L7 "Bricks Are Heavy" CD (1992)

Details: L7's third studio album, Bricks Are Heavy, was co-produced with Butch Vig. The band were sadly trashed in reviews quite a bit when this album came out either due to their 'liberal feminist attitudes,' 'tampon rage,' or due to being in too-close proximity to Nirvana or the grunge 'phenomenon' of the time. Obviously: we know the truth and Gina Arnold's review in 1992 hits it straight on as well (and she was touring around with Nirvana at the time and later writing a book about it). It only takes one cool person to recognize cool, obviously. Great condition used, like new, original CD.

Description: "Roses are red, violets are blue. Bricks are heavy, and L7 is too. Produced by Butch Vig of Nirvana fame, L7’s sound is similar to that band’s oeuvre: catchy tunes and mean vocals on top of ugly guitars and a quick-but-thick bottom of cast-iron grunge. Where L7 differs from Nirvana, however, is in the clarity of its angry lyrics. There are no ”Oh well, whatever, neverminds” on Bricks Are Heavy. This is a band that knows exactly how it feels about topics like war (”Body bags and dropping bombs/The Pentagon knows how to turn us on,” from ”Wargasm”), sexism (”Calgon can’t take me away/ From the things I did today,” from ”Diet Pill”), and American apathy (”They’ve got us in the palm of their greedy hands/ When we pretend that we’re dead,” from ”Pretend We’re Dead”). At the same time, L7 never loses the joyous noisiness of having a big dumb sound. Although the band’s positive-plus stances on liberal issues may not instantly endear it to fuzzy-minded teen America, L7 does manage to be simultaneously fun and furious, an intensely appealing combination. In short, Violets are blue and roses are red. Go get L7 for a shot of street cred."--Gina Arnold, EW (1992) 

Grade: M 

CD TRACK LISTING:

1. Wargasm
2. Scrap
3. Pretend We're Dead
4. Diet Pill
5. Everglade
6. Slide
7. One More Thing
8. Mr. Integrity
9. Monster
10. Shitlist
11. This Ain't Pleasure