Babble [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Import]

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Product Details

• Audio CD (February 27, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1987
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Universal Import
• ASIN: B00005957F
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #220,066 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Swamp

2. Spin Cycle

3. For What It's Worth

4. Big Decision

5. Static

6. Split!

7. Belly Bugs

8. In The Playpen

9. Inside

10. Chester Burnett

11. Creeping To The Cross

12. Big Decision (Extended Version)

13. Swamp (Extended Remix)

14. Creeping To The Cross (7in Edit)

15. Soul Deep

16. Dance Your Ass Off

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pop, politics and a touch of Beefheart for flavor, December 10, 2001

By 

Jeff Scherer (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Babble (Audio CD)

Rolling Stone called them The Clash mixed with Creedence? I would say more like The Clash mixed with XTC. Both TPE and XTC appeared on Fast and Bulbous: A Tribute to Captain Beefheart, and in their own music, they both used similarly strange tunings and atonal (pantonal?) riffs to give an edge to what might otherwise be sugary pop.

It was the politics, though, that appealed to me back when The Clash and Midnight Oil were among my favorite bands. These guys were angry and smart, and a very good live band. "Belly Bugs" is one of my favorites off this album. I think it's time to replace my cassette...

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Neglected Eighties Classic, February 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Babble (Audio CD)

This is the best album by a brilliant Eighties band who nobody ever seems to have heard of. Great lyrics, great guitars and some really great tunes.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This got it started for me..., January 15, 2003

By 

John C Washburne (St. Louis, Missouri USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Babble (Audio CD)

...my infatuation with TPE, that is. This record kicks ... from start to finish. I saw the video for 'Big Decision' on 120 Minutes and ran out and bought it the next day. I've never regretted that decision, to say the least. Usually, I wonder why bands this great never got the recognition they deserved, but it was the 80's, and alternative music meant ALTERNATIVE music. Classic twin guitar fueled rock anthems with wonderful grooves (check out Creeping To The Cross, Belly Bugs, Swamp, etc.). This record has a very dark feel to it to me. Buy everything from this band! If you prefer a little more mainstream, "pop" sound (boy has that word been highjacked in the last few years), try Chemicrazy.