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| | Bricks Are Heavy | | | Music Artist : | | L7 | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Reprise / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1992-04-14 | | Store Price : | | $13.96 | | Artistopia's Price: $12.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Wargasm
2. Scrap
3. Pretend We're Dead
4. Diet Pill
5. Everglade
6. Slide
7. One More Thing
8. Mr. Integrity
9. Monster
10. Shitlist
11. This Ain't Pleasure
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Donita Sparks roches dehors!
Submitted on: 2009-06-17 |
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| I purchased this album for the song "Pretend We're Dead" and got some other stuff along with it. "Bricks Are Heavy" doesn't waste any time, It smashes into you with the wild and sizzling track "Wargasm". "Scrap" "Dietpill" "Monster" & "One More Thing" are all HOT!, "Slide" is just okay. "One More Thing" would not be out of place on a "Hole" record, it has Courtney Love written all over it. So That's six out of eleven tracks that ROQ!. The rest of the stuff is mediocre. Overall, it's an okay batch of songs, I just don't understand what's the point of releasing only 11 tracks?. Anywho, Mz. Sparks has the vocals of a villain and she sounds so wicked on "Diet Pill", I love her voice. "Monster" sounds like it couldv'e been the movie theme for the Aileen Wournos Story (And it shouldv'e been), She grunts and roars like a dude in this song. She's such a wicked witch, I love her. L7 has always been a group that's had three/maybe four bangers off each album they've ever released. They've yet to give me anything as a whole but the songs that are HOT are usually on FIRE. It's hard to believe "Pretend We're Dead" & this album are really Seventeen' years old and doesn't sound outdated at all, Time really flys. |
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 Freakin' killer!
Submitted on: 2009-06-03 |
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I only got into L7 probably a year ago, but it doesn't take a lifetime to know a good CD when you find one.
Case in point, it my 700+ CD collection, "Bricks Are Heavy" is easily in my top 10. From start to finish it is the heaviest rock 'n' roll you can hear.
Not only that, its easily the catchiest punk metal album I own. Every single song has a great hook, most have more than one. Heck, "Wargasm" is a song of nothing but hooks! Every part of that song, the vocal melody, the intro riff, the little "huh huh" part before they start singing, the "Wargasssssummmmmmmmm" part... its all meant to dig into your brain and stay there. Listen to the bass line on "Monster," it digs in immediately, even with the corny 'evil' vocals you can't get that song outta your head, can you? I didn't think so!
Really, a fantastic, fantastic album. From new wave power pop ("Pretend That We're Dead") to straight up Nirvana-era grunge ("Slide") to surf metal ("Mr. Integrity"... no seriously!) every song on here is just a great, killer rock song.
If you like punk, metal, heavy music, whatever, "Bricks Are Heavy" deserves a listen. Its a total grind, its killer, its heavy, its punk, its hooky, its brutal, its gonna be one of your favorite albums. Trust me.
Unfortunately, L7 would never top this. I have everything they did before and after, and while every album has its share of great songs, this is the only one where they hit it outta the park, start to finish. Don't get me wrong, their other albums aren't bad, they're just not "Bricks Are Heavy." This is their best album... Their finest moment. Buy it now.
It stands proudly atop the rock 'n' roll mountain alongside "Raw Power" by The Stooges, "Leave Home" by the Ramones, "Blues For The Red Sun" by Kyuss, "Masters Of Reality" by Black Sabbath, and "Meantime" by Helmet. It is a triumph.
P.S. And on one more note to all those "heavy" bands who think that you have to de-tune to be heavy and stuff, L7 played this thing in standard tuning. And they were girls. So yeah... learn a lesson from that, you screamo drop-d crapheads. |
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Save your money and down load from I TUNES
Submitted on: 2009-02-03 |
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| There is only a couple songs I like, could have down loaded from I TUNES. I can't relate to sniffing paint or some other strange songs. |
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L7 Bricks Are Heavy
Submitted on: 2009-01-25 |
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| Lots of loud guitars and screaming vocals. Punk,metal aesthetic of raw emotion. Balls to the wall rocking women. |
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Everything I remember it to be
Submitted on: 2008-10-08 |
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| I am rebuying all the older groups I liked in the past because my CD's were stolen long ago. This was a great piece of nostalgia to reaquire. |
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