Fist City (Tribe 8 album)

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Fist City
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Studio album by
Tribe 8
Released1995
StudioHouse of Faith
Genre Punk rock, queercore [1]
Label Alternative Tentacles [2]
Producer Bart Thurber
Tribe 8 chronology
By the Time We Get to Colorado
(1993)		Fist City
(1995)		Roadkill Cafe
(1995)

Fist City is the first studio album by the American queer punk band Tribe 8, released in 1995. [3] [4] The band supported the album with a North American tour. [5]

Contents

Production

Fist City contains a cover of Aretha Franklin's "Think". [6] Shaunna Hall, of 4 Non Blondes, contributed guitar parts to the album. [7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Robert Christgau Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [8]

Trouser Press called the album "impressive," writing that "behind growly singer Lynn Breedlove, the group’s rock barrels along with as much intelligent raunch as the lyrics, a guitar-drenched punk charge that means business but stays well within safe musical boundaries." [9] The Washington Post thought that "musically, these songs are not distinctive, but they are suitably vehement ... 'Neanderthal Dyke' admits, 'I never read Dworkin/I ride a big bike/Feminist theory gets me uptight'." [10] The Chicago Tribune wrote: "With its buzz-saw twin-guitar assault and hammering rhythms, Tribe 8 works a ferocious hardcore edge." [11]

The Advocate deemed the album a "sludgy blend of metal and thrash punk," but wrote that "the simple fact that its members are Asian, black, and white lesbians playing angry rock'n'roll makes the band revolutionary." [12] The Boston Globe called the band "riotously non-PC." [13] Miami New Times lamented that the album was "as predictable and witless as anything by W.A.S.P. and Motley Crue." [14]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Manipulate" 
2."Seraphim" 
3."Butch in the Streets" 
4."Romeo and Julio" 
5."What?" 
6."Kick" 
7."Neanderthal Dyke" 
8."Freedom" 
9."Allen's Mom" 
10."Femme Bitch Top" 
11."Think" 
12."Flippersnapper" 
13."Barnyard Poontang" 
14."All I Can Do" 
15."Frat Pig" 

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Arnold, Gina (March 26, 1995). "Word Is Out On Gay Punk Scene / The defiant queercore subculture". SFGate.
  2. ↑ "Tribe 8 | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  3. ↑ Cogan, Brian (2006). Encyclopedia of Punk and Culture. Greenwood Press. pp. 231–232.
  4. ↑ Acker, Kathy (November 1995). "After the End of the Art World". Art & Design. Vol. 10, no. 45. pp. 7–9.
  5. ↑ Thompson, Stephen (April 6, 1995). "Club Crawl". Wisconsin State Journal. p. 8.
  6. ↑ Staple, Arthur (May 10, 1996). "Tribe 8 and Tribulations". Lifestyle. The Record. p. 32.
  7. ↑ Snyder, Michael (March 19, 1995). "Feeling Bearish". Sunday. San Francisco Chronicle. p. 39.
  8. ↑ "Tribe 8". Robert Christgau.
  9. ↑ "Tribe 8". Trouser Press. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Tribe's Metal". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Punk Meets Politics". Chicago Tribune. April 7, 1995. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  12. ↑ Walters, Barry (March 7, 1995). "Violent Femmes". The Advocate. p. 60.
  13. ↑ Sullivan, Jim (July 13, 1995). "Tribe 8 rites". Calendar. The Boston Globe. p. 23.
  14. ↑ Yockel, Michael (July 6, 1995). "Tribe 8 Fist City (Alternative Tentacles)". Music. Miami New Times.
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