― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 17 April 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
I love all their LPs, but 'Call The Doctor' still reigns supreme. No, it doesn't have Janet or steller production, but it's like some kind of mid-90s post-Riot Grrl 'Zen Arcade'-in-miniature and the emotion and emerging songcraft (not that I'm dissing the S/T, mind you) beats the shit out of most other records that decade...
(Note: Jimmy is everwhere, isn't he?)
― John 2, Friday, 18 April 2003 01:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 18 April 2003 07:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― John 2, Friday, 18 April 2003 19:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 19 April 2003 00:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 19 May 2003 12:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe Gross, Monday, 19 May 2003 12:58 (twenty years ago) link
i listen to dig me out a lot more at the moment cos its the only sleater-kinney album that i haven't lsitened to way too much. but i still say call the doctor is better. another clincher - laura's haunting backing vocals on songs like taste test.
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 20 September 2003 23:03 (twenty years ago) link
I LUV them all, but would currently rank them like this:
1. One Beat 2. Dig Me Out3/4. Call the Doctor/The Hot Rock (tie)5. All Hands on the Bad One6. Sleater-Kinney
― chris herrington (chris herrington), Saturday, 20 September 2003 23:25 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 21 September 2003 00:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 21 September 2003 05:48 (twenty years ago) link
(but they're all pretty great).
I was severely disappointed in One Beat when it came out, I played it a bit this spring, but I found it in a misplaced binder this week, and there are just no bad songs on it.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 21 September 2003 06:39 (twenty years ago) link
7) Hot Rock...(not that I dislike it, just didn't effect me as the others and I hardly ever isten to it, but should probably reinvestigate - I really liked the first half, but then it lost me, if I remember right)
― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 21 September 2003 07:01 (twenty years ago) link
But Corin didn't really get her voice under control fully until All Hands
personally i wish corin had NEVER had singing lessons, she used to sound much more expressive.
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 21 September 2003 07:17 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 21 September 2003 07:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 21 September 2003 07:29 (twenty years ago) link
Inspired to listen to the first one again for the first time in a few years -- maybe I should bump it up over All Hands on the list above.
― chris herrington (chris herrington), Sunday, 21 September 2003 14:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 21 September 2003 14:29 (twenty years ago) link
― ModJ, Sunday, 21 September 2003 15:08 (twenty years ago) link
First thing he did in a million years that DIDN'T irritate me. Though he was rather vague about why he didn't like it, probably cuz he would have to admit he had overrated AHOTBO. Though he apologized recently by pitching woo about how great Corin's duet with Eddie Vedder on "Hunger Strike" live was. If he's gonna praise her Chris Cornell covers than he's still an insane hyper-fan.
I still adore the Call/Dig/Hot troika. And there's some great songs on the later albums.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 21 September 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
One Beat is an amazing album no matter what, and who cares what some old, possibly-irrelevant intellekshuL thinks
― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 21 September 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:46 (twenty years ago) link
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― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 21 September 2003 22:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 21 September 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link
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― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 22 September 2003 05:36 (twenty years ago) link
saying "i don't get the fall" >>>>>>>>>>> not getting the fall and giving all their records B- reviews.
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 22 September 2003 06:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Monday, 22 September 2003 07:28 (twenty years ago) link
1. 1beat/DMO2.5. CtD3. Hot4. All Hands
― Leee (Leee), Monday, 22 September 2003 07:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 22 September 2003 07:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Monday, 22 September 2003 07:44 (twenty years ago) link
--
But isn't that more valid for Hot Rock and All Hands (or even Dig Me Out) than for One Beat, which seems far less concerned with their band's place in the world than with the world itself (and not just post-911 stuff, but their hometown, having kids, etc.)?
― chris herrington (chris herrington), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:46 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:49 (twenty years ago) link
Milkshake & Honey, Male Model, Pompeii, and #1 Must Have could easily qualify as bad songs. Sometimes I want to include Ballad Of A Ladyman.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 22 September 2003 20:06 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:05 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:42 (twenty years ago) link
-- Anthony Miccio (anthonymicci...), September 22nd, 2003.
- those first three are not only the best songs on the album, but amongst the best of their career
― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 07:06 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 07:14 (twenty years ago) link
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― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:10 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:11 (twenty years ago) link
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― j., Tuesday, 6 August 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link
Corin was also literally destroying her voice before she got lessons so
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 02:35 (four years ago) link
so much the better for her, so much the worse for us
― j., Tuesday, 6 August 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link