No guests other than Mark, who technically was one at the time.
NEO SAYS: We enter our next phase with this odd transitional item. In some ways Good Luck is our most experimental record as we experimented with a controlling producer and with other people's ideas of how music should be recorded in the real world of professionals. Behind the cranked up muddy bass, squishy 80s drum sounds and too-loud vocals are some promising songs. "Stating The Obvious Again" was a response to the hate rhetoric of the 1992 elections and was widely misinterpreted as a "nice liberal" song (for which the zine Your Flesh memorably suggested we deserve to be put in a concentration camp) when it was actually a statement about defending one's friends by any means necessary and fighting for your right to party. "Smells Like Smoke" offered a "what the fook were you expecting" comment on the LA riots over a faux-power-ballad. A really cool counterpoint vocal arrangement was nixed by the producer because "listeners can't take in too many melody lines at once", an idea which may surprise 50 million Sleater-Kinney fans. "Cat Box" and "Good Luck" are both favorites of mine. "I Know That" is a neat Mark Zanandrea tune in a sort of 4AD-ish vein with Allison torching it up on vocals. I got to add some nice backwards guitar to that one. So there, I do have some good memories of this session; it wasn't all boredom and impetigo.