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BABEEZ - Single (self-released, Australia) ‘77
What kinda assholes would put an abortion on the front of their record, including a ballad called “Nobody Wants Me”, then register their band name as a business?! Melbourne’s BABEEZ, that’s who. Here’s the scoop on this classic right from the horse’s maw:
“The three songs for the E.P. were cut one afternoon in August (1977) in the lounge room at Faraday St. A great record (and history) were in the making. Technology was at a bare minimum, everything was down in one take, no over-dubs, through some borrowed microphones of dubious quality. Juke writer Stephen Charlesworth manned the borrowed 4-track… The tapes were duly despatched to the Astor Record plant with an order for 500 disks. Gavin (the singer) set about getting a cover together. Obviously, saving money was important - the labels would be blank and Gavin had the cover printed on brown paper bags! The front cover would feature the bands’ name across a picture of an aborted foetus in a bin, souvenired by Gavin from a ‘Right to life’ publication. It all worked in theory; but it was a long haul to find a printer that would work with lunch bags!”
Henry Weld at www.collectorscum.com calls “Nobody Loves Me” a suicide ballad; I call it a beautifully plodding, insanely repetitious anthem, the only one worthy of your fucking iPod’s “repeat” function. The other 2 cuts are roaring Aussie punk.
To avoid confusion with the fey limey pop band THE BABYS, these BABEEZ eventually changed their name to NEWS, but that’s another story, all of which can be found further, as well as these images and photos galore, at www.geocities.com/babeez_news
Tracks
Dowanna Love
Hate
Nobody Wants Me
Posted by: booblikon
wow…all the times that booblikon sat in front of my stereo & kept hitting the repeat button of “nobody wants me” from the “Murder Punk” cd, i figured he’d post this earlier.i still will never get sick of this song…definately,my kind of Lullabye…
Great post, I’ve been wanting to hear this whole thing for a long time and it does not disapoint.
SUICIDAL, EVEN I WANT TO DIE AFTER HEARING THAT ALONG WITH THE PICTURE. ITS SO DEPRESSING- THANK GOD FOR THE OTHER 2 SONGS, WHICH HAVE SAVED MEA TRIP TO THE DOCTOR FOR SOME MORE PROZAC.
Great band, there was a third and final 45, That Girl/Im So Confused (Feb 80)which showed the band maturing, during 1980 after many line up changes they began experimenting with a more poppier sound covering sixties classics. Drummer John Smith went on to Scottish oufit The Associaties.Although regarded as the best wall of noise band in Melbourne ie Ramones, Weirdoes during the late seventies, News operated independently and their poularity instigated a graffiti campaign that dominated Melbourne for a year. Documentation of this was included in the double pack rerelease of the second single.
these mp3s arent working anymore (on my comp at least).
I’m dying to hear this ep, is it possible for this to be fixed?
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