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Physical reissue of the first album by Seattle punk band The Gits, Frenching the Bully, originally released in 1992.
Mia Zapata of The Gits was the best rock singer of her time. She was probably the best singer in the history of punk rock, and it wasn't tragedy that made it so. Mia Zapata made it so, and the
fierce machine-gun framework built around her by Andy Kessler, Matt Dresdner, and Steve Moriarty made it so. Mia Zapata (1965–1993), vocalist and leader of The Gits (1986–1993), did not have the kind of voice one
usually associates with a punk rock band. She had the audacity, grace, grit, and fury of the blues (what would have happened if Janis Joplin had fronted Fugazi, we wonder?). With an extraordinary voice and stage presence,
there was nothing like it anywhere in punk: it was like finding the missing link between Nina Simone and Johnny Rotten (what if Joss Stone had fronted Fugazi, we wonder?). The Gits were a furious and
fiery combo perfectly in tune with the Bessie of their era, Patti Smith, truly the only singer who could bring together Joplin, Poly Styrene, Sam Cooke, Iggy Pop, and Ian MacKaye, all on the same damn
song. And they sounded like angels.
