my first s-k album and still my fave. (i think it'd be my favorite even if i'd heard call the doctor first, because of janet.)
i could pick any of at least a half-dozen.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 14 June 2009 03:32 (fifteen years ago) link
one more hour. mainly because it reminds me most of the hot rock stuff which i adore
― comedy cafe at the toxteth hotel (electricsound), Sunday, 14 June 2009 03:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Turn It On. By many miles...
― \\00// (SeekAltRoute), Sunday, 14 June 2009 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
"One More Hour."
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 June 2009 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i love "one more hour" but i think i listened to it too much while i was getting divorced.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 14 June 2009 03:50 (fifteen years ago) link
leaning toward "not what you want," but it's a sort of arbitrary choice.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 14 June 2009 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
then don't listen to "Dance Song '97" or "The Drama You've Been Craving" again.
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 June 2009 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
omg impossible.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 14 June 2009 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
when i saw them on the hot rock tour they decided (seemingly spontaneously) to try to do "buy her candy," but they couldn't remember the chords or what key it was in or something. gave up after about 40 seconds.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 14 June 2009 04:01 (fifteen years ago) link
can i vote specifically for the "shake it baby / a little more a little more a little more" moment in "it's enough"?
maybe "dance song '97"
― horseshoe, Sunday, 14 June 2009 04:01 (fifteen years ago) link
listening to this album right now thank you poll thread!
― horseshoe, Sunday, 14 June 2009 04:02 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc0We0x9Xbk
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
i know bands can't go on forever and i think s-k ended at the right time, but it still makes me a little sad that it's over.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
surely there will a reunion at some point.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i will explode with happiness
― horseshoe, Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
WORDS AND GEETAR.
cosign on happiness explosions.
― b!tchass, birdchested bastard sees a dude bigger than he (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
ya i love that one too. fucking album.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 14 June 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
words and guitar is a song i want to live inside--corin sounds so derangedly ecstatic.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 14 June 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Top 5 Dig Me Out moments:
1. Janet Weiss' (what a name!) gargantuan drum roll (after several subtle, anticipatory drum rolls - a key influence on "The Thong Song"?) at 1:17 before the second round of "take take the noise in my head" which then rocks out inhumanly.
2. The atomic drop at very beginning of the next song, "It's Enough," telling us "no, no, we won't stop a-rockin!"
3. "I make rock n roll" at the end of "It's Enough."
4. "Oh, you've got the darkest eyes." (Remember that one?)
5. The short "kick it out kick it in" break at 1:19 in "The Drama You've Been Craving" where they're just loving their sound.
So "Words and Guitar" very easily for me. The chutzpah of lesbians, bisexuals, etc. making a claim on the universality of music is enough to pummel you into the ground. Dig me out, indeed.
P.S. How come the chorus to "Heart Factory" is missing in the lyric sheet?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 14 June 2009 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
'buy her candy' seems to be halfway to having invented the riff for 'one beat'. which is kind of weird. i like it anyway.
― thomp, Sunday, 14 June 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
do i mean 'one beat'? one of the BIG ROCKING numbers.
"One More Hour" is the last song they ever played, and Corin could barely sing the words in the chorus. ;_;
I'll always say "Turn It On" because it's so intense, but I could throw a dart at the tray sleeve and odds are I'd hit a stone-cold classic.
― Leee, Sunday, 14 June 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
love this album. one of the best of the 90's, and imo the best S-K album. every track is great, but I'm going with "One More Hour".
― Dan S, Monday, 15 June 2009 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Boy, this is a real throw-a-dart-and-pick-one poll. I most recently heard "Drama," so it's fresh in my head and easy to pick, but everything else is just SO SO GREAT.
― Chubby Checker Psycho (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 15 June 2009 00:38 (fifteen years ago) link
A Godlike, unimpeachable mega super duper classic. Can't say enough good things about it.
Turn It On
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 15 June 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
now i'm leaning toward "it's enough," on general under-2-minute-songs-rule principle.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Monday, 15 June 2009 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
or maybe i should go for "little babies" so that the sort-of single gets at least a vote.
this is the one album i loved by them. one of those perfect moments in time where i bought this and totally high on it went and saw them live and they totally surpassed any expectations i might have had before seeing them. just total fever pitch sleater-kinney army in full effect in philly. so many buttons and badges on so many book bags. i have never felt taller. and i grew up going to straightedge hardcore shows in connecticut, where the average height was five foot one, so that's saying something.
one of those shows where you think a band should/could rule the world.
― scott seward, Monday, 15 June 2009 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
probably their best album, plus this has some killer "let's just keep repeating the same riff/words but make them kick more and more and more ass every single time" song endings
"not what you want," because hey why not?
― pretzel walrus, Monday, 15 June 2009 01:14 (fifteen years ago) link
haven't felt the urge to play this in years but i'd probably go "words and guitar". or maybe "dance song '97". can't recall some of these off the top of my head.
― susan fassbender (donna rouge), Monday, 15 June 2009 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember how excited I was hearing "Turn It On" for the first time. It took me a while to get past it on the album. There's other great stuff on here, but that's that one I have to vote for.
― purrington, Monday, 15 June 2009 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
(btw i messed up the lyric in the thread title. i think it's actually "gonna burn gonna fall down." hot either way.)
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Monday, 15 June 2009 02:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Words and Guitar is a song I have in my head several times a day, so I have to vote for that.
― akm, Thursday, 18 June 2009 04:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 18 June 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
ugh i didn't even vote!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 18 June 2009 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
"Heart Factory" should have gotten at least one vote.
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 June 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost haha, i didn't either. couldn't make up my mind and then forgot. i don't have a problem with the results, though. retroactively i'll toss a vote to the title track, which is a phenomenal opener (and was a phenomenal show-closer).
― us_odd_bunny_lady (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 18 June 2009 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
'jenny' should have gotten at least one vote
― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 June 2009 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
"Not What You Want" - 3:17 1"Things You Say" - 2:56 0
would have voted for either of these
― goole, Thursday, 18 June 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
missed this! no idea what i would have voted for but i like all the ones that got 0 votes.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 18 June 2009 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
missed this too, probably would have voted for "things you say"
― da croupier, Friday, 19 June 2009 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Just saw on fb that this one turns Sweet 16 today.
I feel old.
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 April 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
prob wouldve voted dance song 97 but so many good choices god
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
i had to check how far away the s-k ballot poll was a few wks ago (still too far!) based on how much i listened to them this winter
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
can't believe this thread hasn't been revived more often
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
still bummed "things you say" got a zero
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
just total fever pitch sleater-kinney army in full effect in philly. so many buttons and badges on so many book bags.
This sounds just like the show I went to at the Troc. Lots of high school girls with tiny backpacks (since I stayed down in the all ages section, being more interesting in seeing the band up close than drinking up on the balcony).
I'm not an S-K fan per se, but they were great live, and their fans were great too. I wish I had seen them more than once. In a way I had a reverse experience from scott, since I saw them live first and then bought this CD, and ended up a bit disappointed by the CD.
For me, title track easily takes this, with One More Hour next.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
Although Turn It On is sounding good too at the moment. Maybe I shouldn't have donated my copy to the Albuquerque public library, but Spotify is good enough for my purposes I think.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
i have never felt taller.
― j., Tuesday, 6 August 2019 02:18 (four years ago) link
I recall voting for OMH way back when; probably Drama or NWYW today
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 02:37 (four years ago) link
happy 25th
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 April 2022 21:35 (two years ago) link
Tribute album coming, looking forward to finding out which song Low covered.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 8 April 2022 22:09 (two years ago) link
XP https://www.stereogum.com/2182833/sleater-kinney-dig-me-out-25th-anniversary-tribute/news/
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 April 2022 22:11 (two years ago) link
jenny deserved a vote
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 April 2022 23:44 (two years ago) link
I seem to go against the grain on this record, my six favourite songs got a total of 3 votes in the poll. I'd've been the "Jenny" voter.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 9 April 2022 02:52 (two years ago) link
Excited to finally share the details for the DMO covers album this Friday. pic.twitter.com/iGWDWZIkJW— Sleater-Kinney (@Sleater_Kinney) September 19, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 September 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
So, Courtney Barnett is on it...
D'oh! Forgot I posted that Stereogum teaser upthread.
So far, in alphabetical order, it reads like this: Big Joanie, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Courtney Barnett, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, the Linda Lindas, Low, Margo Price, Self Esteem, St. Vincent, Tunde Adebimpe of TV On The Radio, Tyler Cole, Wilco, and more
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 September 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album arrives October 21st, 2022.We’re excited to share Courtney Barnett’s version of “Words and Guitar.” @courtneymelba Listen here! https://t.co/3yDbvw3dga pic.twitter.com/PIhTYDHW2J— Sleater-Kinney (@Sleater_Kinney) September 23, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 September 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
The nervous, twitchy energy is what made Words and Guitar so great, as well as the complete tonal shift to the pretty melodic passages. Courtney's cover sadly lacks both. It's just kind of... there.
― The Ghost Club, Friday, 23 September 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
Kind of weird to have a tribute album to a current band by their peers, isn't it?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 September 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
Eager to hear the Low song but not really excited for the rest (+ actively dreading St. Vincent and Wilco).
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 24 September 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
Not to mention the overlapping vocals, the absence of which I think might sink a lot of these covers.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 September 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
The second single of “Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album” is here this Friday! Thank you @MissMargoPrice for your amazing rendition of Turn It On, a version which includes an instrument never before featured on an SK song (and we love it). pic.twitter.com/eAwe7ACb5P— Sleater-Kinney (@Sleater_Kinney) October 10, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 October 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
This is kind of rad.
― Fartleby the Scrivener (Leee), Friday, 14 October 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
the Wilco song is the nadir of this one but overall it could be worse
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 21 October 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
Yeah, that one sounds like the exact same arrangement, so it's basically a karaoke version.
Margot Price's track is still far and away the best one.
― Fartleby the Scrivener (Leee), Friday, 21 October 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link