The Twolinktakeapeektapthemousepage

It's funny what you'll come across while cleaning your room. As we were cleaning our room, Thor found this tape in one of our drawers. Baby Animals' "The Twotracktakeithometurnitontape." The title was pretty lame so it caught our interest. Very late 80's- early 90's style cover. The cool "lotsa electronic colors" background and the kickin' band pic. Thor remembered buying this tape all of a sudden. He had picked it up at a cheap record shop for 10 cents back around 6th grade. "I had remembered that the first track, 'Early Warning', really freaked me out because at the beginning there was this woman's voice (vocalist Suze DeMarchi) singing something unintelligible. It sounded like it was meant to scare small children."

We played the tape again, and couldn't figure out what the hell she was saying. The song starts off clearly enough, with an pounding straight-ahead beat and a "arrrrr" guitar that soon plays this very "early 90's" sounding riff. But then comes Suze's "tooruffanotooruffanuhLISTEN." We pictured this band in a classroom, with the lead singer shaking her head like a lion, saying "Come on, kids, look at me and LISTENNNN!!!!", if anything. Of course the kids would look bewildered and scared as if to say "please...make it...stop." But anyway. It was pretty comical.

We wonder where Baby Animals are now. They had a minor hit in 1991 with the song "Painless" but that was all we've heard of them since, well except for an album titled "Shaved and Dangerous" which sold as well as hamburgers at a vegetarian commune. Thor's theory: "I think they went to the big Outback in the sky, with diVINYLS and Men At Work." Cody's theory: "They're flipping burgers." Maybe they have a new album coming out, I dunno. Hopefully, whatever the case may be, Suze will sing so she doesn't scare anyone, especially impressionable children.

Here are the two links to take a peek at and tap the mouse on:

Listen to "Early Warning" in RealAudio on CDNow's Baby Animals page.
The Baby Animals Home Page