Pussy Whipped

Pussy Whipped is the debut album of punk rock band Bikini Kill. The production sounds a bit aged, but the performance is excellent. The vocals are spit in your ears and the songs are rather catchy. At 24 minutes it is certainly a good way to spend your time

Glad to see Bikini Kill getting the 1001 recognition they deserve. Absolute ripper of an LP, and a shot in the arm for 90s' punk – the in-your-face rage and frustration channeled by Kathleen Hanna and co. funnels perfectly into 24 spastic minutes of musical release. May be somewhat homogeneous throughout its brief runtime, but that hardly matters when the raw, frenetic garage rock instrumentals at the album's core are so good. A much-needed addition to the list, not often a band spawns an entire subgenre and calls out the entire music industry so brashly in one go.

A foundational text in the feminist punk movement. These are some rockin’ jams. They all sound pretty much like the same song so it’s a good thing that song fucks. It fucks hard. I enjoyed this a lot. Great submission. 4/5

Girl punk groups are just way more consistent than the average. Nearly all of them that have come up on here have been a great time. I've made my peace with nobody being able to top X-Ray Spex (that saxophone's just too good), but this is the closest I've heard anyone come.

Na man 1

Absolute shite

Yes, this is exactly what a punk album should be. 24 minutes of guitars, drums and killer vocal. Last track is a bit of a slowdown, but meh, it was the style at the time.

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Blood one

Pretty good

Punk rock, riot grrrl. Ni fu ni fa.

So this is the reason I can guess Grrrl as a word on Wordle? 4/10

LOUD AND MAD

Brilliant

Step on me angry woman

Riot grrrl! Most definitely deserves a spot on the list!

Pretty good punk album

I am gonna gloss over the fact that the user who submitted this Bikini Kill album sounds like such a massive edgelord (or "edgelady"?) with their unsound obsession *against* The Beatles, as illustrated in their most "liked" reviews (two or three likes apiece, not more). Yeah, I don't really like apples that much, but if I would agree to compare them to oranges, *maybe*, it wouldn't occur to me to compare them to umbrellas. Or elephants. Or airplanes. Or your mum's socks. Get a grip, weirdo. All that being said, I guess it makes tons of sense that such a "gritty" personality would also fall in love with the abrasive riot grrrrrls stalwarts that Bikini Kill are. Kathleen Hanna has such an expressive and soulful presence, and both the feminist messaging and the 100% punk artistry are on-point, which makes this official album debut a must-have for every fan of music displaying all those characteristics. So in spite of what I said in my first paragraph, I still applaud this user for flying their freak flag high. Guess that for some other folks in this generator, I can sound like a massive "weirdo" myself, after all. 😉 This album harbors my second favorite version of the iconic "Rebel Girl" (my favorite is the single version produced by Joan Jett, but this one is good enough, and certainly superior to the third version -- the earlier, very lo-fi demo version from one of BK's first EPs). The rest is less immediately striking, but subsequent listens quickly reveal it's good stuff nonetheless. Toby Veil torturing her cymbals and Kathi Wilcox strumming her bass like a maniac sound great in "Alien She". The "you don't own me, fuck!" vocal hooks on "Magnet" are cathartic as hell, and Hanna almost vomiting her bile against patriarchy in "Lil' Red" is fucking scary, ha ha. "Hamster Boy" seems to roast the dumbest guys in the scene in quite an absurd and yet also hilarious fashion (another great vocal hook, this time courtesy of Tobi Veil). And no less absurd is Kathleen playing with the codes of a society under the sway of male gaze and heterosexuality to turn them on their head in quite an unsettling manner on the sinister-sounding "Sugar" and "Star-Bellied Boy" (great lead guitar work by Billy Karen there). This short album is confrontational. It reeks with sexual dysfunction and internal contradictions. It aims at making you feel ill-at-ease. And yet it does so with some contagious amount of glee and joy somehow. The last two cuts are also worth a mention. The too short "Star Fish" kind of foretells the bouncier artistry of Le Tigre, and "For Tammy Rae" is a touching homage to Hanna's photographer friend, also hailing from Olympia, Washington. That softer side will be better explored in songs such as "False Start", "RIP" or "Tony Randall" in later album *Reject All-Americans*, and it's only too bad that this other full-length record doesn't have the more iconic Bikini Kill highlights in it -- highlights like "Rebel Girl", "Carnival" or "New Radio" -- because it's still quite a good LP as well, with a better production to boot. Anyway, from that time and place (nineties American Northwest feminist indie-punk), Bikini Kill's *Pussy-Whipped* and Sleater-Kinney's *Dig Me Out* are pretty natural picks for such a list. The second example is already mentioned in the 1001 Albums book, and it admittedly feels like a more complete and more cohesive offering than the first. But if really you want to include a pure example of riot grrrrl artistry, Bikini Kill are obviously the ones to go to. It's just that it's a bit underwhelming that they never released an LP where their most obvious strengths are represented all at once. 3.5/5 for the purposes of this list dedicated to essential albums, rounded up to 4. 8.5/10 for more general purposes (5 for the musicianship and production values + 3.5 for the artistry) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 118 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 126 (including this one) Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 281 ---- Émile, *quatre* nouveaux messages pour toi au dessus, du *Solid State Survivor* de Yellow Magic Orchestra au *Atrocity Exhibition* de Danny Brown

Album #44 (1001 challenge extended): "Pussy Whipped" by Bikini Kill (1993) "Pussy Whipped" is first full-length album by American punk rock band Bikini Kill. Punk rock and riot grrrl are the Wiki-listed genres. The album had critical acclaim and was cited as "the first great riot-grrrl album." The bandmembers included Kathleen Hanna (vocals, bass), Billy Karren (guitar), Kathi Wilcox (bass, vocals) and Tobi Vail (drums, vocals). Commercially, the album reached #20 on the UK Independent Albums Chart. The album opens with "Blood One." A rumbling, hard drum roll. Screeching guitar. Punk and lo fi. Hanna yelling and snarling about refusing to be defined. The whole band seems to join in on the screaming. "Alien She" continues the fast drums and bass. Another in-your-face song. "Sugar" gets a deep bass groove going. Ominous guitar strikes. More of a rock beat and a guitar solo. She's not afraid. "Rebel Girl" has a unhinged, driving guitar and pounding bass. A chugging song with an actual melody. Hanna defiant in this punk anthem. The album closes with "For Tammy Rae." Marching drums, bass strums and high-pitched guitar strokes. A more serious tone and hints at what this band can be going straight-forward rock. It's a tribute song to Hanna's close friend. Twelve songs in 24 minutes. Fast, punk, angry and defiant. Screeching guitars and a lo-fi vibe. There's a Mudhoney, grungy feel too in some of these songs. Just like the Inuit have over 50 different words for snow, I think Kathleen Hanna has 50 different types of screams. In-your-face, fast, short and, yeah, a great punk rock album. 4.5 out 5

Short fast loud. As it should be.

Goes hard, doesn't stop. Good share, belongs on the list I think.

I don't believe I've listened to Bikini Kill before, so this is my introduction to em. Yeah, this slaps! Fast, aggressive and raw AF. 🤘 Fave tracks - Blood One" kicks things off, "Tell Me So", "Rebel Girl" and "Starfish" are also stand outs...

Obviously I need more riot grrrl in my life — this is such a great short, sharp, to-the-point album. Standouts: Alien She, and hard to go past the iconic Rebel Girl.

Rebel Girl is a great song. Listening to an entire punk album is a lot to ask, but this one was good.

Very standard punk. Was alright

Bikini Kill bring good energy on Pussy Whipped, a breakneck run through angst and irritation and everything else in between that accomplishes what it set out to do. Mixing is rubbish but that might be intentional, I dunno, it does detract from it and it's also pretty hard to decipher anything above or below the noise, it's a solid 3.

More proof that female-fronted punk is better than male-fronted punk. A fun 24 minutes. Adore how much this sounds like absolute fucking raw sewage. Strong 3/5.

A bit too grating for me at times, but overall very good. 3 stars.

Hell yea

We making it out of the comfort zone with this one! I think this should be on the 1001 for the same reasons I don't love this. It's a burst of noise and fury that stands out next to contemporaries Hole and Sleater-Kinney for its even more abrasive tone. But Dig Me Out and Live Through This had more discernable song structures and don't sound like shit. For the record, punk is one of the few genres that gets away with sounding like shit, so I can't fault Pussy Whipped for that. Followed this up with The Singles (1998), which is an interesting midway point between the scuzzy sound of this album and the polish of Le Tigre's self-titled. HL: "Blood One", "Sugar", "Rebel Girl", "For Tammy Rae" June 15, 2026

I get this is pioneering and all, but I don't know it adds anything substantial to this (already fairly shallow) post-punk/hardcore sound. Driving guitar, heavy drum and bass, vocals that are basically hollering. Supposedly there is something feminist going on with the lyrics but since I can barely make out a word that doesn't count for a lot. It's fine but I've outgrown this sound.

Sick

I just dont get punk music so this album wasn’t for me, but I’m glad it exists for people who do get punk music.

Noisy.

Nja, tjejer och punk är inte riktigt min grej. Jo, tjejer är väl förvisso det men inte tillsammans med punk. Såvida det inte är en Punk IPA. Plus för den korta speltiden. 12 låtar på 24 minuter.

4/10. I still don't like Bikini Kill. Thought maybe I would have come around to them now that I am a cool guy(tm) who likes Sleater Kinney and Le Tigre, but I dunno there's just something about Bikini Kill's style of yelling and chaotically playing instruments that doesn't do it for me. Maybe that mean's they're better at what they are doing because it's harder for a man to enjoy it.

This wasn’t my cup of tea, but seemed pretty good.