Album · Sleater-Kinney
The Woods by Sleater-Kinney
The Woods is an album by Sleater-Kinney, released in 2005. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 11 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Entertain”, on 4 lists with a best position of #50.
The Woods, Sleater-Kinney's seventh album, came out on Sub Pop in 2005, cut late in 2004 with Dave Fridmann producing, and it's the sound of the Olympia band kicking down the walls of their own house. Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein on guitars and vocals, Janet Weiss on drums: the same trio that came up out of riot grrrl, now playing like a hard rock band with its hair on fire.
The guitars squall and overload, Weiss hits like she's trying to break through the floor, and the songs sprawl out into noise and arena-sized heft without losing their bite. "Entertain" is the one that jumped out at rock radio, and "Jumpers", "The Fox", "Wilderness" and "Modern Girl" have all turned up on the countdowns since. Critics raved, and then the band split in 2006, which made it a thunderclap of a goodbye until they reunited in 2014.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Woods on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Entertain | 4 | #50 | – | 2005–2024 | |
| 2 | Modern Girl | 4 | #427 | – | 2022–2025 | |
| 3 | Jumpers | 1 | #280 | – | 2019 | |
| 4 | The Fox | 1 | #384 | – | 2024 | |
| 5 | Wilderness | 1 | #799 | – | 2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.