Babe The Blue Ox-People (1996)


Artist: Babe The Blue Ox

Title: People

Label: RCA

Format: CD

Catalog Number: 07863 66844-2

Year of Release: 1996

Country and Year of Edition: US 1996

Sell Price: $5.61

Sell Date: 2/3/26

Condition: M/NM sealed hole punch in barcode

Discogs Last Sold: 1/26/26 N/NM Sealed $9.08

Low: $0.95

Median: $2.97

Average: $3.49

High: $9.95

Current low price: $1.40

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 21

Have/Want: 162/15

Where Sold: Evanston, IL

Time It Took To Sell:  2  years

Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace $2 lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B

Sad To See It Go: No

 I noticed Brooklyn's Babe The Blue Ox has been playing live again locally in recent years, so when I was pulling titles from a cheap Facebook marketplace lot, I got this in the box a couple years ago with the intent to give it a listen.  I never got around to it.  The copy came sealed and sold that way, and the only way you can get the record by streaming is to make a playlist from the 76 track O-X Set For Paul that compiles all the bands recording in one digital dump.  I made a spotify playlist for the link above so the album can be played start to finish with an occasional random ad.  It took a few straight listens to get a feel for the music.

For whatever reason, I wasn't a big fan of the band back when they were on Homestead and managed to ignore their 2 records for RCA in the mid-90's even as I was doing radio during those years.  People is the first of them and sounds like a well produced "adult" indie rock record.  I'm a bit amazed they were allowed to put out TWO albums for RCA, but the 90's drafting by the majors of all the indie rock bands in the mid-90's made for bands to get their cracks at college rock stardom.  BOX were pretty good for an instant dollar bin CD band.  The video for "Stand By Your Man" has a Pixies-like male/female soaring chorus as does my favorite track "I'm Wrong."  Overall this is an interesting guitar record not totally mired in mid-90's alt rock genericism but not escaping it fully either.  Better this than a lot of things.

More interesting  than I remembered, I'll check them out live someday.

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