Song · Babes In Toyland
“Ripe” by Babes In Toyland
From the EP To Mother (1990)
“Ripe” 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 #42 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty'). In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #236 alternative song of 1991.
Babes in Toyland wrote "Ripe" as a band, and it turns up on To Mother, the American punk outfit's first EP, a set of songs left over from Spanking Machine and cut again in 1990. Kat Bjelland plays guitar and sings, Michelle Leon is on bass and Lori Barbero on drums, and John Loder produced and engineered the session at Southern Studios, his home studio in the Wood Green area of London.
The record carries a heavy shadow: Bjelland's mother died while it was being made, and a childhood photograph of her shaped both the cover and the title. In the UK, where Southern Records put it out on vinyl, To Mother went to No. 1 on the indie chart and sat there for ten weeks.
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 | 42 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty') | 50 |
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