Total System Failure
Juliana's Pony
(Juliana Hatfield)
- White Thrash
- Metal Fume Fever
- Houseboy
- Road Wrath
- Let's Get Married
- Breeders
- My Protégée
- Total System Failure
- The Victim
- Using You
- Leather Pants
- Noblesse Oblige
- Ten Foot Pole
;)
Juliana rocks out. Or tries to.
Released simultaneously with the sublime Beautiful Creature, almost as if the alter-ego of the Juliana Hatfield on that album, Total System Failure announces itself as the guitar rock one.
Borne out of a desire to express the darker side of her lyrics with equally representative dark music, and perhaps a reaction to her return to Boston reflecting on the experiences of L.A.
Fans seem to either love this album with a passion or declare it to be the least played in their collection. ;)
Juliana possibly trying to sound like someone else, although she may not have been sure who.
Alternatively it’s a work of rock genius and some of her most biting social commentary on record.
(excerpt from Juliana's blog on "Metal Fume Fever" - July 2008)
"Metal fume fever is the name of an actual illness. When I first heard the term, in passing, I thought, “I have to use that as a song title. It rocks!” I knew next to nothing about the illness, then. All I knew was that hearing those words conjured up nightmarish images in my head, and those images were what I wrote about. In protest. It’s a protest song."
Video of Yahoo live performance in 2000
Ten Foot Pole from Total System Failure is the last song at 15:45