L7
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
With Nirvana finally bringing punk to the mainstream, bands such as L7 suddenly became en vogue as the quartet was signed to Slash/Reprise, issuing their best-known album with the Butch Vig-produced Bricks Are Heavy in April of 1992 (which spawned the popular MTV hit Pretend Were Dead). L7s follow-up, 1994s Hungry for Stink, failed to expand the groups following despite being part of the 1994 version of the traveling U.S. alt rock festival Lollapalooza. Bassist Finch left the group shortly thereafter (eventually replaced by former Belly bassist Gail Greenwood) and the group issued such further releases as 1997s The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum, 1998s Live: Omaha to Osaka, and 1999s Slap-Happy, while the group was also the subject of a 1998 concert film made by former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, also titled The Beauty Process. In 2000, a 12-track retrospective collection was issued, Best of L7: The Slash Years.
