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Frustration Tragedy & Lies Album: Ragged Soul (1995)
I Can't Be Satisfied Album: Ragged Soul (1995)
I'm Goin Out To Get Hurt Tonight Album: I'm Goin' Out And Get Hurt Tonight (2003)
by The Lazy Cowgirls

The Lazy Cowgirls were a Los Angeles, California-based punk rock band active from 1983 to 2004. They have been described as "punk rock legends" by Westword's Brad Jones.
Ragged Soul is an album released in 1995. It was the band's first full studio album in five years.

The band supported the Ragged Soul album by touring with Cosmic Psychos.

The Ragged Soul album was produced by the band and Earle Mankey. Longtime members Pat Todd and Doug Phillips were joined by Leonard Keringer, Ed Huerta, and Michael Leigh. Track 3 is "Frustration Tragedy & Lies". Track 1 is "I Can't Be Satisfied"... if you hold a mirror up it's a 13.

Their final album, I'm Goin' Out And Get Hurt Tonight, with Roy Morgan (drums), was released in 2004 on Reservation Records, making it the band's only album for this label. After the Cowgirls broke up later in 2004, Todd started another band, known as Pat Todd & the Rankoutsiders.

The Lazy Cowgirls were often compared to famous proto-punk bands such as the Ramones, the New York Dolls, and the Stooges. Brad Jones, writing in Westword, described their style as "...lean, soulful, and as abrupt as an ice pick through the forehead," and wrote that it was exemplified on their album Ragged Soul. In a review of the same album, Peter Margasak described it as the band's best, and as "...a thrilling mix of Stooge-oid rattle and soulful twang." Joe S. Harrington describes the band as "...a kind of brazen New York Dolls/Sex Pistols equivalent". He also writes that they followed in the tradition of the Leaving Trains, who were also a largely apolitical punk band. In a review of I’m Goin’ Out and Get Hurt Tonight, Fred Mills described the album as the band's "...latest, possibly greatest platter" and its sound as "...a hi-nrg [sic] roar."

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