Babyland
4 ratings since posting on Monday, December 5, 2005
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they're great, & i hate everything. i assumed i would not like them all that much either, but i did, & i was surprised. i saw them, finally, (even though i was supposed to go see them for years) at the smell, where i felt like a chaperone at the sugar shack (where i used to go when i was 13 or 14, & everyone was underage, but you used to have to have a fake i.d., so i used to use my robinson's (when it was fancy) card, where i had to pretend i was older than i was anyhow, in order to work there). at any rate-- besides someone old enough to be my father trying to pick me up, & then a midget --i kid you not-- i was just =mesmerized= by these guys, especially the guy w/ the wires. here was this guy who looked kind of like david lynch, wearing half-gloves, banging on, well, a bunch of something, & some upright wires. who knows, i mean, a bunch of junk-- welded?? sure got me. & this other little guy, kind of, screaming. now, i have seen enough people jumping up & down to last me several lifetimes (they used to call this, i think, um, "pogoing") but aside from that & the sort of human league or duran duran synth-romps (which they dont need), these guys were a phenomenal =gas=. they reminded me of the screamers, &, yes, i have =seen= the screamers, for real & for true, -many- times (not just on videotape, for heavens sake), & usually when i say someone reminded me of some band that is a thousand times better than ANYbody new i mean it as an insult. NOT this time. these guys are GOOD. & they would have been good in 1978, they would have been good (i assume) in 1968 or in 1928. they really HAVE IT. beyond drumming, beyond theater, no stink of the university like so many people have, no phoniness, real serious born in the blood talent. it EMANATES, it takes up the ENTIRE ROOM, it wafts, it shakes, it glides, it grabs ya. kudos, dudes. - °º¤ø edi ø¤º° , posted 01/13/06 |
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I was lucky enough to have a boyfriend introduce me to babylands music about a decade ago, and I have to say my fondness for them has only grown over the years. Musically they just odn't sound like anything else out there. And not only that but the seem to constantly be evolving and trynig to push themselves as artists, which I respect about them. They're also just nice guys, and seem to really apreciate their fans. Even with all the other well known bands I like and have seen live babland with their cans of air freshener and the infamous helmet-mic are just as good, if not better. In fact they're one of the few bands that are even better live than they are on records. If you ever have the chance of seeing these guys play live GO!! - Nickkie , posted 12/16/05 |
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I saw Babyland at the LA Industrial Fest 05. I don't remember a whole lot from that night but I do remember Babyland clearly, I had never (and still haven't) herd ANY thing like them before, being new to the scene I was blown away. The guy who introduced them said some thing like "If you haven't herd of Babyland you've had you're head up you're ass" or some thing like that "Fuck Industrial, Fuck EMB, Fuck Junk Punk" and that point I was like "What's jump punk?" didn't find out tell later he said "Junk" not "Jump" he went on to say "Fuck all that, they're Babyland!" every one around me goes ape shit, I on the other hand I have no clue. They hit the stage like a grenade thrown into a stack of scrap metal (in a good way). All I talked about for a week was Babyland and Combichrist. You need to look into these guys. - Tony , posted 12/05/05 |
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