If PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Bjork and Liz Phair were the trailblazers of the early 90s, Sleater-Kinney proved more than ready to pick up any slack for the remaining half of that decade with their 1996 sophomore release Call The Doctor<\/i>. True to its punk roots, the album clocks in at just over a half hour and while the sound may be unpolished, Corin Tucker\u2019s and Carrie Brownstein\u2019s duo guitar attack strike a balance between sheer aggression and catchy-as-hell riffs. <\/p>\n
Along with the duo guitar assault, the other \u201ctypical\u201d staple of Sleater-Kinney\u2019s sound is the band\u2019s ability to place a line at the end of their songs that will linger in your ears. The characters in \u201cStay Where You Are\u201d are slogging through a co-dependent relationship; Tucker\u2019s final plea packs an emotional punch when she sings \u201cYou can\u2019t find me \/ You\u2019re in the dark \/ I\u2019m right here \/ stay where you are.\u201d In \u201cTaking My Home,\u201d Tucker lashes out at a suitor who is trying to buy a woman\u2019s love (or at least a lay) with a typical defiant response (\u201cNot for sale\u201d), but saves the final, brutally honest zinger for the end: \u201cI got mixed up with somebody else.\u201d <\/p>\n
For casual Sleater-Kinney fans, Call the Doctor<\/i> is probably best known for one of the only punk anthems of the 90s: \u201cI Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone.\u201d Putting modesty aside, Tucker and Brownstein\u2019s tag-team vocals declare \u201cI\u2019m the queen of rock and roll.\u201d In addition to name dropping Joey, the second refrain belongs to Thurston Moore as Tucker wails \u201cI wanna be your Thurston Moore \/ wrestle on the bedroom floor.\u201d <\/p>\n
Sleater-Kinney was unfairly lumped into the riot-grrrl categorization with their self-titled debut and Call The Doctor<\/i>. In subsequent interviews, members no doubt got tired of getting questions about \u201cbeing an all-girl group in such a male dominated field.\u201d With Call The Doctor<\/i>, Sleater-Kinney made an easy case of letting the music do the talking instead of the countless interviews in rock magazines. <\/p>\n
In a year after Call the Doctor<\/i> was released, Sleater-Kinney would jump from Chainsaw to Kill Rock Stars and record one of the defining records of the decade: Dig Me Out<\/i>. Musically, it was more varied than Call the Doctor<\/i>, but it still retained the hurricane intensity of this one. <\/p>\n
Any Sleater-Kinney album is a safe investment, but their true potential exploded on Call The Doctor<\/i>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5981],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-40473","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-sleater-kinney","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40473"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}