Bricks Are Heavy
by L7
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Bricks Are Heavy is ranked as the best album by L7.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| 02/06/2026 06:28 | brent13 | 1,919 | 68/100 | |
| 12/06/2025 18:47 | MaxStorm98 | 3,798 | 89/100 | |
| 12/01/2025 01:44 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 | |
| 09/28/2025 21:39 | Marswolf68 | 928 | 78/100 | |
| 07/13/2025 01:45 | matterhornrider | 4,949 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.6/100, a mean average of 73.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.
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L7 albums are usually mixed bags; two or three great tracks and a lot of noisy forgettable ones. This one is no exception. Pretend We're Dead and Shitlist are catchy as hell, the rest is somewhat skippable.
katerpillar 09/22/2024 20:20 | #305381
Nostalgic and good overall
Wonderful heavy and punchy record that really encapsulated the tone and mood of the 90's.
Favorite Tracks: "Shitlist" & "Scrap"
Good grunge staple. All woman make for the difference but they put out the raw aggression as well if not better than many other grunge contenders.
StefanR10 07/12/2020 20:12 | #255489
It is a good grunge album. Like the beginning for nirvana. The interesting fact is here are women who sing grunge as one of a rare group who is in grunge. Standout track: Pretend we‘re dead.
A good album with 2 standout tracks IMO - Pretend We're Dead and Wargasm
Standout Tracks: Wargasm, Pretend We're Dead, Slide, One More Thing, Mr. Integrity, Shitlist
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Romanelli 03/12/2011 15:05 | #19147
In which the girls, who had been silent in rock for years, get their grunge on. Their 3rd album, Bricks Are Heavy rode the wave of Nirvana with the single "Pretend We're Dead" to stardom. These aren't girls you'd necessarily want to date...they are deadpan and scathing, giving pretty much everyone and everything hell for the hell of it. The album does rock, and it's very listenable. It's just not very...nice. "Pretend We're Dead" still sounds great, and songs like "Diet Pill" (a complaint that it's wearing off) and "Shitlist" are very good. L7 has been on hiatus since 2001, with no reunion in sight.
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