Taking the Rough With the Smooch [Vinyl]

Huggy Bear | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl (September 28, 1993)
• Label: Kill Rock Stars
• ASIN: B00000372D
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,148,150 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Huggy Bear - Screamy if you will, June 30, 1999

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Cat Tabouli ([e-mail]) (Toasters R US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Taking the Rough With the Smooch (Audio CD)

This album runs the gamet of styles, shouty punk, swing, pure pop, spoken word, sometimes all in one song. Huggy Bear know the right combination of grrl/boi vocals to tap into your cerebral cortex. Hilight of the album - herjazz. "boi/grrl revolutionaries - you lied to me"

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I'm still baffled., May 4, 2001

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Sir Deuteronomy McClurkin, esq. (America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Taking the Rough With the Smooch (Audio CD)

I bought this c.d. at a used record store not knowing what to expect (it was in a 6 c.d. for $5 bin). However, being intrigued simply by the cover, I had to check it out. Yes, the c.d. is only 22 minutes long (with 12 tracks, each track is, on average, 1.8 minutes long). However, each track seems *longer* than it actually is. I listened to this odd hodgepodge of punk, screaming, fighting, poetry, etc. by a group called huggy bear and felt as if I had just listened to a longer album. It has an entrancing effect. I had feared I would get no information on this unique band, but here I am. This record will blow you away. It will definitely be an oddity for the collection of everyone w/ an open mind.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars revolutionary listening, October 22, 2005

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J. Holmes "blood+whiskey" (yokohama, japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taking the Rough With the Smooch (Audio CD)

Huggy bear were an explosive UK band whose music embraced the sounds of noisy punk rock with the voice of a revolutionary manifesto. the songs on Taking The Rough With The Smooch are in the vein of a more spazzed-out X-Ray Spex and even some old Sonic Youth sound (as evident on "Sizzlemeet" which sounds like it could have been one of the more racious tracks off of Daydream Nation). the vocals are intense and screamy and each song takes it's turn scrutinizing society's ills with an emphasis on personal (and mostly gender-specific) politics. while most of the songs are spikey, punked-out mini anthems, a few cuts are surprisingly thoughtful in their sound; such as the dreamy "Concrete Life" which romanticizes some fantasy involving violence toward a cop and then goes on to lament that "i'd rather cut off my arms off than see you going out with him." it comes across as being both tender, sleazy, and a little creepy. but with it's creaky guitar and random radio waves lulling along in the background, it's one of the standout tracks on the album. this is a really cool little record and an interesting artifact from the days of the Riot Grrl.