Fist City (Tribe 8 album)

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Fist City
Studio album by
Tribe 8
Released1995
StudioHouse of Faith
GenrePunk rock, queercore[1]
LabelAlternative Tentacles[2]
ProducerBart Thurber
Tribe 8 chronology
By the Time We Get to Colorado
(1993) 		Fist City
(1995) 		Roadkill Cafe
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Robert Christgau(1-star Honorable Mention)[3]

Fist City is the first album by the American queer punk band Tribe 8, released in 1995.[4][5][6]

Production[]

Fist City contains a cover of Aretha Franklin's "Think".[7] Shaunna Hall, of 4 Non Blondes, contributed guitar parts to the album.[8]

Critical reception[]

Trouser Press called the album "impressive," writing that "behind growly singer Lynn Breedlove, the group’s rock barrels along with as much intelligent raunch as the lyrics, a guitar-drenched punk charge that means business but stays well within safe musical boundaries."[4] The Washington Post thought that "musically, these songs are not distinctive, but they are suitably vehement ... 'Neanderthal Dyke' admits, 'I never read Dworkin/I ride a big bike/Feminist theory gets me uptight'."[9] The Chicago Tribune wrote: "With its buzz-saw twin-guitar assault and hammering rhythms, Tribe 8 works a ferocious hardcore edge."[10]

The Advocate deemed the album a "sludgy blend of metal and thrash punk," but wrote that "the simple fact that its members are Asian, black, and white lesbians playing angry rock'n'roll makes the band revolutionary."[11] The Boston Globe called the band "riotously non-PC."[12] Miami New Times lamented that the album was "as predictable and witless as anything by W.A.S.P. and Motley Crue."[13]

Track listing[]

No.TitleLength
1."Manipulate" 
2."Seraphim" 
3."Butch in the Streets" 
4."Romeo and Julio" 
5."What?" 
6."Kick" 
7."Neanderthal Dyke" 
8."Freedom" 
9."Allen's Mom" 
10."Femme Bitch Top" 
11."Think" 
12."Flippersnapper" 
13."Barnyard Poontang" 
14."All I Can Do" 
15."Frat Pig" 

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ ARNOLD, GINA (March 26, 1995). "Word Is Out on Gay Punk Scene / The defiant queercore subculture". SFGATE.
  2. ^ "Tribe 8 | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  3. ^ "Robert Christgau: CG: Tribe 8". www.robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ a b "Tribe 8". Trouser Press. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  5. ^ Cogan, Brian (2006). Encyclopedia of Punk and Culture. Greenwood Press. pp. 231–232.
  6. ^ Acker, Kathy (November 1995). "After the End of the Art World". Art & Design. 10 (45): 7–9.
  7. ^ Staple, Arthur (10 May 1996). "TRIBE 8 AND TRIBULATIONS". The Record. Lifestyle. p. 32.
  8. ^ Snyder, Michael (March 19, 1995). "FEELING BEARISH". San Francisco Chronicle. Sunday. p. 39.
  9. ^ "TRIBE'S METAL". The Washington Post. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  10. ^ "PUNK MEETS POLITICS". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  11. ^ Walters, Barry (Mar 7, 1995). "Violent Femmes". The Advocate: 60.
  12. ^ Sullivan, Jim (13 July 1995). "Tribe 8 rites". The Boston Globe. Calendar. p. 23.
  13. ^ Yockel, Michael (July 6, 1995). "Tribe 8 Fist City (Alternative Tentacles)". Miami New Times. Music.
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