^^I didn't partake often, but I did follow that Mama Can't Buy You Love thread.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link
have I got Worst Elton Songs for you
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
Kinda hoping there's a Worst Songs side poll for Dylan, and then I kinda want to poll Elton's worst against Dylan's.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
I couldn't be bothered to isolate Dylan songs I might hate, because I usually just skip them. Something about Elton's most terrible songs is that many of them weren't ignorable.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
#1 Must Have is awesome wtf
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
i knew i should have voted in this goddamn poll
i don't understand what people like about the woods. i tried.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
i don't know if ahotbo is the most self-consciously feminist one, but maybe the most lucidly feminist?
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
horseshoe otm x10000000000
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
i think the reason i did't vote in this poll was that i couldn't bear to get sad about how sleater-kinney doesn't exist anymore right now
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
i had some wine, might be in this thread all night
This is still one of my favorite thread titles for a thread I started: I'm tired of a world without Sleater-Kinney
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:26 (ten years ago) link
I try to be careful about defining this or that ostensibly feminist work as shrill.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
one of the things i love about corin tucker's voice is how it just dares a motherfucker to call her shrill. i wish a mf would!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
listening to the s/t right now. i guess the drumming is bad, but i won't pretend to understand such things. album rules imo.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link
re: #1 Must Have i guess people like their lyrics murky and ambiguous or not didactic or whatever, but how can you not warm to this:
And for all the ladies out there I wishWe could write more than the next marketing bidCulture is what we make it yes it isNow is the time, now is the timeNow is the time to invent, invent, inventInvent, invent, invent
i just straight up say that to people sometimes. i mean, i don't repeat "invent" six times. but maybe i should.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:33 (ten years ago) link
Was kinda surprised to see "combat rock" so high on the worst. It was on my ballot but chosen as a representative of the multiple songs on one beat I find interminable, and given the nod for being their first song to clear 4:30.
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link
Previous longest sk songs were album closers with extended outros right at 4min
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
i didn't know about the cadallaca album before this! thank you poll! corin should sing all the songs.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
My top 5 worst consisted of the two cheesiest "corin has fun" songs in their songbook imo (one made the poll), two somewhat arbitrary selections representing what I don't like from the last two albums soundwise (one made the poll), and the song about how y2k ain't no thing.
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link
corin tucker's one of two times i've been starstruck and dorky over a celebrity. the first was i working in the shoebox at wuxtry and playing everything falls apart and grant hart literally stuck his head in the door and i went 'grant hart!' like it was an episode of happy days. w/ corin it was basically a replay of the tig notaro story about taylor dayne, almost word for word, except i didn't keep running into her. i think sleater-kinney was my last favorite band, in the sense of yr favorite band meaning something.
man i can't believe you ppl put 'god is a number' on the worst list, that song rocks.
― balls, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link
lol "you ppl":
“God Is A Number”The Hot Rock, 19995 Points (1 Vote, 1 #1)
5 Points (1 Vote, 1 #1)
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:58 (ten years ago) link
That one guy...
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
Corin's last "I need it right now" in that song, the slight catch in her voice on "now" is one of my favorite S-K moments.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 25 April 2014 00:02 (ten years ago) link
I was up until this poll a confirmed Carrie stan, but re-listening to my #1 and #2 must haves, it was Corin who left me destroyed.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 25 April 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
I didn't vote for any on my worst list but man it's funny how quaint s-k's more overt "I gotta rock!" in-praise-of-guitar moments feel now
― da croupier, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
yeah that's a better word for it. i want to clarify that "didactic" pings as more negative than i intended, i love them for their straightforward feminist statements like:
A woman's pain never private, always seenI want to close my eyesI want to cut the wiresI want a day not made for you to see
― reddening, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
I def shake my fist at the two people who can't think of sk songs worse than was it a lie. I mean at least #1 must have is kind if static and includes "cultures what we make it, yes it is!" as arguable demerits.
*shakes fist*
― da croupier, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:13 (ten years ago) link
Kind OF static, I mean
― da croupier, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:14 (ten years ago) link
"cultures what we make it, yes it is!" as arguable demerits.
― da croupier, Thursday, April 24, 2014 8:13 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'll kill you
― horseshoe, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
I'll watch.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 25 April 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
I voted for "terrorist" on the side project poll so Ivan dig it
― da croupier, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
Lol "I can dig it" rather
― da croupier, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link
lol i love that song forgiven
― horseshoe, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
was puzzled by this as well
― RSD-rolled (sleeve), Friday, 25 April 2014 00:28 (ten years ago) link
I voted for God Is A Number as worst song. There are no really bad SK songs but what the heck, sometimes ya gotta go for it dude.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:32 (ten years ago) link
God is not a number, God is a FREE MAN!
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:33 (ten years ago) link
I was hoping it was someone who found it sacriligeous.
― da croupier, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:34 (ten years ago) link
Just pretentious.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:34 (ten years ago) link
Like she saw Pi and wrote a song about it
i didn't vote for worst songs, but the two i came up with before i stopped trying were "steep air" and "the remainder," mostly because i find them boring. and i still like corin's part in "the remainder."
― reddening, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:37 (ten years ago) link
Gobsmacked that anything in "The Remainder" is boring!
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 25 April 2014 00:39 (ten years ago) link
i don't know if ahotbo is the most self-consciously feminist one, but maybe the most lucidly feminist?― horseshoe, Thursday, April 24, 2014 6:24 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― horseshoe, Thursday, April 24, 2014 6:24 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Corin, in a fun webchat from 2000:
Detroit, Michigan: This record seems to be quite a bit more overtly political and perphaps feminist than your previous albums. What is your reaction to the attacks against the so-called feminist agenda by men and women alike recently?Sleater Kinney: *Corin) I, personally, have really reconnected with my political anger this year, and have felt more inspired than I have in a long time. I've felt disturbed by the mysoginist and sexist things that happened in 1999. By having the privilidge {sic} of an audience, if I can in any way inspire people to change things, I want to.
Sleater Kinney: *Corin) I, personally, have really reconnected with my political anger this year, and have felt more inspired than I have in a long time. I've felt disturbed by the mysoginist and sexist things that happened in 1999. By having the privilidge {sic} of an audience, if I can in any way inspire people to change things, I want to.
Re-listening to the album really brings back the memories timecapsule-style. It was a really ugly time, Woodstock '99 only being the crowning acheivement of alot of really odious events and posturing going around. I remember seeing a big report on "Dateline" that fall about how this, I think it was a lesbian student alliance/outreach group from Columbia University was having an event in Central Park that was crashed by this large group of guys who ending up assaulting (both physically and sexually) the attendees. There were camcorders in the crowd, a bunch of footage was captured, and the scary thing was it was all so random--it was't premeditated, the men just showed up and went to town on these young women. I also seem to recall that--despite the evidence--their punishments were fairly light--some fines, perhaps a little community service.
You listen to the album and it's a ticket back to this time before it was so easy to get a hold of thinkpieces, back when instant journalism was in its infancy. You have this time where it felt like some great positive change had occurred, but suddenly <BOOM>, we're back in the stone ages again.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 April 2014 03:49 (ten years ago) link
Lie is the track that most gets across that frustration to me IMO, where some of the others on that album feel more about "what do I do with the privilege of an audience" in a more detached way
― da croupier, Friday, 25 April 2014 03:58 (ten years ago) link
― horseshoe, Thursday, April 24, 2014 7:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 25 April 2014 04:33 (ten years ago) link
From Onion AV Club -- one of my favorite music crit paragraphs:
"Sleater-KinneyAlbum: One Beat Label: Kill Rock StarsWhen the haze from the dry ice and flashpots finally lifts, and the boy bands, girl singers, and tortured tattoo exhibits that shifted so many units at the turn of the millennium are revealed as the 1910 Fruitgum Company of their day, history will have to rewrite itself in a fashion that focuses on the music that mattered. With each album, Sleater-Kinney continues to assure its place in that yet-to-be-written canon by turning out music of such potency that, by comparison, most other bands don't seem to be trying. "
― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 25 April 2014 04:34 (ten years ago) link
That's my five albums, tho not in my order. And I ws a Woods #1 voter, btw
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 25 April 2014 05:08 (ten years ago) link
1910 Fruitgum Company released some good songs!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 April 2014 05:45 (ten years ago) link
Taking Sides: Limp Bizkit vs. 1910 Fruitgum Company
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 April 2014 05:59 (ten years ago) link
Someone say, "Tracks Rollout"?
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50. “Heart Factory”Dig Me Out, 199797 Points (6 Votes)
The Track: http://youtu.be/8Nn1jV3wS4sLive in '98: http://youtu.be/Zt7FsggLQf8
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 April 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link