Baby Bird - Fatherhood

I used to shop several times a week in Amoeba Records and Rasputin Music on Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley. One of those times I was upstairs at Rasputin and flipping through the LP's and I ran across this gem. I hadn't heard him, or of him, but I collected pictures of pregnant women and the cover was enough of a reason to shell out $8.99. It turned out to be a pretty good album and lasted as a regular on my turntable for about 5 months.

I think I remember reading in the liner notes that the whole thing was done in his bedroom on his 4-track. It's simple Lofi pop music. I think the second track on side B is what hooked me (a perfect track to play at the bar if I get stuck working on Christmas) but it easily could have been 4th track (Bad Blood) or the 8th track (Goodnight) on side A, the whole album is full of his very personal lyrics and clever rhymes. I was never able to find anything else by Baby Bird until I came to Tel Aviv and heard some later work of his being played on the air, but they'll play anything on the radio in this country..

a1 No Children a2 Cooling Towers a3 Cool & Crazy Things To Do a4 Bad Blood a5 Neil Armstrong a6 I was Never Here a7 Saturday a8 Goodnight a9 I Didn't Want To Wake You Up a10 Iceberg b1 Aluminum Beach b2 G-d**** It, You're A Kid b3 Daisies b4 Failed Old Singer b5 Fatherhood b6 Dustbin Liner b7 Not About A Girl b8 Good Weather b9 But Love b10 May We Here