Artist: Juliana Hatfield
Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Discography:
Made in China
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
In Exile Deo
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure
Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
God's Foot
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
Beautiful Creature
Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
Bed
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Please Do Not Disturb
Year: 1997
Tracks: 6
Only Everything
Year: 1995
Tracks: 17
I See You
Year: 1992
Tracks: 5
Hey Babe
Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Bowery Ballroom
Year:
Tracks: 10
After Juliana Hatfield disbanded the jangle pop trinity the Blake Babies in 1990, she launched a solo life history, performing similarly melodic indie guitar pop. Singing in an endearingly tenuous voice, Hatfield married her ring hooks to gratifying, bereft pop and startlingly good confessional songs. Her 1992 solo debut, Hey Babe, became a college radio hit, and its follow-up, 1994's Become What You Are, was primed to suit a crossover success in the wake of the commercialization of alternate rock-and-roll. Although Hatfield had a smattering of modern tilt hits, including "Spin the Bottle," she ne'er managed to hit the mainstream audience of peers wish the Lemonheads did, and by the late '90s, she had settled into a cult following.
Hatfield was brocaded in an upper-middle-class home in Massachusetts; her father was a dr. and her mother was a manner editor program for The Boston Globe. As a baby, she learned how to play piano, and during high school day, she played guitar in a covers grouping called the Squids before discovering alternate tilt through the Velvet Underground. Following high schoolhouse, she tended to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied voice. While at Berklee, she met guitar player John Strohm and drummer Freda Boner, with whom she formed the Blake Babies in 1986. Over the next six years, the Blake Babies and their charming jangle pop became college radio receiver favorites. Hatfield leftfield the band in 1990, and Strohm and Boner formed Antenna.
Immediately following her leaving from the Blake Babies, Hatfield contributed several lyrics to Susanna Hoffs' debut album. The following year, she played bass on the Lemonheads' It's a Shame About Ray, which turned out to be the band's commercial breakthrough. The success of It's a Shame About Ray in 1992 stirred interest in Hatfield's solo debut, Hey Babe. Released on Mammoth Records, the record album was identical interchangeable to the Blake Babies, yet the songs were more personal and confessional. Hey Babe was critically praised and became a college radio and MTV hit, ahead to a major-label contract for Hatfield with Atlantic.
In 1992, Hatfield formed the Juliana Hatfield Three with bassist Dean Fisher and drummer Todd Phillips, and the mathematical group recorded its debut for Atlantic with R.E.M.'s producer, Scott Litt. As she worked on the record, Hatfield became a venial media sense experience; her songs were accepted as friendly, more accessible distillations of the women's liberationist alternative rock movement known as riot grrrl. Hatfield appeared in fashion layouts in Vogue and Sassy, and she became the subject of chatty tidbits well-nigh her speculated romance with Lemonhead Evan Dando and her averment that she was still a virgin at the old age of 25. In light of such exposure, many observers expected her 1993 album Become What You Are to be her mainstream discovery. A heavier record than its herald, Turn What You Are was a curb hit, as "My Sister" and "Spin the Bottle" earned heavy airplay on MTV and modern rock wireless. Nevertheless, the album failed to make her a star.
Only Everything followed in the spring of 1995 as alternative rock was origin to decline in popularity. The album was received with motley reviews, and only "Universal joint Heartbeat" managed to make much clearance on receiving set or MTV, causing the album to sideslip down pat the charts cursorily. Hatfield returned in 1997 with the EP Please Do Not Disturb, followed a year by and by by the full-length Bed. Spring 2000 was a busy time for Hatfield; she released the hushed, reflective solo record album Beautiful Creature and Total System Failure, a collection of louder, poppier material, on the same day. Total System Failure featured Hatfield, quondam Weezer bassist Mike Welsh, and drummer Zephan Courtney as a new banding, Juliana's Pony, which was a iII along the lines of the Juliana Hatfield Three.
Hatfield's following project was a devolve to one of her first gear: in 2000 she reunited with Freda Love and John Strohm, launching a Blake Babies tour and recording an record album, Supreme Being Bless the Blake Babies. The reunion was transitory, only Hatfield and Love continued to work together in a radical called Some Girls, which besides featured Heidi Gluck (the Pieces). Some Girls place extinct the Feel It LP in 2002 and besides did some touring. After that it was back to the solo game for Hatfield. But 2004's In Exile Deo was a bit of a surprise, since later on all her restlessness it was easily one of her strongest, most grow albums. That ripen streak continued with 2005's Made in China, a rude and direct endeavour that she produced herself and put extinct through her possess Ye Olde imprint, and deuce eld later the EP Sittin' in a Tree... with mate Bostonians Frank Smith, an alt-country set, was released, as well as a assemblage of live recordings called The White Broken Line: Live Recordings.
