Babies (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Babies


Artist = Pulp
from Album = His 'n' Hers
Released = 5 October 1992
Format = CD, 12"
Recorded = July-August 1992, Island Records Fallout Shelter, London and Protocol Studios, London
Genre = Britpop
Label = Gift Records
Chart position =
Last single = "O.U. (Gone, Gone)"
(1992)
This single = " Babies"
(1992)
Next single = "Razzmatazz"
(1993) |

Babies is a song and single by British rock group Pulp. It was released as a single for Gift Records in 1992, and was later remixed for the Sisters EP in 1994 . The remixed version featured on the "His 'n' Hers" album and the original single mix on the "Intro" compilation. The song failed to chart in 1992, but became a Top 20 hit when re-released in 1994, peaking at #19 on the UK Singles Chart.

ong

Babies follows a simple 'Teen Angst' story-song. The song's protagonist, a teenage boy, spends platonic afternoons in a female friend's room listening to her older sister and the boys she takes to her room and, presumably, has sex with but this isn't enough for him and he hides in the elder sister's wardrobe and watches her with David, who works in a local garage. Unable to tell the younger sister, who appears to be the real object of his affections, for fear she will tell her mother the song's narrator listens outside as she proposes sex to a boy named Neve (The song's chorus is a proposal of sex 'I wanna take you home, I wanna give you children...'). Finally he comes 'home' to the disappointment that the elder sister has moved out, presumably in an act of nostalgia he re-enters the wardrobe but falls asleep and is found by the elder sister and the two have sex only to be caught by the younger sister, culminating in the boy making the pathetic excuse "I only went with her cos she looks like you".

Video(s)

A video for Babies was made and as of April 2004 continues to be shown with regularity on Music Video Channels in the UK, in fact with more regularity that the higher charting Common People. The Video features the band playing (including an improvised odd dance from Jarvis Cocker) interspersed with clips of two sisters fooling around on a bed as well as using text to preempt certain things i.e. 'Chorus' or 'Punch Line' before Jarvis sings "I only went with her cos she looks like you" it is currently available on the Hits DVD, and was previously included on the Sorted for Films and Vids VHS. Island Records had the band make another video to promote the Sisters EP though it is shown rarely nowadays.

Track listings

# "Babies" (4:07)
# "Styloroc (Nites of Suburbia)" (3:13)
# "Sheffield: Sex City" (8:34)
# "Sheffield: Sex City" (instrumental)* (8:33)
* The instrumental version of Sheffield: Sex City does not appear on the 12" version

External links

* [http://www.pulpwiki.net/Pulp/BabiesSingle Babies on The Pulp Wiki]