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Old 07.19.2008, 07:26 PM   #61
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Yeah, I actually like them. Definitely don't listen to them as much as I used to, but that's the same with Nirvana and I still love them. Not that Nirvana and L7 were on the same level at all.

Having seen a lot of both bands in a lot of the same clubs at the same period in time, really the comparison is valid. Now Nirvana went on to create some awesome albums, which L7 never did, but they really are both bands from the same scene who made cool music that mixed punk and metal before that stuff got labelled grunge and all.

As far as mediocre bands from that scene there's Seven Year Bitch, and for outright bad there's Dickless, but L7 were a great live act.
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Old 07.19.2008, 10:12 PM   #62
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the divsion of opinion on Sleater-Kinney always amazes me

Toliet & Bowels is a good example, i know for a fact he thinks the Hot Rock is one his top 50 all time albums (also one where Corin little less "oppressive" i suppose) yet loses him in the follow up All Hand on the Bad One, although i am not sure his opinion on One Beat or the Woods
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Old 07.19.2008, 10:19 PM   #63
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the only one i really like ANY songs on is the woods. they're not a bad band, just unexciting to me.
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Old 07.20.2008, 04:11 AM   #64
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ywah thats what i was gonna say, the woods is pretty good. otherwise, theyre horrible as hell.
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Old 07.20.2008, 01:49 PM   #65
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the divsion of opinion on Sleater-Kinney always amazes me

Toliet & Bowels is a good example, i know for a fact he thinks the Hot Rock is one his top 50 all time albums (also one where Corin little less "oppressive" i suppose) yet loses him in the follow up All Hand on the Bad One, although i am not sure his opinion on One Beat or the Woods

I've never understood why anyone would either love or hate them. I saw them so many times at shows and parties in Oly when they were one of many bands on the bill and I always thought they were o.k., but nothing special. I honestly think both Excuse 17 and Heavens to Betsy were significantly better bands. When suddenly S-K were being tromped around as the saviors of rock, it was so patently ridiculous. Even so, they were never really horrible, just incredibly overrated.
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Old 07.20.2008, 04:41 PM   #66
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I've never understood why anyone would either love or hate them. I saw them so many times at shows and parties in Oly when they were one of many bands on the bill and I always thought they were o.k., but nothing special. I honestly think both Excuse 17 and Heavens to Betsy were significantly better bands. When suddenly S-K were being tromped around as the saviors of rock, it was so patently ridiculous. Even so, they were never really horrible, just incredibly overrated.
Having expressed my hatred for S-K numerous times in the past, I suppose I agree with the rationality of this statement. They really were just overrated. I personally hated them because of their self-proclaimed fem-political undertones, but that's me.
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Old 07.20.2008, 04:47 PM   #67
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Well that's cleared that one up. Ignore Gallhammer; they're crap.

I just decided to to test T&Bs claim by listening to some stuff on Youtube. And, inevitably, he's right. They are crap. Another Japanese Rock band that I can safely ignore.

Time for me to play my "shitealiciously rubbish music taste" wank card - I like Gallhammer. I saw them live last September and thought they kicked ass.

Cantanky - re the Slits cover for "Cut" - apparently Budgie had already left the Slits by the time they came to do the cover shot for that. Well, that's his story anyway...

The Voodoo Queens were pretty great the first time I saw them (at the White Horse in Hamsptead) - good, sassy all-female garage punk. Tis a shame they soon turned into a godawful pop-metal outfit.
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Old 07.20.2008, 04:50 PM   #68
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re S-K^^I'm definitely in the 'love 'em to bits' camp. Hot Rock, Dig Me Out and All Hands ... are stupendously good. 'The Swimmer' and 'Jenny' are two tracks that I regularly turn to.
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Old 07.20.2008, 04:55 PM   #69
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I liked Sleater-Kinney when I saw 'em live in 2000 - not often you get a proper "indie" rock band that actually kicks out the jams so well.
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Old 07.20.2008, 04:58 PM   #70
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okay my favourite girl band of all time is the runaways, by miles

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sleater kinney were nothing special. sorry folks.
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Old 07.20.2008, 04:58 PM   #71
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SK : good band? yes
annoying voice? yeah at times it just sacrifices the rest of the instruments
still good anyway? oh quite yes.
LPs? mmm the only horrible is .... The woods!!!! It's shite
then Hot rock is the best following closely by call doctor and s/t
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okay my favourite girl band of all time is the runaways, by miles

thanks youtube.

Replace 'my favourite' with 'the greatest'. We're talking about a basic fact here, not an opinion.
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Old 07.20.2008, 05:08 PM   #73
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Replace 'my favourite' with 'the greatest'. We're talking about a basic fact here, not an opinion.
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Old 07.20.2008, 05:11 PM   #74
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I honestly think both Excuse 17 and Heavens to Betsy were significantly better bands.

i think so too. my favorite sk is their first album. followed by hot rocks.
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Old 07.20.2008, 09:48 PM   #76
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Old 07.20.2008, 10:11 PM   #77
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I think what people are overlooking here is the goddamn walking scientific breakthrough they represent: successful hybridization of human and goat vocal chord DNA.
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Old 07.20.2008, 10:19 PM   #78
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i really don't think sleater-kinney were very consistent, and they were certainly not one of the best bands of the 90's.

the guitar intro to "dig me out" the song is still one of my favorite moments in music, ever.
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I think what people are overlooking here is the goddamn walking scientific breakthrough they represent: successful hybridization of human and goat vocal chord DNA.
joey ramone invented that. he bleated like a goat while those sleater kinney girls were still in diapers.
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