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| Released | 1992 | |||
| Recorded | 1991–1992 | |||
| Studios | SST Studios & Rentals (Weehawken, New Jersey) | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 35:09 | |||
| Label | Safe House | |||
| Producer | Mason Temple | |||
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Binge & Purge is the second studio album by the American punk rock band Lunachicks, released in 1992 through Safe House Records.[1][2] The album was mixed at Quad Recording Studios in New York City and mastered at MDI Productions in Toronto. It was the final album to feature drummer Becky Wreck before her departure from the band later that same year. It was also the band's only album released through Safe House before signing to Go-Kart Records the following year.
Critical reception
[edit]| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [3] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
AllMusic called the album "more Poison than punk rock," writing that "the Lunachicks' follow-up to the promising Babysitters on Acid is disjointed and disappointing."[3] Trouser Press wrote that "Binge and Purge, which contains sharply ironic songs about women’s self-image concerns, is the Lunachicks’ great leap forward."[5] Simon Reynolds and Joy Press highlighted the "gleeful revelling in (rather than the repulsion from) the messy murk of female bodiliness."[6] The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that the album is not without "its simplistic Ramonesy charms," but that "when the 'Chicks upchuck their sense of humor, their monolithic music gets boring fast."[7]
Track listing
[edit]All lyrics are written by Theo Kogan except as noted; all music is composed by Lunachicks.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Apathetic" | Kogan, Becky Wreck | 2:35 |
| 2. | "Plugg" | 3:37 | |
| 3. | "P.S. Hell" | 2:22 | |
| 4. | "Binge & Purge" | 2:36 | |
| 5. | "Mom" | 3:00 | |
| 6. | "Super Strong" | Wreck | 2:26 |
| 7. | "This Is Serious" | 1:31 | |
| 8. | "Whole Lotta B.S." | 2:21 | |
| 9. | "2 Bad 4 U" | 3:45 | |
| 10. | "11" | 3:14 | |
| 11. | "Rip U" | Gina Volpe, Kogan | 6:25 |
| 12. | "C.I.L.L." | 2:02 |
References
[edit]- ↑ Blush, Steven (October 4, 2016). New York Rock: From the Rise of the Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB. St. Martin's Publishing Group. ISBN 9781250083623.
- ↑ "Lunachicks Biography & History". AllMusic.
- 1 2 "Binge & Purge Lunachicks". AllMusic.
- ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 370.
- ↑ "Lunachicks". Trouser Press. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
- ↑ Reynolds, Simon; Press, Joy (November 10, 1996). The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674802735.
- ↑ "Pop/Rock". The Philadelphia Inquirer. February 5, 1993. p. 28.
