Girls Against Boys
Girls Against Boys' dual-bass attack and Scott McCloud's wheezy sing-speak vocals (reminiscent of the Fall's Mark E. Smith) produce an energetic, if sometimes noisy, sound that would probably annoy listeners if it weren't for the D.C. band's great Fugazi-influenced songs. Girls Against Boys' 1989 debut album, Tropic of Scorpio, appeared on the Adult Swim label, followed by a leap up to the popular indie Touch & Go for Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby. The albums that followed -- 1995's Cruise Yourself and 1996's House of GVSB -- charted the group's growing fortunes. Their jump to major label Geffen with 1998's Freak*on*ica resulted in higher sales but more negative reviews. After a lengthy hiatus, the band returned to the underground with a contract for Jade Tree and a 2002 full-length, You Can't Fight What You Can't See. Girls Against Boys broke up the following year, but subsequently reunited to tour Europe (with a lineup now featuring bassist John Schmersal from Enon) in February 2005. The group also scheduled a tour of the Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia for February 2009. In 2013, Girls Against Boys released their first album of all-original material in over ten years with the EP Ghost List.© John Bush /TiVo Read more
Girls Against Boys' dual-bass attack and Scott McCloud's wheezy sing-speak vocals (reminiscent of the Fall's Mark E. Smith) produce an energetic, if sometimes noisy, sound that would probably annoy listeners if it weren't for the D.C. band's great Fugazi-influenced songs. Girls Against Boys' 1989 debut album, Tropic of Scorpio, appeared on the Adult Swim label, followed by a leap up to the popular indie Touch & Go for Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby. The albums that followed -- 1995's Cruise Yourself and 1996's House of GVSB -- charted the group's growing fortunes. Their jump to major label Geffen with 1998's Freak*on*ica resulted in higher sales but more negative reviews.
After a lengthy hiatus, the band returned to the underground with a contract for Jade Tree and a 2002 full-length, You Can't Fight What You Can't See. Girls Against Boys broke up the following year, but subsequently reunited to tour Europe (with a lineup now featuring bassist John Schmersal from Enon) in February 2005. The group also scheduled a tour of the Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia for February 2009. In 2013, Girls Against Boys released their first album of all-original material in over ten years with the EP Ghost List.
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Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby
Alternative & Indie - Released by Touch and Go Records on 1 Feb 1993
Who knows what did the trick -- maybe it was just jumping labels to Touch & Go -- but when Girls Against Boys released Venus Luxure, it was clear that ...
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House of GVSB (25th Anniversary Edition) (25th Anniversary Edition)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Touch and Go Records on 6 May 2022
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You Can't Fight What You Can't See
Alternative & Indie - Released by Epitaph on 6 May 2002
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Cruise Yourself
Alternative & Indie - Released by Touch and Go Records on 1 May 1994
Having fully made their case with Venus Luxure, Girls Against Boys kept on course with the equally fine Cruise Yourself. The hints of lounge and Vegas ...
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House of GVSB
Alternative & Indie - Released by Touch and Go Records on 1 Feb 1996
House of GVSB saw the band continuing its winning streak, and while arguably it contained no real surprises after the powerful one-two punch of Venus ...
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Freak*On*Ica (Album Version)
Rock - Released by DGC on 1 Jan 1998
When the band's major-label effort emerged, the band members were quoted in interviews as saying they were aware of the post-Nirvana '90s cliché where ...
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Sexy Sam
Alternative & Indie - Released by Touch and Go Records on 16 May 1994
From the opening staccato bassline of "Sexy Sam," this 1994 Girls Against Boys EP roars out of the speakers with the ferocity Nineties vs. Eighties hi ...
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Kill the Sexplayer + Live
Alternative & Indie - Released by Touch and Go Records on 13 Feb 1995
"This song is so hip right now, I'm going deaf/I wanna kill the singer" -- so go the lyrics of "Kill the Sexplayer," the title track of Girls Against ...
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Disco 666 + 4
Alternative & Indie - Released by Touch and Go Records on 1 Oct 1996
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Super-fire
Alternative & Indie - Released by Touch and Go Records on 20 Feb 1996
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[I] Don't Got a Place
Alternative & Indie - Released by Touch and Go Records on 29 Aug 1994
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