Stink

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Remastered reissue of their 8-track EP from 1982. Restless Records. 2002. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Tracks:

Andres
Baggage
Can I Run
The Bomb
Questioning My Sanity
Riding With A Movie Star
Stuck Here Again
Fuel My Fire
Freak Magnet
She Has Eye's
Shirley
Talk Box

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The L.A. quartet was already way up in the grrl pantheon when this disc put them over the top. "Hungry for Stink" delivers a primitive, sludgy, and pissed-off sound, but listen closer for the sonic invention on tracks like "Shirley, She Has Eyes" and "Riding With the Movie Star." --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews:

A most listen!.......2006-06-03

If you like Bricks are heavy, your love this cd! The same metal beat but with cooler lyrics. Fast and in your face! My favorite song would be Shirley, its about a drag race that has its frist woman driver. Really awesome. A cd for the metalheads.

A Great Record.......2006-05-12

This is the best L7 album, i analyzed all six of their albums and concluded this one has the best production. The guitar, bass and drums on this album are all outstandingly coordinated. My fav songs are "Andres", "Riding with a Movie Star", "Stuck Here Again", Fuel My Fire", and "She has Eyes". "She Has Eyes" has a very mellow sound to it. This album has alot of different moods. It is an outstanding piece of work. It's a must.

One of the best metal grunge bands ever!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-08-31

I don't really like this band anymore because I have made a radical life change over the years and I just don't listen to this type of music anymore. But I still had to get on here and give this band some respect. These girls freaken rock, and even though there lyrics aren't quite the best, I've heard a lot worse on the mainstream radio. The don't sugarcoat anything at all. They tell it how they see it through their eyes. The basic fact is, these girls know how to jam. There is no other band that does it quite like them. They'll go down in my musical history books.

Andres...I'm Sorry.......2005-08-26

I have listened to female rock very much lately. I think it is great that there's a band like this one. They are like metal but somehow punk...let's call it "punk metal" (if it is a good name). Their attitude is like in the most punk albums. The songs are much more metal...at least in this album. I heard at first their greatest masterpiece "Bricks Are Heavy" and then this one. There's a great start for this album: "Andres" is very scary song...the way they sing "Andres, I'm Sorry" is very cold. "Baggage" is a very heavy song and the next one "Can I Run" is also a frightening song...at least if you haven't heard punk or metal before. This album gives many great moments including "Fuel My Fire", "Talk Box", "She Has Eyes", "Questioning My Sanity", "Freak Magnet". This is even heavier than "Brick Are Heavy". I consider L7 as a female Slayer because the songs are really evil. L7 is a great band among Girlschool and The Runaways that also girls and women can rock. The reason why this isn't perfect are the songs "Riding with a Movie Star" and "Stuck Here Again"...I just don't like those songs.
Stars: Andres, Can I Run, Fuel My Fire, She Has Eyes

How can these women have more testosterone than me?.......2005-08-11

Do you like your music straight forward with lots of power chords and in your face lyrics? Well, you may or may not like this album. These women definitely have more testosterone in their music than most bands of the genre. What makes them better is that they still play like girls. You'll here a lot more subtext to the lyrics and conterpoints to their melodies than you might expect on first listen. The first track "Andres" is a fantastic opener to the rest of the album. Other big highlights (I can't complain about any song) are "Stuck here again" (if this song doesnt capture frustration for ya then you should be listening to candy J-pop, "she has eyes" (art punk ala the surfers, "shirly" (about another female star in a mans field) and "beat box" (i dreamt of dying like this and it was like this). Buy and listen to this CD. I've had this CD for 11 years now and still enjoy it.

Average customer rating:

A good smell
The Worst Replacements Album
Poor Packaging....
Kinda like hardcore, if hardcore was really good.
Pre Pop days

Stink
Replacements
Manufacturer: Restless Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006FSQ7
Release Date: 2002-09-03

Tracks:

Kids Don't Follow
Fuck School
Stuck In The Middle
God Damn Job
White And Lazy
Dope Smokin Moron
Go
Gimme Noise

Album Description

Remastered reissue of their 8-track EP from 1982. Restless Records. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

A good smell.......2007-01-03

THe remastered version really captures the gritty sound of their early recordings.

The Worst Replacements Album.......2006-09-27

Granted, the worst Replacements album is still going to be better than the best album of any other group, but this is still a disappointment. Like "Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash", this is the Replacements in the early days when they were trying to be a hardcore punk band. Unlike "Sorry Ma," the songs in this one are showing signs of boredom in the band. In hindsight, one sees this as an album where a punk band is desperately trying to break out of it's punk rut (one that many punk bands NEVER broke out of and their "music" is tedious even to this day. If your doing the same rythm and three notes it only sounds cool for 50 seconds and then it's boring)

There are some good songs on this one. F--- School has it's charm. But for the most part, this is like "Sorry Ma, Forgot to Write Anything of Note." Buy this album only if you are a completist, else skip right to Hootenanny - which has the hardcore material but also two of the songs that made the Replacements The Replacements.

Poor Packaging...........2005-02-11

It's no wonder that many are tossing their CD's in the trash in favor of MP3's. With packaging as poor as this why would you even want the CD? The music itself irregardless of what Westerberg thinks about it now is close to essential, not quite as important as "Let It Be" or "Pleased To Meet Me" but none the less a vital trasnsition EP that paved the way for the the later records. But the reissue packaging is abysmal. No liner notes no info other than the original back of the EP jacket basically no nothing and the booklet that is with it is a single piece of glossy paper! not really a booklet. My suggestion is this, this EP as good as I think it is is not really nessesary given the poor packaging so I would pass on it and skip right to "Let It Be" and "Pleased To Meet me" or even skip back to "Sorry ma Forgot To Take Out The Trash" however be forwarned that the same company has reissued them all so I suspect the packaging is equally inferior on the rest...

Kinda like hardcore, if hardcore was really good........2004-05-19

The genre police may not find this genuine 'hardcore'. But I remember my reaction when I first started to hear 'hardcore' in the early 80s -- the Replacements had already been there and done that, but way better, on the 'Stink' EP.
One slow song, and a fistfull of loud fast funny anthems - how can you not own an album that contains a song called F--- School? My fave is "Gimme Noise" an attack on another Mpls band that jumped on the post-punk bandwagon. (The Suburbs)

I give you my jacket
You give me your glamor
Gimme that racket
Gimme that hammer

And then Bob Stinson rips into an undefinable self-destructing guitar break. You could say Stink is as much Bob's record as Paul's. Of all the Mats discs this one probably shows off Bob's gonzo playing the best. Which is a nice reminder that even though the songs are funny, this record isn't a joke.

Pre Pop days.......2003-11-22

This album comes at you full force and doesnt relent. The early days of the greatest band. They're like an uncut diamond on this album. Not polished up for the masses but you see a little of whats beneath the grime on the surface.