Bricks Are Heavy

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BRICKS ARE HEAVY

Bricks Are Heavy is the third album by the Los Angeles band L7, released in April 1992 through Slash Records. Backed by the single “Pretend We’re Dead”, the album became a breakthrough hit, and the band became the “poster girls” of grunge music. The album was released shortly after grunge had broken into the mainstream with the surprise success of Nirvana’s Nevermind. In July 1992, the song “Pretend We’re Dead” gained popularity among American rock radio stations, where it received regular airplay. By late August, the album had reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers album chart, and two weeks later it peaked at No. 160 on the Billboard 200. (More from Wikipedia)

L7 started out as a heavy metal band but had punk rock influences also. The band’s third album, Bricks Are Heavy came out in 1992 about six months after Nirvana’s Nevermind album became a massive hit; as a result, L7 became identified with the grunge movement that Nirvana launched. Bricks Are Heavy was named by Rolling Stone as one of the Essential Albums of the 1990’s. One track on the album, “Pretend We’re Dead” received a lot of airplay and MTV exposure; the song peaked at #8 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks charts.

(December 2013)