Pavement:Classic or Dud

What about the song "Harness Your Hopes"? How did it get that high?

Does it get played by ordinary guy?

I met it, and it does

now where's our fact checking cuz

where oh where is the "debris slide" tik tok trend

we can dream

Looks like no Malkmus solo song has topped 2 million streams, and the most popular ones from the s/t album ("Jenny & The Ess-Dog" et al).

malkmus's solo career is on the whole very good, more people should stream his post-pavement work imo

zurich is stained has always felt to me like a real standout on S+E ever since I bought it as a high schooler in 1998. not surprised that people enjoy listening to it above the other s+e tracks, which are clattery and noisier. i don't think it's the playlist thing like harness your hopes is.

also it starts off with a line about being a wimpy loser, people love songs about that

Some Jicks songs are higher than 2 million though

Oh wow, one of those cases where I didn't even think of searching for two different artist pages.

The "Harness Your Hopes" phenomenon is still so funny/random to me (even though, yes, I get "how" it happened). I received a notification a few weeks back that the song was released as a single... I guess to qualify for the RIAA certification(?)

+1 in the highschooler discovering pavement and immediately latching onto Zurich is stained.

It really is a little bop. The slide guitar still mesmerises me today like it did the first time.

Also vry cute story above about the 4yo parlour trick Eazy. Someone teach their kid Conduit For Sale next.