. We shared two traits: 1) We were both naturally artistic, and B) we were both the shyest dudes in "the whole United States of Georgia!"
When I was 16, 17 & 18, I spent many weekends doing the 'underaged drinking' thing with my buddy, Eric. On Friday / Saturday nights, we'd get some Southern Comfort & Coke, or fine wine (Boone's Farm, I'm looking at YOU!), drink it in a parked car, and then go fishin' for cuties.
Most frequently, were in the parking lot behind the Federal Building in Westwood. When the hooch was gone, we'd go staggering into the Village hunting babes. Back in the '70s, Westwood Village was a major cruising location, very much like what you see in the movie 'American Graffiti'. Somehow, The Shy Guys always struck out with the girls, but we had lots o' fun.
One memorable night, Eric & I went to Venice Beach and in his small, foreign-made car, we started driving on the bicycle path, heading South from Rose Avenue. It was like being on some go-kart path, and we were laughing so loud it's a wonder the cops didn't zero in on us immediately.
Another very memorable night, Eric & I did our 'Underage Drinking' in a parking lot adjacent to Veteran's Park in Redondo Beach. We had SoCo & Coke and 'Dying Man' by The Babys playing. We both dug The Babys, and that night we put on one hell of an Air Guitar & Air-Drums show in Eric's car. I can't listen to 'DYING MAN' (see link in blog post above) without being Waybac-Machined to that little parking lot a stone's throw from the Redondo Beach Pier. We struck out with the babes at the Pier, of course, but we set a new highwater mark for rockin' out with Air Instruments!!
Fun Fact: Eric bought us the tickets to see The Babys live. It was a birthday gift from him to me.
~ D'DogG
(Continued Below...)
PART 2 OF 2
DeleteAfter graduating from high school ("Samohi, dear old Samohi..."), I began making some good money in the movie & TV industry. So I started taking my dear ol' Ma to lunch at different places in L.A. She'd hear about some place that was supposed to be good, and I'd take her there the next weekend. (That's how 'Antonio's', my all-time favorite restaurant, was first experienced.)
So, one day I took Ma to Le Dome restaurant on Sunset Boulevard. While we were having lunch, she pointed out to me a long-haired guy just leaving the place, who was wearing a shirt that said "The Babys". Ma knew I dug that band. To this day, I don't know if he was John Waite, one of the other band members, or perhaps a roadie for the band.
Years later (1987), Warren Zevon released his album 'Sentimental Hygiene' which included the song 'EVEN A DOG CAN SHAKE HANDS' (see link in blog post above), which included the line: "All the worms and the gnomes are having lunch at Le Dome...". Since I'm taller than my Ma was, I'm assuming that I was the worm and she was the gnome. Not sure where this long-haired "Babys" guy comes in. Maybe he was Warren Zevon, working undercover and disguised as a Baby.
I intend to return here on April 1st with some BOTB foolishness.
Until then, may you bless & be blessed!!
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I feel that THE BABYS' debut album kicked off with one of the all-time great first-track rockers in [Link> LOOKING FOR LOVE. Man, right out of the chute, they were making an impact! We start out with Tony Brock's drumming and the perfect amount of cowbell! ;^)
Now, here's my question for you:
If you were FORCED to pick just one Babys song as your all-time favorite, which one would it be?
I'll go first:
[Link> GIVE ME YOUR LOVE
I've always loved the helck outta that song! Gotta play it LOUD! And, hokey-smoke! It includes every single musical element that made me love dem BABYS. Damn! That Ruff 'n' Ready beat; Tony Brock's "rolling thunder drum style"; and Walt's dirty, gritty Paul Kossoff-like guitar sound. Then, of course, just such a strong melody sung to perfection by yer boi, John.
In my mind, anybody - anybody - who claims to love Rock music, but doesn't dig 'Give Me Your Love' has got some splainin' to do!
~ Stephen-Boy
First of all, thank you for filling in the stories with Eric and your Ma.
ReplyDeleteAnd: HA! I knew you would pick the song I did not vote for. But I loved both the songs and hence I contend we AGREE... but you will say that (within that tiny demographic of Babys fans) we disagree!
I very much like your favorite Babys song, but of course mine is different. We've discussed before that your two fave Babys albums are the first two, while mine are numbers 3 and 4. I don't think there is one bad song on "Head First," (their third album) and that is saying something! You might do a contest or ?? on "perfect albums" sometime.
My favorite song by The Babys is "Back on My Feet Again."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbYy7t7Ly3I
To all your readers who found your BOTB contest this week interesting, I strongly suggest going to https://www.azlyrics.com/b/babys.html
, looking up all their songs on Head First and their other albums, then (heading first) over to YT or Spotify and listen to them all. Great "stuffs," as you would say.
Sixgun
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DeleteGood comment. And thanks for answering my Q.
It seems that chronology plays a big part in our BABYS favs.
Historical Facts 'n' Shit:
The Babys had 3 Top 40 Billboard hits:
1977 - Isn't It Time - #13
1979 - Every Time I Think Of You - #13
1980 - Back On My Feet Again - #33
I owned their first three LPs. My least favorite of the three was 'Head First'.
But... here's the thing:
The 'Head First' album was released in December, 1978. Sometime between June 2, 1978 and December of 1978, my previously mentioned friend, Eric, played me some songs from Bruce Springsteen's 'Born To Run' album. THAT was a music-shattering moment in my life, up to that point. I immediately went out and bought 'Born To Run' and Springsteen's just-released album 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town'.
So, when the 'Head First' LP was released some months later, and I bought it, it just sounded so much like a prior musical lifetime to me. I liked it OK, but the whole Big City 'Jungleland' style of The (so-called) Boss had completely captivated & motivated me. The Babys? Eh... I had bigger fish to pursue in '...The Big City' (a nod here to David & David, who came later).
On July 1, 1981, Nappy (Judge Al), Twinkie & I moved into the 824 Bay Street house, and 'The League Of Soul Crusaders' went into Mach 5 mode. Twinkie brought with him The Babys' 'UNION JACKS' album, and it did get played in the house at times. But BRU-UUU-CE was The League's hero at that time (as you know, the "Soul Crusaders" part of our name came from the Springsteen song 'Night').
So, for me, back then, The Babys kind of felt passé, when I was led to Springsteen's music just months before The Babys released their third album. (All of that changed drastically later, of course... but that's a story for another year.)
As Catwoman (Julie Newmar) once said, "Timing is everything... and then some!" Or... was it King Tut (Victor Buono) who said that? They looked so doggone similar that I have often gotten the one confused with the other ...and the other confused with the one.
~ Rupert Van Funluven
It was more fun back then. But... you had to devote tons of time to it and yet seemed to remain at just a few regulars. It soitanly was enjoyable to read and comment though!
ReplyDeleteI still support Tiny per your silly Christmas wish. I think there was one intervening year that I forgot and did it the next day.
in response to your summary comments: as you know, I, also, was a huge fan of The Boss during that period. I did not buy the Born to Run album immediately in 1975 when it came out, but saw all the hype and got it some months after it's debut. But somehow I did not catch The Babys until Head First! So album #3 was the first time I bought a Baby; I got the rest later. MY timing was that The Babys were newer to my ears than BRUUUUUUUCE!
Sheboyganboy
SIR SHEBOYGANBOY ~
DeleteI just lost a more detailed comment that I was working on here. Here's a shorter, blind squirrel's nutshell version:
My blogs were probably being shadow-banned before I'd ever even heard the term and knew what it meant.
I've often thought of writing a series on my 'Stuffs' blog about some gravesites in the Virginia City cemetery, but then I always come up against that unanswerable question: Why?
The only people who would know about it are the few readers I have, and most of them wouldn't even bother to read it (...unless I specifically pointed it out to them). Not a very inspiring position to be in. Fluff still seems to attract some attention at blogs not published by me; but I couldn't see myself daily cranking out some kind of mediocre head-banging blog bullshit. (Got reference? ;-)
Interesting that I knew about The Babys before you did, but you were ahead of me in knowledge about BRU-UUUU-CE! My fascination with his music -- which started within months of the release of 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town' in 1978 -- kind of pushed everything else I loved before it onto the back-burner.
With the release of 'Born In The U.S.A' in 1984, I began feeling that something wasn't quite right. And that turned out to be the last Springsteen album I ever bought. Today, all I own are his first two albums (on CD), and I deliberately bought them "used" so he wouldn't see a penny of the sales.
After Springsteen, I got heavily into Blues & Jazz (as you know), and sold off most of my Rock albums. I later reacquired a small percentage of them on compact discs (including the first two Babys albums).
And the rest, as they say, is ...uninteresting.
~ D-FensDogG