While I admit that Sleater-Kinney is a wonderful band, I don't know that I or any of my S-K fan friends can recommend their first album, the eponymous black one. It's just too harsh, too raw, something like that.



But I highly recommend everything from Call the Doctor through All Hands on the Bad One.



But I have to know what chord it is that struck you so. If you're listening to The Hot Rock as your page indicates, I'd guess it's in Get Up. Such a redemption-sounding song. (obPortland: the video for Get Up features Janet Weiss standing at the bus stop outside my friend Hermann's house.)



As for chilling intros, however, may I also recommend the first thirty seconds of "Good Things" (and, you know, the rest of the song, too) from S-K's Call the Doctor? That song's music ties so well with the lyrics. Wistful, wistful.


And here I am gushing over Sleater-Kinney in the comments section of someone's weblog. I'm such a dork.

So you know, that video would be viewable here.

The first song, Start Together (right-click to download). At the beginning of the second verse, where the lower register comes in and the whole world opens up.

Dammit, now I have to break out the Sleater-Kinney

Janet Weiss? Isn't that the name of the Susan Saradon character in the Rocky Horror Picture Show?