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Blake Babies is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Lemonheads, R.E.M. and Throwing Muses. Those roots explain a lot about how Blake Babies arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Lemonheads, Throwing Muses, Liz Phair, Letters to Cleo and Veruca Salt, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Korea Girl and Some Girls, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Blake Babies, reaching back through The Lemonheads and forward to Korea Girl. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Blake Babies were an American college rock band formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts. The three primary members were Freda Love, Juliana Hatfield and John Strohm. They recorded three albums before splitting up in 1991. They reunited in 1999 to record the album God Bless the Blake Babies, released in 2001, and reunited again in 2016 for several live shows in connection with the release of the archival collection Earwig Demos.
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Blake Babies connections
Blake Babies grew out of The Lemonheads, R.E.M. and Throwing Muses, shares an orbit with The Lemonheads, Throwing Muses, Liz Phair and Letters to Cleo, went on to shape Korea Girl and Some Girls. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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