if someone held a gun to your head and said "Sing Pavement's 'Gold Soundz'" could you do it?

http://lineout.thestranger.com/files/2008/07/funeral.JPG

Not sure if I could remember the lyrics to "Happy Birthday" with a gun pointed at my head.

WARRIORS
WARRIORS

"if whiney g. was holding your head underwater in a bathtub and said 'blow bubbles with your nose to gary young's drum beat' could you do it?"

i could sing Gary Young's "Plant Man"

Anyway, it is fucking inappropriate to sing "Gold Soundz" unless at least five people are singing it at the same time and you're all drunk or high or both.

i wish i had more friends that knew the lyrics to "Protect Ya Neck" than fucking "Gold Soundz"

my friends know the lyrics to "country grammar" more than anything

i would have to use placeholder lyrics for some of the lines i dont know but i could sing the melody

i probably know all the lyrics to 'protect ya neck' too i guess

i basically mean the melody not like all the words perfectly

I have no idea what this song is, so I would be dead.

GO BACK!
to those Gold S0undzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
something something

...

I KEEP MY ASHTRAYS TO MYSELF
blah blah

FIN

i would have to use placeholder lyrics for some of the lines i dont know but i could sing the melody

― ciderpress

This, basically. Probably same for Malkmus, don't cha think?

SO DRUNK
in the august sun

I got the same in-depth knowledge as NickB but I didn't know that word was "Ashtrays".

i wish i had more friends that knew the lyrics to "Protect Ya Neck" than fucking "Gold Soundz"

i'm so glad most of my friends can sing along to "are you that somebody?" or "juicy" with me

I got the same in-depth knowledge as NickB but I didn't know that word was "Ashtrays".

To be honest, it could well be "Assflakes" instead.

I always* conflate this song and Range Life so when I looked at this thread title I was like, hmm once I got to the bit about the Smashing Pumpkins I'd be more or less home and dry

*has only been a thing in any recent years thanks to relevant ILM threadz and I guess that comp from last year, but yeah

I don't think I've ever heard a Pavement song, so unlikely to be able to sing this one

this coupled with popping my karaoke cherry last week has reaffirmed that I have a really really poor knowledge of lyrics in general, even for songs I have heard countless times

I don't think I've ever heard a Pavement song, so unlikely to be able to sing this one

You'd know this one Tom, it's the one with that slacker guy mumbling oblique lyrics over some weak indie rock.

I don't think I've ever heard a Pavement song, so unlikely to be able to sing this one

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, September 10, 2010 9:48 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah p much

i have listened to this a few times, recently, to try to understand a little more and condemn a little less

but i couldn't even hum the fucker, let alone sing it

would still be alive w/ pavement, wu, aaliyah, nelly and biggie. would be dead w/ gary young.

"Go back to those gold sounds and bring ice cream to your door..."

Is that how it starts or am I fucked?

RZA needs to mediate between lex and indie like he did between Vampire Weekend and Jake Gyllenhaal.

afaik i've never heard pavement

go back
to those gold sounds
and keep my [ath-ent] to yourself
because there's nothing
I don't like
is it a crisis or a boring change
when it's central
so essential
it has a nice ring when you laugh
at their low life
opinions
and we're coming to the chorus now...

(Do I get to live, of do I have to go on? It does get spotty from here.)

I'd keep my address to myself...

TOOT TOOT
can I hear a
BEEP BEEP

This scenario is going to be IN MY BOOK.

xp haha too easy

"Quarantine the Past" is a collection of Pavement's greatest hits btw.

I have one friend in the world who could recite both gold soundz and protect ya neck, and that reminds me, I owe him a handwritten letter.

But seriously, fuck you post-post-ironic hipsters.

Like the Canadian national anthem I could probably fake it reasonably.

I could get through it. It's a fine song, some memorable turns of phrase, but whatever.

i wish i had more friends that knew the lyrics to "Protect Ya Neck" than fucking "Gold Soundz"

You sound like the GZA on Sunday, lol.

I could do 'Here' or maybe 'Summer Babe', but aside from, like, one line, I'd be fucked with this one.

"Gold Sounds" pffft

I could totally do Here. Gold Soundz I can kind of sing along to and kind of mumble all the bits I don't know.

"shady lane's" the best pavement singalong song anyways.

if someone held a gun 2 ur head and asked u 2 recite the web address of indie music review blogazine Pitchfork could you do it

DON'T FORGET, it changed a few years ago!!

American gun culture at its worse, this thread

cret cret cret cret cret cret

GO BACK!
to those Gold S0undzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
something something

...

I KEEP MY ASHTRAYS TO MYSELF
blah blah

FIN

This is kinda where I'd fall in line, plus the "coming to the chorus now" part -- and could hum the ~10 essential seconds of the chorus melody. That's about it. I could do "Summer Babe" or "Spit on a Stranger" or "Stereo" pretty well, though.

if someone held a gun to your head and said "change that flat tire"...?
... "smoke this whole doobie"...?
... "recite Shakespeare's Macbeth"...?

"Are you good men and true?"
"Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer salvation, body and soul"

'sfar as I get

Never understood why people like Shady Lane, it sounds so clumsy and awful to me.

I couldn't recite anything from this song either.

I do actually like Pavement, just not all that much I suppose.

it sounds so clumsy and awful to me

This is how I would describe Pavement as a whole

earnestness

something overlooked in the discussion of what makes NMH important in the 90s is christianity. i'm not saying that they were a christian band, exactly, but it seems to me that mangum put across a kind of deep, personal-and-yet-universal spiritual yearning in his music that's been influential on american indie in the 21st century. most notably reflected in the arcade fire and sufjan stevens, picking up on a thread first previously down by sunny day real estate and maybe sebadoh (?). carrying forward from the likes of U2 in the 80s/early 90s? i dunno...

...and the Violent Femmes maybe? NMH always reminded me of them a little sonically, but Gano always had that Christian side to him too especially on Hallowed Ground (there's also a sense of playfulness with history on that record as well, that NMH share).

also Gano was funny

NMH is kinda humorless

Gano got unfunny very quickly though.

How can you say that, the guy is classic:

"* The Femmes were eating at Spanish restaurant Mallorca in Ohio. When the desserts came Gano was appalled to discover that his flan was a lighter shade of brown than the flan of manager Darren Brown. Gano summoned the waitress who told him there was nothing she could do, it was the last flan. Brown made things OK by trading flans with Gano. "

^I've eaten there, it's in Cleveland.

Save the last flan for me.

the connection isn't the sounds/stylings of arena-rock it's more of a vague thematic similarity - the yearning, earnest, a bit of willful naivete. (Bright Eyes also fits here. Jeff Buckley too).

as far as pre-90s antecedents for NMH, I can't really think of any in the 80s off the top of my head, but there's plenty of stuff from the late 60s/early 70s that figure in.

― pay to the order of Iron Balls McGinty, $1 and 9 cents (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:51 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, this makes sense. one of the defining characteristics of NMH, to me, is how an intense quality of emotional frailty/brokenness is tied to hugely emotional, even cathartic music. the frailty is most clearly present in the lyrics, but it's also reflected in the singing voice, the recording, even the tunes themselves. like a lot of indie over the past 20 years, NMH seemed to fetishize (or at least to sentimentally prize) a quality of human weakness. that's the sense in which i tie them to early sebadoh at one pole, radiohead at another in describing a certain swath of semi-recent indie rock. this fascination clearly separates NMH and their fellow travelers from 80s "big music" (which tended to be more triumphalist about human nature & identity).

shakey mo OTM about precedents in 60s/70s music. thinking of simon & garfunkel, neil young, etc.

yeah Neil is the real obvious one - whiny voice, simple songs (altho not always, in Neil's case), freewheeling associations + dreamy imagery, super emotive material

I first reead about Aeroplane from glenn mcdonald's blog The War Against Silence, sometime prolley in 98 or 99. I still haven't heard the whole album, but I downloaded Holland 1945 off of Napster in 2000. I rememeber it was the same night I first heard The Clean.

ever since then H45 has been one of my favourite songs (along with Point That Thing Somewhere Else &-I think-Getting Older)

http://herjazz.org/post/1210508043

For those who are interested, what sounds like most of their 2nd ever show, at Maxwell's in 1990. Lovin the pre-Slanted pavement

that show is pre-Ibold with Rob Chamberlain on bass.

"gold soundz, there was gold soundz, everywhere gold soundz" BANG

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

oh boy!

"Go back! To those gold sounds!" is all I know. Is that enough?

yes

Wow.. a lot has happened since this poll opened.

And P.S. the title of the poll doesn't necessarily say you have to know every word or else you're dead... It could just mean "can you sing an approximation of the vocal melody" which I can do, so I'm voting life.

Go back to those gold sounds
And keep my advent to yourself
Because it's nothing I don't like
Is it a crisis or a boring change
When it's central, so essential,
It has a nice ring when you laugh
At the low life opinions
And they're coming to the chorus now

I keep my address to yourself 'cause we need secrets
We need secrets -crets -crets -crets -crets -crets back right now

Because I never wanna make you feel
That you're social
Never ignorant soul
Believe in what you wanna do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain
And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down
The trial's over, weapon's found

Keep my address to myself because it's secret
'Cause it's secret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret back right now

So drunk in the August sun
And you're the kind of girl I like
Because you're empty and I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in December
That I won't eat you when I'm gone
And if I go there, I won't stay there
Because I'm sitting here too long

I've been sitting here too long
And I've been wasted
Advocating that word for the last word
Last words come up all you've got to waste

Go back to those gold sounds
And keep my advent to yourself
Because it's nothing I don't like
Is it a crisis or a boring change
When it's central, so essential,
It has a nice ring when you laugh
At the low life opinions
And they're coming to the chorus now

I keep my address to yourself 'cause we need secrets
We need secrets -crets -crets -crets -crets back right now

Because I never wanna make you feel
That you're social
Never ignorant soul
Believe in what you wanna do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain
And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down
The trial's over, weapon's found

Keep my address to myself because it's secret
'Cause it's secret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret back right now

So drunk in the August sun
And you're the kind of girl I like
Because you're empty and I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in December
That I won't eat you when I'm gone
And if I go there, I won't stay there
Because I'm sitting here too long

I've been sitting here too long
And I've been wasted
Advocating that word for the last word
Last words come up all you've got to waste

Go back to those gold sounds
And keep my advent to yourself
Because it's nothing I don't like
Is it a crisis or a boring change
When it's central, so essential,
It has a nice ring when you laugh
At the low life opinions
And they're coming to the chorus now

I keep my address to yourself 'cause we need secrets
We need secrets -crets -crets -crets -crets back right now

Because I never wanna make you feel
That you're social
Never ignorant soul
Believe in what you wanna do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain
And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down
The trial's over, weapon's found

Keep my address to myself because it's secret
'Cause it's secret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret back right now

So drunk in the August sun
And you're the kind of girl I like
Because you're empty and I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in December
That I won't eat you when I'm gone
And if I go there, I won't stay there
Because I'm sitting here too long

I've been sitting here too long
And I've been wasted
Advocating that word for the last word
Last words come up all you've got to waste

Go back to those gold sounds
And keep my advent to yourself
Because it's nothing I don't like
Is it a crisis or a boring change
When it's central, so essential,
It has a nice ring when you laugh
At the low life opinions
And they're coming to the chorus now

I keep my address to yourself 'cause we need secrets
We need secrets -crets -crets -crets -crets -crets back right now

Because I never wanna make you feel
That you're social
Never ignorant soul
Believe in what you wanna do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain
And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down
The trial's over, weapon's found

Keep my address to myself because it's secret
'Cause it's secret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret back right now

So drunk in the August sun
And you're the kind of girl I like
Because you're empty and I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in December
That I won't eat you when I'm gone
And if I go there, I won't stay there
Because I'm sitting here too long

I've been sitting here too long
And I've been wasted
Advocating that word for the last word
Last words come up all you've got to wastes

Go back to those gold sounds
And keep my advent to yourself
Because it's nothing I don't like
Is it a crisis or a boring change
When it's central, so essential,
It has a nice ring when you laugh
At the low life opinions
And they're coming to the chorus now

I keep my address to yourself 'cause we need secrets
We need secrets -crets -crets -crets -crets -crets back right now

Because I never wanna make you feel
That you're social
Never ignorant soul
Believe in what you wanna do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain
And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down
The trial's over, weapon's found

Keep my address to myself because it's secret
'Cause it's secret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret back right now

So drunk in the August sun
And you're the kind of girl I like
Because you're empty and I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in December
That I won't eat you when I'm gone
And if I go there, I won't stay there
Because I'm sitting here too long

I've been sitting here too long. . .
And I've been wasted
Advocating that word for the last word
Last words come up all you've got to waste

Go back to those gold sounds
And keep my advent to yourself
Because it's nothing I don't like
Is it a crisis or a boring change
When it's central, so essential,
It has a nice ring when you laugh
At the low life opinions
And they're coming to the chorus now!

I keep my address to yourself 'cause we need secrets
We need secrets -crets -crets -crets -crets -crets back right now

Because I never wanna make you feel
That you're social
Never ignorant soul
Believe in what you wanna do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain
And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down
The trial's over, weapon's found

Keep my address to myself because it's secret
'Cause it's secret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret back right now

So drunk in the August sun
And you're the kind of girl I like
Because you're empty and I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in December
That I won't eat you when I'm gone
And if I go there, I won't stay there
Because I'm sitting here too long

I've been sitting here too long
And I've been wasted
Advocating that word for the last word
Last words come up all you've got to waste

Go back to those gold sounds
And keep my advents to yourself
Because it's nothing I don't like
Is it a crisis or a boring change
When it's central, so essential,
It has a nice ring when you laugh
At the low life opinions
And they're coming to the chorus now

I keep my address to yourself 'cause we need secrets
We need secrets -crets -crets -crets -crets -crets back right now

Because I never wanna make you feel
That you're social
Never ignorant soul
Believe in what you wanna do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain
And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down
The trial's over, weapon's found

Keep my address to myself because it's secret
'Cause it's secret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret -cret back right now

So drunk in the August sun
And you're the kind of girl I like
Because you're empty and I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in December
That I won't eat you when I'm gone
And if I go there, I won't stay there
Because I'm sitting here too long

I've been sitting here too long
And I've been wasted
Advocating that word for the last word
Last words come up all you've got to waste

Probably would have to shoot you anyway if you sang it that many times

go back to those gold soundz
and keep my accent to yourself
because it's something that i don't like
is it a crisis or a boring change
do you remember in december
it has a nice ring when you laugh
at the low life opinions
and we're coming to the chorus now

keep my address to myself because it's secret (cretty cret etc)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

holy hell has anything gotten that many votes???

people actually know this song?

Pavement be pulling crowds.

I'm not even sure I voted.

seems like this particular poll was crucial for ilm, everyone felt obliged to pitch in his vote
(I voted 'yes' ofc, it's just a nice song, some people hate it way too much)

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haa

lol alfred

jesus christ that is an absurd amount of votes

ok not my style to complain about low participation in a thread I started but can I just

Best Above The Law Album

I dig Pavement fine but 3 votes in the Above The Law album poll vs. this is just sad

this one did have an inneresting title tho, and I think that brings in the votes

wait, aerosmith, are you actually going on an indie rock thread to complain no one cares about a rap act you love or is this ironic

whoa late pass for me but when did the code that converts a thread url to the thread title kick in? all this time I've been coming w/the left bracket url= etc when all you gotta do is paste the thread's url and it gets converted to a neat link. thanks whoever did that!

xp I am actually going on an indie rock thread to complain that no one cares about a rap act I love, yes. if anybody needs me I'll be on the Waka Flocka thread castigating everybody for not listening to Look Blue Go Purple

oh man i haven't listened to look blue go purple in a minute

they were ok

this one did have an inneresting title tho, and I think that brings in the votes

^^

If this was called "Could you sing Pavement's 'Gold Soundz'?" it would've gotten maybe half as many votes.

the threat of a gun to your head really brings out the votes eh

whoa late pass for me but when did the code that converts a thread url to the thread title kick in?

pretty long time now!

like six years at least i think

yeah that's been around like... a really really long time

haha - never knew either that you didnt need to type that code! might start linking to threads more often then