Kings & Queens (The Gits album)

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Kings & Queens
Kings & Queens The Gits.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 11, 1996
Recorded1988
Genre Punk rock
Label Broken Rekids
Producer Ben London, The Gits
The Gits chronology
Enter: The Conquering Chicken
(1994)
Kings & Queens
(1996)
Seafish Louisville
(2000)

Kings & Queens is an album of early recordings by The Gits, recorded in 1988 and released in 1996 on Broken Rekids. [1] [2] The album was originally self-released by the band in 1988 under the name Private Lubs [3] but did not receive an "official" release until 1996 when released under the Kings & Queens moniker. Several of the tracks that appear on this record were later re-recorded for The Gits debut album Frenching the Bully (1992).

Track listing

  1. "Eleven" – 4:01
  2. "Cut My Skin, It Makes Me Human" – 2:31
  3. "A" – 1:34
  4. "Running" – 2:44
  5. "Look Right Through Me" – 1:51
  6. "It All Dies Anyway" – 4:27
  7. "Monsters" – 3:01
  8. "It Doesn't Matter" – 3:28
  9. "Snivelling Little Rat Faced Git" – 1:05
  10. "Still You Don't Know What It's Like" – 3:46
  11. "Tempt Me" – 2:17
  12. "Gitsrumental" – 1:45
  13. "Kings and Queens" – 2:15
  14. "Ain't Got No Right" – 2:38
  15. "Loose" – 2:23
  16. "Graveyard Blues (Live)" – 3:20

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References

  1. Masuo, Sandy (December 1996). "Gits / Kings & Queens / Broken". CMJ New Music Monthly . p. 38. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  2. "Kings & Queens - The Gits". Allmusic. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  3. Dave Thompson (2011). Bad Reputation: The Unauthorized Biography of Joan Jett. Milwaukee, Wis.: Backbeat Books. p. 195. ISBN   9780879309909 . Retrieved 7 May 2012.