{"id":2225,"date":"2009-06-23T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T14:05:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-23T10:05:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T10:05:23","slug":"sleater-kinney-but-for-that-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/sleater-kinney-but-for-that-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleater-Kinney&#8230;But For That Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kku7zb4unog?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Sleater-Kinney<\/strong> came up on the iPod today, and once again I had the same internal conflict that arises every time I hear them.  I love the guitar playing, the songs, the drumming, the arrangements, the production, the guitar tones, and the overall sound.  Plus, I love rooting for an underdog so a three-chick rock band with no bassist holding their own in a dude-heavy genre appeals to me. But I just can\u2019t seem to make my peace with that voice.<\/p>\n<p>On the old RTH, I recall someone suggesting that the reason some of us couldn\u2019t handle the voice was because we were uncomfortable with strong women or some such nonsense.  But I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the case.  The voice sounds like <strong>Geddy Lee<\/strong>\u2019s shrill younger sister to me.  And I can\u2019t stand his voice either.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not giving up on them just yet because the good is really good, and I&#8217;m hoping this is one of those acquired taste things.  But I\u2019m not optimistic that I will be able to get over the hump on this.<\/p>\n<p><em>Does anybody else have a band\/artist that is otherwise perfect for them, but for a huge and possibly deal-breaking flaw?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As an aside, there\u2019s also a great <strong>Last Man Standing<\/strong> here: <em>Intra-band hook ups. Hell, Grace Slick could keep that going for weeks.<\/em>  SK would have been my trump card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleater-Kinney came up on the iPod today, and once again I had the same internal conflict that arises every time I hear them. I love the guitar playing, the songs, the drumming, the arrangements, the production, the guitar tones, and the overall sound. Plus, I love rooting for an underdog so a three-chick rock band <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/sleater-kinney-but-for-that-voice\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[56,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}