Our Troubled Youth

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.^[2][3][4]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Robert Christgau	[6]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[7]

Our Troubled Youth
Studio album by Huggy Bear
Released	1993
Genre	Riot grrrl
Label	Kill Rock Stars[1] Catcall
Huggy Bear chronology
Our Troubled Youth (1993) Weaponry Listens to Love (1994)

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."^[8] In 2015, Lisa Wright of NME wrote of the album:

"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."^[9]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Jupiter Re-Entry"
2.	"T-Shirt Tucked In"
3.	"Blow Dry"
4.	"Nu Song"
5.	"Into the Mission"
6.	"Hopscortch"
7.	"Aqua Girl Star"
8.	"February 14th"