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Hawkwind - Silver Machine / live

Lemmy és Phil Caivano (Monster Magnet) vendégszereplésével.

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Monster Magnet - Mindfucker

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L7: Bricks Are Heavy (1992)

I’ve never been a massive L7 fan, but I do love this LP, and the band put on one hell of a show for me and several thousand more at the 1993 Hollywood Rock Festival, also starring Alice in Chains, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana.

I almost died of dehydration, but it was totally worth it!

Anyway, Bricks Are Heavy is turning 25 years old today and I mused about its place in ‘90s music for Diffuser.fm, but allow me to butcher and reassemble some thoughts from my All-Music Guide review here, instead: 

As most of us know, though they hailed from L.A., L7 became the poster girls for grunge and the Riot Grrrl movement with the meteoric success of this, their third LP.

While previous efforts had been a little sloppy and uneven, Nevermind producer Butch Vig helped L7 obtain a tight, compact sound (driven by Dee Plakas’ metronomic percussion) on Bricks, while also pushing them to put more focus on their songwriting. 

After all, great albums need great songs, and that’s exactly what you get from Jennifer Finch’s feminist mosh-pit anthem “Everglade,” Janet Gardner’s suitably grungy “Monster,” and Donita Sparks’ Gen-X anthem, “Pretend We’re Dead.” 

Perhaps inevitably, a few songs get a little too close to Nirvana for comfort (e.g. “Slide”), but the sardonic “Diet Pill” tackles female compulsions with clever irony, and despite the near-metallic riffing that backs bitter screeds like “Wargasm,” “Mr. Integrity” and “Shitlist,” L7 still fill their lyrics with both humor and substance. 

All this helped drive Bricks Are Heavy to No. 1 on the grunge-packed Heatseekers Chart, but L7’s greatest career accomplishment is undoubtedly their influence on young women rockers, for whom they set such a positive, empowering example during this brief brush with mainstream stardom.

More L7: Smell the Magic.

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