Number One Chicken

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Number One Chicken
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Studio album by
Released1995
Genre Punk rock
Label Epitaph Records [1]
Producer Brett Gurewitz
Red Aunts chronology
Bad Motherfucken 40 O-Z
(1994)
Number One Chicken
(1995)
Saltbox
(1996)
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#1 Chicken is the third full-length album by the Red Aunts. [4] It was released in 1995 on Epitaph. [5]

Contents

Production

#1 Chicken was produced by Brett Gurewitz. [6] The band claims that Snoop Doggy Dogg cowrote the album's seventh track, "Rollerderby Queen." [7] The album contains 14 songs on a 23-minute album. [8]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that the album "leaves no doubt that these Aunts can bite with a vengeance, but they’d be even more potent with a little less squawking." [6] SF Weekly wrote: "In an era when punk is traded like a commodity and female artists like P J Harvey vamp for MTV's Vaseline-smeared cameras, Red Aunts march in, raid your fridge, vaporize your damage deposit, and leave you for dead in a heap on the floor, eardrums hissing and a smile on your face." [8] The Spokesman-Review called the album Epitaph's "most snotty, brash, blistering and raw effort in some time." [9]

Track listing

  1. "Freakathon"
  2. "Tin Foil Fish Bowl"
  3. "Hate"
  4. "Detroit Valentine"
  5. "Krush"
  6. "Satan"
  7. "Rollerderby Queen"
  8. "Willabell"
  9. "When Sugar Turns to Shit"
  10. "Poker Party"
  11. "Peppermint Patty"
  12. "Mota"
  13. "Number One Chicken"
  14. "Netty"

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References

  1. "Red Aunts - Number One Chicken" via epitaph.com.
  2. "#1 Chicken - Red Aunts | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" via www.allmusic.com.
  3. "Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 1136". www.robertchristgau.com.
  4. "Red Aunts | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. Minsker, Evan. "Red Aunts' Debi Martini Has Died". Pitchfork.
  6. 1 2 "Red Aunts". Trouser Press. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  7. Holthouse, David (October 17, 1996). "Fire Bugs". Phoenix New Times.
  8. 1 2 "Recordings". SF Weekly. July 5, 1995.
  9. "Red Aunts To Make Raucous Return Trip To The Big Dipper | The Spokesman-Review". www.spokesman.com.