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www.pitchforkmedia.com: Courtney Love might be the girl with the most cake, but Chicks on Speed's Alex Murray-Leslie is the girl getting the most love in this news story.
Why? Because Murray serves as the brains and steez behind Girl Monster, a new 3CD compilation that celebrates and reclaims music-by-women in several landmark ways (read: no "Women in Rock" sidebar schlock). It hits the U.S. market via the Chicks' own label on Halloween, appropriately enough-- October 31 to the non-ghoulish among you.
Girl Monster, why you so rad? First of all, your timeline stretches from the late 1970s (the Slits, the Raincoats, Malaria!) to today (Björk, Le Tigre, Peaches). Secondly, you contain 61 tracks, many of which are exclusive or previously unreleased, and you list your format as "3 CD + newspaper." Thirdly, you feature new songs and solo work from some of the original monsters (Talking Heads' Tina Weymouth, Throbbing Gristle's Cosey Fanni Tutti, Siouxsie Sioux, the Raincoats' Ana da Silva, and the Slits' Ari Up). It's true: people make music after forty, and sometimes it's great music, too. Fourthly, there is, like, a mutant collage on your cover.
Other P4k favs on the Monster mash: Barbara Morgenstern, Kevin Blechdom, Erase Errata, Planningtorock, Soffy O, and more.
Disc One:
01 Girlmonster Intro
02 Scream Club vs. Ben Adorable - "Fine as Fuck" [ft. Peaches]
03 Mignon - "Demons of Love"
04 Le Tigre - "Hot Topic"
05 Barbara Morgenstern - "Mountain Place"
06 Angie Reed - "G. G. (Gaudy Good)"
07 Pam Hogg - "Honeyland"
08 Rhythm King & Her Friends - "Speedometer"
09 Hanin Elias - "Get It Back"
10 Kevin Blechdom - "Me Saw Me Momma"
11 Ana da Silva - "Full Moon"
12 Anat Ben David - "Virtual Leisure"
13 Sir Alice - "Super Hero"
14 Chicks on Speed - "Plastic Surgery"
15 Vivien Goldman - "Laundrette"
16 Tina Weymouth - "Incognito"
17 Client - "Down to the Underground"
18 Kids on TV - "Break Dance Hunx (Market Value Mix)"
19 Boyskout - "School of Etiquette"
20 Erase Errata - "Dust"
21 No Bra - "No Woman No Crime"
Disc Two:
01 Pulsallama - "Ungawa Part 2 (Remix)"
02 The Slits - "Typical Girls (Live)"
03 Delta 5 - "Mind Your Own Buisness"
04 Cherry Sunkist - "Nameless Dogs"
05 Japanese Intelligence Mind Control - "Get the Picture"
06 Autonervous - "Anchors Away"
07 Cobra Killer - "Mister Chang"
08 Planningtorock - "Changes"
09 Hanayo - "Pita Pata"
10 Björk - "Storm"
11 Tobi Vail - "Panic of the Square"
12 Gustav - "We Shall Overcome"
13 Bonnie vs. Hunter - "Our Inventions"
14 François Cactus - "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory"
15 LiliPUT - "Die Matrosen"
16 Karastrophe - "Your Girlfriend"
17 Lesbians on Ecstasy - "Sedition"
18 Electric Indigo & Dorit Chrysler - "Sheets"
19 Cosey Fanni Tutti - "Licking the Juice"
Disc Three:
01 Hotel Motel - "Sucker Man"
02 Gudrun Gut - "Girl Boogie"
03 The Creatures - "Godzilla (Siouxsie & Budgie's Girl Monster Mix)"
04 Soffy O - "Maybe a Dog"
05 Ella Bandita - "New Year's Eve"
06 Las Perras Del Infierno - "Somos Las Perras"
07 Juliette & the Licks - "You're Speaking My Language"
08 Miss Le Bomb - "Pinkitan"
09 Cat5 - "Sexy"
10 Robots in Disguise - "Get RID!"
11 People Like Us - "Fom Fom"
12 Michaela Melián - "Manifesto"
13 Susanne Brokesch - "Heroes (History Mix)"
14 Scream Club v. Leonard DeLeonard - "International"
15 Crystal Cookie - "Crystal Cookie (Lesson 1)"
16 Caro Snatch - "Say Trees"
17 Malaria! - "Your Turn to Run"
18 The Raincoats - "Shouting Out Loud"
19 Vivien Goldman with Andy Caine & Manasseh Sound - "Seven Days"
20 Ari Up - "Baby Mother (Toxicgirl Strip Mix)"
21 Miss Pain - Sell It 2 the Kids (Megaphone Version)"
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