Sleater-Kinney

[cosmo105]

so i just bought The Woods, and i am in love with it. i can't believe i didn't get into them earlier. what other essentials of theirs should i get? Documad, i'm looking at you.

[Documad]

Oooh, The Woods might end up being my favorite CD this year. There are 4 songs in a row that are just so wonderful. My favorite is Entertain.

Of the older CDs: I like All Hands on the Bad One and then it's a tie between One Beat and Dig Me Out. But if you ask me again in a month, those three will probably be in a different order.

My favorite happy song is probably Little Babies off the Dig Me Out CD. If I listen to it on the way to work I sing "dum dum ditty dum dum de dum dum" all morning.

Try to see them live. I adore Carrie.

[Medellia]

All Hands on the Bad One is the only one I have, but it's an excellent album. That was the only album I listened to during my final semester of high school.

[stillill]

Call the Doctor and The Hot Rock are great also.

[Documad]

Originally Posted by stillill

Call the Doctor and The Hot Rock are great also.

Would you buy them first? The Hot Rock got critical acclaim, but I never LOVED it.

[b-grrrlie]

When I've searched for pics for my user name the only pics I find are of Sleater-Kinney!

They were on Letterman yesterday, but I didn't stay up that late. Re-run is on 1½ hours so maybe I'll catch them then.

[cosmo105]

thanks guys. i'll definitely pick some of those up.

[wavin_goodbye]

they're opening for PJ on their upcoming canadian tour.. i hope it's not one of those acts that make you cringe as you sit through them.. i've heard mixed reviews.

i'll check out some of "the woods" though.. sounds interesting

[Mr_Complex]

'The Woods' is up there as one of the albums of the year.

2005 is one of the best years for music ever.

[wavin_goodbye]

i think one of the best years of the century, so far, is more accurate..

[yeahwho]

Originally Posted by wavin_goodbye

they're opening for PJ on their upcoming canadian tour.. i hope it's not one of those acts that make you cringe as you sit through them.. i've heard mixed reviews.

i'll check out some of "the woods" though.. sounds interesting

Sleater-Kinney kind of made me cringe when they were on Letterman last week, maybe you had to be there, because the audience was receptive. I've seen them live a few times throughout the years (they be a local band, like PJ) and they always delivered the goods....come to think of it, PJ gave me the creeps on Letterman too...yet every show I've seen live (at least a dozen PJ shows) was great. I still haven't purchased a Sleater-Kinney disc, they are immensly popular here in Seattle.

[cosmo105]

to which PJ are you referring? PJ Harvey?

[yeahwho]

Originally Posted by cosmo105

to which PJ are you referring? PJ Harvey?

I was referring to Pearl Jam.....Seattle band.

[cosmo105]

ahh. thanks.

[wavin_goodbye]

1. why are you on letterman so much?
2. When were you on when you saw PJ? I've seen vids of most of their appearances, and I always thought they were on..

[Mr_Complex]

Originally Posted by wavin_goodbye

i think one of the best years of the century, so far, is more accurate..

Yeah, but.

Spoon
LCD Soundsystem
Millionaire
The Mountain Goats
The Decemberists
Vitalic
British Sea Power
Out Hud
Beck
Jaga Jazzist
Wilderness

And more. Too tired to think.

I haven't heard Sufrjan Steven's effort yet, but I've heard good things.

[yeahwho]

Originally Posted by wavin_goodbye

1. why are you on letterman so much?
2. When were you on when you saw PJ? I've seen vids of most of their appearances, and I always thought they were on..

I've never made an appearance on Letterman yet. It is one of the few shows I tivo on a regular basis, I actually really like Letterman. He's on my Top 10 list!

Your right about the last Pearl Jam appearance when they did the cover of Dylan's Masters of War, that was brilliant. I have to take it back for that show. I have some mixed feelings about a lot of the Letterman appearances because I've seen them perform so many times live, the bar is set pretty high. Like when they played "I Wish" a few years back...it was on, but shortened somewhat for the format...which made me cringe

[wavin_goodbye]

oh i see what you mean.. i thought the "cringe" and "you had to be there" were connected.. didn't read properly. i guess wishlist was quite shortened but at the same time i enjoyed that performance.. and no doubt, i'm sure they are much better at their own shows.. (i'm seeing them for the first time on sept. 15 )

[yeahwho]

Originally Posted by wavin_goodbye

oh i see what you mean.. i thought the "cringe" and "you had to be there" were connected.. didn't read properly. i guess wishlist was quite shortened but at the same time i enjoyed that performance.. and no doubt, i'm sure they are much better at their own shows.. (i'm seeing them for the first time on sept. 15 )

I'm only connected in the sense I spent bucks on the shows LOL. Sleater-Kinney will be great, they have an uncanny ability to make you want them to be great live, like the underdog strategy, it works because they are all good musicians, they'll deliver, so will PJ. Let us know how the show was.

[Documad]

Eddie Vedder interviewed S-K in Magnet magazine last month. It's a good interview. They all talked about when S-K had opened for PJ last go round, when PJ was taking heat for making about the only anti-war statements out there at the time.

They talked about how when S-K are headlining, they're always playing to a liberal, like-minded crowd, whereas when PJ plays, they can count on about 1/2 the audience hating their politics (and so theoretically PJ might reach someone). Eddie told S-K during the interview that last tour he was afraid when PJ would play with S-K (apparently they all came out at the end of the show?) that someone would shoot at them over the anti-Bush stuff but that he hadn't wanted to say anything and freak them out at the time. I guess with him wearing that Bush mask it wasn't so far fetched?

Eddie's clearly a big S-K fan which made the thing a fun read all around. He can be such a goofball, but you gotta love him.

I missed S-K on Letterman!!! I have to get Tivo!

[b-grrrlie]

And of course I forgot to check the re-run of Letterman

[wavin_goodbye]

Originally Posted by Documad

Eddie Vedder interviewed S-K in Magnet magazine last month. It's a good interview. They all talked about when S-K had opened for PJ last go round, when PJ was taking heat for making about the only anti-war statements out there at the time.

They talked about how when S-K are headlining, they're always playing to a liberal, like-minded crowd, whereas when PJ plays, they can count on about 1/2 the audience hating their politics (and so theoretically PJ might reach someone). Eddie told S-K during the interview that last tour he was afraid when PJ would play with S-K (apparently they all came out at the end of the show?) that someone would shoot at them over the anti-Bush stuff but that he hadn't wanted to say anything and freak them out at the time. I guess with him wearing that Bush mask it wasn't so far fetched?

Eddie's clearly a big S-K fan which made the thing a fun read all around. He can be such a goofball, but you gotta love him.

I missed S-K on Letterman!!! I have to get Tivo!

read some of that interview... as for them playing together.. i think they did hunger strike together on Live at the Garden (dvd from nyc show) .. and they may have also done rockin in the free world ... not entirely sure though

[mca47]

Originally Posted by wavin_goodbye

read some of that interview... as for them playing together.. i think they did hunger strike together on Live at the Garden (dvd from nyc show) .. and they may have also done rockin in the free world ... not entirely sure though

yeah, s-k played with pj many times during the 2003 tour.
that being said...PJ rocks!

[cosmo105]

so i'm pretty much obsessed with them now. i have The Woods, AHOTBO, The Hot Rock, and One Beat, and i just bought Call The Doctor used (fuckin' turned out to be just a burned copy someone sold to Amoeba, and of course i didn't check it until it was too late to return it. somewhere out there, someone has very, very bad karma ).

this girl i can't stand in one of my classes wears the most awesome s-k shirt that she borrowed from this other girl there. she doesn't even like them! and every time i see her wearing it i get so irritated. she doesn't deserve to wear them on her dumbass torso

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

i saw them play last friday. they are one of the most immense live bands i have ever seen. such a huge sound for a small band. the drummer is just wow. totally wow. i could watch her forever.

and pearl jam are rubbish.

[cosmo105]

omg, janet is a MACHINE.

she has a neat side project with this one dude...crap, i can never remember what they're called. something with a Q? Quasi? help me out here dudes.

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

quasi yeah. that's her husband, i think. he used to be in heatmiser with elliott smith.

[Funky Pepp]

Time for me to show off (sorry for doing that ): I supported
Sleater-Kinney (oh, and BIS)in Dresden and Hamburg with my
ex-band some years ago (I guess it was in 1997)...

[Documad]

<3

I never get tired of The Woods. I'm glad this tour has lasted longer than expected.

[b-grrrlie]

Originally Posted by Funky Pepp

Time for me to show off (sorry for doing that ): I supported
Sleater-Kinney (oh, and BIS)in Dresden and Hamburg with my
ex-band some years ago (I guess it was in 1997)...

Don't worry, that's a show off we accept with open arms