Enter: The Conquering Chicken

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Total Tracks: 22   Total Length: 60:47

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Best band you never heard of!

DKCOMET

I saw them many times. They were one of my favorite bands of the Seattle Grunge era. They were different. They were better. They were amazing. I still get transported right back to those days in Seattle whenever I listen to any of the songs on this release. I still well up when I think about Mia & the pain the band went through. Listen to this. Download it. Get the rest of their stuff. You'll have a hard time finding anything made with as much soul & shredding guitar work. It's punk, not grunge, but it's so much more.

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Best of 1994

QG

The Gits, led by Mia Zapata, who was later found murdered and whose name sparked a womens' self-defense revolution, were one of the best American punk bands of the 1990s. The tunes here -- made by competent musicians and sung/screamed in a voice knowledgeable about both human pain and ecstasy by Ms. Zapata -- is on par with The Gossip, Le Tigre, Sleater-Kinney and others, but there was also a level of sophistication that put them above and beyond almost any other act of the time. Considering how good their albums were, I am almost certain this band would've made it into superstardom, if only they'd had a few more years.

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Before the Gits’ second album, Enter: The Conquering Chicken, could be completed, lead singer Mia Zapata was brutally raped and murdered, lending an atmosphere of solemnity to the proceedings that might not otherwise be so prevalent. The tone of this record is actually lighter than the previous one, although that’s due in large part to some of the filler material necessitated by Zapata’s absence; most of it is lighthearted, especially given the circumstances, and there are two versions of “Social Love” back to back, one a solo acoustic performance by Zapata. The first half of the record holds much of its substance, including a surprisingly effective cover of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” and Zapata’s fully fleshed-out originals can be positively harrowing. Enter: The Conquering Chicken can’t quite be up to the level of Frenching the Bully, since there’s no way the album could truly be completed, but parts of it stand as a powerful epitaph, and the informal tone of the filler actually helps paint a more complete picture of Zapata as a human being. – Steve Huey

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