Sleater-Kinney

johnny_ultimate · 08-10-2010 7:58pm #1

After reading a review of the Corin Tucker Band album which mentioned Sleater-Kinney this week, I was intrigued enough to check out this oddly named band I'd never heard of. I youtubed them, listened to Jumpers, and for the first time in a long time I was smitten by a first listen:

I picked up the Woods immediately and have been listening fairly obsessively since. Probably the best alt rock album I've heard in a long long time.

So, I'm absolutely loving this band. Anyone have any advice what to check out next? I believe One Beat is an equally fine album? I'm a few years behind the bandwagon on this one; any more fans of this wonderful group?

ValJester · 08-10-2010 11:12pm

Quite like this lot.Dig Me Out is essential riot grrl listening if you havn't got to it already, and All Hands On The Bad One is very good too.

indiewindy · 09-10-2010 12:44pm

my favourite sleater kinney album is "the hot rock" especially the song start together, all hands on the bad one is great too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kku7zb4unog

kagni · 09-10-2010 10:16pm

ValJester wrote: »

Quite like this lot.Dig Me Out is essential riot grrl listening if you havn't got to it already, and All Hands On The Bad One is very good too.

+1. "Dig me out" is a great album.

kagni · 09-10-2010 10:20pm

ValJester wrote: »

Quite like this lot.Dig Me Out is essential riot grrl listening if you havn't got to it already, and All Hands On The Bad One is very good too.

+1. "Dig me out" is a great album.
Love this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzNsn3Dz2bY

S.M.B. · 10-10-2010 9:52pm

I miss Sleater Kinney.

donfers · 11-10-2010 3:24pm

I have "one beat"...not a bad album but gets samey after a while...music by angry girls for angry girls

Aridstarling · 14-10-2010 1:14pm

Dig Me Out is an incredible album. Haven't picked anything else up yet, though I'm sure that will be rectified soon enough.

part time punk · 15-10-2010 10:03pm

While the Woods and All Hands .. are my favourite ones I think any of the albums mentioned are worth a listen. Brilliant live band as well, they played here a few years ago. The drummer can play harmonica while drumming. She since formed a band (Quasi) but it wasn't as much cop.

johnny_ultimate · 18-10-2010 2:02pm

Must pick up Dig Me Out, seems to be the one to get!

Just listened through One Beat, some great songs on there. Funeral Song is fantastic.

The new Corin-Tucker Band album is pretty cool too, very different from Sleater-Kinney stuff, more of a country twang. Hopefully will get to see them live in November if I can get tickets. Doubt's a great song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEwXFyVU47U

part time punk · 21-10-2010 9:15pm

Have had a bit of a listen. Doubt is a great song, the one that sounds most like SK to me. Johnny ultimate I had a quick look at their tour dates, when you mentioned seeing them was that in Dublin as I couldn't see anything? Or are you out foreign? Cheers

AnonoBoy · 21-10-2010 9:44pm

part time punk wrote: »

Have had a bit of a listen. Doubt is a great song, the one that sounds most like SK to me. Johnny ultimate I had a quick look at their tour dates, when you mentioned seeing them was that in Dublin as I couldn't see anything? Or are you out foreign? Cheers

He wasn't talking about seeing Sleater-Kinney live - they're not together any more.

He was talking about seeing Corin-Tucker Band.

johnny_ultimate · 21-10-2010 10:21pm

part time punk wrote: »

Have had a bit of a listen. Doubt is a great song, the one that sounds most like SK to me. Johnny ultimate I had a quick look at their tour dates, when you mentioned seeing them was that in Dublin as I couldn't see anything? Or are you out foreign? Cheers

Yeah, not in Ireland I'm afraid! They're playing Osaka and Tokyo when I'm around there, so if I can manage to get tickets (easier said than done) I'd love to see Corin live, considering it's probably as close as I'm going to get to seeing SK now!

S.M.B. · 22-10-2010 1:22pm

They'll be back. ATP Festival 2012!

I'm much more a fan of Corin than Carrie who has another band in the pipeline. Found her so endearing while playing live.

Alan Noir · 01-11-2010 12:20am

My mate put it best

" I love ****ty feminist punk"

He said it in earnest too.

Robotito · 20-12-2014 5:08am

They're playing Vicar St on 26th March, this gig will be brilliant!

fluke · 17-01-2015 7:44pm

Hey all. Just wondering what the best album of S-K is a good introduction to them?

S.M.B. · 18-01-2015 1:57am

S.M.B. wrote: »

They'll be back. ATP Festival 2012!

I'm much more a fan of Corin than Carrie who has another band in the pipeline. Found her so endearing while playing live.

I was 2 years off, and ATP aren't promoting any of their gigs but I was close enough.

New album is fantastic after only 1 or 2 listens.

fluke, might be best to work with No Cities To Love which is coming out this week and work backwards?

Their last album, The Woods, which was released about 10 years ago is still their peak imo.

fluke · 18-01-2015 11:41am

S.M.B. wrote: »

I was 2 years off, and ATP aren't promoting any of their gigs but I was close enough.

New album is fantastic after only 1 or 2 listens.

fluke, might be best to work with No Cities To Love which is coming out this week and work backwards?

Their last album, The Woods, which was released about 10 years ago is still their peak imo.

Thanks S.M.B. I actually gave both those albums a whirl last night. Really like NCtL, The Woods seems like something I'll have to really give time to. Quite a dense album.

Robotito · 18-01-2015 7:46pm

I'd recommend 'Dig Me Out'...I love all their releases but I have to resist just playing 'Dig Me Out' all the time!
I haven't heard 'No Cities To Love' yet BTW

johnny_ultimate · 20-01-2015 2:51am

First listen to No Cities... left me a bit cold. Second, third and so on and I was absolutely smitten. Fantastic to have them back and cannot wait until the gig in March (I was lucky enough to see Corin a few years ago, but a full Sleater-Kinney gig has been something I've been wishing for for five years now - pretty much since starting this thread!).

As for best albums to start with? All Hands on the Bad One is one of their most fun and accessible efforts - not necessarily their finest work (I'd still put The Woods on a different level, even in a consistently strong discography) but a damn good time nonetheless. Dig Me Out also a good bet.

S.M.B. · 20-01-2015 10:58am

Had the joy of seeing them touring The Woods, time's have changed so I now have a front row seating ticket for their upcoming show in London.

Really living the new album opener and closer. Fade seems as close to The Woods as anything on the album. Cracking tune!

fluke · 20-01-2015 5:48pm

S.M.B. wrote: »

Had the joy of seeing them touring The Woods, time's have changed so I now have a front row seating ticket for their upcoming show in London.

Really living the new album opener and closer. Fade seems as close to The Woods as anything on the album. Cracking tune!

Do you have (or know anyone) with a spare ticket for London show?

S.M.B. · 20-01-2015 7:56pm

fluke wrote: »

Do you have (or know anyone) with a spare ticket for London show?

I actually probably will. I initially bought a single standing ticket cause I thought the show would sell out straight away. I then went back and bought a seating ticket.

I've never sat at the roundhouse so I'm not sure which one I'm going to use and which one I'll try move on. I'll be there next month so I'll be checking what the sight lines are like from that seat. Pillars make it a bit of a lottery I hear.

There are few bands I go this out of my way to ensure I see from the optimal position but SK are clearly one of them.

fluke · 20-01-2015 7:58pm

S.M.B. wrote: »

I actually probably will. I initially bought a single standing ticket cause I thought the show would sell out straight away. I then went back and bought a seating ticket.

I've never sat at the roundhouse so I'm not sure which one I'm going to use and which one I'll try move on. I'll be there next month so I'll be checking what the sight lines are like from that seat. Pillars make it a bit of a lottery I hear.

There are few bands I go this out of my way to ensure I see from the optimal position but SK are clearly one of them.

Well if you're selling one of them (I'm easy going either way) at face value pm me please.

S.M.B. · 20-01-2015 9:36pm

Will do!

fluke · 23-01-2015 10:13am

All Hands On The Bad One is some record!

S.M.B. · 26-03-2015 12:29am

Well they've certainly still got it. Think I preferred their performance earlier this week to the last time I saw them. Pretty sure the setlist was twice as long which probably helps.

Everyone who has Dublin tickets is in for a treat.

Anyone who doesn't have a ticket will have to make do with this footage.

fluke · 26-03-2015 12:43am

Phenomenal gig in London. Hopefully see them again in the near future! PINS were pretty good too!

johnny_ultimate · 27-03-2015 1:39am

Wonderful gig tonight, lived up to every expectation

They're a band who are in so in tune with each other, and the songs take on a new dynamism live as a result. You really can feel the punch of each of their contributions. I'd watched some of the NPR gig and felt Corin seemed a bit more reserved, but no fear tonight - her voice was ****ing dynamite. Although Browstein totally owned several songs too with that righteous fury that makes them one of my favourite bands.

Birneybau · 27-03-2015 3:42pm

Was going to get a ticket but they are playing Primavera so I've put them on my itinerary.

S.M.B. · 29-05-2019 4:26pm

New Sleater Kinney produced by St. Vincent. Not too far away from what I was expecting but curous to see what the rest of the album will sound like.

Anesthetize · 14-06-2019 4:11pm

I finished reading Carrie's book, and I loved every bit of it. Playing music and expressing herself through music really means a lot to her.

S.M.B. · 14-06-2019 4:35pm

I'm making my way through the audible version she narrates.

Another new song available today. This one's a Corin track and it's not great

Tour dates announced for next year. Brixton in London and Vicar St. on the 1st March.

Arghus · 02-07-2019 10:37pm

Janet Weiss just left the band, rather abruptly.

S.M.B. · 02-07-2019 11:31pm

Massive loss, puts a real dampener on the forthcoming release. Obviously wasn't particularly happy with the new musical direction.

Arghus · 03-07-2019 1:06am

S.M.B. wrote: »

Massive loss, puts a real dampener on the forthcoming release. Obviously wasn't particularly happy with the new musical direction.

Now, maybe this is the wisdom of hindsight and all that, but if you watch the clip of them performing on Fallon recently it really looks like her heart isn't in the performance, don't know if I blame her, it's not that great of a song IMO -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xrSuIqrhRU

All very awkward, considering her face is all over the album cover. Things must have been really fractious behind the scenes.

S.M.B. · 03-07-2019 7:49am

I was going to post the exact same video and response last night, just look at her facial expression in the the placeholder image above.

I'm assuming things aren't too hostile behind the scenes as they have gone through turbulent times in the past and have figured out ways to manage and move on. Guessing as they've been preparing the live material Janet does not feel like she'd enjoy touring this material for 2+ years.

Poor St. Vincent is getting a bit of a hammering online. Fans thinking she's the one to blame which is absurd.

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