"June n July" and The Spells' "The Age of Backwards" were both bubbling under. Excuse 17 earned several votes, but "The Drop Dead Look" was easily the most popular of their seven tracks that earned votes.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
Sorry for the delay. On To The Albums!
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5. The Woods, 200542 Points (14 Votes, 3 # 1’s)
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
realised awhile ago this sounds MUCH better to me played more softly than loud. i can't "hear" it when it's blaring. GREAT way to exit for the ladies in any event
― Tom Waits for no one (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
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4. One Beat, 200251 Points (17 Votes, 3 #1’s)
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
I put One Beat as my #1, I wouldn't have anticipated putting it there before the poll but the production style here is my favorite
― reddening, Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
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3. Call The Doctor, 199653 Points (20 Votes)
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
I had CTD @ #2. Wouldn't have thought to do it prior to the poll, but I did my tracks list first and saw I had shortlisted practically the whole thing.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
THR #2, DMO #1? /wishful thinking
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
no first place votes for call the doctor is kinda insane (esp w/ 3 #1s for the freaking woods)
― balls, Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
CTD was like a perennial #2/3 on most ballots, which does add up.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
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2. The Hot Rock, 199967 Points (21 Votes, 5 #1’s)
Just listened to The Woods again yesterday, and the mastering doesn't bug me as much anymore. Also, probably their best collection of songs, and by far their most unhinged performances.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
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1. The Kink Kontroversy, 196589 Points (22 Votes, 12 #1’s)
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
lollll
stoked to see the hot rock so high!
― reddening, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
I did an albums of the '90s list, and I do think that The Kink Kontroversy ended up as my #1.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
Waitaminute
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1. Dig Me Out, 199789 Points (22 Votes, 12 #1’s)
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
For awhile DMR & THR were neck and neck for #1, but then the former got like 5 individual #1's in row, which sealed that one.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Also stoked to see the hot rock so high. Definitely their most critically underappreciated record in its day, and to me their crowning achievement.
― good and relaxing like akon dont matter (intheblanks), Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I definitely remember AHOTBO being hailed as a "return to form," as if THR sucked or something.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
I'll happily take The Hot Rock at second. Which record was sixth?
― devvvine, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
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6. All Hands On The Bad One, 200031 Points (12 Votes)
After that, there's a precipitous drop off in points, with entries for the debut coming next, then Heavens To Betsy, the two Corin albums, Cadallaca, and Wild Flag.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Aw, I should've voted for albums. I don't know if it would've made a difference in the end, but AHOTBO would've been my #1.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
THR was the only one of their post-S/T records to miss the P&J top 10, and if Wikipedia is to be believed, THR sold substantially less than each of their post-CTD albums.
― good and relaxing like akon dont matter (intheblanks), Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I definitely remember AHOTBO being hailed as a "return to form," as if THR sucked or something.― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, April 24, 2014 3:14 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, April 24, 2014 3:14 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Seems like THR was a backlash moment in some cases. I remember a review in Alternative Press in which the album got whatever the middle rating was on the scale they were using at the time, with the writer making points about how it wasn't anything they hadn't done as good or better before, and how it seemed like they were putting more effort into side projects then they should. THR was my intro to the band (bought it a few weeks after release) and I just couldn't get my head around how anyone could perceive it as a lackluster release.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
I was super excited to hear it, as I was already in love with Dig Me Out, and I bought THR on release day. It exceeded my expectations, and my expectations were that they'd introduce more tension, drama, and mystery into their now-established formula, and that they'd also fuck with that formula.
I always suspected the haters just wanted DMO II.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
THR was definitely not as universally loved as Dig Me Out or Call The Doctor.
X-post...Dig Me Out 2 would be great. I'm one of those fans.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
If anything, the problem with The Hot Rock was the sequencing. After the alltime opener, it got a little tough going. Picked up on side 2, where DMO and CTD stumbled.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
The Hot Rock was the only album (besides the first) that missed the top 10 of Pazz & Jop, and was also their lowest selling album (besides the first). and it's always been by far my favorite, so it's gratifying to see that it's got a lot of support here.
― some dude, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
I'm gonna do the "Worst/Least Loved Songs" run now, and I'll fire up the Tracks Rollout tomorrow.
As the points totals reveal, I didn't get alot of takers on this part of the ballot. I'm including this # of them to illustrate a point later to be revealed in the regular tracks list.
On with the show:
8. “Jenny”Dig Me Out, 19975 Points (2 Votes)
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
3. (Tie) “#1 Must Have”All Hands On The Bad One, 2000
“Entertain”The Woods, 2005
“Faraway”One Beat, 2002
“God Is A Number”The Hot Rock, 1999
“Milkshake n’ Honey”All Hands On The Bad One, 2000
5 Points (1 Vote, 1 #1)
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
2. “Was It A Lie?”All Hands On The Bad One, 20006 Points (2 Votes)
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
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1. “Combat Rock”One Beat, 20028 Points (3 Votes)
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
BONUS FEATURE: Protest Vote from Leee
SUCK IT, THEY'RE ALL GREAT.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
I opted out of this poll primarily because I couldn't think of 5 missteps in their catalog that were major enough to really merit inclusion in a "worst" poll.
― good and relaxing like akon dont matter (intheblanks), Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
I voted for two of these.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
ha, 2 of the worst were on my top 20 ballot.
the framing of "faraway" isn't my deal but i love the holler of "why can't i get along with youuuuuuuuuu?"
― reddening, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
same
― Tom Waits for no one (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
Hah, two of mine show up there, plus, "Jenny" is great!
Honestly, my protest vote was because I didn't have time to go through my least favorites!
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
I really like Was it a Lie and Combat Rock. I didn't end up voting for worst songs. Would have probably just filled my list with songs from the first album.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
"Entertain" my pick for worst. Presaged Carrie Brownstein's NPR column career.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
Disappointed that All Hands missed the top five. I was very close to putting it as my number two behind Dig Me Out but ended up putting The Hot Rock ahead of it too.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
^
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
(one of them was my first-place track...so, you people suck)
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
i had to hear the story behind "was it a lie?" before i could genuinely appreciate it. i always thought AHOTB was their most self-consciously feminist album, but after re-listening to the earlier stuff it might just be that they're more...idk, didactic? than they were before. still love it tho.
― reddening, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
Two of the worst in my top 20, though I can understand how one bores and one annoys.
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
I wonder how much of "Combat Rock"'s hate stems not from the politics but from Carrie's cutsey speak-singing accent.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, April 24, 2014 5:47 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ditto.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
The only other poll I know of that had a "worst songs" ballot was the Who. Were there any others?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
Stones, I think
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
lol I like her singing on that.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
Wrong about Call The Doctor http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/10/ranking-sleater-kinney-from-worst-to-best/full-post/
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 07:05 (nine years ago) link
one beat is def my least fav
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 12:41 (nine years ago) link
i saw that yesterday and it amused me how dramatically different their ranking was from ILM's
― some dude, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 12:48 (nine years ago) link
all of the albums are good with a slight decline circa All Hands on the Bad One and, perhaps, its predecessor, which has at least been overrated here, while One Beat and perhaps Call the Doctor are underrated.
― benbbag, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
Spin Ranks The Tracks: http://www.spin.com/articles/every-sleater-kinney-song-ranked-no-cities-to-love/
Just digging in, but already seeing we differ from the Spin writers.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:00 (nine years ago) link
Didn't see that #1 coming, can't say the same about #2 ;-)
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:37 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I was at that Echo Lounge show where they forgot how to play "Buy Her Candy." Didn't know it was on YouTube.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:57 (nine years ago) link
i wholeheartedly reject the judgment of any poll that puts "pompeii" in the BOTTOM FIVE of all s-k songs, below even "write me back fucker."
― bonkers candle ancestors (reddening), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 09:43 (nine years ago) link
My mind is boggled that "Turn It On" is in the bottom half. >=(
― We are the Knights who Sleater-Kinney (Leee), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
Super happy to see "Sympathy" so high. Top 10 overall is pretty close to mine in a different order.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, my list is different than theirs but I'm glad to see "Sympathy" and "Leave You Behind" appreciated.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
UPDATE: Shortly after this list was published, two new Sleater-Kinney songs were discovered to have been released as a bonus 12-inch single with the vinyl edition of No Cities to Love. The list has been since updated to include them.
"omg new songs, hurry figure out how they stack against songs you've known for 15 years" is some clickhole logic
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
Tipsy was that the Echo Lounge show Flin Flon opened?
― campreverb, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Yep, with the Butchies too. Also saw them there the next year, with the Gossip opening.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
the Butchies were such a great live band, saw them a few times.
― campreverb, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
They were. I bought a CD at that show because their set was so good. Recordings didn't live up to the show, but there were some good tunes.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
WE NEED TO RE-RUN THIS POLL.
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
Yes! That's my favorite.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
I rank'em all except the self-titled.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 10:41 (five years ago) link
Carrie's part during the bridge of "Call the Doctor" is killing me right now.
― The Finger Thing Means the Taxes (Leee), Monday, 29 October 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link