Monday, 3 October 2011

Babe Ruth - Stealin' Home (1975, 320)



Not much into this rock game, but this is one i simply like. Many rappers have sampled their tracks. Not from this album, but others like ''Mexican''. Rappers n bandsthat sampled Babe Ruth are - Cypress Hill, Above The Law, Davy D, Dougie Fresh, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Flash ^ F5, Funky 4 + 1, Organized Konfusion, Jungle Brothers and few others.

1 It'll Happen in Time
2 Winner Takes All
3 Fascination
4 Two Thousand Sunsets
5 Elusive
6 Can You Feel It
7 Say No More
8 Caught at the Plate
9 Tomorrow



Review by Paul Collins

Haan's last album fronting for Babe Ruth still shows her in top form, and this album both kicks off and ends with a pair of fine rockers, "It'll Happen in Time" and "Tomorrow." The latter is the best tune on the album, featuring some burning guitar leads over an orchestral backing. "Fascination," based over a percussion loop and crunching guitar, shows the band stomping the same ground as female-fronted bands like Empire and Cold Blood, though none of them quite achieved the success of slicker contemporaries like, say, Heart. It doesn't help that the album is weighted down with some stultifying keyboard ballads and instrumentals like "Caught at the Plate," but when they stick to tightly structured and overdriven guitar rock, Babe Ruth sound very good indeed.

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