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AllMusic Review by Chris Nelson
The Haggard spit out old-school hardcore punk with
monster-movie vocals. Sound uninventive? Maybe, until you realize that
all of their songs come from an unabashedly dyke perspective.
Singer/guitarist Emily Kingan and drummer STS (who's also played with
the much gentler sounding Cadallaca and the Lookers) create such a
ruckus, you'd never know the band includes just two people. On their
debut disc, A Bike City Called Greasy, the songs blaze by almost as if
each one is a separate movement in one long piece. But the lyrics are
what sets the Haggard apart from the testosterone-soaked hardcore scene.
If you can decipher the werewolf growls that pass for singing on "PE
Teacher," you'll find a clever tale of teenage lust: "I'll play a round
of dodge ball/join a sports team this fall/if you'll give me a call, PE
teacher!" "God Kills Kittens + Babies" may seem like it's infected with
by Misfits-styled gothicness, but really the song asks why evil happens
in this world, while "For Matthew Shepard" vows to conquer that evil.
Had the Indigo Girls grown up obsessed with Slayer and Minor Threat,
they may well have created this very disc.
Tracklist
| 1 | Pe Teacher | |
| 2 | Suburbs | |
| 3 | Bikers + Hikers | |
| 4 | TV + Pacification | |
| 5 | Too Few | |
| 6 | For Matthew Shepard | |
| 7 | God Kills Kittens + Babies | |
| 8 | MYOBMF | |
| 9 | Tampons | |
| 10 | I'm Sorry Bob | |
| 11 | Hysteria | |
| 12 | Little Brother | |
| 13 | Love Letter |
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