#one beat

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One Beat - Sleater-Kinney

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All Hands On The Bad One (2000), One Beat (2002), Sleater-Kinney

I found All Hands On the Bad One a tad too similar in style to The Hot Rock and Dig Me Out and therefore a bit unsurprising and dull. One Beat, on the other hand, is electrifying. I can’t, however and for some reason, really understand why I feel that way.

Is it because I’m insufferable (probably) and bourgeois (yes) and One Beat has ‘Step Aside’, which has horns and ‘The Remainder’, which has strings? Is it because the politics on One Beat are more obvious, with the Iraq War ‘n’ stuff? Maybe One Beat has more varied vocal delivery or, at the very least, some memorable vocal melodies? Is it more playful, or are they both playful and I have, for some unknown reason, achieved an unexplainable, shameful, career-ending bias? It can’t be the album covers, because I definitely prefer the old-school mad-fighty-ness of All Hands on the Bad One to One Beat’s umbilical cord-y thing.

I’m not sure whether any of these reasons venture into what I may genuinely think is objectively better about One Beat but, then again, objectivity in the field of opinion is futile. All I know is that my neuroses not-particularly-explicably prefer One Beat to a rather severe extent - to such an extent, in fact, that it might be one of my favourite Sleater-Kinney records.

Pick: ‘Step Aside’

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For a long ass time I thought the lyrics to one beat were “if you think like Thomas Edison could you invent a wife for me” instead of “could you invent a world for me” and truthfully.......I think I like the first one better....

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