Three Questions About The Slint

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1. Why were they called "Slint?"
2. What is the aesthetic involved with naming your band "Slint?"
3. Why do people like their music? (I never listened to it!)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

1., 2., 3.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

bellybutton slint

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

slint eastwood

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Slint? Ask your mom about Slint...

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

1. you'd have to ask them
2. prolly no different than many other band-naming aesthetics
3. to answer rhetorically: how could anyone explain it to you if you've never heard it for yourself?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"2. prolly no different than many other band-naming aesthetics"

It's a different aesthetic than naming your band "The Raspberries" or "The Boredoms" or "The Butthole Surfers." My question is how one would describe this aesthetic.

"how could anyone explain it to you if you've never heard it for yourself?"

By using wrods.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

slintox

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Writing about music... dancing about architecture, etc.

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

but as regards 3, Tim you're asking why people like their music, not what their music is like. i think that would be a much more difficult thing to describe than the latter. i saw two different crowds of 1,000 people each at slint shows this past weekend, and i think it would be a bit presumptuous to pretend i would be able to anticipate every single listener's response to their music. whereas, if you were just asking what they sounded like, it would seem somewhat less pejorative (as opposed to the tone of "why the hell do you like this?" which your original question hints at).

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

and ultimately i don't think the "aesthetic" of naming a band is as important or interesting as a band's name in and of itself, but perhaps that's just me.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I'm talking about the aesthetic OF the name, like how naming your band "the Boredoms" is about silliness really in two ways -- one being that they're naming their band after boredom, which is silly, and two being that using the plural "boredoms" is incorrect and thus silly. I don't understand the aesthetic of "Slint."

As for my TONE, I'm just jokin'. In 1990 or whenever they seemed like just another band on Touch and Go that I didn't bother to check out and here it is fifteen years later and people are still talking about THE SLINT.

SO I WILL REPHRASE MY QUESTION TO "WHY DO YOU LIKE THE SLING!!!" (I MEAN SLINT!!!)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

And may I add that I am open-minded about it!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

perhaps there's a certain timeless quality to their music? a certain tunefulness (despite what some nytimes critics might say)? i dunno. but i gave it a shot.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

If you had really heard of them back when "they were just another band on Touch & Go" then you would have listened to them sometime over the last 15 years.

― Michael Copeland, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't hear slint until after i'd heard rodan/seam/june of 44/other bands they later formed or inspired. a bit like reading lord of the rings after rest of the genre it spawned. i liked it, but maybe not quite as much as the other stuff that had gotten me into that sound.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway i think tim's funny because i don't think "spiderland" came out until 1991, right? "tweez" (1989) was on jennifer hartman records and tapes.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, I said "in 1990 or whenever," mister. I don't understand Michael Copeland's comment.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw them the other night. They were good. I like that Dave Pajo, yup.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Slint was the name of Brian McMahon's fish! See the interview in Filter.

― stew, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, but what is the aesthetic involved with naming your fish "Slint?"

― Lee F# (fsharp), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, indeed.

― stew, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.velocityweekly.com/2003/1231/sound/images/v_1231toddofwildnwooley.jpg

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

that's todd brashear, right? he rules.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

I just got a copy of a mysterious Slint album on vinyl called "Live Songs." Anybody familiar?

― Evan, Sunday, 4 April 2010 16:26 (sixteen years ago)

Discogs has a little info: http://www.discogs.com/Slint-Live-Songs/release/1874231

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-1874231-1266443614.jpeg

― Duke, Sunday, 4 April 2010 16:39 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah I saw that, but was surprised to see allmusic.com had nothing on it.

― Evan, Sunday, 4 April 2010 16:44 (sixteen years ago)

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