Sleater Kinney's "Let's Call it Love" sucks

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Wow. I just heard this track once and I never want to hear it again. Bloated, ugly, inept. Even the production is all awry: it's like they wanna prove their lo-fi punk cred by letting the needles run to red.

Luckily there are better songs on "The Woods" - and lucky for the girls that this thing is at the end.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

they always save their worst songs for last.

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Except for "Quarter to Three"!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

exactly, i was just going to say that. The Hot Rock has the best bookends of their career (or just about anyone's, for that matter).

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sympathy" is a good one!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I love "Heart Attack," "Jenny," "Quarter To Three" and "The Swimmer."

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

A MAN IS NOT A BOYYYYYY
http://www.gaylmurphy.com/interviews/abc/ap_creed_001201_h.jpg

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

and the last song on The Woods is "Night Light" people

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Stylus was right when they referred to this track as a nice intro for "Night Light".

I feel like the only reason this song is linger than 3 1/2 minutes was so reviewers could comment on their "bold new direction" with longer songs. I feel like Green Day beat them to the punch in this regard.

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

so cynical

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

(xxpost)

We're getting off target, though. I wanna talk about SK's attempt at a magnum opus. The Zep comparisons strike me as ludicrous; even in their epic stuff, their blues background kept their arrangements terse and coiled.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00009OYBR.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

don't let carrie catch you talking about the album. in addition to the annoying 'thesis' of the song 'entertain' she's been snapping on about how people need to experience s-k's music 'now', to live the moment and to not go home from live shows and dissect them online. she's rather inconsistent so maybe it's OK for people to 'review' the album online (surely they want chatter?); maybe you just can't have opinions about the live shows...i dunno. all i know is that she sounds like a dumb angry twat who's bitter at her just-sub-famous status. and from what i have heard of 'the woods' she chose the wrong album to come out swinging in front of.

i'm no led zep expert but i feel embarrased for s-k that that comparison is being leveled. it doesn't work.

― reina, Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

After reading the lyrics to this, I had no idea it was carnal and sexual.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

kay, so are we allowed to dissect them over the telefone? i heart SK but carrie is sounding like a Luddite there!

nd I only heard the single so far - who knows, I may really dig this album - but i just wanted to give props to Manthony for that really sharp line he had in his Stylus review abt how you can't seriously attack the patriarchy if you're aping The Who, etc. Word. That was h0t.

― Vichitravirya XI, Thursday, 26 May 2005 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, this is no good, except, as Anthony says, as a segue into "Night Light." They need to listen to the last two Sonic Youth albums for a lesson on how to turn a seven-minute jam/solo into something dynamic and melodically compelling. It's just so easy for me to tune it out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, "Sympathy," "Quarter to Three," and "The Swimmer" are all excellent final songs. "Sympathy" is certainly the best song on One Beat, the only thing that comes close is "Oh!"

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

In everything I've read about The Woods, no one ever seems to mention that "Wilderness" is the best and most musically interesting song on the record. It blows my mind that this would not be a universal opinion.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Are they still feminists?

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Who isn't?

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Doubt it, brah

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 27 May 2005 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel the song starts to drag around the 7.5 minute mark -- in other words, that is the point where I say to myself "there's nowhere else for this song to go, but they're still playing for the sake of doing an 11-minute song".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

So I finally heard it...more than a few times now. Uh...

As far as "Let's Call it Love" goes: bloated, wanky, overstuffed and simply insufferable for a band that used to play within and around the "punk aesthetic" so masterfully

Kind of like half the other songs on this album. I'm very underwhelmed...gah

Matt once again has the same exact opinion as me...other than Wilderness, which is still flawed due to that unnecessary jerk-off section inserted around 2:06 and ending around 2:31, i quite like the single, and "Rollercoaster" is also ace. the rest i don't know yet how i feel about, but a few are definitely differing degrees of blah, as of yet

and come on..."Jenny" is one of their very best songs

― Vichitravirya XI, Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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