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 (ten years ago) link
Stones, I think
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:48 (ten 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.
lol I like her singing on that.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
Xp Kinks ("Come Dancing" made both lists.)
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
love their Yoko-meets-Cindy-Wilson vocal affect on "Milkshake 'n' Honey" though.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
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.
― balls, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link
Elton had a Worst Songs side poll (and maaaan does Elton have some Worst Songs).
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:07 (ten years ago) link
^^I didn't partake often, but I did follow that Mama Can't Buy You Love thread.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link
have I got Worst Elton Songs for you
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
Kinda hoping there's a Worst Songs side poll for Dylan, and then I kinda want to poll Elton's worst against Dylan's.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
#1 Must Have is awesome wtf
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
i knew i should have voted in this goddamn poll
i don't understand what people like about the woods. i tried.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
i don't know if ahotbo is the most self-consciously feminist one, but maybe the most lucidly feminist?
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
horseshoe otm x10000000000
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
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, 24 April 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
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
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:26 (ten years ago) link
I try to be careful about defining this or that ostensibly feminist work as shrill.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
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!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
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.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link
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 wishWe could write more than the next marketing bidCulture is what we make it yes it isNow is the time, now is the timeNow is the time to invent, invent, inventInvent, invent, invent
i just straight up say that to people sometimes. i mean, i don't repeat "invent" six times. but maybe i should.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:33 (ten years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link
Previous longest sk songs were album closers with extended outros right at 4min
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
i didn't know about the cadallaca album before this! thank you poll! corin should sing all the songs.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link
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.
― balls, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link
lol "you ppl":
“God Is A Number”The Hot Rock, 19995 Points (1 Vote, 1 #1)
5 Points (1 Vote, 1 #1)
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:58 (ten years ago) link
That one guy...
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 25 April 2014 00:02 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 25 April 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
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 seenI want to close my eyesI want to cut the wiresI want a day not made for you to see
― reddening, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
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*
― da croupier, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:13 (ten years ago) link
Kind OF static, I mean
― da croupier, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:14 (ten years ago) link
"cultures what we make it, yes it is!" as arguable demerits.
― da croupier, Thursday, April 24, 2014 8:13 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'll kill you
― horseshoe, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
I'll watch.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 25 April 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
I voted for "terrorist" on the side project poll so Ivan dig it
― da croupier, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
Lol "I can dig it" rather
― da croupier, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link
lol i love that song forgiven
― horseshoe, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
was puzzled by this as well
― RSD-rolled (sleeve), Friday, 25 April 2014 00:28 (ten years ago) link
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.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:32 (ten years ago) link
God is not a number, God is a FREE MAN!
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:33 (ten years ago) link
I was hoping it was someone who found it sacriligeous.
― da croupier, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:34 (ten years ago) link
Just pretentious.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:34 (ten years ago) link
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."
― reddening, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:37 (ten years ago) link
Gobsmacked that anything in "The Remainder" is boring!
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 25 April 2014 00:39 (ten years ago) link