A Total Letdown

A Total Letdown
Studio album by
Babyland
ReleasedMarch 4, 1994 (1994-03-04)
Studio
  • The Bunker (Los Angeles, California)
  • Wireworks (Rosemead, California)
Genre
Length43:20
LabelFlipside
Dan Gatto chronology
The Dogsnatcher EP
(1993) 		A Total Letdown
(1994) 		Who's Sorry Now?
(1995)

A Total Letdown is the second studio album by Babyland, released on March 4, 1994, by Flipside Records.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Ned Raggett of AllMusic says, "Babyland continue the same perfect bland of aggro-electronics, personal/political punk lyrical delivery" and "the few changes there are turn up as understated rather than obvious, especially a continued embrace of careful additional touches to flesh out the songs."[1] Alternative Press also lauded the album, saying "the band literally hit the nail on the head of all the confusion, resentment, anger, and frustration felt by an entire generation."[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dan Gatto and Michael Smith, except "Pink Frost" by Martin Phillips

No.TitleLength
1."Plain Talk"4:32
2."Worst Case Scenario"4:42
3."Dismissal"4:31
4."Pink Frost" (The Chills cover)3:28
5."Cop-Out"2:17
6."(De)Pressing Plant"4:38
7."The Next Day in the Course of Time"2:45
8."Ramona Moraga"3:19
9."Stomach"2:15
10."Kill Bugs"3:31
11."Suitable for Framing"7:23

Personnel

Adapted from the A Total Letdown liner notes.[3]

Babyland

Production and design

  • Aartvark – cover art, photography
  • Rusty Cusick – engineering (2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10)
  • Jon Steinhoff – engineering (1, 3, 6, 8, 11)

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1994 Flipside CD, CS FLIP 57
1999 Mattress CD MAT004

References

  1. ^ a b Kavadias, Theo. "A Total Letdown – Babyland". AllMusic. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  2. ^ columnist (November 1994). "Babyland: A Total Letdown". Alternative Press: 80.
  3. ^ A Total Letdown (booklet). Babyland. Pasadena, California: Flipside Records. 1994.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)