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C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Sleater-Kinney

Title: Jumpers (Live on Letterman)

Sleater-Kinney's break just seems so... unnecessary. I watch clips like this and immediately stop understanding why on Earth bands ever have more than three people in them. Or boys.

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jhunter99844's picture

Will is on bass...not really a trio!

If you want trio badassness you need limeys!!

The best fucking band in the world!!

THE JAM!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoWl-dUCAdo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG0L86DRuC8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GnOhpQMkmU

plus horns

closertotheflame's picture
wow

I never gave this band a chance. I am amazed, they are fantastic. rock on

Slacker George's picture

I never saw them live. They are my favorite band of all time, but I was late in catching up to them, as they were out of my musical sweet-spot, baseball analogy-wise. I was heavy into shoe-gazing at the time. Still am. ;-)

mudshark's picture

Wow !
You don't often get to see that.
The drummer kicked ass.


What is your conceptual, continuity?

bebacker's picture

Check out Quasi. She is the drummer as well. Go to imeem or lala or nutzie and listen to the Quasi album "featuring birds."

bebacker's picture

can you imagine if they ran into grizzly bear in a dark ally? I will take Sleater-Kinney and Scratch Acid for $400 Alex.

That Mick Piobr's picture

about three years ago and immediately bought as many of their discs as I could find and they are all wild and perfect and powerful.

Slacker George's picture
That Mick Piobr's picture

I'm goin' there now.

calgarylady's picture

Thanks, Max!

MaxMarginal's picture

at how positive the response to this post is. Proves their greatness!

miss_kitty's picture

in first and second grade, and the Bergs who had 3 girls who were my babysitters lived there. Totally different memories, but the band kicks ass as well. and Corin's side project Cadillaca was really great too

Cadallaca- Your One Wish (Live)

Slacker George's picture

two years ago on a vacation in the Pacific NW. I totally whiffed on explaining to my wife why it was a cool moment for me.

calgarylady's picture

Nice tune!

miss_kitty's picture

when it was still held at Gasworks Park. I think it was more than 10 years ago. They were killer.

calgarylady's picture

Sounds interesting!

Sooth Hussein Sayer's picture

Dig Me Out

As much as I miss them, I gotta give them credit -- they went out at the very top.

Redcoat's picture

The Woods is such an incredible album. I've been a metal guy my entire life, and just decided to pick up that album last year on a lark. I was not disappointed! Sleater-Kinney rock. I wish I could have seen them live.

luis stoole's picture

always a great show

ha-she did a wayne kramer!!!

Mike V.'s picture

they sounded fantastic.
(nice Fender Super Reverb, BTW. Killer tone.)

They suck, yer right.

Pure crap.

MaxMarginal's picture

They're fiercely original, but I was always surprised people never noticed how similar they sounded to Mission of Burma.

Academy Fight Song

Peking Spring

luis stoole's picture

mixed with the warbled vocals of early throwing muses
(it took me forever to get used to the vocals to where i found them appealing and not grating).
i have seen them 2x and i was always impressed.

sugarbiscuit's picture

They're just really, really good at doing what they do.

And there's not a thing wrong with that.

Crucie Fiction's picture

One look at this comment section confirms that the ability to identify good music from bad is a thing of the past. It seems any group of kids who can generate excruciatingly loud noise while banging on drums and repeating just a few chords on a guitar -- all while jumping around erratically as though they have fire ants in their pants -- is oddly considered good music today, if not "great". OMFG! They're pathetic. The vocals are so horrendous that I winced several times on the edge of actual auditory pain!

since taste is subjective.

i for one did not like the band at first and could not understand the appeal, but they grew on me.

the thing is, what you posted sounds like you are officially too old to rock.

oh, the kids today!!!

Sooth Hussein Sayer's picture

And they should get off your damn lawn!

sugarbiscuit's picture

providing some examples of "good music" for the rest of us?

Scottie's picture
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but I agree with Crucie on this one.

What got to me was that the guitarist just seemed to be fluffing around on the strings without actually considering a structure to the solo. The singers were singing in unison and that's ok, but if you're going to do that, then you have to be on key with each other otherwise it sounds like a bad kids choir.

I haven't heard any of their other stuff, so I may go searching to see if they have some good stuff, though.

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