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“Handsome & Gretel” by Babes In Toyland
From the album Fontanelle (1992)
“Handsome & Gretel” by Babes In Toyland appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1991 and 1992. It was first released in 1992 on the album Fontanelle. Its best result is #18 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty'). In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #125 alternative song of 1991.
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"Handsome & Gretel" was Babes in Toyland's third single, a seven-inch whose songs were later folded into their second album, Fontanelle, in 1992. Kat Bjelland co-produced it with Lee Ranaldo, Brian Paulson engineered and Dave Ogilvie mixed, and the writing credit goes to the whole band: a grim fairy-tale title for a group that played like a pile-up.
The sleeve made that literal. The best-known cover shows Bjelland sitting in a police car with blood on her legs after a 1988 crash in Arizona, when a tire flew off a truck and smashed through the band's van; drummer Lori Barbero, who was driving, turns up on the back cover with what looks like a nosebleed.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 18 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty') | 50 |
| 1992 | 22 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1992 | 50 |
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