Gits Frenching The Bully CD

THE GITS- Frenching the Bully is the first full length studio album put out by The Gits. It was first released in 1992 and followed by months of touring. It was received famously in music press on both sides of the Atlantic and had the music industry buzzing about this "new" Seattle upstart punk band. This album is raw, intense, angry, tender and passionate.It has been out of print since 1994 and after a ten year fight with the record label that put it out, The Gits have reclaimed rights to the album and their murdered singer, Mia Zapata's musical legacy. The album has been remixed and re-mastered by producer Jack Endino (Nirvana, Therapy?, Mudhoney, Supersuckers, Blue Cheer etc.) and 10 bonus live tracks have been added. This was the album that started it all. Viva Zapata!

Remixed from the original master tapes by Jack Endino and The Gits.
The Gits: Mia Zapata (vocals); Joe Spleen (guitar); Matt Dresdner (bass);
Steve Moriarty (drums).
The most immediately obvious aspect of the Gits' debut album, Frenching the Bully, is Mia Zapata's righteous, feminist-tinged punk rage. Her songs wind their way through tales of deception, insecurity, failed relationships, and hard drinking, while her hoarse, husky voice supports the combination of toughness and vulnerability projected in her lyrics. Even if Zapata's meanings are occasionally a bit obscure, and even if a few songs seem to lack adequate melodicism, Frenching the Bully is an invigorating piece of punk rock. ~ Steve Huey
FRENCHING THE BULLY, the Gits' debut album--and the only one released before the murder of singer Mia Zapata--encapsulates the band's sound and fury in a way that few debuts do. The skeleton of their sound, Steve Moriarty's high-speed drumming, is fleshed out with Matt Dresdner's astonishingly flexible bass and Joe Spleen's scorched-earth guitar heroics. The real star, though, is Zapata's voice. Occasionally ragged and often spine-chilling, but always powerful--comparisons to Janis Joplin are not entirely unwarranted--she belts out lyrics that often deal with the struggle to survive in the face of internal or external hostility.
Standouts include "Another Shot of Whiskey," an extremely catchy slab of vitriol with some very subtle hooks, the swaggering "Slaughter of Bruce," a take on country punk (emphasis on the punk) with a drum break more passionate than skillful, and the pair of "While You're Twisting I'm Still Breathing" and "Cut My Skin it Makes Me Human," both of which display a force of will rarely seen in rock music. The album's masterpiece, though, is the snarling "Second Skin," a brittle slice of self-analysis strapped to the body of a runaway freight train. FRENCHING THE BULLY is an American punk rock classic.

Alternative Press (4/93, p.61) - "...a fair portion of the cuts [on FRENCHING THE BULLY] display that true punk-rock work ethic....FRENCHING THE BULLY burns..."