Our Troubled Youth
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{{Infobox album
| name = Our Troubled Youth
| type = Studio
| artist = Huggy Bear
| cover = HuggyBear_Troubled2.jpg
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| released = 1993
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| genre = Riot grrrl
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| label = Kill Rock Stars{{Cite web|url=https://www.killrockstars.com/artists/huggy-bear|title=Huggy Bear|website=Kill Rock Stars}}
Catcall
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| next_title = Weaponry Listens to Love
| next_year = 1994
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Our Troubled Youth is the Huggy Bear side of a split album they released with Bikini Kill (whose side was entitled Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah). It was released on International Women's Day 1993 on Catcall Records in the United Kingdom, and on the Kill Rock Stars label in the United States.{{Cite magazine |title=Bikini Kill Biography |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/bikini-kill/biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507032300/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/bikini-kill/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 7, 2011 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZ4L0Pv7QwUC&pg=PA168 |title=She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul |last=O'Brien |first=Lucy |date=2003-10-16 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=9780826435293 |pages=168 |language=en}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/jan/28/riot-grrrl-10-of-the-best |title=Riot grrrl: 10 of the best |last=Hutchinson |first=Kate |date=2015-01-28 |website=The Guardian |language=en-GB |access-date=2017-09-09}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1=AllMusic
|rev1score={{rating|4|5}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-mw0000792553 |title=Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah |last=Deming |first=Mark |website=AllMusic |access-date=2017-09-09}}
|rev2=Robert Christgau
|rev2score={{rating-Christgau|neither}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVQbszFuEGMC |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s |last=Christgau |first=Robert |date=2000-10-15 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780312245603 |pages=27 |language=en}}
|rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=4 |page=404}}
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Influence
Gordon Moakes of Bloc Party has cited the album's song "Blow Dry" as being influential to him when he heard it in the early 1990s. In 2008, he wrote that the song "...was so simple, so ugly, so daring. What those two minutes of feedback and scruffy drums warned of was a new language of rock'n'roll that was dangerous, alluring and turned everything that had come before on its head."{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/oct/20/bloc-party-huggy-bear |title=Huggy Bear: a tribute |last=Moakes |first=Gordon |date=2008-10-20 |website=The Guardian |language=en-GB |access-date=2017-09-09}} In 2015, Lisa Wright of NME wrote of the album: {{blockquote|"The whole thing just feels totally instinctive and effortless. From the title onwards, a more perfect teenage punk album you will not find. It’s disenfranchised and impassioned in the most fun way possible."{{Cite magazine |last=Wright |first=Lisa |date=2015-03-06 |title=100 Lost Albums You Need To Know |url=https://www.nme.com/list/100-lost-albums-you-need-to-know-1337 |magazine=NME |language=en-US}}}}
Track listing
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| title1 = Jupiter Re-Entry
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| title2 = T-Shirt Tucked In
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| title3 = Blow Dry
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| title4 = Nu Song
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| title5 = Into the Mission
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| title6 = Hopscortch
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| title7 = Aqua Girl Star
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| title8 = February 14th
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References
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External links
- [https://www.allmusic.com/album/yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-mw0000792553 Our Troubled Youth] at AllMusic
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Category:Huggy Bear (band) albums