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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Merge Records
Salesrank: 390178
Released: April 21, 1998 |
| Our Price: $6.54 |
| Used Price: $2.57 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Baby, A Little Rain Must Fall Track Listing:
1. Teen Muscle/Teen Hustle
2. Don't Destroy This Nignt
3. N.Y. By Helicopter
4. I Could've Just Died
5. Carla Anne
6. Bloodhound
7. Ether Sunday
8. Leave What's Left of Me
9. Appomattox Panic Attack
10. Stardust 680am
11. Stranger Coming!
Baby, A Little Rain Must Fall Reviews:
Ether Sunday 
2002-05-05 - I love this stuff. Not every song is perfect, but where else can you find Gothic Rockabilly? It totally out-angsts and out-miseries anything else out there, and the songs are catchy too. Perfect for slow-dancing with your junkie girlfriend.
Teen Muscle
2001-01-10 - The Rock A Teens keep getting better in my estimation. This album finds them stretching a little with better production and added keyboards on a few tracks. Everything is still drenched in reverb and angst in the voice of Chris Lopez rules the day.
The opener "Teen Muscle/Teen Hustle" is a great upbeat pop song. Other favorites include "Don't Destroy This Night" and "Carla Ann". I'm going out on a limb saying they remind me of the Pixies, writing great catchy songs in an original style. If you haven't yet discovered this band this is a great start, along with "Cry".
album 3
1999-12-03 - this one rocks til your heart breaks
Another reverb-soaked triumph for the Rock*A*Teens.
1998-12-22 - "Baby, a Little Rain Must Fall" is like everything else the Rock*A*Teens have done, in a word, fantastic. Each album is a study in chaos as a growing entity, as the opening song on the newest CD (Teen Muscle/Teen Hustle) affirms. No one can make you love oblivion and sweet-natured hoplessness like Chris Lopez.
Still plenty of stories... 
1998-11-25 - Although it contains a few striking examples of how good the Rock*A*Teens reverb-drunk proto-punk can be, "Baby, A Little Rain Must Fall" suffers when compared to 1997's Southern gothic masterpiece "Cry" and 1996's frantic "Rock*A*Teens," both of which qualify as indie-rock classics. There's at least one good reason: Guitarist Kelly Hogan moved to Chicago, reducing the R*A*Ts to a trio and taking the band's lone girlish edge with her. But achey-voiced vocalist/guitarist Chris Lopez forges on with some of his most gut-wrenching tales yet, except he's not singing about murder, mayhem and "The Rockabilly Ghetto" this time around. If he's not begging a new lover to scrap her flight out ("Don't Destroy This Night"), he's assuming the psyche of a knockout drop addict ("Ether Sunday") or recollecting old flames with a careful bitterness usually reserved for songwriters with many more wrinkles. Most importantly, the guy still knows how to write unsettled melodies that inevitably crash into eloquent and grand choruses. Scrap some of its blander mid-tempo pop songs, and "Baby, A Little Rain Must Fall" would make for a thoroughly quenching EP. At a minimum, the disc proves it will take a long time for Lopez to dry out.
