L7. "BRICKS ARE HEAVY" LONDON UK 1992 LP. ORIG . NM
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L7 ?– Bricks Are Heavy
Label: Slash ?– 828 307-1, London Records ?– 828 307-1 Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumCountry: Europe Released: 1992 Genre: Rock Style: Grunge, Punk
TracklistHide Credits
A1 Wargasm Voice [Sample (From "Live Peace In Toronto")] – Yoko OnoWritten-By – Sparks* 2:40 A2 Scrap Written-By – Gurewitz*, Sparks* 2:53 A3 Pretend We're Dead Written-By – Sparks* 3:53 A4 Diet Pill Written-By – Sparks* 4:21 A5 Everglade Written-By – Ray*, Finch* 3:18 A6 Slide Written-By – Sparks*, Gardner* 3:37 B1 One More Thing Written-By – Finch* 4:07 B2 Mr. Intergrity Bongos – Pauli RyanHandclaps – Pete Love*Written-By – Sparks* 4:06 B3 Monster Written-By – Gardner* 2:56 B4 Shitlist Written-By – Sparks* 2:55 B5 This Ain't Pleasure Written-By – Caivano*, Gardner* 2:42Companies etc
- Recorded At – Smart Studios
- Recorded At – Sound City Studios
- Engineered At – Sound City Studios
- Mastered At – Masterdisk
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – Slash Records
- Copyright (c) – Slash Records
- Marketed By – Barclay
- Marketed By – Metronome Musik GmbH
- Licensed To – London Records 90 Ltd.
- Pressed By – PRS Baarn
Credits
- Art Direction – Jeff Price (2), Liz Hale
- Artwork [Tattoeed Legs Tattoo Artist] – Igor Mortis (2)
- Bass, Vocals – Jennifer Finch
- Design [L7 Skeleton Hand Logo] – Randall Martin
- Drums, Backing Vocals – Demetra Plakas
- Engineer [Additional, Smart Studios] – Mr. Colson, Steve Marker
- Engineer [Additional, Sound City] – Jeff "Yeastie" Sheehan*
- Guitar, Vocals – Donita Sparks, Suzi Gardner
- Mastered By – Howie Weinberg
- Mixed By, Engineer – Butch Vig
- Other [Tattoeed Legs Model] – Stacie Quijas
- Photography By [Backstage] – Danny Flaim
- Photography By [Black And White] – Damion Romero
- Photography By [Cover, Dee Live, Cover Photograph] – Vicki Berndt
- Photography By [Still Life] – Bela Kereszles-Fischer
- Photography By [Suzi, Donita And Jennifer Live] – Arlan Helm
- Photography By [Tattoeed Legs] – Sixth Street Studio
- Producer – Butch Vig, L7
- Technician [Drum Technican] – Drum Doctors
- Technician [Guitar Technican] – Mark Haines (2)
Notes
Recorded at Smart Studios, Madison, WI. And Sound City, Van Nuys, CA. Editional Engineering at Sound City. Mastered at Masterdisk, NYC.
Slash/London
? & © 1992 Slash Records
review
[-]by Eduardo RivadaviaThough they hailed from sunny L.A., L7 became the poster girls for grunge in 1992, with the meteoric success of their third album, Bricks Are Heavy. While their previous efforts had sounded sloppy and uneven, Nevermind producer Butch Vig helped the girls obtain a tight, compact sound on Bricks, pushing them to focus on their songwriting to boot. After all, great albums need great songs, and that's exactly what you have here. Mosh-pit anthem "Everglade" (sung by bassist Jennifer Finch) will simply knock you on your ass, and big single "Pretend We're Dead" is so good that its tough swagger harks back to seminal bad girl anthems like Joan Jett's "I Love Rock'n'Roll," Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," and even the Go-Go's -- well, maybe not the Go-Go's. The sardonic "Diet Pill" tackles female compulsions with clever irony, and even when they let their mega-riffing take over on such full-throttle stomps as "Wargasm," "Mr. Integrity," and "Shitlist," L7 still manage to imbue their lyrics with humor and substance. Inevitably, a few songs (especially "Slide") tend to push the Nirvana envelope just a tad, but Vig's involvement aside, these four ladies had been doing this kind of thing for as long as the Seattle trio. L7's crowning achievement, Bricks Are Heavy sadly proved to be an impossible act to follow, and the band gradually faded into obscurity thereafter.
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