Pulp - Babies
(4:04)223,149 plays (49,528 listeners)
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Well it happened years ago,
when you lived on Stanhope Road.
We listened to your sister,
when she came home from school,
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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.
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”.
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”.
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petercrucial wrote:
A very nice Pop Song. It´s nº1 in my Library.
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Alucard1985 wrote:
Love this
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jhammers wrote:
i miss this. and all that went with it.
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Sparx31 wrote:
So many memories of this one...love it!
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ekesner wrote:
Alright!
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xoxsaramarie wrote:
i love that guitar riff that keeps playing... good song!
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mavovoma wrote:
yeah!
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luibald wrote:
one of them best songs!!!
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thesimp wrote:
Makes me prance round the library with my nuts out.
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andrealcubo wrote:
+++bieN
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georgettegrey wrote:
Tuneage! I love this one.
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so fun and catchy!
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polarkreis18 wrote:
love this tune
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p_artygirl wrote:
way better is to dance with this song while you are singing it at the same time ;)
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jackchampagne wrote:
god i love this song so much
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majorleague wrote:
Best "Ohhhh" ever.
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shirinemodad wrote:
dance to it? try SINGING it..way better!
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andrealcubo wrote:
...● ● ● ﭯ▪▪▪▪▪
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seanipooh wrote:
me also fairflower.....well I tried to :)
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fairflower wrote:
I used to dance to this 15 years ago...
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