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

Yeah, totally. I love the way the distortion builds.

Interesting that they went with a new version for the video. Judging by the release date, I guess it was the last thing they recorded.

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh finally catching up with this for a minute! Hard to add much but the Woods tracks appearing so far make me feel bad about shortchanging that record in my ballot, I fucking loved it when it came out. Maybe I just overplayed the thing.

Cut "What's Mine Is Yours" last-minute from my ballot - I do think it's one of the strongest cuts on the album but somehow when it came voting time, the big awesome guitar solo breakdown thing seemed like dead weight rather than an epic move for texture and space on their most Zep-ish LP.

"Rollercoaster" is awesome, love how busy and thundering and pounding it gets, with the ooh-ooh rockin' rollercoaster stuff gliding up through the mix. Would have made my ballot probably except, as with a lot of Woods tracks, it sounded way shittier and noisier and distorted on headphones from Spotify than it ever did on LP or in concert.

"Modern Girl" ditto actually - listening to the video version, as rough as it is, it sounds like such a Sleater-Kinney song and the moments that always had the most heart (the chorus, the "I DIDN'T BUY NOTHIN'!") come through that much clearer. Also I always loved the donut line.

Your Sunday Sleater-Kinney Selections...

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33. “All Hands On The Bad One”
All Hands On The Bad One, 2000
144 Points (8 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/YvpHxtNx0BU

Did not vote for this, but love it lots. Their title tracks are almost all jams.

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32. “It’s Enough”
Dig Me Out, 1997
146 Points (8 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/HOZoIbcGORo
Live in '97 @ 924 Gilman St.: http://youtu.be/M0F8bTWivmo

Today's Final Entry:

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31. “Ironclad”
All Hands On The Bad One, 2000
156 Points (8 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/BsG3AuE7jlU
Live In 2000: http://youtu.be/kDpdOvpT2qs

Too low

lol @ the "It's Enough" screenshot. Early on, I was thrown by the sax on it -- riot grrrl with horns? So not punk! But really adds some texture to your usual awesome Corin wailing.

"Ironclad" and "Youth Decay" were the two RAWK ones from All Hands that I was choosing between, went with the former probably because it's a little more top-to-bottom awesome.

this poll is so joyous, every song that shows up i'm like "hell yeah what a great song, why didn't i vote for it??"

^^^I know, right?

1:06 to 1:32 of Pompeii is just, I don't know how to not get all hyperbolic saying this, but it was one of the last times where I was just floored by a rock song.

yeah that's one of the few so far that i voted for. right now the song that i'm like wow why didn't i vote for this is "Was It A Lie?"

Sorry for the delay. I had to, er, "Call The Doctor" on myself this morning. (I should be okay in time.)

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30. “Anonymous”
Call The Doctor, 1996
169 Points (7 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/d9AWN-lIewU
Live @ Reading '99 (start of three song mini-set): http://youtu.be/lGcvnTuugMg
Live in 2000: http://youtu.be/SrQRNrYr0jw

Oh this is too low. My favorite of side 1 Call The Doctor, which is saying something.

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29. “The Size of Our Love”
The Hot Rock, 1999
180 Points (8 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/E8DBJirlEh0

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28. “Sympathy”
One Beat, 2002
190 Points (8 Votes, 1 #1)

The Track: http://youtu.be/2mOrhpSWTec
Live @ Coachella '06: http://youtu.be/gvWd03dfs6U

"The Size of Our Love" kills me. Their most fully realized ballad to date.

It didn't make my ballot, but ^^ this.

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27. “The Fox”
The Woods, 2005
203 Points (9 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/xgBRjqDE-24
Live in '04 (from bonus dvd): http://youtu.be/joS3HiPiEaA
Live in '06 (Final Show): http://youtu.be/mr71K5xdfEQ

Heh, going through a stretch of songs that didn't make my shortlist.

Anonymous and Size of Our Love were last-minute cuts from my ballot. I voted for "Sympathy," my favorite song off One Beat and one of their most affecting.

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26. “Entertain”
The Woods, 2005
206 Points (12 Votes)

Music Video: http://youtu.be/MbxRu7fwR24
Live in 2004 (early lyrics from bonus dvd): http://youtu.be/Iv8AaUqV2wk
Live on "The Henry Rollins Show": http://youtu.be/TAmIm3XFPuY

my ballot was prejudiced towards the barn-burners (i put "the fox" high in my ballot for the giddiness of "i'll go / i'll go / and there's NO LOOKING BACK!"), but "the size of our love" was so important to me at one point. re-listening evokes a total sense-memory of when i first heard it (first year of college, sitting on the grass outside the library, achingly and fruitlessly in love).

"sympathy" was also on my ballot; i love the combo of corin's concrete despair and and carrie's imagistic strut.

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25. “Light Rail Coyote”
One Beat, 2002
216 Points (10 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/GLgPGpX5Gek
Live in '06: http://youtu.be/xZUVUk-DsfE

Woo Entertain! I was worried it would miss the cut. The Jumpers to Rollercoaster section of The Woods is one of the best stretches in S-K history.

"Light Rail Coyote" reaallllly took off live.

Back in early days of the voting thread I brought up what I felt could be this poll's "Sway", a song that had been on all the initial ballots. It didn't keep up the momentum, but here 'tis:

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24. “The End of You”
The Hot Rock, 1999
229 Points (12 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/qrIq4UWG-Uc
Live in '99: http://youtu.be/HS8JVUdaK6I
Live in '06 (Final Show): http://youtu.be/vka588sPseU

too low

Yeah, seriously.

Wow, seriously didn't expect that to even make the poll, let alone the top half. I mean, I love every song on THR, but I definitely consider "The End of You" to be one of its lesser tracks.

Still, surprises like that are making me love this poll

my brain can't even compute how someone wouldn't think this is one of S-K's FIFTY best songs.

Back in early days of the voting thread I brought up what I felt could be this poll's "Sway", a song that had been on all the initial ballots.

Ha, I was wondering what song it was that made all the (early) ballots! This was my #11, but it's always been a THR highlight for me. Love the hunkering down/us-against-the-world sentiment (magnified by the ferocious music).

In my defense S-K has tons of great songs

It's true, but imo almost all of them came between 1996-2000.

Kinda surprised about "Light Rail Coyote"! I seem to recall that it somehow got painted with the same ambivalence of "Combat Rock" when One Beat came out.

No way. Light Rail Coyote rules!!!

can't believe i didn't vote for anonymous.

entertain and the fox are as not-fun as i remember, ditto light-rail coyote. i guess they're all part of a late-phase "rawk" sk sound that's technically pretty intricate, but feels sort of plodding

^^^ That was what I remembered the reception being like!

pirouettes, bows

A few evening entries:

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23. “The Drama You’ve Been Craving”
Dig Me Out, 1997
241 Points (9 Votes, 1 #1)

The Track: http://youtu.be/dE1UT5fmYSM
Live @ CBGB's in '97: http://youtu.be/ttlFGOOJerU

KICK IT OUUUUUUUUUUUT

all the bridges gonna fall gonna burn down

love the first half of DMO.

Posted this on the voting thread, but deserves repeating. I love this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttlFGOOJerU

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22. “Youth Decay”
All Hands On The Bad One, 2000
244 Points (13 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/vdUGcBaQLz0
Live in '99: http://youtu.be/ZmVFax0GuSM

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Oh, that's the same one posted above. Sorry. Anyway, yeah, that song. It was my #5. Probably should have voted it higher.

Love "Youth Decay" too.

Last for today...

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21. “Stay Where You Are”
Call The Doctor, 1996
251 Points (11 Votes, 1 #1)

The Track: http://youtu.be/cjKGYYkkXtU
Live In-Store from '96 (4 songs total): http://youtu.be/yI1tnmRt_d0
Live @ CBGB's in '97: http://youtu.be/eGEfLY0hI5Q

That first side is a marvel.