| Product Summary | | Label: Kill Rock Stars | | UPC: 00759656026024 | | Release Date: 4/5/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 60351670 | | Item#: M45S3F | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Statement Of Vindication ~ Bikini Kill |  | | 2. Capri Pants ~ Bikini Kill | | | 3. Jet Ski ~ Bikini Kill | | | 4. Distinct Complicity ~ Bikini Kill | | | 5. False Start ~ Bikini Kill | | | 6. R.I.P. ~ Bikini Kill | | | 7. No Backrub ~ Bikini Kill | | | 8. Bloody Ice Cream ~ Bikini Kill | | | 9. For Only ~ Bikini Kill | | | 10. Tony Randall ~ Bikini Kill | | | 11. Reject All American ~ Bikini Kill | | | 12. Finale ~ Bikini Kill | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Bikini Kill: Kathi Wilcox (vocals, bass, drums); Kathleen Hanna (vocals, bass); Tobi Vail (vocals, drums); Bill Karren (guitar). | | Recorded in November 1995. | | Personnel: Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox (vocals, drums); Bill Karren (guitar). | | Recording information: 11/1995. | | Bikini Kill delivered their second album just a little bit too late. By the time Reject All American hit the stores in 1996, the media's fascination with riot grrrl had passed, leaving the band the province of a small cult. Of course, they prefer it that way, but the insularity of their audience and their message is reflected in the music. Reject All American has the requisite raw production, blistering three-chord riffs, and Kathleen Hanna's gut-churning screams, but the result isn't necessarily entirely effective. The problem is the band is preaching to a converted audience -- and their music doesn't have enough hooks to effectively sell their message. There are some good songs on the album, and on the whole it's a tighter album than their debut, but it doesn't capture the moment the way Pussy Whipped did, and Bikini Kill are all about immediacy. Therefore, Reject All American is sort of irrelevant. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine | | Initially pegged as "riot girls," something to which Bikini Kill always objected, the band took nearly four years to record its second full-length album, REJECT ALL AMERICAN, by which time the "movement" had died down somewhat, thus freeing it from the stifling label. Furthering a trend evident since its earliest material, the album again marks a step up in improved production, as well as continuing the band's move from barely structured primal scream assaults into pop-oriented, though still aggressive, songs--and hey, at 27 minutes, it's Bikini Kill's longest record yet! | | The pop move is most obvious on "False Start," which, given sweeter lyrics, could have given the Bangles a run for their money. It repeats the gambit on "R.I.P.," a lyrically wrenching cry for a dead friend. Other standouts include "Capri Pants," a barreling freight train of a song, "Jet Ski," which features Kathleen Hanna belting out a chorus of "I ain't got no candy for you," and the title track, which is built on a controlled rhythm and guitar base and makes a great sing-along anthem. If you like your punk rock tuneful, REJECT ALL AMERICAN will make a fine addition to your collection. |
Producer: John Goodmanson |
Engineer: John Goodmanson |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 04/05/1996 | | Original Release Date : 1996 | | Catalog ID : 260 | | Label : Kill Rock Stars | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00759656026024 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.108)
- Ranked #40 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records".Rolling Stone (5/16/96, p.68)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...supplementing their fiery, bash-`em-in-the-face punk with sweetly seductive pop...these edgy, melodic anthems never lapse into whining..." Spin (6/96, p.114)
- 7 - Flawed Yet Worthy - "...Hanna's mutable bellow remains BK's most potent weapon....most of REJECT gets the pop point, and takes up where the much-missed [Bratmobile]...left off--the pleasingly indefinite border where girl-group `na-nas' shade off into riot-grrrl `nyah nyahs'." Entertainment Weekly (4/12/96, p.68)
- "...[Kathleen Hanna's] band's second and tightest album is 28 wonderfully concentrated minutes of unrelenting punk, with mid-tempo stops that pay homage to Kurt Cobain and Tony Randall. The Go-Go's as riot grrrls." - Rating: A- Alternative Press (8/96, pp.70-71)
- 3 (out of 5)
- "...a steamroller of equal parts political idealism and punk righteousness....blasts away at any expectations anyone may have had of them....not only one hell of a powerfully angry machine, but also capable of some surprising diversity..." Option (9-10/96, p.94)
- "...Kathlenn Hanna's voice is nothing less than astounding, sweet as maple syrup on the edge of a sharp knife....Bill Karen's guitar work is his best ever....Part of what makes Bikini Kill important is the band's head-on collision with all anti-woman attitudes and acts..." Melody Maker (4/6/96, p.37)
- Recommended - "...Twelve salvos...from the heart. Twelve messages of hope for America's disaffected youth. Boy/girl revolution has never sounded so cool..." RIP (8/96, p.70)
- 3 (out of 5)
- "...with REJECT ALL AMERICAN, BK's newly emerging facets provide a nice balance to a band that started out as a hostile one-trick pony." New York Times (Publisher)
(6/2/96, Sec.2, p.28)
- "...The title track...explains why the band disdains the sort of media attention most groups would die for. `Mass acceptance/Overrated,' Kathleen Hanna sings as part of a sarcastic litany of `all American' values that will earn her an executive position in an apocryphal company she calls `Nothing Incorporated'..." |
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