The million dollar question: Who gave birth to The Butchies? Though I have yet to be awarded my million dollars, I'm fairly certain it was Joan Jett and Bruce Springsteen. Maybe it's The Butchies' seemingly effortless ability to make hand claps and 'La La La's' sound so darn rock 'n' roll, or maybe it's that lying-on-my-bed-thinking-of-you-I- would-call-but-I'm-grounded kind of beautiful angstyness that only the best albums can evoke without simultaneously making the listener feel nervous and hormonally out-of-control. In any case, this 2001 album is The Butchies' 3rd, and hands down their best. Flawless production (those hand claps sound so-o-o good!), well-crafted song structure and those ever-inspiring lyrics. Three's a charm!

3 is the third album by queercore band The Butchies, released in 2001.

Notes

Category:2001 albums

Category:Queercore albums

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Artist/Band Information

The Butchies are a lesbian queercore band from Durham, North Carolina, that existed from 1998 to 2005, and are currently on a hiatus.

Made up of guitarist and front-woman Kaia Wilson, bassist Alison Martlew, and drummer Melissa York, The Butchies has been referred to as "queercore crusaders." The band has been performing together since the recording of their first album, Are We Not Femme? in 1998. Since then, the trio has recorded three subsequent albums, Population: 1975 in 1999, 3 in 2001, and Make Yr Life in 2004. They have also appeared on a number of compilations of note, including Being Out Rocks, produced by the Human Rights Campaign (Centaur Productions, 2002), and Fields And Streams (Kill Rock Stars, 2002). In 2005 the band announced a hiatus.

The first three albums were released by the now-defunct Mr. Lady Records, run by Kaia Wilson and Tammy Rae Carland. It was named after Wilson's first solo LP, Ladyman, created after leaving Team Dresch. The label also released the first two Le Tigre recordings. Make Yr Life was released by Yep Roc. The track, "Sex (I'm a Lesbian)" appeared on Mr. Lady's 1999 sampler album, New Women's Music Sampler. In 2001, a live rendition of the track, "Disco", appeared on another sampler album, Calling All Kings & Queens.

Kaia Wilson had previously performed in Adickdid and the queercore band Team Dresch, appearing on their first two albums, Personal Best and Captain My Captain; Melissa York was also in Team Dresch, playing drums on the second LP and, prior to that, performing in two hardcore punk bands, Vitapup and Born Against, before the two women joined with Alison Martlew to form The Butchies.

The Butchies also played on the 2001 Amy Ray (of the Indigo Girls) album Stag on Daemon Records and backed her up on tour.

Discography

;Albums

*Are We Not Femme? (1998, Mr. Lady Records)

*Population: 1975 (1999, Mr. Lady Records)

*3 (2001, Mr. Lady Records)

*Make Yr Life (2004, Yep Roc Records)

References in Popular Culture

*The band was named in the 1999 Le Tigre song "Hot Topic."

*The song "Send Me You" of the album Make Yr Life was featured in a season two episode of The L Word.

See also

*List of all-women bands

References

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