SONG FIGHT ACADEMY (learn and sing)

it is very much as they say: timing is everything.

i'm finally beginning to appreciate Sleater-Kinney's One Beat.

i didn't dislike it before. but i really wasn't sure how i felt about it. and there are still a couple of songs i really don't care for in the slightest ("Step Aside" being chief amongst them). but mostly, i do really enjoy it. i suppose this shouldn't really be a surprise, though---this is slightly similar to what happened with All Hands On The Bad One---but in a different way. i think the best way to explain it is that i needed to be in the proper state of agitation to really appreciate this album properly, and i guess i've finally reached it.

there were some songs that stuck with me from the start, though; "Far Away," "The Remainder," "Oh!," "Combat Rock," "Light-Rail Coyote," and "Lions & Tigers" are chief amongst these. but i really didn't end up listening to it much until now.

i was really glad they wrote a song like "Combat Rock," though. and still remain glad. we need more.

here are lyrics (top of the right column); here is the song.

also, creativity is mutancy. the Times told me so.

XD