"I'm The Queen of Rock and POLL!!!!!!"_ILM Artist Poll #51_SLEATER-KINNEY_ RESULTS THREAD

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!

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.

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 wish
We could write more than the next marketing bid
Culture is what we make it yes it is
Now is the time, now is the time
Now is the time to invent, invent, invent
Invent, invent, invent

i just straight up say that to people sometimes. i mean, i don't repeat "invent" six times. but maybe i should.

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.

Previous longest sk songs were album closers with extended outros right at 4min

i didn't know about the cadallaca album before this! thank you poll! corin should sing all the songs.

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.

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.

lol "you ppl":

“God Is A Number”
The Hot Rock, 1999

5 Points (1 Vote, 1 #1)

That one guy...

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.

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.

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

i don't know if ahotbo is the most self-consciously feminist one, but maybe the most lucidly feminist?

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 seen
I want to close my eyes
I want to cut the wires
I want a day not made for you to see

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*

Kind OF static, I mean

"cultures what we make it, yes it is!" as arguable demerits.

*shakes fist*

― da croupier, Thursday, April 24, 2014 8:13 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'll kill you

I'll watch.

I voted for "terrorist" on the side project poll so Ivan dig it

Lol "I can dig it" rather

lol i love that song forgiven

man i can't believe you ppl put 'god is a number' on the worst list, that song rocks.

was puzzled by this as well

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.

God is not a number, God is a FREE MAN!

I was hoping it was someone who found it sacriligeous.

Just pretentious.

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."

Gobsmacked that anything in "The Remainder" is boring!

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

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.

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.

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

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, April 24, 2014 7:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

From Onion AV Club -- one of my favorite music crit paragraphs:

"Sleater-Kinney
Album: One Beat
Label: Kill Rock Stars
When 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. "

That's my five albums, tho not in my order. And I ws a Woods #1 voter, btw

1910 Fruitgum Company released some good songs!

Taking Sides: Limp Bizkit vs. 1910 Fruitgum Company

Someone say, "Tracks Rollout"?

http://pearsonmaron.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/heart-factory-tattoo-1.jpg

50. “Heart Factory”
Dig Me Out, 1997
97 Points (6 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/8Nn1jV3wS4s
Live in '98: http://youtu.be/Zt7FsggLQf8

http://tk-jk.net/S-K/TabImages/OneSongForYou/OneSongForYou1.jpg

49. “One Song For You”
The Hot Rock, 1999
111 Points (4 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/i0_hWz7K68A
Live in '97 @ CBGB's: http://youtu.be/1a1x6Flhzj4

lotta points for 50/49!

i <3 'one song for you'

I like Heart Factory in terms of its place in the flow of Dig Me Out -- some breathing room between the bangers -- but on its own I think it's sorta clunky.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3xNI8MBOYpQ/TkvJg0zOKhI/AAAAAAAABqE/ADrTxj_suOY/s1600/Hot+Rock+1.jpg

48. “Hot Rock”
The Hot Rock, 1999
112 Points (5 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/A8odXlYpjUY
Live in 2006: http://youtu.be/Q6KusmZ1FXE

catching up a bit here, but had to let it be known that THREE of my top 20 songs made the worst song list. slightly weirded out there.

with regard to songs rolling out just now, nice to see the title track from The Hot Rock nudging in there. have always been fond of that one.

http://www.grassrootsfeminism.net/cms/sites/default/files/notwaiting.jpg

47. “I’m Not Waiting"
Call The Doctor, 1996
114 Points (5 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/NnSL24w-n5E
Live @ CBGB's in '97: http://youtu.be/Q6c8lgLk2Co

http://cdn5.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/pink-floyd-live-at-pompeii.jpg

Tie-45. “Pompeii”
All Hands On The Bad One, 2000
118 Points (6 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/WV8pYW9YiAs
Live in 2000 (bad audio encode): http://youtu.be/5TQ4Tj1f6oY

ok, so I'm Not Waiting is the first song from my ballot to actually place. collects into a modest frenzy before i've had a chance to get over the hypnotics of the opening guitar line.

"Heart Factory" first song on mine to place. Is it too early for a TOO LOW ? Always stood out as a DMO highlight for me.

DMO is all highlights

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/silkwood/silkwoodcar600.jpg

Tie-45. “Was It A Lie?”
All Hands On The Bad One, 2000
118 Points (6 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/86cCqXiRWkI
Live in 2005: http://youtu.be/3QSsacnzEPI

The guitar in "Pompeii" is some of my favorite S-K playing from their whole run.

I like how more people put lie in their top 20 than bottom 5, but the relative lack of worst ballots means we get to go "omg why u not like that one ilx??"