Song · Babes In Toyland
“Catatonic” by Babes In Toyland
From the EP To Mother (1990)
“Catatonic” by Babes In Toyland appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1991. It was first released in 1990 on the EP To Mother. Its best result is #30 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty'). In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #178 alternative song of 1991.
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"Catatonic" belongs to Kat Bjelland: she wrote it, sings it and plays the guitar, with Michelle Leon on bass and Lori Barbero on drums. It turned up on To Mother, the first EP from American punk band Babes in Toyland, a set of Spanking Machine outtakes that John Loder cut again and produced in 1990 at Southern Studios, his home studio in the Wood Green part of London. Loder engineered it too.
The EP carries a private weight. Bjelland's mother died while it was being recorded, and that loss shaped both its title and its cover, a childhood photograph of her mother.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 30 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty') | 50 |
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