Juliana Hatfield - Bed
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Artist: Juliana HatfieldEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-08-25
Music Label: Zoe Records
Soundtracks:
- Down On Me
- I Want to Want You
- Swan Song
- Sneaking Around
- Backseat
- Live It Up
- You Are The Camera
- Running Out
- Bad Day
- Let's Blow It All
Music reviews of Bed
Music Review: The successor to "Only Everything".
Rating: 3 Stars
In the late '90s, alternative music was collapsing on all fronts, with a smooth and overproduced variant of it starting to seize public attention, and the burgeoning Boston alternative scene pretty much completely collapsed. For her part, Juliana Hatfield had a rough go, with "Only Everything" not selling as well as the superb "Become What You Are" and the label rejecting her proposed followup, "God's Foot" (unreleased to this day). Hatfield broke with the major label and snuck and EP out (the phenomenal "Please Do Not Disturb") before releasing "Bed", again on an indepedent label.
What's perhaps most surprising about "Bed" is that it largely feels like a followup to "Only Everything". Given how different the material from "God's Foot" and "Please Do Not Disturb" was from that album (the former was well constructed and arranged, the latter loose and agressive), its a surprise that four years later she'd return to that sound. The main differences is that she's experimenting quite a bit more with vocal harmonies, and the mood is overall a bit more passive. The big problem is that, like "Only Everything", while the material is largely decent enough, very little of it actually stands out.
What does stand out is fantastic-- opener "Down on Me" in the tradition of "Only Everything"'s "What a Life" starts with a blast of feedback and churns and bubbles as Hatfield mumbles her sarcastic lyrics before breaking into one of her better solos on record. "Backseat" is among the best ballads she's written-- an extended, driving piece with a lovely chorus, it really is inspired. Ditto for the somewhat heavier "Bad Day", with the kind of catchy chorus that drills itself into your head and some great fretwork again from Hatfield. But for these, there's too many songs that while not particularly bad, just don't go anywhere ("I Want To Want You", "Live it Up", "You Are the Camera").
A note-- if you can dig it up, the Japanese release of this is well worth getting-- it includes the entire "Please Do Not Disturb" EP as well as two other tracks available nowhere else.
Even with its flaws, "Bed" is a good record. Newcomers to Hatfield's music should probably start with "Become What You Are", which is both more accessible and a better record, but this may be a good second or third place to look.
Description of Bed
UK version of the former Blake Babies vocalist's fourth solo album, originally released in 1998. Featuring two tracks not included on the U.S. version, 'Sellout' 'Trying Not To Think About It'. 2000 release. Digipak.Quirky and cutesy in a tomboy sort of way, Juliana Hatfield scored a big hit in the early '90s with "My Sister" but was quickly cast aside when the alt-rock empire started to crumble. Bed is largely inspired by her two-year battle with Atlantic Records over one of her albums they decided not to release because they felt it was unmarketable. More emotionally substantial than her past efforts, the disc conveys frustration without resorting to self-pity, and whimsy without becoming too silly. Hatfield bitches about her past hassles with lines like, "You're so down on me / I think it is a fad so I don't feel so bad anymore" ("Feel So Bad"), but she ultimately rediscovers the sheer joy of making music, playfully paying homage to John Mellancamp's "Jack and Diane," Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, and the Stones' "Brown Sugar" along the way. --Jon Wiederhorn
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