My Top 2000 Songs #1049: Leave You Behind

I generally turn to Sleater-Kinney when I need some blistering post-punk energy and just wanna make the walls (or the car) shake. Yet one of my favorite S-K tracks is the rare ballad, "Leave You Behind," off 2000's All Hands On The Bad One. (Rare as in--not many S-K ballads; and it's not something they seem to play live.) What can I say--I'm a sucker for intertwining guitar lines and intertwining vocals, and this song's got both! And as much as I love Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein in full-on punk mode, this delightful throwback to harmonic 60s girl-group pop really makes me wish they'd do some more pretty stuff. Cuz hot damn!