Sleater-Kinney
Call the Doctor
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AMG Review of Call the Doctor
Jason Ankeny
All Music GuideSleater-Kinney's masterful sophomore effort Call the Doctor fulfills all the promise of the group's debut and more, forging taut melodicism and jaw-dropping sonic complexity out of barbed-wire emotional potency. The emergence of Carrie Brownstein as an equal shareholder in Corin Tucker's vision is the key -- her four contributions (particularly "Stay Where You Are" and "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone") are stellar, while her harmonies complete Tucker's equally superb lead turns by reading between the lines to verbalize the naked aggression at the core of the songs' polemic power. Forget the iot grrrl implications inherent in the trio's music -- Call the Doctor is pure, undiluted punk, and it's brilliant.
friday random ten, 1996 edition
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1. Tracy Bonham, "Mother Mother." It's not fair to call Bonham a one-hit wonder … she has continued to make music to this day. But she waited five years after this to release another album, and that's not the best way to keep your name in the mainstream.2. The Tony Rich Project, "Nobody Knows." I continue to argue that this is one very weird song. Rich explains that his heart is broken, and no .
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I Wanna Be . . . (Or, Flaunt The Influence)
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friday random ten, 1996 edition
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1. Iris DeMent, "When My Morning Comes Around." This was DeMent's third terrific album in five years. Then she got writer's block, and outside of some fine guest appearances on the albums of others and a 2004 offering of gospel music, she hasn't recorded. The Way I Should was her "political" album, but what really seemed to bother people is that there was some rock and roll here. But "When My M...
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Painful songs you can't help listen to
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Sleater-Kinney is my favorite band. No way around it. I listen to One Beat and The Woods more than any other records I own. But when I went through an incredibly bitter break up last winter, I listened 'Good Things' over and over again.My ex and I had our falling out long ago, but right now we're still in a weird want-to-be-friends-but-things-are-still-really-awkward phase. Point being, I thoug...
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