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Four on One [Vinyl]

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No mere reunion, this 1994 release documents why the Babs were the pinnacle of the region's early alternative music. Mainstays of late '70's and early '80's Louisville, New York and expanded scenes, this band defined and expanded the freewheeling punk style. Furious feedback guitars from goddess Tara Key, driving bass from Tim Harris, Sean Mulhall's cracking yet syncopated drums, and Chip Nold's white soul screams melded hypercharged simple riffs into anthems. Songs: My Friend Roger: "the Kentucky Louie Louie" (per Tony Briggs) - a definitive show stopper; When I'm Home: the original single got the BDB on the cover of the Village Voice, bigger than life, around 1980; Leave: cover of proteges Your Food's artsy shuffle; Bold Beginnings, Shively Spleen, SHAKE, it all rocks your world.

Also check out many other albums by Tim & Tara & others with Antietam, Tara's solo albums, Tim & Tara co-wrote "CBGB's" with Syd Straw....

I remember my brother raving on and on about seeing this band at an outdoor show during Derby...I was only six at the time but a budding punk rocker. What a pleasant surprise to find a decade later that Matador Records had released a compilation of some of BDB's best work. Matador is perhaps the greatest label ever. Thank you.

This album is an amazing punk album. Every track is a winner. My favorite song is Shively Spleen because it's so much fun to jump around to while singing loudly and all the Louisville placenames make me nostalgic. The entire album is golden and I'd pay .88 cents for it, a hundred times over.

Squirrel Bait is another great punk band from the Ville, though they are a little harder and less melodic than BDB.