Slint captured perfection in their parent’s basements. Please support your kid’s musical dreams so that maybe one day we’ll be gifted another masterpiece such as this.

Also I’m from the same town as them, and met one of the members at my local skatepark back in March. I was getting a picture with him and told my friend “here’s my phone take this picture” and he was really confused because I was asking him to take a picture of me and some random middle aged dude so of course he asked “who is he” and before I could answer the he said to my friend “I used to be his old skate coach” and smiled at me and we took the picture. What a legend.

The whole album is a masterpiece. There's something about the album cover as well which correlates perfectly with the anxious atmosphere of the music, in ways I cannot articulate.

After all these years of listening to this track I still get chills when I hear that first 'I miss you'

This song is just so cinematic to me. The spoken word takes a role of a narrator, the dissonance of bass and guitars create a suffocating atmosphere, while drums move everything forward. Feels like a scene from a horror movie! Yeah, these guys were REALLY important for the formation of post-rock. Spiderland, their 2nd and the last record, focused on atmosphere, movement & all that jazz that we know today as post-rock aspects. They also helped in developing math rock and pushing forward post-hardcore. Overall, a very important band for rock & hardcore's history. Definitely one for the books! P.S. That "muted bell" sound you mentioned is actually a guitar! He goes down the string playing harmonics and sounds inbetween those harmonics to create this metallic sound. It's supposed to represent a chain of an anchor going up (again, so cinematic!).

This came out before Nirvana would take grunge to the forefront of popular music. They came up in Louisville's punk/metal scene and imo created the best album of the 90s...in 1991 Britt Walford's drumming is masterful as is David Pajo's guitar

May favorite song of all time. The storyline behind lyrics is based off of this poem called “The of Rime of the ancient mariner” and he compares it to his life; entering adulthood, and leaving his childhood behind. Dope review dope song

I think I've heard OF them before, but definitely would've remembered if I had heard their music before. This hit the right vibes with me - but you probably know I like dissonance :) Music without tension can be enjoyable (like really beautiful) but most often leaves me untouched. And then those screams! Gave me goosebumps. Thanks for the pick, Justin!

“A branch that post rock could’ve become”. This album is in 1991, it was WAS AND IS post rock before post rock was even a word or genre people used….

One of the greatest songs of all time imo

It's easier to listen now, especially with the comfort of hindsight and the more modern touchstone bands that Slint influenced, but in 1990/1991...I mean, there was no context. There was no real precedence. Red-era King Crimson. Big Black. Maybe Television. But even those reference points don't account for much. It's like Slint developed an entirely new vocabulary using a language that didn't really exist.

Please do more slint. Spiderland is a masterpiece

"Spiderland" entirely consists of dissonant tracks which however function harmonically or melodically (idk which one of these two). It has the same energy as Nirvana, but even in a more concentrated form (somehow sinister), but there is also more to it. Really like it, but I feel I shouldn't listen to it too often in order to not take away too much from that listening experience. (PS: It is 1st gen post-rock, although probably more retrospectively than intentionally. I consider 1st gen to be the experimental phase - any band that used rock instruments to make something else belongs into this camp. 2nd gen to me is the Skinny Fists album of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. 3rd gen is, at this point, pretty much defined as instrumental (often quite emotional) guitar music with tremolo picking. But there is still experimental stuff, of course.)

100% guarantee out-of-tune instruments is intentional. Totally serves the song and the vibes. I *love* songs that use dissonance and atonality to shift the listener out of their comfort zone. This song is a fricking masterpiece. It is never going to let you feel OK. I don't know why I like stuff like this, but I do...

Love these guys and especially this album, very interesting work that ended up being super influential to a variety of subgenres that I enjoy nowadays

good review bro. slint changed everything for me and a small few of my homies.

6:10 this is supposed to be seen as the anchor being lifted onto the ship, very cool storytelling with the instruments

This whole album is so damn good

Such an interesting take. I guess this album and Neurosis Souls At Zero came to me at a point where I was really developing my own style. The back and forth between dissonant and harmonic has been some of my favorite music since I was 17 or 18.

Ive been a huge grunge fan my whole life and just discovered slint last year and they instantly are in my top 5 of all time. Super rad.

You're checking out some really cool bands on this channel. Props.

I learned about Slint by listening to my brother learn to play guitar to them in the early 90's (in Louisville). "Washer" was always my favorite, but any song off Spiderland or Tweez can take me right back to childhood apparently

Apparently Macmahan threw up and got sick after the recording and the band broke up a while after. It was somewhat written to his younger brother who was coming of age.

i like to think that the cymbals at 2:10 sounds like waves crashing, and that the guitar at 5:52 sounds like an anchor being pulled up

Slint is one of my favorites. I listened to them a lot when I lived in Seattle in the late 80s and early 90s. They are great to listen to on psychedelics :)

I think some consider Spiderland as the start of post-rock.

Breadcrumb trail and nosferatu man are personal favorites

The emotional depth to the WHOLE of Spiderland is astounding.

at 6:06 you mention a muted bell sound. thats actually just brit or brian on the e1 string picking all the way down to and past the guitar pick ups

I’m surprised you haven’t reacted to Captain Beefheart yet. That’d be a treat

Wait, Slint? Does that mean that there's a chance for Back midi and Black country new road? (They are still noisy, but more "in tune")

Amazing song. Amazing band. Amazing album.

I have heard of Slint and knew this album was a critical darling but that's where my knowledge of them ends. This is an interesting track. It kinda sounds like an extremely stark, minimal version of post-rock, and given this album came out in the early 90s that would've put it extremely early in that genre's development, so these guys were probably quite original given the time period and also perhaps very influential. The spoken word aspect almost reminds me of a muted, less manic version of David Byrne from Talking Heads. There's also that early grunge/alternative rock sound to the whole thing where clean, simple guitar licks transition into wall-sound-distorted riffs... but this would also have been extremely early for that genre as well, basically the same year as Nevermind and Ten. With all that said, I do think I find it more interesting than enjoyable. It's a bit too repetitive and I'm not sure if the dynamic outbursts have the same impact as, say, the best of Pixies or PJ Harvey and similar bands using that device of that time. I do however think the tonal qualities are fascinating, like you said about it just sitting in that pocket of uneasiness. I just wish there was a bit more meat on the bones I guess.

I think the genius of this album it is truly how teens feel, not the pretence of punk or hardcore (which is the ego of tring to cope). This is the raw fear and uncertainty.

It's atmospheric because it's a tribute to the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which if you've ever read it, is a build up of extreme horror and tension. In that sense, these musicians are brilliant.

THANK YOU!

To me the story is more like a child has drowned at sea but his ghost not realizing he’s dead has come ashore to visit an old sea captain. The music is a kind ot trance rock with the upping the tension like breaks. It is also extremely atmospheric. The spoken word thing is just a part of what they do. Also lyrically almost all of their songs are recited dreamscapes.

It's really sad when you find out the lead singer was screaming "I miss you" referring to his younger brother back home after they started playing more gigs and he was hardly ever home anymore.... : (

SLINT?? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Flipping awesome stuff 👌 one of my favorite albums of all times 🤘🤘 This album is such a rare 💎 gem... Bands like this only come around every so often 👌 Saw these guys with "Steel Pole Bath Tubs" and "Jesus Lizard" 👌 Thanks for the "Time Machine Moment" 🤘

Some classic early foundation of mathrock.

I really recommed you check "Athens, France" by Black Country, New Road. It's like if Slint were a modern band and mixed their style with some jazz. It's quite an interesting song that you should check out

Really enjoyed your comments on tonality, which added something to a song which is one of my favorites and a track I tend to spin when I want emotional support for calculated rage. Not by the lyrics, but that's what I get from it. I've come up with arrangements for it over the years, for solo acoustic and piano, and it's my own fault for doing nothing with them, but the elasticity and simplicity of the dissonant lines and the ways in which it resolves- I love this song so much. If I were to push you to a not-very-well-known band that is amazing, I'd point to Lift to Experience's album, The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads. Similarities to this in the partial spoken word aspect and more of a shoegaze vibe in terms of the band, in my mind it's the best concept album of all time. Frontman Josh T Pearson has had some success following this as an idiosyncratic singer songwriter, but the enormous sound of LTEs trio and classical crooning vocals that lay overtop outline its epic right-at-the apocalypse saga. It's anyone's guess what Pearson thinks of this. Those I know who lived in Denton, TX at the time of their heyday were at least convinced of Pearson's(a preacher's kid) passion for the subject were at least convinced of his ardent belief at the time. While it's not for the everyone, it's no hyperbole when I say I think(for me) it's the best album of all time. As far as others go, anyone who enjoys shoegaze in any respect I think will at least enjoy the ride.

This song and many more by Slint were on the Kids soundtrack. Highly recommend it.

Reminds me a bit of Fugazi.

I liked this for the most part. Still much of the song is simple and doesn't hold my attention. But the progression to the end and that ending made up for it. I also find the tones and dissonance enjoyable due to those emotions/atmosphere that they create.

3:58 "muted drum work" ????

I've always preferred 'Don, Aman' over this track on this album, but it is still a masterpiece.

The whole album had a very sinister feel that just got more intense as the album went on to the very last minute of this song with that release on slow fade down

One of the albums that were blowing my mind back in college... shit, I am getting old! edit: "proto-post-rock" yes. nice! p.s. still waiting on Explosions in the Sky - Greet Death.

This song is perfect

Sometimes what is overwhelming for one is enveloping and comforting for another. Obviously you know that. Lol. But I had to say. Music like this makes me feel safe.

People need to stop recommending Good Morning, Captain as an introduction to Slint, Washer is the most approachable song. I think either recommending Washer as an entry point , or recommending starting with the beginning of the album and listening to it in its entirety are the best ways to approach it.

A bit repetitive but overall I really liked it! Makes me wanna go for more. If you can master atonality/dissonance you've got a really powerful tool (paintbrush maybe...)

listen to famous prophets (stars) by car seat headrest most emotional 16 minutes in a song I’ve ever heard (not an instrumental either), if you liked the glow pt 2 I think you would like this song a lottttt

I think an interesting song to listen to is The Seasons Reverse by Gastr Del Sol.

How about reacting to an australian progressive rock band called Karnivool? "We Are" is probably a good song to start out with, from their third (and latest) album "Asymmetry".

Can you react to New terrain/nervous by Mew? Nervous is New terrain played backwards. Got ya a sub!

You’re so close, my friend.

you should do more fall of troy

Every "Spiderland" reaction gets a comment and a thumb up from me. Thanks so much for doing this.

Who the eff is this drummer? The snare!

A lot of use of the tritone

Personally, I like Washer more.

This is the beginnings of post rock.

dude you talked through the best transition and missed the culmination