Adrenaline Records
2008
Best Of The Gits (Music From And Inspired By The Film "The Gits")
About This Album
It's hard not to feel a sense of poignancy and betrayed promise while listening to the Gits that has nothing to do with the music. The Gits played music that was deeply emotional but was also loud, muscular, and utterly fearless, and it's not hard to imagine that given time they would have made the same impression nationwide that they did in their hometown of Seattle, where they were a popular and deeply respected band at a time when the city was enjoying its short-lived status as Rock Capitol of the Universe. But after releasing one album for the independent C/Z Records label and working on a second while being courted by a major label, the Gits came to a crashing halt on July 7, 1993 when lead singer Mia Zapata was raped and murdered while walking home from a night out with friends. Without Zapata's forceful, bluesy vocals and intensely personal lyrics, there was no way the Gits could have continued as they were, and while guitarist Joe Spleen (aka Andrew Kessler), bassist Matt Dresdner, and drummer Steve Moriarty continued to record as the Dancing French Liberals of '48, the new band was by its definition a very different kettle of fish. The Best of the Gits serves double duty as an overview of the band's abbreviated career and a soundtrack to Kerri O'Kane documentary film about the band, and while this disc not inappropriately pays homage to Zapata, these recordings leave no doubt this was a fine and very powerful band, not just a vehicle for a great singer.
Track List (try tracks 1,6,7,10 and 11)

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