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''All Hands on the Bad One'' is the fifth studio album by the American
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, released on May 2, 2000, by
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. The album was produced by
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and recorded from December 1999 to January 2000 at Jackpot! Studio in
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and John & Stu's Place in
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. The music on the record ranges from softer melodies to fast punk rock guitar work, while the lyrics address issues such as
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, morality, eating disorders, feminism, music journalism, and media. Upon release, ''All Hands on the Bad One'' reached number 177 on the US ''
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'' Top 200 chart and number 12 on the
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chart. One song from the album, "You're No Rock n' Roll Fun", was released as a
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. The album received very positive reviews from critics, who praised its consistency and the vocals by singer and guitarist
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. ''All Hands on the Bad One'' appeared in several end-of-year lists and received a nomination for Outstanding Music Album at the 12th Annual
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Awards.


Background and recording

''All Hands on the Bad One'' is the follow-up to
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's highly acclaimed fourth album '' The Hot Rock'', released in 1999. ''The Hot Rock'' marked a considerable change in the band's sound, veering into a more relaxed and gloomy direction than the raucous punk rock style of its predecessors. It was also the first Sleater-Kinney album that entered the US ''
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'' Top 200 chart, peaking at number 181. Some fans, however, dismissed the album, claiming that the band had sold out and that it was a commercial album. This criticism was something that singer and guitarist
Corin Tucker Corin Lisa Tucker (born November 9, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney. Tucker is also a member of the alternative rock supergroup Filthy Friends, and previously recorded ...
strongly disagreed with, claiming that ''The Hot Rock'' was their least commercial album due to its longer and intricate pieces. According to Tucker, "we wanted to be doing difficult work. We wanted to be expanding as musicians and people didn't want that from us. They wanted us to jump around and yell." After expanding their musical boundaries with ''The Hot Rock'', the band decided not to worry about what their next album was going to sound like. Tucker explained, "It was so spontaneous ..The songs just kept popping up one after another. We didn't really talk about anything. It just kind of happened." She also said that they wanted to write songs that were "really straightforward but also a bit more mature in their structure and delivery than
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earlier songs." ''All Hands on the Bad One'' is also the first Sleater-Kinney album where drummer
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provides backing vocals on some tracks. Tucker remarked that they initially wanted her to sing on ''The Hot Rock'', but the idea was ultimately rejected due to the album's complex melodies. ''All Hands on the Bad One'' was produced by
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, who previously produced the band's third studio album, ''
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''. The band decided to work with him again because, according to Weiss, Goodmanson "has the incredible ability of capturing our live sound and heightening it, so we sound better". The album was recorded from December 1999 to January 2000 at Jackpot! Recording Studio in
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and John & Stu's Place in
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.


Music and lyrics

Similar to other Sleater-Kinney albums, the lyrics of ''All Hands on the Bad One'' feature personal, political, and social themes. The first song, "The Ballad of the Ladyman", is a deliberate attempt to mock those who misunderstand the band. Tucker said that the song is "almost making fun of how people see us, how people see what you're supposed to be when you're a woman in rock." The song was inspired when the band was invited to the
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music festival in England in 1999. Tucker explained, "We were all staying in little chalets or whatever and we had our own cabin and we were cabin 216. Someone wrote this message to us that was like, 'Cabin 216 ladymen.' And we were like, 'What?' It was meant to be a funny thing, but in this other way, it was really this naming of us. It was a subtle way of saying, 'Oh, you're different because you're a woman band and because you're in some ways political.' It's still seen as threatening to people. It's not like we had this weekend where we just relaxed with everyone and just hung out." Kat Iudicello, writing for ''
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'', stated that the song "sports sweet harmonies, a slow anger and soft, low bitterness, and driving steady guitars and drums." The song "Male Model" targets the male role models for female rock bands, while "Pompeii" explores soul-searching themes such as one's losses and anxieties. "Youth Decay" was described by Iudicello as a song that "grapples with adult disbelief of the problems of youth and the manifestations of it in terms of eating disorders and silence." It features fast punk rock guitar work. The lyrics to "#1 Must-Have" reference images of the
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scene in the mainstream media. It was written when Tucker was preparing for an interview about the subject, held by the
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. The song also alludes to the
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that took place at the
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music festival, where several women were
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d. Similarly, the song "Was It a Lie?" is a protest against how violence is used as entertainment in the media. "The Professional" aims at
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and contains heavy drum work, while "Ironclad" features " fuzzed-out riffs and pounding fills". Other songs such as "Leave You Behind" and "The Swimmer" feature soft melodies and harmonies. "You're No Rock n' Roll Fun" was described as "easy moving, beach punk rock music". "Milkshake n' Honey" was considered to be the band's
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iest song. Brent DiCrescenzo of ''
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'' commented that the song "spits wit at expatriates in Paris as Corin rolls her eyes at the type of denizens in ''
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''." The song "All Hands on the Bad One" features guitar riffs that are reminiscent of the band's second album, '' Call the Doctor''. It was chosen as the title track because, according to guitarist
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, it is the song that best represents the sentiment of the album. Brownstein explained that the song deals with "your relationship to evil and your relationship to the hypocrisy of forcing a morality on someone else when you yourself are no better." She added, "'Ballad of the Ladyman', for instance—who is 'the ladyman'? Is the person that wants to be on the radio, 'the bad one,' or is it the fans assuming that they
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want to be on the radio—are they 'the bad one'? Or is 'The Professional,' the ominous professional figure, 'the bad one'? I think all these songs can go into that machine of 'the bad one' and that mentality and then be spit out in a bunch of different scenarios. So that's why I think it works as the title."


Release

''All Hands on the Bad One'' was released on May 2, 2000, by the
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, which also released the band's previous two albums. The
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features a photo of Brownstein being hauled off a dance floor. According to Weiss, "She worked herself into a frenzy and passed out. People are laughing in the background because she's wearing a bunny suit." ''All Hands on the Bad One'' reached number 177 on the US ''Billboard'' Top 200 chart, #12 on the
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chart, and #5 on the
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Top 90.3 Album Chart for 2000. The band promoted the album with a tour across North America and England, featuring old and new songs. The band also did the set-up and sold merchandise themselves. As of August 2002, the album has sold 73,000 copies in the U.S. according to
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. As of February 2015, ''All Hands on the Bad One'' has sold 98,000 copies. The song "You're No Rock n' Roll Fun" was released as a
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on the same day as the album, featuring an
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, "Maraca", as the
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. In the United Kingdom, the single was released by
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in both
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and
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formats. The compact disc version includes a third song, "What If I Was Right", which is an outtake from the studio sessions for ''The Hot Rock'' that was previously released on Kill Rock Stars' ''Jackson's Jukebox'' compilation album. A
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was made for "You're No Rock n' Roll Fun" under the direction of Brett Vapnek, who previously worked on music videos by
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Critical reception

''All Hands on the Bad One'' received very positive reviews from critics. ''Pitchfork'' reviewer Brent DiCrescenzo described it as the band's most melodic, playful, sarcastic, and punchy album to date. Kat Iudicello, in her review for ''PopMatters'', said that the album features "lovely harmonies, brilliant drum work, great punk rock guitar riffs, and super-smart lyrics." ''
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'' writer Alan Rittner commented, "Sleater-Kinney's confidence and sense of freedom translate into the most relentless instrumental work of the band's career, with no loss in its peerless songcraft." Some critics also praised the album's consistency. According to Joshua Klein of ''
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'', "what makes ''All Hands On The Bad One'' so distinctive is Sleater-Kinney's dedication to craft as well as spontaneous passion: Song for song, this could be its best album." Further praise was given to Tucker's vocals. DiCrescenzo opined that "Corin reveals greater character depth than ever before" while
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of ''
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'' commented that she "is
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on 'Youth Decay', a sassy Francophile lover on 'Milkshake n' Honey' and all West Coast beach babe on the immensely pretty 'Leave You Behind'." Steve Huey, writing for
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, gave high marks to Tucker and Brownstein's guitar interplay as well as Weiss' backing vocals, stating that the band "makes full use of that extra instrument, packing the tracks with lilting three-part harmonies." ''
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'' notably praised the album's maturity and assertiveness, commenting that the band "has also created a more melodic sound and tunes are catchier and more accomplished with Tucker's vocals sounding more confident and tuneful than ever." Klein pointed out that "Corin Tucker's
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has never sounded better .. while Carrie Brownstein's straight counterpoint keeps the songs grounded in punk-rock fury." In a mixed review, Arion Berger of ''
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'' magazine noted that Sleater-Kinney "have remade rock aggression as thinking-women's work and handled punk with finesse", but also criticized the writing of some tracks for being "awfully self-conscious for a fifth album." ''
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'' reviewer Howard Hampton compared the album's music favorably to
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' '' Beauty and the Beat'', even though he remarked that instead of " ettlingfor The Go-Go's demure ministrations", ''All Hands on the Bad One'' "means to work the whole loving fist all the way up your tight little mind." In a very favorable review, Garry Mulholland of ''
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'' concluded that the album "explains exactly why one US mag called leater-Kinneythe best rock'n'roll band in America." ''All Hands on the Bad One'' appeared in several end-of-year lists. ''Pitchfork'' placed the record at number 16 in its list of "Top 20 Albums of 2000", commenting "Sleater-Kinney chanced losing some riot rrrlcred in favor of writing songs that cover a more diverse spectrum of emotions and themes, and came up their most compelling and political record to date". ''
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'' rated it the eighth best album of the year, ''
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'' named it one of the best album of the year, and ''The Village Voice'' placed it #10 in its 2000
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Critics' Poll. ''All Hands on the Bad One'' also received a nomination for Outstanding Music Album at the 12th Annual
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Awards, but lost to
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Track listing


Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's
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*
Corin Tucker Corin Lisa Tucker (born November 9, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney. Tucker is also a member of the alternative rock supergroup Filthy Friends, and previously recorded ...
 – vocals, guitar *
Janet Weiss Janet Lee Weiss (born September 24, 1965) is an American rock drummer, best known as a former member of Sleater-Kinney and a current member of Quasi. She was the drummer for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, leaving after the album ''Mirror Traffic' ...
 –
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, vocals ;Additional musicians *
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on "Milkshake n' Honey" *
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on "All Hands on the Bad One" and "The Swimmer" ;Technical personnel * Greg Calbi – mastering * Larry Crane –
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References


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