{"title":"The Gits","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"frenching-the-bully","title":"Frenching The Bully","description":"\u003cp\u003eRemastered reissue of The Gits’ 1992 debut album \u003ci\u003eFrenching the Bully\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been out of print on physical formats for years. This new edition features refreshed artwork, new liner notes by Tim Sommer (who signed the band to Atlantic), and a poster insert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMia Zapata was the greatest rock singer of her time. She may have likely been the greatest blues singer in punk rock history, the woman who married the 78 and the ’78. Tragedy did not make this true. Mia Zapata made this true, and the ferocious, spring-loaded shrapnel frame that was built around her by Andy Kessler (guitar: metronomic and furious), Matt Dresdner (bass: fluid, punching, beat-addicted and melodic), and Steve Moriarty (drums: martial and explosive) - who, with Mia, combined to form The Gits - made it true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Gits were formed at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in mid-1986, grabbing and swapping pieces of art, thrash, noise, punk rock, classic rock, and all the sorts of magical silly and bookish jingle bells that an old-school liberal arts education handed you; for the next few years they worked on turning it all into something tough, sensitive, both brutal and kind. Andy, Matt, Mia, and Steve moved to Seattle in middish 1989, landing in a house on Capitol Hill where they (and fellow travelers) wood-shedded and rehearsed for the next few years. The Gits put out three EPs in 1990 and ’91 before signing with C\/Z Records and releasing their first full-length album, \u003ci\u003eFrenching the Bully\u003c\/i\u003e. Seattle quickly claimed the quartet as their own and embraced the Gits blend of ferocious fangs and soft heart, the slug\/slap of the guitars, and the gorgeous, soft underbelly of the poetic emotions. These qualities not only fit in with the doe-eyed\/sharp-clawed grunge ethos but earned the Gits the respect of their peers, including Nirvana, who tapped them to open a major local show in 1990. Then other stuff happened, and their frantic, confessional barbed-heart snowball began rolling up hill very, very fast; the Gits “quickly” (hah! After half a decade learning to implode and explode hearts and stomping their boots on manifold beer-softened, Marlboro-weeded wood stages!) inspired rapture, awe, and the levitation that happened when peak emotion meets peak grindage in front of amps spitting out something that sounded like the mad marriage of Bolan swagger and Dischord tension… all fronted by a genuinely incomparable woman who held her heart in her mouth and shared it, in all its celebration and fear,  without hesitation. The Gits were an angry, inflamed slinky fully in tune with and tuned by the Bessie Patti Smith of her time, truly the only singer who could summon Joplin, Poly Styrene, Sam Cooke, Iggy Pop and Ian MacKaye  all in the same goddamn song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1993, less than four weeks after accepting an offer from Atlantic Records, Mia died. I leave it at that, because this is not about death; it’s about an extraordinary life. I do not say, “You should have been there,” I say, “We are lucky so many of us were, and I am so glad we have this extraordinary evidence of the power and gifts of Mia and the Gits that you now can hold in your hands.” And I note that \u003ci\u003eFrenching the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBully\u003c\/i\u003e, this extraordinary testament to the soul, shock, fury and feeling of the Gits, has been long out of print on vinyl and CD, and this new edition - remastered by legendary Seattle engineer Jack Endino - joyfully rectifies that.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sub Pop","offers":[{"title":"LP - Silver","offer_id":50786506801483,"sku":"2232035","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50786506211659,"sku":"2232034","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Red","offer_id":51680821870923,"sku":"R9950-9818","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - White","offer_id":56078880211275,"sku":"R9950-1644","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ffe267a3-f049-3426-6e38-b87d1983e509_11e550a2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1731105638"},{"product_id":"enter-the-conquering-chicken","title":"Enter: The Conquering Chicken","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnter: The Conquering Chicken\u003c\/em\u003e is The Gits’ second, and final, full-length studio album. 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Creative, inspired, and driven by the promise of a new musical chapter you can hear in these recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemixed by Jack Endino in 2003, Songs like “Bob (Cousin O.),” “Guilt Within Your Head,” “Seaweed,” “Sign of the Crab,” “The Drinking Song,” and Mia’s jaw-dropping rendition of Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come” reveal a distinct evolution in Direction following their successful 1992 debut album, \u003cem\u003eFrenching The Bully\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“‘Sign of the Crab’ was the last song we created together as a band” says Bassist Matt Dresdner. “Based on Andy’s diabolical composition and Mia’s brilliant creepy lyrics, the music was punchy, complex, and full of a fun, twisted rage. 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