History Music / Slint

* EpicRocking: "Don, Aman" (6:28), "Washer" (8:50), and "Good Morning, Captain" (7:39).

They released their first album, ''Tweez'' to lukewarm reviews in 1989. Then, in 1991, they found their style and released their landmark album, ''Music/{{Spiderland}}'', which came on the heels of a year of landmark albums along with {{Music/Nirvana}}'s ''Nevermind'' for {{Grunge}}, Music/MyBloodyValentine's ''Loveless'' for {{Shoegazing}}, and so on, and became very influential to PostRock alongside TalkTalk's ''Laughing Stock''.

They released their first album, ''Tweez'' to lukewarm reviews in 1989. Then, in 1991, they found their style and released their landmark album, ''Music/{{Spiderland}}'', which came on the heels of a year of landmark albums along with {{Nirvana}}'s ''Nevermind'' for {{Grunge}}, Music/MyBloodyValentine's ''Loveless'' for {{Shoegazing}}, and so on, and became very influential to PostRock alongside TalkTalk's ''Laughing Stock''.

They released their first album, ''Tweez'' to lukewarm reviews in 1989. Then, in 1991, they found their style and released their landmark album, ''Spiderland'', which came on the heels of a year of landmark albums along with {{Nirvana}}'s ''Nevermind'' for {{Grunge}}, Music/MyBloodyValentine's ''Loveless'' for {{Shoegazing}}, and so on, and became very influential to PostRock alongside TalkTalk's ''Laughing Stock''.

* EpicRocking: "Breadcrumb Trail", "Nosferatu Man", and "Good Morning, Captain".

* TropeMaker: Of PostRock.

After the album the entire band went through a CreatorBreakdown. It is rumored that the brooding sound of ''Spiderland'' combined with pressure from the record company caused two of the members to be institutionalized during recording. What makes this especially creepy is the fact that all the band members were in stable mental condition prior to the recording. Nevertheless, this stress affected the band and in 1991 they disbanded. Pajo went on to join Music/{{Zwan}} for a while after that, and Walford was briefly a member of Music/TheBreeders.

They've had two reunions. One in 2005 and another in 2007, but no new material is rumored, although they did perform a new song entitled "King's Approach" during their 2007 shows.

Slint is an American AlternativeRock band from Kentucky, usually given credit for jump-starting the PostRock genre along with TalkTalk, as well as the Math Rock genre. The band formed in 1986 from the ashes of HardcorePunk group Squirrel Bait, with Brian [=McMahan=] (guitar and vocals), David Pajo (guitar), and Britt Walford (drums) staying strong throughout the band's existence. The bassist would always be separate session musicians that would travel with the band.

* CreatorBreakdown: Probably the creepiest example where not an event, but the work itself created the breakdown.
** The worst part? Producer Brian Paulson says [[http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/brian-paulson/Content?oid=1194172 the album was recorded in]] ''[[http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/brian-paulson/Content?oid=1194172 four days pulling all-nighters]]''. No wonder it screwed their health.

* OldShame: ''Tweez''

* TroubledProduction: ''Spiderland'' is one of the giants of troubled production stories.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The band included a message in the inside sleeve of ''Spiderland'' saying "interested female vocalists write 1864 douglas blvd. louisville, ky. 40205". They were serious about it and did some auditions, but disbanded before they could do anything about it. They never clarified the matter, but there's a pretty popular rumour that one of the auditionees was a Slint fan called PJHarvey.

* buffySpeak: In the lyrics for "Breadcrumb Trail" - "I pulled back the drape thing on the tent..."

* Mainly because they played it when it had been an UnbuiltTrope.

* [[AllLowercaseLetters all lowercase letters]] -- The liner notes of ''Spiderland''.

* CarefulWithThatAxe -- The ending of "Good Morning, Captain" and the chorus of "Nosferatu Man."
* CreatorBreakdown -- Probably the creepiest example where not an event, but the work itself created the breakdown.

* EpicRocking -- "Breadcrumb Trail", "Nosferatu Man", and "Good Morning, Captain".

* GenreBusting -- Even for post-rock.

* ILoveTheDead -- "Nosferatu Man." [[MindScrew Maybe.]]
* NewSoundAlbum -- ''Spiderland''.
* NonAppearingTitle -- Almost none of their songs feature song titles in the lyrics. "Washer" being the lone exception.
* OldShame -- ''Tweez''
* PerishingAltRockVoice -- So perishing Brian didn't so much sing as mumble spoken-word narration most of the time, and fell ill due to the strain of yelling the climax of "Good Morning, Captain".
* SpokenWordInMusic -- Like narration drawn out as the music gets darker with the narration? You're in luck.
* StepUpToTheMicrophone -- "Don, Aman" has vocals and guitar by their drummer Britt Walford.

* TroubledProduction -- ''Spiderland'' is one of the giants of troubled production stories.
* UncommonTime -- They are also labeled "Math Rock" for a reason.
* TheUnSmile -- ''Spiderland''[='=]s [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Slint_-_Spiderland.jpg iconically creepy cover]] shows the band treading water in a lake in an abandoned quarry near their hometown Louisville with deranged barely-smiling facial expressions.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen -- The band included a message in the inside sleeve of ''Spiderland'' saying "interested female vocalists write 1864 douglas blvd. louisville, ky. 40205". They were serious about it and did some auditions, but disbanded before they could do anything about it. They never clarified the matter, but there's a pretty popular rumour that one of the auditionees was a Slint fan called PJHarvey.

[[caption-width-right:350:Slint being sexy.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Spiderland''

After the album the entire band went through a CreatorBreakdown. It is rumored that the brooding sound of ''Spiderland'' combined with pressure from the record company caused two of the members to be institutionalized during recording. What makes this especially creepy is the fact that all the band members were in stable mental condition prior to the recording. Nevertheless, this stress affected the band and in 1991 they disbanded. Pajo went on to join {{Zwan}} for a while after that.

Slint is an American AlternativeRock band from Kentucky, usually given credit for jump-starting the PostRock genre along with TalkTalk, as well as the Math Rock genre. The band formed in 1986 with Brian [=McMahan=] (guitar and vocals), David Pajo (guitar), and Britt Walford (drums) staying strong throughout the band's existence. The bassist would always be separate session musicians that would travel with the band.

* CarefulWithThatAxe -- The ending of "Good Morning, Captain".

They released their first album, ''Tweez'' to lukewarm reviews in 1989. Then, in 1991, they found their style and released their landmark album, ''Spiderland'', which came on the heels of a year of landmark albums along with {{Nirvana}}'s ''Nevermind'' for {{Grunge}}, MyBloodyValentine's ''Loveless'' for {{Shoegazing}}, and so on, and became very influential to PostRock alongside TalkTalk's ''Laughing Stock''.

[[caption-width-right:380:Slint being sexy.]]

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* LoveItOrHateIt -- Either they're a brilliantly artistic band or they're just a band that writes boring, drawn out songs. ''Rolling Stone'' criticised ''Spiderland'' for "the absence of anything resembling a tune", for instance.
* MagnumOpus -- ''Spiderland''.

* GenreLaunch -- For PostRock.