Bricks Are Heavy

Bricks Are Heavy is an album by female grunge/punk/rock band L7. It contains their best known song "Pretend We're Dead". To be honest, I wish it wasn't. The band was known for their outspoken, funny and feminist lyrics. The lyrics of this song are rather dull. The album as a whole has not aged that well compared to contemporaries like Hole. Still not a punishment to listen to it after all those years.

Rating: 9/10 Best songs: Wargasm, Pretend we’re dead, Diet pill, Slide, Shitlist

Just so great to hear this kind of music with female vocals. Wished the album was a bit longer though!

Awesome filthy guitars!

This is a great hard rock/punk album carrying doses of grunge. The female lead singer is great! I had heard the song “Shitlist” somewhere in my past before, but never really knew who sang it. Enjoyed hearing the rest of this album.

Totally worth getting your fanny out on The Word for.

Driving around San Andreas listening to Pretend We're Dead? Ah shit..here we go again

I was only familiar with Pretend That We’re Dead but when I saw this album turn up, my reaction was “of course this belongs here”. Apart from the fact that’s an all-female act, this album pinned down the grunge trope before most of the monsters of that genre even released their first attempts. If you consider this album as proto-riot grrl, then it’s a foundational disc for two separate genres. But let’s focus on the fact that L7 always saw themselves as a punk rock outfit. I love that, and you can totally hear it in the lyrics. This isn’t angst so much as anger. A singularly worthy disc.

Girl Grunge remains extremely good

A simple, plug and chug LP that delivers on its straightforward desire to rock. Appreciated the no-nonsense feel of this one, the dry lyricism and dead serious instrumentals made this album stand out and take on a distinct personality relative to other hard rock efforts on the list. Good add, heard of these guys for a while and have clearly been missing out on a good time.

Pretty good, feels a bit like generic heavy rock but good energy. 3 stars.

Nice tunes nice attitude

Grunge, alternative metal. Ni fu ni fa.

Heaviness is relative

Very similar to early Hole (or should I say early Hole was similar to this). Singer sounds almost identical to Courtney Love on certain songs. Pretty good, sort of runs out of steam by the end and the lyrics aren't all that, but enjoyable enough.

Boy I hadn't thought about L7 for a long time. I have to say it feels like attitude and personality (which were certainly striking) made up a lot of what makes this band stand out: the music really is straightforward punk/thrash/hardcore adjacent rock and roll (if more aggressively profane in the lyrical department). Which, dont get me wrong, I like just fine.

Not bad

Maybe this album will go away if I pretend I'm dead.