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ridleybradout wrote:

ridleybradout wrote:My ongoing Portlandia-obsession has inspired me to finally check out Sleater-Kinney in detail. They never really had much of a profile here in Oz, and I was always put off seeking them out by Corin's encore performances with PJ back in 2003 .

I'm going to work through all the albums in order. Up to Call The Doctor and absolutely loving it - reminds me of what I loved about early Jebediah (late 90's Perth band for non-Aussies).

Must say I'm excited to read that many people think their albums got progressively better.

I guess The Woods is the prize at the end

Been listening to 'Dig Me Up' on repeat the last few days - easily the best album so far.

One More Hour is just fantastic and so unique - are there any other songs in the history of music that feature the two people the song is about singing together about their break-up?

The Hot Rock is up next!

Dig Me Out
And yes, it's great.

The Hot Rock is probably a step down.

Hot Rock has some good moments but I don't find myself drawn to it very often.

The last three albums, however, are terrific.

Leatherhead wrote: Dig Me Out
And yes, it's great.

Oops - I'll blame hours of brain-melting PhD thesis-writing on that typo.

zeb wrote:Hot Rock has some good moments but I don't find myself drawn to it very often.

The last three albums, however, are terrific.

Yeah - on first listen nothing on Hot Rock quite grabbed me like the previous two. Onto the last three this week...

ridleybradout wrote:

Leatherhead wrote: Dig Me Out
And yes, it's great.

Oops - I'll blame hours of brain-melting PhD thesis-writing on that typo.

zeb wrote:Hot Rock has some good moments but I don't find myself drawn to it very often.

The last three albums, however, are terrific.

Yeah - on first listen nothing on Hot Rock quite grabbed me like the previous two. Onto the last three this week...

Living In Exile and End of You are great though.

Its too bad the old SK site is no more, I get a feeling theres new fans around here that dont have the 8 disc / virtually every original song they ever played live mix project some of us put together years ago.

ridleybradout wrote:

Leatherhead wrote: Dig Me Out
And yes, it's great.

Oops - I'll blame hours of brain-melting PhD thesis-writing on that typo.

zeb wrote:Hot Rock has some good moments but I don't find myself drawn to it very often.

The last three albums, however, are terrific.

Yeah - on first listen nothing on Hot Rock quite grabbed me like the previous two. Onto the last three this week...

I like The Hot Rock a lot. It's a grower - it's mellower than the previous 3 albums and darker than the album that followed, so it doesn't hit you as fast as a lot of their other material. It's a great album, though - "Start Together" and "The End of You" are 2 of my favorite S-K songs.

ridleybradout wrote:One More Hour is just fantastic and so unique - are there any other songs in the history of music that feature the two people the song is about singing together about their break-up?

One More Hour was the final song played at their final show back in 2006. They were all tearing up during it. One of the best shows I've ever seen.

swan wrote:

ridleybradout wrote:One More Hour is just fantastic and so unique - are there any other songs in the history of music that feature the two people the song is about singing together about their break-up?

One More Hour was the final song played at their final show back in 2006. They were all tearing up during it. One of the best shows I've ever seen.

zeb wrote:http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/carrie-brownsteins-life-after-punk-20140320

that was a real good read on so many levels.

I so wanna hear more new music from Carrie, Corin, and Janet... but SK had just such a great run, such a great start / middle / and going out with still my favorite album of all time. The George Costanza high note

MadTIGERmaN wrote:

zeb wrote:http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/carrie-brownsteins-life-after-punk-20140320

that was a real good read on so many levels.

I so wanna hear more new music from Carrie, Corin, and Janet... but SK had just such a great run, such a great start / middle / and going out with still my favorite album of all time. The George Costanza high note

Yeah, thanks for posting Zeb

I tend to agree with the 'don't touch the legacy' line of thinking, but I'd selfishly love to have the chance to see them play live since I never got the chance

Carrie's memoirs will be a good read.

ridleybradout wrote:
I tend to agree with the 'don't touch the legacy' line of thinking, but I'd selfishly love to have the chance to see them play live since I never got the chance

That stinks, man. They were incredible live. I was lucky to see them four times and I loved them all. You may get your chance yet but I wouldn't count on it.

matt reeder wrote:

ridleybradout wrote:
I tend to agree with the 'don't touch the legacy' line of thinking, but I'd selfishly love to have the chance to see them play live since I never got the chance

That stinks, man. They were incredible live. I was lucky to see them four times and I loved them all. You may get your chance yet but I wouldn't count on it.

I got 4 shots too... 3 in 2005, and Lollapalooza 06 (which was the 3rd to last gig, still kinda mad Lolla didnt let them get the closing gig Friday night, theyre crowd was just as big as ummm it was either Dashboard Confessional or Deathcab for cutie?

my 3rd show I was front row, that was awesome. Carrie nearly kicked my head off twice

I saw them twice, the first time I got a setlist, which Janet also signed for me.

It just doesn't get any better than this:

I've worked my way through the last three S-K albums now - tres impressed! Carrie really found her voice in the second half of their career (and Corin and Janet were as explosive as ever).

On initial impressions I'd rank them:

The Woods / One Beat (can't separate these two)
Dig Me Out
All Hands On The Bad One / The Hot Rock (again on par I think)
Call The Doctor
Self-titled

I was taken aback by the intentional distortion on The Woods initially, thinking I'd got a dud rip. I see what Fridmann was trying to do there, but he took it a bit too far for mine.

I've been cruising some vids on youtube, apart from the BDO than Matt posted and a few TV appearances, there's not much in the way of pro-shot footage unfortunately

Does anyone know if there is a decent audio version of the BBC session available?

matt reeder wrote:It just doesn't get any better than this:

I fucking miss this band very much.

ridleybradout wrote:I've worked my way through the last three S-K albums now - tres impressed! Carrie really found her voice in the second half of their career (and Corin and Janet were as explosive as ever).

On initial impressions I'd rank them:

The Woods / One Beat (can't separate these two)
Dig Me Out
All Hands On The Bad One / The Hot Rock (again on par I think)
Call The Doctor
Self-titled

I was taken aback by the intentional distortion on The Woods initially, thinking I'd got a dud rip. I see what Fridmann was trying to do there, but he took it a bit too far for mine.

I've been cruising some vids on youtube, apart from the BDO than Matt posted and a few TV appearances, there's not much in the way of pro-shot footage unfortunately

Does anyone know if there is a decent audio version of the BBC session available?

I know I had a CD of the BBC Sessions back when I put together the live Vault for the old SK fan site. Audio seemed on par with that video from I can remember? But I did go through what 60 some bootlegs back then to put together the 8 disc collection. Ah those were the days

St. Vincent show at the Crystal Ballroom last night. I was at the very front of the 21+ section which is right next to VIP. Couple of songs in I looked to my right & there stood Corin & Carrie. They spent a little more than half the show grooving next to each other & then disappeared. No sign of Janet. Also after the show Peter Buck hit me with the door to the bathroom as I was going in. He was very apologetic.

Also, St. Vincent puts on one of the best shows since Sleater-Kinney gave it up. See her.

swan wrote:Couple of songs in I looked to my right & there stood Corin & Carrie. They spent a little more than half the show grooving next to each other & then disappeared.

I came across this as part of a SK discography torrent - great job!
I like how you organised it, with soundboards separately etc.

The BBC session youtube clip above has been taken down unfortunately

I recently discovered that a couple of songs from the BBC session (Words & Guitar and One More Hour) were on the Get Up single, which I picked up on the 'bay for a few bucks - they sound great.

Does anyone have any other SK B-sides, rarities or officially released live tracks they'd care to share with a new fan?