A Total Letdown Explained

A Total Letdown
Type:	studio
Artist:	Babyland
Cover:	Babyland - A Total Letdown.jpg
Studio:	The Bunker (Los Angeles, California) Wireworks (Rosemead, California)
Genre:	Industrial rock synth punk
Length:	43:20
Label:	Flipside
Chronology:	Dan Gatto
Prev Title:	The Dogsnatcher EP
Prev Year:	1993
Next Title:	Who's Sorry Now?
Next Year:	1995

A Total Letdown is the second studio album by Babyland, released on March 4, 1994, by Flipside Records.

Reception

Ned Raggett of AllMusic says, "Babyland continue the same perfect bland of aggro-electronics, personal/political punk lyrical delivery" and "the few changes there are turn up as understated rather than obvious, especially a continued embrace of careful additional touches to flesh out the songs." Alternative Press also lauded the album, saying "the band literally hit the nail on the head of all the confusion, resentment, anger, and frustration felt by an entire generation."^[1]

Personnel

Adapted from the A Total Letdown liner notes.^[2]

Babyland

• Dan Gatto – lead vocals, keyboards
• Michael Smith – percussion

Production and design

• Aartvark – cover art, photography
• Rusty Cusick – engineering (2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10)
• Jon Steinhoff – engineering (1, 3, 6, 8, 11)

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United States	1994	Flipside	CD, CS	FLIP 57
	1999	Mattress	CD	MAT004

External links

• • A Total Letdown at iTunes

Notes and References

1. columnist . Babyland: A Total Letdown . . November 1994 . 80 .
2. A Total Letdown . . 1994 . booklet . . Pasadena, California.