POO!: Sleater-Kinney

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I prefer POO to OPO. Who's with me?

Anyway, S-K are good and I have no indie guilt. Picking one is tough, but I choose "Good Things."

― paul, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Leave You Behind," which is somewhat paradoxically my favorite since it's one of their least "S-K" sounding

― M Matos, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Get Up

― JM, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The rather attractive yet sapphic SK fan I met on Tuesday who liked the Arsonists' debut album. Her.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

worse than POO! Its POO!POO!

― Julio Desouza, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, if I had to POO!, it'd be "Get Up".

― Keiko, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The as-epic-as-SK-gets "Turn It On."

― Leee, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

youre no rock and roll fun

― ron, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" for me.

― Tim DiGravina, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Words and Guitar"

― J Blount, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Step Aside," from the forthcoming one.

― Douglas, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One More Hour is flinty splendour.

― Alex Linsdell, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"One Beat", off the upcoming LP of the same name -- see your favourite file-sharing program. I got mine from Soulseek and Blubster.

Not necessarily their best (go for "Good Things" or "Start Together") but still pretty great and probably the best summary of what people love/hate about them: deliberately 'intense' interlocking guitar/guitar/drums, yelped/hiccuped lead vox and a great deal of separate, not-necessarily-harmonious singing by the backup, an all-too-serious lyric which strives for the same intensity as the rest (&, in my opinion, fails where the music and vocal style succeed -- but then again S-K lyrics have made me wince often before).

― L., Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Step Aside" has the added benefit/detriment of horns. What gives, Mr. Wolk?

― paul, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll go with "Get Up." A killer track, dark and sexy and mysterious, pretty much the emotional and expressive flipside of "Dig Me Out," which would be my second choice.

― Justyn Dillingham, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"One More Hour"

― J, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If we're going by titles then "You're No Rock and Roll Fun" would take it, but musically I guess I'd have to go with "Dig Me Out" (in which they temporarily drop the Gang of Four homages to shoot for Buzzcockdom).

― Nate Patrin, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Swimmer", last track on "...Bad One"

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i have three faves: good things, living in exile, the swimmer.

― queenoftheharpies, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ironclad, for sheer rockability meets grade-school historicism, which is always what they were best at (cf also along these lines The Hot Rock and The End of You).

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

"Youth Decay"

― kenan, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

^^^ cosign

(after that - banned from the end of the world, the drama you've been craving)

― daria-g, Monday, 2 June 2008 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

littlle babies

― permanent resolution, Monday, 2 June 2008 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

"Get Up"

― jaymc, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Turn It On

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

"Step Aside"

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Nothing has hit me as hard as "Dig Me Out".

― Dan S, Monday, 2 June 2008 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

I'm probably alone in this, but "The Fox"

― stephen, Monday, 2 June 2008 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I'll go with my first favorite song from S-K, which is Good Things. Honorable mention for The End of You, #1 Must Have, and Sympathy, but that defeats the purpose of POO (snicker.)

― miryam, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

Little Babies seconded.

― Jake Brown, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

Good God they were great ;_;

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

"Good Things." Still gives me a shiver.

― DLee, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

I would like to enter in second place "Dance Song '97"

― kenan, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 01:30 (eighteen years ago)

The last time I saw them (ever) was on their last tour, and the encore was all from Dig Me out. They played "Dance Song" and "Words and Guitar" and "Little Babies" and closed with "One More Hour," and there were collective goose bumps in the place for a solid half hour. Awesome.

― kenan, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

"Sympathy"

― milo z, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

Start Together

― Maltodextrin, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

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