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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on May 8, 2007 20:27:12 GMT -5
Dig Me Out is the only album I've heard from these gals so I can't vote here. I liked it alright. Was wondering if they ever did something better.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on May 9, 2007 9:01:53 GMT -5
Dude "The Woods" is their pinnacle as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by Paul on May 9, 2007 9:05:20 GMT -5
Dude "The Woods" is their pinnacle as far as I'm concerned. Yep, that album is there best - dude Janet Weiss's (sp?) drumming on that album is freakin' incredible - seriously some of the best drumming I've ever heard on a rock record - at least from the past 10 years or so. |
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on May 9, 2007 10:36:52 GMT -5
I saw them about 8 years ago back when I was about 19 at Liberty Lunch. I play drums and they had just released "The Hot Rock" so believe me, I stared at her from the front row the entire time. She is a very underrated and extraordinary drummer.
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on May 9, 2007 16:22:23 GMT -5
I had a feeling The Woods would win.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on May 9, 2007 16:38:44 GMT -5
It's just a passionate album! It was a great note to quit on. On that record they achieved something on par as The Clash as far as I'm concerned. It was their career defining moment.
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Post by Kensterberg on May 9, 2007 16:50:53 GMT -5
I love Dig Me Out. When I first got interested in S-K, this was the one that Mary suggested for me, and she was spot on. Those howling vocals (chicks can pull off high pitched squealing much more effectively than men can, IMO), the punky guitars and harmonies, hell the whole feel of three people playing their asses off and making this primordial punch in the gut noise. When I think about Sleater-Kinney, "Words and Guitar" is always the first thing that comes to my head.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on May 9, 2007 16:52:40 GMT -5
"Dig Me Out" was definitely the break out record for them, no arguments there. For some reason though, "The Woods" has resonated with me far beyond what the others one have. It actually gets me going in the same that listening to the Clash does. It just makes me super happy.
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Post by Paul on May 10, 2007 11:01:56 GMT -5
I saw them about 8 years ago back when I was about 19 at Liberty Lunch. I play drums and they had just released "The Hot Rock" so believe me, I stared at her from the front row the entire time. She is a very underrated and extraordinary drummer. I saw them at the 9:30 Club during the Woods tour - seriously, one of the best live shows I've seen there, and loudest! The Woods in general is a damn loud album - like production wise. It's as if they turned everything up to 11 or something. Did you read that interview Eddie Vedder did with them for the Woods? I forgot the magazine, but it was an awesome interview. It was apparently at Ed's house in Seattle, and the four of them were having dinner together, and Eddie did the interview. He started it out by saying something like this -- "So I was listening to the new album in my car and blew out my speakers" - that grabbed my attention, and I can certainly see how that could happen! I'll see if I can find that interview somewhere and post it here. |
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Post by Dr. Drum on May 10, 2007 11:11:22 GMT -5
"Words and Guitar" was sort of my mind's ear S-K signature piece for a long time, too. Have to agree with skvor, though, that The Woods ranks as their finest achievement. It somehow encapsulates everything that was great about previous records, while simultaneously surpassing them and carving out a space all of its own.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on May 10, 2007 15:38:36 GMT -5
Paul, the interview that you are referring to was in Magnet Magazine, a magazine that I cherish and have a subscription to, especially for the Andrew Earles "Where's the Street Team" column. Yeah, that interview was just amazing.
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Post by Paul on May 10, 2007 15:40:14 GMT -5
I think the ladies of Sleater-Kinney were influenced by the Kinks w/ there album cover for 'Dig Me Out'  The Kink Kontroversy  |
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