The descriptively titled debut full-length by riot grrrl pioneers
Bikini Kill
combines their first and purest (as opposed to best, although there's an argument to be made there as well) releases, 1991's
and their half of the 1992 split EP
Yeah Yeah Yeah
, done with the U.K.'s
Huggy Bear
.
's two most famous songs,
"Suck My Left One"
(a deeply disturbing incest fantasy in which
Kathleen Hanna
keeps shifting viewpoints so quickly, from rage to horror to a kind of mocking, in-your-face titillation, that the listener is left vertiginous by the end) and
"Thurston Hearts the Who"
(a sort of American post-punk version of
Gang of Four
's
"Anthrax"
), are both present and accounted for, along with 11 others that range from willful noise primitivism to genuinely rocking scene anthems like
"Rebel Girl."
This and the even noisier follow-up,
Pussy Whipped
, might be all the
one needs. [
First Two Records
was re-released on CD in 2015, adding four bonus tracks.] ~ Stewart Mason