I'm probably in the minority (it's seemed that way for years anyway), but my favorite S-K album front-to-back is All Hands on the Bad One. Everything I ever wanted from them came together in one place for that record.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 June 2008 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link
if there were ten indie bands whose riffs were as decent as s/k's indie rock would be like a totally awesome genre
― J0hn D., Monday, 2 June 2008 02:47 (sixteen years ago) link
that was always my favorite title (all hands).
john but what do you think of their vocals?
― Surmounter, Monday, 2 June 2008 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll give it a purchase and an open-minded listen, J0hn. Thanks for the recommendation.
― brightscreamer, Monday, 2 June 2008 02:51 (sixteen years ago) link
it depends on who's singing. I am terrible at keeping track of who's who in bands but the indie vox, yeah, "ordinary" is a fair cop there - they sound like the genre standard. but the gigantic voice - the one in the lead-off track on the woods & in the song where she says "johnny get your gun" - that huge rich bellow - that just hits me in all the right spots, it's like the microphone is finally getting to open up a little. huge force of nature voice, that'n.
― J0hn D., Monday, 2 June 2008 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
reasons to love S-K: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gYAitpi6Dhg
~50 seconds in - drum break before getting into my favorite Corin vocal ever 2:20 - guitar freak-the-fuck-out 2:50-3:10 - Carrie's solo 3:10-3:30 - Corin playing clean
― milo z, Monday, 2 June 2008 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
The amped-up mix and "Entertain" soured The Woods for me.
The bete noir AND entry point to S-K is Corin Tucker. Frankly, I'd never heard anything like her voice before, and for a few months was a hindrance.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 2 June 2008 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
This Madonna discussion reminds me of one of the times I saw SK live, where Corin started talking in-between songs about how much she enjoyed the new Madonna single, "What it feels like for a girl". To this, Carrie responded, "I don't think Madonna needs us to help promote her music, Corin."
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 2 June 2008 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
HA
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 June 2008 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
From the use of shouted and/or interwined harmonies of The Hot Rock to Carrie's English accent in "Combat Rock" and Corin's Yoko Ono-ese in "Milkshake and Honey," this is a band that relished distance.
totally wrong
― gabbneb, Monday, 2 June 2008 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I don't quite buy that either, although I get where Alfred is coming from with it. To me they were one of the most direct, raw bands of their era - the huge ugly complicatedness of love/loss/hate/etc came through with really affective clarity. Dig Me Out is probably the best record for this, but Hot Rock does the same thing with probably tougher subject matter. They were almost always thoughtful in dealing with emotion, which I guess can come off as distance.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 2 June 2008 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link
TS: Corin vs. Roger Daltry
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 2 June 2008 05:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Daltrey!
(fuck, I can't believe I did that)
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 2 June 2008 05:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Roger on record or Roger in performance? Because watching that guy adds all kinds of negatives over simply listening to him. But I think, either way, I vote Corin Tucker.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 June 2008 05:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Carrie Brownstein vs. Pete Townshend?
They're both very animated onstage, great secondary singers and pretty good writers.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 June 2008 05:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I miss S-K a lot, but I don't miss the hand wringing that followed each album and whether or not Dave Fridmann + Sub Pop is any more/less authentic than Goodmanson + KRS. Then again, I've always thought that bands should release less.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 2 June 2008 06:00 (sixteen years ago) link
As an aside, I like Carrie (and Fred Armisen's) ThunderAnt videocast
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 2 June 2008 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
As another aside, all y'all can love Madonna if you want, but 'Beautiful Stranger' makes me physically ill even if I think about it... BRB
― MacDara, Monday, 2 June 2008 08:46 (sixteen years ago) link
That's my favorite Madonna single fo the last 10 years.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 2 June 2008 11:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought this thread was gonna be all creepy suicide note but instead it's in-depth analysis of what carrie brownstein thinks of madonna
― Edward III, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
of course it is!
― Surmounter, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
:(
I like to read about music, but this thread is like an undergrad paper in Indie Fuxor Studies.
― kenan, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i know a lot of people who couldn't really connect with s-k until they saw them live. Dig Me Out is a classic album but compared to the live shows it's actually a little restrained; this was probably because of the limits of the recording at the time. By the time fo the woods though, those limits (ie: budget and time and expensive studios) were probably gone; as a result the Woods SOUNDS more like they were live (assaultive), I just don't like it very much, ironically.
― akm, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I've never seen a bad S-K show. There was though an admirable misfire when Pearl Jam asked them to open for their 2003 tour. Not only don't S-K's dynamics work in an amphitheatre setting, but the crowd was boorish (two beardos in front of me wondered 'who the fuck are these dikes').
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I can probably saw confidently that they were the best live band I ever saw and I tried to see every bay area show they played. And I hardly ever listen to the records!
― akm, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Brownstein's a Who/Townshend fanatic. She wrote a short piece about him in Rolling Stone some years back, and her side project The Spells recorded "I Can't Explain."
― Sara Sara Sara, Monday, 2 June 2008 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Corin has a solo album coming out on KRS, possibly by the end of the year. Carrie is in a new band with Janet, and believes a SK reunion will happen within 5 years.
Exciting!
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 9 April 2010 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
doesn't quasi have a new album?
― m@tt (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 9 April 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I believe the phrase I am thinking of is:
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Friday, 9 April 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep, American Gong. Pretty good.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 April 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, exciting! Though I never really had a least favorite aspect of this band, Corin-as-vocalist wasn't among my favorites. Her voice was much nicer in the later years of S-K, so I'm hoping that carries over to whatever this new record sounds like.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 April 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
J0hn's words upthread almost broke my heart a second time.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 April 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Q: is it "kwa-zee" or "kwa-zeye"?
I don't think I've ever discussed the band with anyone else out loud, so in the event that I ever do, I'd hate to sound like a goon.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 April 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
haha -- that's happened so many times to me!
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 April 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I've always heard "kwa-zeye" out loud, but often say "kwa-zee" to myself. This is like when I found out The Notwist were pronounced "No Twist" and not "Knot wist." I still say Mary Timony as "tim-moan-ee" even though I am pretty sure that's wrong.
This could be an amusing thread to start.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 9 April 2010 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Corin Tucker Band tourdates
Apparently the album is due out on October 5th
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Quasi for Swayzi
― underrated eros mit all bums i have loved (kkvgz), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.mbvmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/corin-tucker-band-cover.jpg
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 19 July 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Hello...Wild Flag?
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 September 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I miss this band so much. Wild Flag best be awesome but but but no corin makes me so sad.
― Jay-Z ft. Kanye 'Big Hat Club (Spiritual Big Hat Club Jazz Remix)' (a hoy hoy), Monday, 5 September 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
Corin's solo album was pretty great.
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 September 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, Tucker Band grew on me a lot; but as much as i love Carrie WF just aren't for me
― quaff the spud you warbling milkbag (outdoor_miner), Monday, 5 September 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Wild Flags are a bore, alas.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 September 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
sleater-kinney is one of my favorite bands but using them as an example for anything is probably bad.
they're traditionalist shits who get to brag because they invented their own singing and guitar style that has never been duplicated even very well by their own spin-offs. so unlike alfred and some others i actually enjoy "entertain" because they Have the Right - it's like listening to lil wayne eating "fake hiphop artists"
like oh hi franz ferdinand btw you suk let's eviscerate your whole career with just one typical corinchorusOH OH OH
though it was wrong of christgau to apply it to interpol just because he hates interpol, when they specifically cite "1984" as the year and joy division wasn't a thing in 1984 cuz i'm pretty sure new order was already on their like 5th remix album
anyway sleater's the rare case of histrionics that justify bad lyricsso on paper they might as well be jeff buckley. it's like using hendrix to prove rockism
― john maus: a survivor's tale (kiss out the jams), Monday, 5 September 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
so yeah wild flag gross
― john maus: a survivor's tale (kiss out the jams), Monday, 5 September 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
are you guys nuts
wild flag live + album both awesome
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 5 September 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
If you hate Interpol on first listen, you're going to muster every bit of armature and sophistry in your behalf.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 September 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
better grab some penicillin also
― balls, Monday, 5 September 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
plus "Entertain" isn't a cudgel; it's a rare misstep, sung by the band's resident Mother Jones reader.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 September 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
mojo's a very worthwhile mag soto don't front
― balls, Monday, 5 September 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link