Show #123: Sleater-Kinney in The Annex
Truthfully, I know next to nothing about this week's artist, Sleater-Kinney. I remember hearing last year that they broke up and know that they hailed from Washington state. Other than these measly tidbits, I am ignorant about the group. And so I've had to pilfer the Internets to find out more.
(Photo from mediageek.)
The core of Sleater-Kinney was guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein. Ms. Brownstein describes the genesis of the band thusly:
Corin and I met in 1992 in Bellingham, WA. Her band, Heavens to Betsy, played at a gallery downtown. I was too young to be in college, barely seventeen and not too happy about being in a remote town in northern Washington. I told her I might be moving out of there. Sure enough, the next fall I transferred to a different school, one in Olympia where Corin happened to be living. A lot of other folks were there as well; making music and art, recording one another in basements and putting out records on their friend's labels.
1994. We started the band in a duplex. It was brick, held four people, one of us living in the garage. Nutritional yeast was the cheese, was the meat, was the spice. It took us a week to discover that The Smell was a rotting bag of potatoes in a bottom drawer. We pirated cable and concocted a chore wheel that turned out only to be decoration. Corin left a message for me one day saying that we would call ourselves "Sleater-Kinney". Up until that moment it had only been a road in a neighboring town. Now it was us. If band names were like baby names, we had picked a Gilbert or Sinclair or Beatrice. When we said, "We've picked out a name", we always got a "Hmm", or a head scratch, or a comment as soon as we left the room, like "that poor kid will be teased endlessly". Never listen to other people's advice about your band name. Otherwise, you will end up with an Ashley, or a Madison.
Their eponymous debut album was released in 1995 and followed up by Call the Doctor the following year. All the while the group were going through a phase worthy of Spinal Tap where no less than four drummers came and went before they settled on Janet Weiss who would remain until the group dissolved in 2006. She made her recording debut on 1997's Dig Me Out. This week's show comes in as the band were out promoting their album All Hands on the Bad One.
(Photo from Showmeyourriffs.)
What we have here is Sleater-Kinney's concert from The Annex here in Madison on 13 September, 2000. Also on the bill that night were White Stripes and C.O.C.O. This is a really great quality soundboard recording.
Setlist:
All Hands on the Bad One
End of You
Ironclad
Ballad of a Ladyman
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
Start Together
The Professional
Fortunate Son
#1 Must Have
Things You Say
You're no Rock'n'Roll Fun
Dig Me Out
Banned from the End of the World
Tapping
Little Babies
Youth Decay
Download show
Sleater-Kinney
For more shows by the band, ready your torrent client and direct your browser to Sleater-Kinney Torrents.
I couldn't find much at YouTube from 2000 excepting this footage of the band doing "Ironclad" in Cambridge, Mass. on 17 or 18 May.
(Photo from mediageek.)
The core of Sleater-Kinney was guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein. Ms. Brownstein describes the genesis of the band thusly:
Corin and I met in 1992 in Bellingham, WA. Her band, Heavens to Betsy, played at a gallery downtown. I was too young to be in college, barely seventeen and not too happy about being in a remote town in northern Washington. I told her I might be moving out of there. Sure enough, the next fall I transferred to a different school, one in Olympia where Corin happened to be living. A lot of other folks were there as well; making music and art, recording one another in basements and putting out records on their friend's labels.
1994. We started the band in a duplex. It was brick, held four people, one of us living in the garage. Nutritional yeast was the cheese, was the meat, was the spice. It took us a week to discover that The Smell was a rotting bag of potatoes in a bottom drawer. We pirated cable and concocted a chore wheel that turned out only to be decoration. Corin left a message for me one day saying that we would call ourselves "Sleater-Kinney". Up until that moment it had only been a road in a neighboring town. Now it was us. If band names were like baby names, we had picked a Gilbert or Sinclair or Beatrice. When we said, "We've picked out a name", we always got a "Hmm", or a head scratch, or a comment as soon as we left the room, like "that poor kid will be teased endlessly". Never listen to other people's advice about your band name. Otherwise, you will end up with an Ashley, or a Madison.
Their eponymous debut album was released in 1995 and followed up by Call the Doctor the following year. All the while the group were going through a phase worthy of Spinal Tap where no less than four drummers came and went before they settled on Janet Weiss who would remain until the group dissolved in 2006. She made her recording debut on 1997's Dig Me Out. This week's show comes in as the band were out promoting their album All Hands on the Bad One.
(Photo from Showmeyourriffs.)
What we have here is Sleater-Kinney's concert from The Annex here in Madison on 13 September, 2000. Also on the bill that night were White Stripes and C.O.C.O. This is a really great quality soundboard recording.
Setlist:
All Hands on the Bad One
End of You
Ironclad
Ballad of a Ladyman
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
Start Together
The Professional
Fortunate Son
#1 Must Have
Things You Say
You're no Rock'n'Roll Fun
Dig Me Out
Banned from the End of the World
Tapping
Little Babies
Youth Decay
Download show
Sleater-Kinney
For more shows by the band, ready your torrent client and direct your browser to Sleater-Kinney Torrents.
I couldn't find much at YouTube from 2000 excepting this footage of the band doing "Ironclad" in Cambridge, Mass. on 17 or 18 May.
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