Human beings respond to music very deeply. It’s a really intense way to communicate with people, it communicates a lot more than just thought, just discussion, it communicates emotion. You give people that emotion, especially when you play a show and you’re in a room with them, you can make them feel something. That is a super powerful event as an artist. I was lucky to be able to find that out at an early age, and it changed my life forever.
I did not come up with that title, incidentally, and I had to cut a whole bunch of material to fit their word count, but you know what? I’m still really happy with it.
I hope you enjoy it!
Corin Tucker Band - Outgoing Message
Corin Tucker Band - Groundhog Day
Sleater-Kinney - Light Rail Coyote
“And if you wanna be a friend of mine
Cross the river to the east side
Find me on the eve of suicide
Tell me the city is no place to hide
Take me out into a sunny day
Through the grotto or the promenade
You came to me in the nick of time
Thankful for the things I left behind…”
Sleater-Kinney - Was It a Lie?
“Was she your TV show?
Was she your video
A woman’s pain never private
Always seen
I want to close my eyes
I want to cut the wires
I want a day not made for you to see…”
Their best song? Debatable.
Our machines run good and clean
But whose blood is the grease?
“
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Heavens to Betsy - Factory
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You follow me on the fucking street
You make me feel like a piece of meat
You think I don’t know what war means
Now I’m the terrorist
See how it feels?
“
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Heavens to Betsy - Terrorist
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I was convinced tonight that I was sitting next to Corin Tucker. I still kind of am.
Take take the noise in my head
Take take the noise in my head
C’mon and turn turn it up
I wanna turn turn you on
I play it all I play it all
I play it words and guitar.
“
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Sleater-Kinney - Words and Guitar
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How did I do?
Not good
Fuck me
I spent the last ten days of my life not getting any sleep
Well how do I do?
I don’t
Fuck you
I spent the last ten days of my life searching for you .
“
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Team Dresch - Fagetarian and Dyke
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How do you do it?
This bitter and bloody world
Keep it together and shine for your family
How do you do it?
With visions of worse to come
Live in the present
And spin off the rays of sun.
“
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Sleater-Kinney - Night Light
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If you dissect it you can control it
If you can name it then you can own it
I don’t wanna play operation anymore
I’m tired of ending up with my organs on your floor
“
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Heavens to Betsy - Donating My Body to Science
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