Tracklist:

1. Absynthe
2. Another Shot of Whiskey
3. Insecurities
4. Slaughter of Bruce
5. Kings and Queens
6. It All Dies Anyway
7. While You’re Twisting I’m Still Breathing
8. A
9. Wingo Lamo
10. Spear and Magic Helmet
11. Cut My Skin It Makes Me Human
12. Here’s to Your Fuck
13. Second Skin

Mia 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. The 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, Frenching the Bully.