• Artist: Bikini Kill
• Flags: Compilation (best of)
• Type: Compilation
• Rating:
• Styles: Riot Grrrl, Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
• Track Picks: "Feels Blind," "Liar," "Suck My Left One"
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Review

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 Bikini Kill and their half of the 1992 split EP Yeah Yeah Yeah, done with the U.K.'s Huggy Bear. Bikini Kill'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 the 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 Bikini Kill one needs. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	iTunes	Composers	Performers	Time
Double Dare Ya			Bikini Kill	(2:40)
Liar		Kathleen Hanna	Bikini Kill	(2:35)
Carnival		Kathleen Hanna	Bikini Kill	(1:30)
Suck My Left One			Bikini Kill	(2:24)
Feels Blind			Bikini Kill	(3:21)
Thurston Hearts the Who	...		Bikini Kill	(3:45)
White Boy		Kathleen Hanna	Bikini Kill	(2:26)
This Is Not a Test			Bikini Kill	(1:59)
Don't Need You			Bikini Kill	(1:27)
Jigsaw Youth			Bikini Kill	(1:55)
Resist Psychic Death			Bikini Kill	(1:40)
Rebel Girl		Kathleen Hanna	Bikini Kill	(2:47)
Outta Me			Bikini Kill	(2:22)

Credits

Bikini Kill (Main Performer), Pat Graham (Photography), Tim Green (Engineer), Patrick Maley (Engineer), Don Zientara (Engineer), Ian MacKaye (Engineer), Tobi Vail (Drums), Kathi Wilcox (Bass), Bill Karren (Guitar)