it also has one of the most fist-pumping sleater-kinney moments just after 1:50 when corin yelps "janet, carrie can you feel it?" and the ladies answer "knife through the heart of our exploitation" in sixties girl group harmony stylee. i love that moment so much.
That has to be my favourite moment out of the whole album, or one of my favourite moments in their overall catalogue.
I still find it really hard to believe that you know, they may be gone forever. I had just found out about them a year ago, when I first heard the Woods. I had no idea what riotgrrrl was, or how old of a band they were (silly me I thought they were new-ish), but there was just an instant connection. It captured my feelings when I first discovered my milestone bands as a kid (Garbage when I was 10, The Smashing Pumpkins when I was 14), and as cheesy as it sounds- whenever I listened to them I felt like my soul was soaring out somehow, because hey, all of this sound and noise and words they're pouring out? They're all the sounds, noises, and words that I wanted to say or convey but I never just figured how. There's something about "Let's Call It Love" which just continually sends shivers down my spine.
Man. And was I even more esctatic when I found out that they had way more albums, I also instantly fell inlove with One Beat. It took a while getting into The Hot Rock but shit that was worth it.
I haven't found a friend here who likes Sleater-Kinney as much as I do, the friends I have who do appreciate them only really like The Woods on some moderate level. I never thought that I was a Sleater-Kinney fan, but hearing about the hiatus just makes me re-think, hey wait, the heck, I DO care a lot about them! They impact me the most out of all the bands I listen to! They're the number one band I've never seen live and would dearly want to! But I can't do that for the summer. All I can do is hope that sometime in the future, they would regroup and reform while retaining the same glory that they had oozed out through the years.
To me, Sleater-Kinney is much more than "a really good band." I feel like they're *my* band. Their sound is my sound, their voice is my voice, they somehow just pull me together and pull me through.
I respect the fact that they are people too, with families and lives to manage and organize with their respective challenges, but, I'll keep on hoping that sometime in the future, they'll play together again.
