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

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.

My #1. I love the big meaty riff and the sheer morass of the chorus, Corin howling in the back like a pack of wolves while Carrie deadpans a hook on top. It's one of those mystery songs to me, like how did human beings make this sound?

Stay Where You Are is so great

oh wow, i love The End of You. the sequence running from Carrie's spare semi-spoken chorus into the vine-like guitar interlude and back into Corin's fragile verse is one of my favourite stretches of music in all of S-K.

ok i just ran into a few early early sk tracks on youtube. thanks to all this ctd stuff on the poll i got in the mood for it and wow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNJ0Es7kWmg

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsIyJ0A3jDc

i guess big big lights was post DMO actually. its pretty well realized. surf song is apparently from the debut 7"? its hilarious

Feel like tracks from AHOTBO are making a really strong showing, given where it landed in the albums poll.

listening through s/t now, which is better than i remembered. its weird how raw the lyrics are. i tend to think of them as a more refined, sort of oblique band even, lyrically, and then you have lyrics like: "Sold out, do, do you wanna it / On a magazine cover? / Take it, it's my body / Take it, I want money / Diamonds are a girl's best friend"

I love that first 7", always thought they sounded a lot better on it than the subsequent 10"

I was given the 10" as a review copy when it came out and I don't think I panned it but it wasn't what I was expecting having seen the two previous bands. I should try and dig that review up tonight.

Stay Where You Are is so great

― da croupier, Monday, April 28, 2014 10:41 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

been listening to this on repeat. so great, so bouncy!

i remember "real man" was actually v. important to people i knew at the time. only 1000 ppl bought the debut 10" but all of them put "real man" on mixtapes for their queer friends?

That was mean of them

Uh I bought it bt didn't tape it for friends cos they'd already got that message (andit's a bad song)? Can see it's imptce at that time in specific places tho, f'sure. I ws in NZ tho, was kinda a "hey others!" thing

Love "A Real Man", just narrowly missed my ballot. And yeah, it meant a lot to me. The s/t bangs pretty hard, and while there are some lowlights I think it's less spotty than a few of their albums. Plus it has their first stone-cold classic "Be Yr Mama", which I'm hoping shows up (but it's not looking too optimistic)

Happy Tuesday!

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20. “Jumpers”
The Woods, 2005
252 Points (10 Votes)

Music Video: http://youtu.be/vZA_7FtttRY
Live on Letterman: http://youtu.be/6JgZn-75gfo
Live on The Henry Rollins Show: http://youtu.be/8PYihqQJHXQ
Live @ Big Day Out '06: http://youtu.be/X9H3d1vjsvQ

use of that photo only cool if she didn't jump imo

The only Woods tune I might've voted for.

Jumpers is incredible, classic Letterman performance.

use of that photo only cool if she didn't jump imo

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:30 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

According To wiki (who host the image) the police talked her down.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/tUduBdwR6C4/0.jpg

19. “One Beat”
One Beat, 2002
254 Points (11 Votes, 1 #1)

The Track: http://youtu.be/TpLhrLzSaFQ
Live @ ATP '06 (rough audio): http://youtu.be/nXPFmJUxAjg

The opening drums! The new "Be My Baby" for the 21st century! I find it intensely sensual.

Anyone else think Corin sounds a lot like Geddy Lee on the opening lines of this?

xp Not to be confused with "Oh!" which liberally quotes the drumbeat from "Be My Baby"

Jumpers is incredible, classic Letterman performance.

― voodoo chili, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 5:51 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Great job, girls!"

(Love the performance, but Letterman, eeps.)

Haha I do confuse "One Beat" and "Oh!" all the time actually.

Also, I'll have to listen to "Oh!" more carefully to peep the "BMB" quotations.

The only Woods tune I might've voted for.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

The only Woods song I did vote for. Didn't even consider any of the other songs.

I'm sure someone already pointed out how great their title tracks are. One Beat is one of the best.

Also, their lead-off tracks. There's still plenty of poll left, but my guess is all but one of the post-S/T openers made the top 27 of this poll.

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18. “Little Babies”
Dig Me Out, 1997
272 Points (12 Votes)

The Track: http://youtu.be/GbFCnkQmdWI
Live @ CBGB's in '97: http://youtu.be/paSu9eWbC7s