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| Best Of The Gits | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Gits
Label: Adrenaline Records
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
Buy New: $8.52
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 79337
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 30015
UPC: 858423001544
EAN: 0858423001544
ASIN: B001A2B3UI
Release Date: July 8, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Second Skin | | • | Seaweed | | • | Another Shot Of Whiskey | | • | Beauty Of The Rose | | • | While You're Twisting, I'm Still Breathing | | • | Absynthe | | • | Cut My Skin It Makes Me Human | | • | Social Love | | • | Spear And Magic | | • | Bob | | • | Whirlwind | | • | Guilt Within Your Head | | • | Wingo Lingo | | • | A Change Is Gonna Come | | • | Sign Of The Crab | | • | Drinking Song |
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Product Description
The first ever anthology. Sixteen re-mastered tracks. These long out of print songs offer the perfect overview of the legendary Seattle punk band whose rise was interrupted by the tragic murder of front woman Mia Zapata. An inspiration to all riot grrrls who followed, The Gits' music lives on in this CD. Street date coincides with the 15th memorial anniversary of Zapata's death and with "The Gits" release on DVD.
Album Description
The Gits with their Best of album features 16 songs. The album caption reads 'Music From and Inspired by the film' with is the award winning documentary film about the rousing and heartbreaking story of Seattle band, The Gits, whose promising start was cut short by the tragic murder of spirited lead singer Mia Zapata. The Gits were a Seattle Punk Rock band active from 1986 to 1993. They were known for their fiery live performances and they retained a dedicated following both during and after their existence. Their distinct punk rock sound injected influences from Blues and hardcore, with a passionate, street-level attack from singer Mia Zapata, who sang of inner struggle, alcohol, death, survival, and determination despite utter hopelessness. The band split up in July 1993, following the rape and murder of Zapata, a crime which remained unsolved until the arrest and conviction of her murderer in 2004.
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| Customer Reviews:
Best of? More like a sampler... July 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First off...I love The Gits. If Mia hadn't been killed...they would've likely been one of the biggest bands in the world. Yes...they were that good.
Next...the Amazon track listing on July 10th 2008 doesn't quite match the CD that I received. The tracks on my CD are:
1. A Change Is Gonna Come
2. Guilt Within Your Head
3. Seaweed
4. Cut My Skin It Makes Me Human
5. It All Dies Anyway
6. Spear and Magic Helmet
7. Absynthe (Live)
8. Another Shot of Whiskey (Live)
9. Insercurities (Live)
10. Here's to Your F**k (Live)
11. Whirlwind
12. Daily Bread
13. Eleven
14. Tempt Me
15. Social Love
Now that is a great set of songs...but I don't think that this CD qualifies as a "Best of". Sadly missing are 'Second Skin'...'Sign of the Crab' and 'While You're Twisting, I'm Still Breathing'...'Beauty of the Rose' and 'Slaughter of Bruce'...among others.
I gave this CD a 4 star rating...would've been a 5 star rating if it was an actual "Best of". Now this is a good sampler for people unfamiliar with The Gits. I strongly recommend the other Gits' CDs...especially "Frenching The Bully"...you won't be disappointed.
And when does one CD equal a box set?
Viva Zapata and Viva The Gits
 Great album! August 7, 2008
The Gits are an incredible band, this album has some live versions of some songs previously unreleased on CD. Highly recommended!
 Why a "greatest hits?" October 20, 2008
I love The Gits! Mia Zapata's voice has a Janis Joplin like, gut-wrenching, from the heart quality. They are definitely a five star band, but they really didn't have that many albums to produce a greatest hits. If you buy "Frenching the Bully" and "The Conquering Chicken" you pretty much have the Gits. (Both albums are about $10/each used on Amazon) You could also get "Kings and Queens" if you want to hear some of their early stuff. Greatest Hits albums can be a money saver if the band has 10 plus or so albums and it would nice to have the best songs in one place, but when the band only has 2 main albums it just seems unnecessary. Buy the albums, you'll get more music for your money.
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