Hungry for Stink

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Hungry for Stink
L7 - Hungry for Stink.jpg
Studio album by
L7
ReleasedJuly 12, 1994 (1994-07-12)
RecordedWinter 1993 [1]
Studio
Genre
Length44:43
Label
Producer
L7 chronology
Bricks Are Heavy
(1992)		Hungry for Stink
(1994)		 The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum
(1997)
Singles from Hungry for Stink
  1. "Andres"
    Released: 1994

Hungry for Stink is the fourth studio album by L7, released in July 1994 by Slash Records. The album peaked at number 117 on the Billboard 200 chart, [2] as well as number 2 on the Heatseekers Albums chart. [3]

Contents

"Fuel My Fire" was based on the Cosmic Psychos song "Lost Cause", [4] and was covered by The Prodigy on their 1997 album The Fat of the Land . [5] The Independent reported that the album's name Hungry for Stink was derived from an advert the band saw in Bear Magazine, a gay publication "for and about big hairy men". [6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [8]
Entertainment Weekly A+ [9]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [10]
NME 6/10 [11]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 7/10 [15]
The Village Voice A− [16]

In a rave review for Entertainment Weekly , Greg Sandow wrote that whereas L7's earlier albums "were forceful and bratty", Hungry for Stink "is far more sophisticated, with a musical surprise on nearly every track", and cements L7 as "one of the top hard-rocking bands of any kind, gender be damned." [9] Chicago Tribune critic Greg Kot opined that "L7 affirms that it is a great band" with their "strongest batch of songs", [8] while Rolling Stone 's Paul Corio praised L7's "smart, hard neopunk" and commented that they "kick inter-gender butt by means of power chords and grunge abandon." [17] In The Village Voice , Robert Christgau said that L7 "reverse the usual evolution" by leaning further into a grunge sound on Hungry for Stink; he credited the band for avoiding the genre's "dull despair" and instead keeping their music "rooted in the rock and roll everyday, where it belongs." [16]

Lorraine Ali of the Los Angeles Times was less impressed, commending L7's return to a more "fuzzed-out" aesthetic but detecting "little genuine personality, be it a sense of irony or conviction, behind the lyrics, which are so predictably anti-Establishment that the only feeling you get from them is the band's need to be incredibly punk rock." [10] NME reviewer Johnny Cigarettes deemed Hungry for Stink "roughly two-thirds of a fine album" and felt that it "sags noticeably in the middle and towards the end" from a lack of memorable melodies. [11]

Retrospectively, AllMusic's Neil Z. Yeung found that Hungry for Stink, while "not as crisp and catchy" as L7's previous album Bricks Are Heavy , nonetheless stands out as one of their "crunchiest, grimiest, and nastiest" records and "merits attention and appreciation for being the end of a certain era for the band, just as they were on the verge of a brief evolution before their two-decade hiatus." [7]

Track listing

Hungry for Stink track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Andres" Donita Sparks, Suzi Gardner 3:03
2."Baggage"Sparks, Gardner3:18
3."Can I Run"Sparks3:54
4."The Bomb"Sparks, Jennifer Finch 2:39
5."Questioning My Sanity"Sparks, Finch3:42
6."Riding with a Movie Star"Sparks3:19
7."Stuck Here Again"Sparks, Gardner4:58
8."Fuel My Fire"Sparks, Cosmic Psychos 3:46
9."Freak Magnet"Sparks, Gardner3:14
10."She Has Eyes"Sparks, Finch3:16
11."Shirley"Finch3:09
12."Talk Box"Sparks6:06
Total length:44:43

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Performers
Production

Charts

Chart (1994)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [18] 57
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [19] 47
UK Albums (OCC) [20] 26
US Billboard 200 [2] 117
US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [3] 2
Scottish Albums (OCC) [21] 59
European Albums ( Music & Media ) [22] 60

References

  1. ↑ "L7 Time Line". repriserec.com . Archived from the original on January 23, 1998. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  2. 1 2 "L7 - Billboard 200". Billboard . Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "L7 - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard . Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Original versions of Fuel My Fire written by Donita Sparks". Secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  5. ↑ "'Fuel My Fire' by L7 covered by The Prodigy – Magnificent Cover Version No.18". Noisecrumbs.com. January 2, 2017. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  6. ↑ Thompson, Ben (July 10, 1994). "ART / Show People: California screaming: L7". The Independent. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
  7. 1 2 Yeung, Neil Z. "Hungry for Stink – L7". AllMusic . Retrieved August 16, 2024.
  8. 1 2 Kot, Greg (July 15, 1994). "Selling 'Alternative, Inc.'". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved August 16, 2024.
  9. 1 2 Sandow, Greg (July 15, 1994). "Hungry for Stink". Entertainment Weekly . Archived from the original on November 18, 2022. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  10. 1 2 Ali, Lorraine (July 10, 1994). "L7 Slides Back to Sludgy Roots". Los Angeles Times . ISSN   0458-3035 . Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  11. 1 2 Cigarettes, Johnny (July 16, 1994). "The Pong Remains the Same". NME . p. 38.
  12. ↑ Henderson, Dave (September 1994). "L7: Hungry for Stink". Q . No. 96. p. 102.
  13. ↑ Moores, JR (December 2022). "L7: Hungry for Stink / The Beauty Process – Triple Platinum". Record Collector . No. 538. p. 98.
  14. ↑ Harris, Keith (2004). "L7". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p.  500. ISBN   0-7432-0169-8.
  15. ↑ Stovall, Natasha (1995). "L7". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. p. 231. ISBN   0-679-75574-8.
  16. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (September 13, 1994). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . Retrieved August 16, 2024.
  17. ↑ Corio, Paul (December 29, 1994 – January 12, 1995). "L7: Hungry For Stink". Rolling Stone . No. 698–699. p. 182. Archived from the original on November 12, 2007. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  18. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 159.
  19. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – L7 – Hungry for Stink". Hung Medien. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
  20. ↑ "L7". Official Charts Company . Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  21. ↑ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 13 May 2025.
  22. ↑ "European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media . Vol. 11, no. 31. July 30, 1994. p. 9. OCLC   29800226 . Retrieved May 13, 2025– via American Radio History.
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