The Singles

Bikini Kill

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 23, 1998)
• Original Release Date: June 23, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Kill Rock Stars
• ASIN: B0000064AF
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #143,758 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

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The Singles boils down the band's brief career into a package as compact and abrasive as a scouring pad. [The album] is more like a hissing, pissed-off tiger than a static document. It invites nostalgia, only to rip it up with kitty-cat claws.

Product Description

Features all 9 songs from the three 7 inch singles the riot grrrl trio cut for Kill Rock Stars, including the Joan Jett produced 'New Radio' and 'Dissertation' & 'I Like Fucking'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A brief look at SPIN's editorial review of THE SINGLES, December 1, 2002

By A Customer

I'm really only writing this review for the sake of pointing out how ...SPIN magazine is - often criticized by the band for it's superficial reporting of the punk underground, we find that the dumb ...can't even review a CD properly...right on the main Amazon.com listing for this album, SPIN describes the CD:

"The Singles boils down the band's brief career into a package as compact and abrasive as a scouring pad."

No, THE SINGLES is not a career retrospective. Bikini Kill was not a major-label band that put out albums and then promoted them with radio-ready single releases plucked from it's core. Their 7" 'singles' were completely original, previously unreleased work crammed onto 45 rpm vinyl. For a long time, these nine songs were only available to those with turntables, but after the band broke up Kill Rock Stars put that material out as _The Singles_ on CD and cassette. But it's obvious SPIN did little more than look at the albums cover before writing up that short, misinformed and completely useless review (the songs here are never described, the writer merely throws out adjectives commonly used to describe the band's sound and other cute wordplay).

Anyway, this is a really good collection of some of the bands best work, but only the song REBEL GIRL is also available on their albums, which are well worth owning.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweetly corrosive, June 18, 2002

By	David Fiore (montreal, quebec) - See all my reviews

This is probably the B-K CD I listen to most (if "Feels Blind" and especially "Outta Me" were on it, i might hardly ever listen to anything else--by anyone...). From the beginning (the Joan Jett produced troika "New Radio", "Rebel Girl"--the best verson--, and "Demi Rep", my personal favourite, to the end, it's an astonishing experience, you really get the feeling that this band is composed of ferociously tender people, with alot on their minds, and enough of a sense of humour to avoid becoming annoying about it. No one who was alive in the nineties should go another minute into the twenty-first century without hearing this...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review from a country music fan..., March 30, 2000

By	"nyjen" (New York United States) - See all my reviews

I heard about this through a movie and bought the first one of their CDs I found. The first time I listened to it I thought "what a waste of $" and put it away. About 2 wks ago I put it back in the CD player and it's been there ever since. I LOVE it. Incredibly un-intimidated, un-inhibited... I have recomended it to at least 7 people so far