Our Troubled Youth Explained

Our Troubled Youth
Type:Studio
Artist:Huggy Bear
Cover:HuggyBear_Troubled2.jpg
Released:1993
Genre:Riot grrrl
Label:Kill Rock Stars[1]
Catcall
Next Title:Weaponry Listens to Love
Next Year:1994

Our Troubled Youth is the Huggy Bear side of a split album they released with Bikini Kill (whose side was entitled Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah). It was released on International Women's Day 1993 on Catcall Records in the United Kingdom, and on the Kill Rock Stars label in the United States.[2] [3] [4]

Influence

Gordon Moakes of Bloc Party has cited the album's song "Blow Dry" as being influential to him when he heard it in the early 1990s. In 2008, he wrote that the song "...was so simple, so ugly, so daring. What those two minutes of feedback and scruffy drums warned of was a new language of rock'n'roll that was dangerous, alluring and turned everything that had come before on its head."[5] In 2015, Lisa Wright of NME wrote of the album:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Huggy Bear. Kill Rock Stars.
  2. Bikini Kill Biography . https://web.archive.org/web/20110507032300/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/bikini-kill/biography . dead . May 7, 2011 . Rolling Stone.
  3. Book: O'Brien, Lucy . She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul . 2003-10-16 . A&C Black . 9780826435293 . 168 . en.
  4. Web site: Riot grrrl: 10 of the best . Hutchinson . Kate . 2015-01-28 . The Guardian . en-GB . 2017-09-09.
  5. Web site: Huggy Bear: a tribute . Moakes . Gordon . 2008-10-20 . The Guardian . en-GB . 2017-09-09.

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