This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Just as Muddy Waters begat Chuck Berry and The Rolling Stones, there is a clear line linking the Girl Groups of the ’60s with the Riot Grrrl groups of the ’90s — from The Ronettes through The Runaways and on to Bikini Kill.
On the debut disc from her cheeky downtown New York trio Le Tigre, former BK frontwoman Kathleen Hanna gleefully walks that line from end to end — and even crosses it a few times. Starting with equal portions of Shangri-La’s sass, Joan Jett riffs and punk-rock power, Hanna and co. layer in Devo-tional drum machines, electro synths and even samples and scratches to create groovy hybrid tracks that can do the mashed potato, rock you like a candy cane and ask the musical questions, “Who took the bomp from the bompalompalomp? Who took the ram from the ramalamadingdong?” They’re grrreat!
