Binge & Purge

This article is about the Lunachicks album. For the film, see Binge & Purge (film). For the Metallica live album, see Live Shit: Binge & Purge.

Binge & Purge
Studio album by Lunachicks
Released	1992
Recorded	1991–1992
Studio	SST Studios & Rentals (Weehawken, New Jersey)
Genre	Punk rock
Length	35:09
Label	Safe House
Producer	Mason Temple
Lunachicks chronology
Babysitters on Acid (1990) Binge & Purge (1992) Jerk of All Trades (1995)
Singles from Binge & Purge
"Apathetic EP" Released: August 14, 1992

Binge & Purge is the second studio album by the American punk rock band Lunachicks, released in 1992 through Safe House Records. ^{[1] [2]} The album was mixed at Quad Recording Studios in New York City and mastered at MDI Productions in Toronto. It was the final album to feature drummer Becky Wreck before her departure from the band later that same year. It was also the band's only album released through Safe House before signing to Go-Kart Records the following year.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]

AllMusic called the album "more Poison than punk rock," writing that "the Lunachicks' follow-up to the promising Babysitters on Acid is disjointed and disappointing." ^[3] Trouser Press wrote that "Binge and Purge, which contains sharply ironic songs about women’s self-image concerns, is the Lunachicks’ great leap forward." ^[5] Simon Reynolds and Joy Press highlighted the "gleeful revelling in (rather than the repulsion from) the messy murk of female bodiliness." ^[6] The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that the album is not without "its simplistic Ramonesy charms," but that "when the 'Chicks upchuck their sense of humor, their monolithic music gets boring fast." ^[7]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Theo Kogan except as noted; all music is composed by Lunachicks.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Length
1.	"Apathetic"	Kogan, Becky Wreck	2:35
2.	"Plugg"		3:37
3.	"P.S. Hell"		2:22
4.	"Binge & Purge"		2:36
5.	"Mom"		3:00
6.	"Super Strong"	Wreck	2:26
7.	"This Is Serious"		1:31
8.	"Whole Lotta B.S."		2:21
9.	"2 Bad 4 U"		3:45
10.	"11"		3:14
11.	"Rip U"	Gina Volpe, Kogan	6:25
12.	"C.I.L.L."		2:02

References

1. Blush, Steven (October 4, 2016). New York Rock: From the Rise of the Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB. St. Martin's Publishing Group. ISBN   9781250083623.
2. "Lunachicks Biography & History". AllMusic.
3. "Binge & Purge Lunachicks". AllMusic.
4. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 370.
5. "Lunachicks". Trouser Press. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
6. Reynolds, Simon; Press, Joy (November 10, 1996). The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll. Harvard University Press. ISBN   9780674802735 – via Google Books.
7. "Pop/Rock". The Philadelphia Inquirer: 28. February 5, 1993.