Jerk of All Trades

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Jerk of All Trades
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Studio album by
Lunachicks
ReleasedMay 1, 1995
Recorded1993–1995
Genre Punk rock
Length52:34
Label Go-Kart [1]
Producer Ray Martin
Lunachicks chronology
Binge & Purge
(1992)		Jerk of All Trades
(1995)		 Pretty Ugly
(1997)

Jerk of All Trades is the third studio album by the American punk rock band Lunachicks, [2] [3] [4] released on May 1, 1995, through Go-Kart Records. It was the first album to feature Chip English on drums.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Entertainment Weekly A− [7]
Tucson Weekly Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]

Entertainment Weekly called Jerk of All Trades "an album of punkoid riffs and comic, melodic choruses." [7] Trouser Press wrote: "Inoffensive songs of varying seriousness about pets, dolls, adolescent pranks and reproductive rights ... give the album a conceptual variety thoroughly blunted by the stultifying sameness of the music, a relentless barrage that furiously digs itself down a boring hole." [8] The Sun Sentinel wrote that "roaring guitars and screaming vocals make for a noisy full-length disc, but it's fun in an infantile way." [9] The Deseret News deemed the album "filled with image-altering guitars and hyper-intense arrangements." [10]

The A.V. Club called the title track "arguably Lunachicks’ greatest song." [11]

Track listing

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

No.TitleLength
1."Drop Dead"2:52
2."Fingerful"4:13
3."F.D.S."2:45
4."Light as a Feather"3:15
5."Edgar"3:27
6."Dogyard"2:22
7."Buttplug"1:12
8."Bitterness Barbie"3:13
9."Deal with It"3:38
10."Brickface + Stucco"3:12
11."Jerk of All Trades"2:22
12."Spoilt"3:54
13."Ring + Run"1:46
14."Fallopian Rhapsody"4:27
15."Insomnia"3:44
16."Why Me?"6:12

For track 11, "Jerk of All Trades," trumpet is played by Tommy Kennedy.

References

  1. 1 2 "Quick Scans (June 29 - July 5, 1995)". Tucson Weekly.
  2. ↑ "Lunachicks | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  3. ↑ "VH1.com : Lunachicks : Biography". VH1. 2005-01-08. Archived from the original on 2005-01-08. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Jerk of All Trades - Lunachicks | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  6. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 370.
  7. 1 2 "Jerk of All Trades". Entertainment Weekly.
  8. ↑ "Lunachicks". Trouser Press. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  9. ↑ Schulman, -Sandra (18 June 1995). "Robertson Is on His Own". Sun Sentinel.
  10. ↑ "What's Going Down at Area Clubs in the Upcoming Week". Deseret News. September 8, 1995.
  11. ↑ "Bash this beat like a skull: 22 fight-ready songs". Music. 26 August 2020.
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