Overall score: 7.84 High score: 10 (Venus, Price of Fame, Blueberry Mary)
Low score: 3 (Eeveelution)
In contrast to the rest of Courtney’s deeply and intensely personal album, this lighthearted opening track imagines the goofy details of the time that her friend took an elevator ride to the top of a historic building in Melbourne looking for perspective and was stopped by a woman who thought he was planning to commit suicide. But it still provides a solid introduction for the loping garage-rock energy, witty observational lyricism and heavy subject matter masquerading behind bright clown makeup to come.
Best bit: “Don't jump little boy, don't jump off that roof/You've got your whole life ahead of you, you're still in your youth/I’d give anything to have skin like you”
Tying for the most #1s and still not being able to make top 20 is kind of a mess though.
The most outside the top 20. The songs at the top of the countdown of course have more—many, many more. That's why they're in the top ten and "Boy Problems" is not.
Controversy! This chirpy fan favorite (and alleged lesbian anthem) about dumping your boyfriend because he’s getting in the way of your best friendship was easily the most divisive song in the rate”
Wait, I'm reading this and I love this being a lesbian anthem.
A blast of garage rock so energetic it becomes danceable, this is the rare moment of almost-joy on No Cities to Love. Brushing off the critical voices that have tortured them in the past, Sleater-Kinney “invent our own kind of obscurity” by forging a confident path on which they remain blissfully ignorant of what others think. It’s a triumphant reckoning with the personal and professional doubts expressed elsewhere on the album. In a fantastic bit of cross-promotion, the animated music video features Tina Belcher rocking out to the Bob’s Burger-ized band.
Best bit: “It's not a new wave, it's just you and me”
Ugh, the fact it isn't top 5 is BEYOND my understanding.
Flawless song
