Mary by Baby

01ohmary Download: Mary by Baby

I'm trying a different title style for the post. We'll see how it looks in the feed. I'm thinking about re-releasing Baby's Pourquoi... as a single post and album download. I think it's best heard in its entirety and not cut up into each track. It's an album like few others and should be heard that way... You'll see.

Today is 9/11. Six years ago, Bab was in NYC preparing to die. He didn't know why. He found out that morning but thankfully Les Paul saved his life. It was a weird time for all of us but the first thing I thought of when things went down, was that Bab was down too. He was right. Something huge happened and he predicted it. So weird.

Mary is a song from the album Baby finished just before that day.

Baby - Summer

Summer Download: Summer by Baby

It's finally heating up here in North California. It feels like Summer. This track is off of Baby's Silverdog album. It's sort of an old school take on a slow groove thing. But the heat waves resonate from the electric piano like baked asphalt.

photo by Mareen Fischinger

Baby - Mary

Download: Mary by Baby

10465967_65b05d4610 Artist:  Baby   
Album: Pourquoi Liquoi Sisz Boom Ba!
Nomad, 160 kbps 44kHz Stereo mp3 7:32

I have to start reposting the tracks from this album because they were wiped out of the archive.org database. But you don't care about that.

I love the swooping nature of this song. It goes from pop to this jam and back. Pourquoi, if you don't know, is a very special album. It was recorded during the first 8 months of 2001. I'll get into the weirdness later.  Just know that this album is a freakshow of greatness.

Download: Mary by Baby

Baby - Jesus Christ Super Devil

8933497_5f9fa10ee2 Download: Jesus Christ Super Devil by Baby

Artist:  Baby
Album: Down
Jesus Christ Super Devil, 160 kbps 44kHz Stereo MP3 3:31

 

One of my favorite Baby tracks. There is absolutely nothing but right about it. "Jesus Super Devil, we slept too long..." crunchy fucking rocks. I needed to hear this tonight.

It's been a long week. Tons of work. Hardly saw anything but a computer screen.

"What's that sound is this the mother ship? why aren't we on it? .... Every day leap through flaming hoop, oh I burnt my balls!!!"

Fuck yeah.

Baby - Naked (Video)

ComesalivecoverDownload: Naked by Baby

Artist: Baby
Album: Baby Comes Alive

Track x: Naked - 17.2 MB m4v 3:10

One of the beautiful things about the Interweb these days is all the services that are out there to help you express yourself. It's so easy now to distribute your media and ideas. When we started all this 13 years ago, we never could have imagined how simple this would be. Back then you needed an SGI workstation just to encode an MP2 file. Now publishing is a breeze with blogging, there's the podcast, thank god for ourmedia, and flickr, and YouTube.

Here's the video for Baby's song Naked from the album Baby Comes Alive. Presented to you via podcast, file download, and inline YouTube. This song kicks ass and the video ain't too shabby either if I do say so myself...  Enjoy!

Baby - Snoot Money (Video)

SnootDownload: Snoot Money (Music Video) by Baby

Artist: Baby 
Video: Snoot Money, Quicktime .mov 1:59, 19.3MB

Okay Okay, I know it's been forever. Don't bust my balls. I've been busy. So here is something that is not from Pourquoi. This is a video we shot for the track Snoot Money. It features Swinkle the dead dog. It's a tribute to Swinkle and her veterinary bills.

Baby - Jesus of Vaseline

Mohammed2Download: Jesus of Vaseline by Baby

Artist: Baby 
Album: Pourquoi Liquoi Sisz Boom Ba!
Track 28: Jesus of Vaseline 160 kbps 44kHz Stereo MP3 3:21

This is another Jesus reference. No it's not. This is one of the many songs that Bab dreamt about. He had the lyric in his dream, but didn't know what it meant. He wrote it down, but could not get it out of his head no matter what he did...  He recorded this with Chris on Chris' apartment balcony in Manhattan on the 10th of September 2001, facing the World Trade Center... After September 11th, he figured it out.

16 jesus of vaseline (recorded live on chris' manhattan balcony facing the world trade center towers 9/10/ 01 ).

jesus of vas vaseline va va vas a va
jesus of vas vaseline uninstitution
jesus of vas vaseline vasa va vasa va
jesus of vas vas vasa jesus
when i'm sad i'm not the only one in there
when i'm sad ahh
when i'm ascared i'm not the only one in love
when i'm sad
jesus of vas vaseline va va vas vase
jesus of vas vas viva la revolution
jesus of vas vaseline vasa va jes
jesus of vaseline vasa va vasa va
when i'm sad i'm not the only one in the
when i'm sad ahh
when i'm ascared i'm not the only one in love
when i'm scared
jesus of va vaseline
jesus of va vaseline

i had no idea what this song was about as chris and i howled it to the manhattan skyline on that fateful evening. it came to me in a dream 4 days b4 leaving for new york. after making it back to caliphony and listening to it finally included on this album it donned on me what it meant. mohammed is coming. vive la revolution. go figure.

chris c. drums
bab the rest

Download: Jesus of Vaseline by Baby

Baby - Herringbone

47307054_e01c2a129dDownload: Herringbone by Baby

Artist: Baby 
Album: Pourquoi Liquoi Sisz Boom Ba!
Track 27: Herringbone 160 kbps 44kHz Stereo MP3 3:56

Beach: It comes to this... near the end. Here is where we hear and see this thing come together... Please read below...

15 herringbone

all in all to lose my ire
this crystal shit, it's burnin' fire
all in all, it's all desire

let it go now
let it go now

don't let your dreams turn to ash
some of these things may come to pass
thru holysmoke or herringbone

let it go now
let it go now

i love you more than anyone
who's on this earth under that sun
in the cosmos or in this house

here we go now
here we go now

it goes something like this shit

if i ramble on anymore
my tongue might fall down to the floor
and slither out thru the door

let it go now
let it go now

and if i go to sleep at nite
and take a pill and hold you tight
i wish i may i dream i might
sing you a song now
sing your song now

it goes something like... shit

on and on
on and on
on and on yeah
let it go now
on and on
on and on
on and on yeah
let it go now
arm in arm
arm in arm
arm in arm yeah
let it go now
arm in arm
arm in arm
arm in arm yeah
let it go now
om and om
om and om
om and om yeah
let it go now
om in om
om in om
om in om yeah...

this song was supposed to be the last of the album but by default 2 more appeared to me. the crystal shit referred to in v1 is a reference to definite cosmic signals being sent to me thruout the making of this album. i realized certain songs that i had written recently and in the past had predicted events that came to pass. the examples (at least 20 or so) were rarely consequential and often as shocking as life and death. i told several people (beach, jen, mom, jessica, pat) about the different examples and some of these peeps were quite taken aback. another overwhelming premonition was that for some reason i wouldn't be making it back home from a then future trip to n.y.. jen and i had a farewell party two days before leaving for n.y. under the guise of an "album completion party". we wanted to see our pals one more time b4 we bit the big one. after the party i gave beach what i jokingly referred to as babs black box. in it was the masters for most of the 41 albums i completed on this earth plus instructions on the finishing of THIS particular bitchwad.

i am presently writing this in n.y.. the date is 9/12/01. i was scheduled to fly home today but all flight in the u.s. is canceled due to the terrorist attack on the united states yesterday. i have a car reserved for tomorrow and if all goes well i will be driving off this island (manhattan) and onto the continent at about 11am. i asked jen to marry me yesterday and she said huh? i mean uh yeah. we are currently trying to keep on keepin' on. i will be emailing this to beach on its completion in a few minutes. ho ho ho...

scarp drums
bab the rest

photo by 3dogsmom

Download: Herringbone by Baby

Baby - You Are Not Alone Jen

5552694_39773bdeb8Download: You Are Not Alone Jen by Baby

Artist: Baby 
Album: Pourquoi Liquoi Sisz Boom Ba!
Track 26: You Are Not Alone Jen 160 kbps 44kHz Stereo MP3 2:53

I've been away for awhile. Sorry about that. We pick up where we left off. The next track. A revisit of a song from before. You Are Not Alone Jen. It's a drepressing track in light of recent developments. For all I know, Jen is alone. I'm not sure.

This album is winding down. I'm looking forward to moving on. I love this album. And I know you do too. But I'm excited because we have so much more for you to hear. Every day will be surprise. I don't know where I'll begin... At the end of Pouquoi, I'm planning on doing a full album cast. Not sure if that's been done before... we'll have to see.

Oh and check out the podcast on Yahoo!'s new Podcast service... Yahoo! Podcasts. I know some folks who worked on it. They should be really happy. It's fine.

14 you are not alone jen

same lyric as 2 cd 1

scarp drums
spoons piano
mouse guitar
bab guitar/ the rest

Download: You Are Not Alone Jen by Baby

Baby - I Accidentally Closed My Eyes

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Download: I Accidentally Closed My Eyes by Baby

It's been several days since I've posted. I'm not living up to the mp3 a day. I think part of it has to do with how intense this album is. Going through it day by day, song by song, has brought up a lot of memories and feelings. This song is one of Bab's best. I don't know what he thinks, but it has everything you could ask.
So far ecto is pretty sweet.

12 i accidentally closed my eyes
i.a.c.m.e. 
and saw today had turned tomorrow
and all sunshine had turned to rain
and all music was pain
i.a.c.m.e. 
and saw my body was a yoyo
that couldn't sleep i ain't dreaming
just a walking bozo
i.a.c.m.e.
i.a.c.m.e.
and when it's over it sure as hell aint over
she want more candy and a 4 leaf clover
she go 
sugar shake, sugar sugar shake
sugar shake, sugar sugar shake
sugar shake, sugar sugar shake sugar shake
i.a.c.m.e. 
and saw the day that turned to sorrow
the optimism of youth was only borrowed
i.a.c.m.e.
d$ drums 
spoons chamberlin
bab the rest
Download: I Accidentally Closed My Eyes by Baby

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