| Fist City | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1995 | |||
| Studio | House of Faith | |||
| Genre | Punk rock, queercore [1] | |||
| Label | Alternative Tentacles [2] | |||
| Producer | Bart Thurber | |||
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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]
Fist City contains a cover of Aretha Franklin's "Think". [6] Shaunna Hall, of 4 Non Blondes, contributed guitar parts to the album. [7]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Robert Christgau |  [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]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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" |
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