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

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.

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.

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.

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, 1997
5 Points (2 Votes)

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)

2. “Was It A Lie?”
All Hands On The Bad One, 2000
6 Points (2 Votes)

http://www.silvertentacle.com/images/clashcombatrockcd.jpg

1. “Combat Rock”
One Beat, 2002
8 Points (3 Votes)

BONUS FEATURE: Protest Vote from Leee

SUCK IT, THEY'RE ALL GREAT.

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.

I voted for two of these.

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?"

same

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!

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.

"Entertain" my pick for worst. Presaged Carrie Brownstein's NPR column career.

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.

ha, 2 of the worst were on my top 20 ballot.

^

(one of them was my first-place track...so, you people suck)

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.

Two of the worst in my top 20, though I can understand how one bores and one annoys.

I wonder how much of "Combat Rock"'s hate stems not from the politics but from Carrie's cutsey speak-singing accent.

(one of them was my first-place track...so, you people suck)

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, April 24, 2014 5:47 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ditto.

The only other poll I know of that had a "worst songs" ballot was the Who. Were there any others?

Stones, I think

I wonder how much of "Combat Rock"'s hate stems not from the politics but from Carrie's cutsey speak-singing accent.

lol I like her singing on that.

Xp Kinks ("Come Dancing" made both lists.)

love their Yoko-meets-Cindy-Wilson vocal affect on "Milkshake 'n' Honey" though.

Ah, that's right, I remember now. I did a worst ballot for the Kinks and the Who, but not for the Stones. A few Who songs made both lists, too.

i put who songs on all my worst ballots!

jk, i couldn't imagine putting together a worst ballot for sk, nothing they did ever really annoyed me or continues to annoy me the way say 'long live rock' does, definitely could've predicted a few of those cuts would make it though really hectoring bush era protest songs are something i can forgive very easily, we all lived thru that hell. worst songs are pretty common though and there's always at least one or two cuts i'm a little outraged to see make it.

Elton had a Worst Songs side poll (and maaaan does Elton have some Worst Songs).

^^I didn't partake often, but I did follow that Mama Can't Buy You Love thread.

have I got Worst Elton Songs for you

Kinda hoping there's a Worst Songs side poll for Dylan, and then I kinda want to poll Elton's worst against Dylan's.

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.

#1 Must Have is awesome wtf

i knew i should have voted in this goddamn poll

i don't understand what people like about the woods. i tried.

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

#1 Must Have is awesome wtf

i don't understand what people like about the woods. i tried.

horseshoe otm x10000000000

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

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

I try to be careful about defining this or that ostensibly feminist work as shrill.

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.