20. Mariana Timony Returns to Rank Sleater-Kinney's Albums

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Back when I was recording Episode 16 (Quasi, Field Studies) with Mariana Timony of Bandcamp Daily, I had promised that there would be a second part of our discussion forthcoming. This is that second part! Mariana and I spent nearly an hour discussing Quasi drummer/vocalist Janet Weiss’ other band (though, sadly, one she is no longer a part of), Sleater-Kinney. We each offer our rankings of the band’s studio albums and discuss some of our favorite (and least favorite) tracks from each along the way.

Note: I made a comment about Sleater Kinney’s The Hot Rock reminding me of “mid-period R.E.M.,” and then went on to cite Fables of the Reconstruction and Life’s Rich Pageant as specific albums it reminded me of. As soon as I said this, I realized that, by any reasonable definition, those albums were a part of R.E.M.’s early period. I do think of Murmur and Reckoning as constituting a separate era in the band’s discography but failed to come up with a better term for the era I was trying to describe (late-early?).

Mariana is on Twitter, and you can follow her at @marianatimony. You can find her writing for Bandcamp Daily here, https://daily.bandcamp.com/contributors/mariana-timony, and her newsletter, The Weird Girls Post, here, https://weirdgirlspost.substack.com/. 

You can find me (Al) on Twitter at @almelchiorBB or at the account I created for this show, @youmealbum. Would love to hear any comments or questions you have about this episode or the show in general. Since I brought it up several times on this episode, let me know if you’d be interested in hearing Mariana and me talk about Sleater-Kinney’s One Beat for a separate episode.

1:20 Mariana (re)joins the show

2:02 Mariana ranks the Sleater-Kinney albums

26:14 Al counts them down

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