Ladies, Women and Girls

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Ladies, Women and Girls
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 24, 2000
Genre Indie, punk rock, riot grrrl
Label Lookout!
Bratmobile chronology
The Peel Session
(1993)
''Ladies, Women and Girls''
(2000)
Girls Get Busy
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork 6.8/10 [3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Spin 7/10 [5]

Ladies, Women and Girls is a studio album released by Bratmobile in 2000, after a six-year hiatus. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

After their years-long separation, Bratmobile returned to the punk rock scene with a new album that was welcomed in Rolling Stone for showing that "the Brat spirit was fully intact". [4] Other writers noted the positive influence of the band's maturation: rock journalist Maria Raha wrote that the album represents "evidence of the band's evolution from both a musical and an ideological standpoint". [6] In Trouser Press , Ira Robbins praised the new material for proving "Bratmobile's ability to transcend amateurishness without abandoning the unfettered emotional freedom that came with it." [7]

Track listing

  1. "Eating Toothpaste" – 2:26
  2. "Gimme Brains" – 2:16
  3. "It's Common (But We Don't Talk About It)" – 2:16
  4. "Not in Dog Years" – 1:53
  5. "You're Fired" – 2:51
  6. "Cheap Trick Record" – 1:40
  7. "In Love with All My Lovers" – 2:06
  8. "90's Nomad" – 2:10
  9. "Well You Wanna Know What?" – 3:26
  10. "Flavor of the Month Club" – 2:35
  11. "Affection Training" – 1:56
  12. "Do You Like Me Like That?" – 2:37
  13. "Come Hither" – 2:28
  14. "Girlfriends Don't Keep" – 1:15

Personnel

Bratmobile
Additional credits

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References

  1. 1 2 Ladies, Women and Girls at AllMusic
  2. Alexandra, Rae (July 28, 2001). "Albums". Kerrang! . No. 863. UK: EMAP. pp. 46–47.
  3. Dark, John. "Bratmobile: Ladies, Women and Girls: Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork . Archived from the original on December 15, 2001. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
  4. 1 2 Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4 ed.). New York: Simon and Schuster. p.  103. ISBN   0743201698.
  5. Wolk, Douglas (December 2000). "Reviews". Spin . 16 (12). SPIN Media, LLC: 224.
  6. Raha, Maria (2005). Cinderella's Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press. p. 213. ISBN   1580051162.
  7. Robbins, Ira. "Bratmobile". Trouser Press.