The Woods (studio album)
by Sleater-Kinney

The Woods by Sleater-Kinney
Year: 2005
Release date: 2005-05-24
Overall rank: 1,139th   
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 291 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 2005 (20th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (170th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,139th)

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Sleater-Kinney bestography

The Woods is ranked as the best album by Sleater-Kinney.

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The Woods track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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The Woods rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,139th | 2000s rank: 170th | 2005 rank: 20th

The Woods collection

The Woods ratings

Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 291 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.6/100, a mean average of 77.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.

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The Woods comments

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From 04/18/2025 20:43 | #308578
In my opinion, Sleater-Kinney are the greatest American hard rock band and they’re in the conversation of all-time greatest American bands in any genre. My personal top 1,000 albums include five of theirs, with this one in the top 100. I can see how some may be turned off by the ferocity of their music, but it’s hard for me to understand how none of their albums, every one of which is brilliant, cracks the top 1,000 on this site.
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70/100
From 02/22/2018 17:25 | #209233
Sicuramente, in mezzo a tanti "bimbo-minchia" che popolavano le scene di allora, chi dimostrava di avere maggiormente gli attributi erano proprio queste tre…
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85/100
From 01/02/2018 11:55 | #204413
Is it just me or are SK super underrated on BEA? Really surprised to see The Woods is not even top 20 (or even top 30) for 2005. Eaaasily top 5 for me.
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80/100
From 12/10/2016 01:32 | #179828
All S-K's music is a cut above the rest, but having The Woods as #1 album for them just isn't right. "Jumpers" and"Entertain"are fantastic rockers with the ladies in peak form. "Rollercoaster" and "Modern Girl" have engaging lyrics and are catchy toons too. The rest are decent tracks but don't draw me back. I miss the intertwined singing and twisting guitars and subtlety of the earlier albums even though Weiss sounds awesome on drums.
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100/100
From 04/04/2016 23:43 | #163325
What the fuck there's not a weak moment on this album.
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70/100
From 04/04/2016 00:53 | #163256
Garage rock was still alive in 2005?
Nevermind.
Remarkable, but not my kind of album
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From 02/08/2015 01:14 | #134331
lovin "Wilderness"
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85/100
From 09/20/2014 07:59 | #122274
This is great! I was surprised to find our that Carrie from Portlandia was in this band.
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