| Product Summary | | Label: Kill Rock Stars | | UPC: 00759656020428 | | Release Date: 9/21/1992 | | Buy.com Sku: 60351811 | | Item#: MRRGNY | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Double Dare Ya ~ Bikini Kill |  | | 2. Liar ~ Bikini Kill | | | 3. Carnival ~ Bikini Kill | | | 4. Suck My Left One ~ Bikini Kill | | | 5. Feels Blind ~ Bikini Kill | | | 6. Thurston Hearts The Who - (live) ~ Bikini Kill | | | 7. White Boy ~ Bikini Kill | | | 8. This Is Not A Test ~ Bikini Kill | | | 9. Don't Need You ~ Bikini Kill | | | 10. Jigsaw Youth ~ Bikini Kill | | | 11. Resist Psychic Death ~ Bikini Kill | | | 12. Rebel Girl ~ Bikini Kill | | | 13. Outta Me ~ Bikini Kill | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Includes the EPs BIKINI KILL (formerly available as Kill Rock Stars 204) and YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH. | | Bikini Kill: Tobi Vail (vocals, bass, drums); Kathleen Hanna (vocals, drums); Billy Karren (guitar); Kathi Wilcox (bass, drums). | | Engineers include: Ian Mackaye, Don Zientara, Pat Maley. | | Recorded in 1991 and 1992. Includes liner notes by Kathleen Hanna and Tobi Vail. | | Personnel: Bill Karren (guitar); Tobi Vail (drums). | | Recording information: Inner Ear (1991-1992); Sanctuary Theater, Washington DC (1991-1992); the Basement Of the Embassy (1991-1992); Yo-Yo Studios (1991-1992). | | Photographer: Pat Graham. | | The descriptively titled debut full-length by riot grrrl pioneers Bikini Kill combines their first and purest (as opposed to best, although there's an argument to be made there as well) releases, 1991's Bikini Kill and their half of the 1992 split EP Yeah Yeah Yeah, done with the U.K.'s Huggy Bear. Bikini Kill's two most famous songs, "Suck My Left One" (a deeply disturbing incest fantasy in which Kathleen Hanna keeps shifting viewpoints so quickly, from rage to horror to a kind of mocking, in-your-face titillation, that the listener is left vertiginous by the end) and "Thurston Hearts the Who" (a sort of American post-punk version of the Gang of Four's "Anthrax"), are both present and accounted for, along with 11 others that range from willful noise primitivism to genuinely rocking scene anthems like "Rebel Girl." This and the even noisier follow-up, Pussy Whipped, might be all the Bikini Kill one needs. ~ Stewart Mason | | Though they're quick to decry it in the CD liner notes, Bikini Kill found themselves manipulated into a position of being the premier "riot girl" band by a media obsessed with pigeon-holing everything. In actuality, the band comprised a number of different ethos and points of view, which at times seemed to lead to contradictory messages and gave their detractors ammunition--the band were called everything from exploitative to man-hating. | | The first Bikini Kill "album" (six tracks, 16 minutes) features mid-tempo punk rock songs, including "Feels Blind," the clear blueprint for almost every Hole song (though Courtney Love is clearly more interested in commercial success), and "Thurston Hearts the Who," featuring simultaneous vocals, one skewering Sonic Youth and their "coolness," the other a sarcastic reading of a Bikini Kill review by a very confused and misinformed journalist. The second record, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, originally released as a split 12-inch with England's Huggy Bear, features even better songs (but tinnier production), especially "Don't Need You," a pissed-off, high-speed rip at people offering unbidden opinions, and the low-key "Outta Me," a brilliant break-up song. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/08/1994 | | Original Release Date : 1992 | | Catalog ID : 204 | | Label : Kill Rock Stars | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Mixed | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00759656020428 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (9/30/93, p.104)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...[Bikini Kill] make contradictory and compelling art about a confused--but not lost--generation..."Spin (3/93, p.22)
- "...evil-sounding guitar, bass, and drums aggressively slammed together in a simple, catchy punk rock style...it's Kathleen Hanna's voice that takes this record to a higher level..." Alternative Press (4/93, p.53)
- "...Bikini Kill are god(desse)
s, in spite of it all....the best punk rock record made..." Village Voice (3/2/93, p.5)
- Ranked #8 in the Village Voice's list of the 10 Best EPs of 1992. Mojo (Publisher)
(7/02, p.126)
- "...For most folks, this is where it all started....this disc is the [Riot Grrl] manifesto. Fury abounds..." |
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