| Babyland / Finger, the |
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| Album: | Finger, the | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Babyland | Added: | Dec 2004 | |
| Label: | Mattress | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-04-03 | Pull Date: | 2005-06-05 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 24 | Apr 17 | Apr 10 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 27, 2013: | Together, or Close Enough Gehry | 4. | Apr 14, 2005: | Baptism of Solitude Loss Leader | |
| 2. | Feb 15, 2007: | public noize racket Guard Dogs | 5. | Apr 11, 2005: | Stirling's Approximation Defeated | |
| 3. | Apr 21, 2005: | Megatron Marathon Defeated | 6. | Apr 07, 2005: | Baptism of Solitude Loss Leader |
| Album Review |
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| Gabe Reviewed 2005-03-29 | ||
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Babyland used to be LOUD. ROCK. Now, they’ve gone industro-electro-pop. It’s a bit dated sounding – harder than 80s New Wave but sounding not quite modern alongside the harsher sounds of today – Adult. and the like. Compare with Nitzer Ebb and such. 1. Jump around all jerky and yell slogans over thin synths. That’s it. 2. A bit thunkier bassline makes this better 3. Hyper 4. Bouncy 5. Funky piano line; the vox are a bit too … too … insistent 6. Pounding and noisy in the service of … ? 7. Routine yelling over mechano-beat 8. But when they try to sing and go melodic, it’s a debacle 9. See track 9 above 10. Muscular and burbly 11. Poppy and semi-melodic 12. Oh, is there a need for an electro-pop power ballad? No, no, NO! I give it “The Finger”. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Loss Leader | 7. | Nowadays | |||
| 2. | Defeated | 8. | Cabrini Manor | |||
| 3. | Fast Space | 9. | Startled By | |||
| 4. | Past Lives | 10. | The Obvious | |||
| 5. | Reno Machine | 11. | Nativity | |||
| 6. | Guard Dogs | 12. | Gehry | |||
| 13. | Lmya | |||||