Sleater-Kinney - the Woods (w/ guest Nick Palmer)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2017

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Musician Nick Palmer (thedangeros.com) joins Bill and Brian to discuss Sleater-Kinney's 'breakout' 7th album, the Woods (2005, Sub Pop). Nick describes discovering the band while working at Journeys in the mall, and then thinking the distortion on his pirated copy was a mistake until he bought the album and the liner notes told him that Dave Fridmann was the producer. We talk about Janet Weiss's drumming skills, Carrie Brownstein's rockstar presence, Corin Tucker's soaring vocals, why the band doesn't need a bass player, sexist micro-agressions and pronoun choice, whether or not the last track is any good, how the band should be viewed as one of the greatest of their time, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Hey, it's The Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:02.2	And I'm Brian.
0:03.0	What are we talking about today, Brian?
0:04.7	We are talking about Slater Kinney's 2005 album, The Woods.
0:10.7	Music What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:36.8	We try to have the conversation around the music the way that fans talk about it,
0:40.9	and we're going to talk about what makes it cool, how we got into the music,
0:45.6	and then we're going to do a track-by-track review.
0:48.3	Sounds good, let's do it.
0:49.7	And we're not going to do it alone, Brian.
0:51.8	Nope, not this week.
0:53.2	Nope, we have a musician, drummer, guitar player, Nick Palmer, joining us.
0:58.3	Yeah, yeah.
0:59.1	From the bands The Dangeros and Wax Wave.
1:04.2	He is a Philadelphia musician who came up, took the train up, actually, to come say hi to us
1:09.7	and join us in studio.
1:11.2	Yeah, so we'll be getting to that conversation very shortly.
1:13.8	Yeah.
1:14.4	Before we do that, Brian, since we're talking about Slater, Kenny, since we're going to be having
1:20.8	a whole conversation around them, maybe it'd be good for anybody who's been uninitiated,
1:26.8	who doesn't really know too much about them,
1:28.8	if we got a little bit of a backstory on them.
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