Our Troubled Youth
| Our Troubled Youth | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1993 | |||
| Genre | Riot grrrl | |||
| Label | Kill Rock Stars[1] Catcall | |||
| Huggy Bear chronology | ||||
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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]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| Robert Christgau |  [6] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [7] |
Influence[edit]
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."[8] In 2015, Lisa Wright of NME wrote of the album:
"The whole thing just feels totally instinctive and effortless. From the title onwards, a more perfect teenage punk album you will not find. It’s disenfranchised and impassioned in the most fun way possible."[9]
Track listing[edit]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Jupiter Re-Entry" | |
| 2. | "T-Shirt Tucked In" | |
| 3. | "Blow Dry" | |
| 4. | "Nu Song" | |
| 5. | "Into the Mission" | |
| 6. | "Hopscortch" | |
| 7. | "Aqua Girl Star" | |
| 8. | "February 14th" |
References[edit]
- ^ "Huggy Bear". Kill Rock Stars.
- ^ "Bikini Kill Biography". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 7 May 2011.
- ^ O'Brien, Lucy (16 October 2003). She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul. A&C Black. p. 168. ISBN 9780826435293.
- ^ Hutchinson, Kate (28 January 2015). "Riot grrrl: 10 of the best". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (15 October 2000). Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan. p. 27. ISBN 9780312245603.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 404.
- ^ Moakes, Gordon (20 October 2008). "Huggy Bear: a tribute". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
- ^ Wright, Lisa (6 March 2015). "100 Lost Albums You Need To Know". NME.
