And they were fronted by a woman who looked like she could kick your ass and steal your boyfriend - but who sang about how such petty confrontation was, in fact, the problem with the scene. The Donnas and the Lunachicks had packaged that sound into something more palatable, but the Distillers were like a band you might find playing your friend’s basement. While the album’s songs took cues from the Nineties pop-punk mainstreamed by Green Day, the Offspring, and her then-husband Tim Armstrong’s band Rancid - “I think I was really impressed with the way he sang,” she says - Dalle twisted the genre into something unique, barking calls for teenage uprising and observations from the girls in the pit. Girl,” “Girlfixer”) others referencing the documentaries she watched on world revolution (“Idoless,” “Red Carpet and Rebellion”). From there, the band blasts through 14 more songs in just over 30 minutes - some harking back to Dalle’s girlhood in Melbourne, Australia (“Gypsy Rose Lee,” the hidden track “Young Girls”) some dealing with the divisiveness she encountered when she moved to Los Angeles at 18 (“L.A. “Oh, Serena, I know what they’re saying about you.” Someone’s talking shit on Serena, and it’s clear the woman at the mic isn’t having it. “Oh, Serena,” she growls over power chords. The album - which came out in January 2000, and has just been reissued in a newly remastered digital version, with vinyl to follow in November - opens with a moment of feedback, before the quick smash of snares, and Dalle’s snarled voice. “And if you took too long, it wasn’t punk.” “The idea back then with punk records was just to bang it out as fast as you can,” she says. How True Is 'Respect'? Fact-Checking the Aretha Franklin Biopic