Track Listing

1. Radical or Pro-Parental
2. V.G.I.
3. Place Called Won't Be There
4. Tania
5. Aerobicide
6. Apt. #5
7. My Morning Is Summer
8. I Wanna Know What Love Is
9. Punk Singer
10. On Language
11. Crochet
12. Interlude
13. Stay Monkey
14. Breakout A-Town
15. Love Letter

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110323 in Music
• Released on: 2005-08-01
• Number of discs: 1

From Amazon.com
Julie Ruin, the alias of Bikini Kill vocalist Kathleen Hanna, is a solo artist who makes up tunes on a broken sampler and a $40 drum machine. In the hands of lesser talents, this would be a project best left on a homemade cassette. But Julie Ruin's self-titled debut deftly regenerates the angry themes of Bikini Kill harangues into thoughtful songs whose primitive stylings effectively showcase an emerging feminist polemic. "I Wanna Know What Love Is" is as devastating an anti-cop rap as "Fuck tha Police," and "Crochet" takes out the fawning media that turned Hanna into a spokesmodel for the riot-grrrl movement. It isn't the direction one might think she would have taken, but Hanna's metamorphosis into Julie Ruin is fascinating. It's like watching someone think out loud in stereo. --Lois Maffeo

Customer Reviews

More outpourings from katleen Hanna's well of inspiration
It might not seem the highest of praise to say that an album makes the listener think 'I could do that' but you get the feeling Julie Ruin (aka Riot Grrl Extraordinaire Kathleen Hanna) would be proud of the fact that her album gives people the urge to grab a drum machine and create their own DIY electro punk.
However, you also get the feeling that while very few could do it with quite the same flair, humour and originality, fewer still would take the opportunity to chant sweetly about injustice. And still make it damn catchy.