Tracks 13, 14, 15, and 16 from Hungry For Stink (1994)

Tracks 17, 18, and 19 from The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum (1997)

Tracks 20 and 21 from Slap-Happy (1999)

Tracks 22 and 23 from Scatter the Rats (2019)

L7's debut album had Roy Koutsky on drums, but Demetra Plakas soon became the drummer of the band's best-known lineup, and L7 were probably the most commercially successful all-female rock band of the 1990s (I specify rock band because obviously the Dixie Chicks sold a lot more records). Granted, they weren't as big as the Go-Go's or the Bangles were in the '80s, or a number of female-fronted bands that had at least one male member in the '90s. But they were a bit more visible at a mainstream level than Sleater-Kinney or Bikini Kill, all over radio and MTV with "Pretend We're Dead" and on the main stage of Lollapalooza in 1994. 

L7 were from L.A. but seemed to fit right in with the Seattle boys' club of grunge, even their first album on Epitaph sounded like it should've been on Sub Pop, which is where they went for their second album. Just a great scuzzy sound, the guitar pedal choices sometimes more memorable than the melodies, lots of sarcastic expressions of genuine convictions in a way that often reminds me of Mudhoney. L7 toured with Nirvana, Finch dated Dave Grohl at one point, and Bricks Are Heavy was pretty much the first high profile Butch Vig production to come out after Nevermind. 

In 1994, Greenpeace released Alternative NRG, an all-star compilation of live tracks recorded with a solar-powered mobile studio, my favorite tracks on that were always the uptempo version of R.E.M.'s "Drive" and L7's "Shitlist." Obviously "Shitlist" was never released as a radio single, but I was unsurprised to learn that it's a widely acknowledged L7 classic, their most performed song and 2nd most streamed song after "Pretend We're Dead." I don't think a ton of people say "shitlist" but it's definitely in my vernacular because of the song, did people use that term before the song? Absolute banger either way. Lionel Richie is credited with the count off at the beginning of "Moonshine," I'm sure there's an interesting story there. 

Guitarists Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner each wrote lyrics and sang about half the time on L7's records, with their more popular songs like "Pretend" and "Shitlist" featuring Sparks's more deadpan singsong delivery. But Finch wrote and sang a handful of really good L7 songs, including "(Right On) Thru," "One More Thing," "The Bomb," "Shirley," and "Garbage Truck." Finch left the band in 1996 and they made a couple of albums without her, one of the other bassists who played in L7 was Belly's Gail Greenwood, who plays on "Freezer Burn." Finch returned to L7 for their 2010s reunion and played on Scatter the Rats, and was going to be part of the current farewell tour before her cancer diagnosis. She announced a GoFundMe days before she passed away, probably still worth donating that to help her loved ones.