Babe the Blue OX (BOX) formed in Brooklyn in 1991 when Midwesterners
Tim Thomas (guitar, vocals) and
Rose Thomson (bass, vocals) moved into
Hanna Fox's
apartment and persuaded her to play drums. Their first single, "There's
Always Room for One More, Honey," appeared on Stamp and showed their
Captain Beefheart
take on indie rock; the trio uses jazz, sludge rock and punk to screw
up their pop songs. Signed to Homestead, they released the "Chicken Head
Bone Sucker" single in 1992, [BOX] and the Je m'Appelle Babe EP in
1993, and
Color Me Babe in 1994.
People, the group's first album for major label RCA, appeared in 1996;
The Way We Were followed two years later.