"your mate does a good american accent... v sloppy playing, tho."
― http://i56.tinypic.com/xnsu1g.gif (max arrrrrgh), Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
For all the abuse Pavement get for "not properly playing" or whatever, to my ears they sound closer -- in songwriting and feel -- to the studio rock I love from the seventies than the Pumpkins.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
no, true. i love them. there's a clip on a documentary were some german journalist basically tells them that. "you are brinking ze rock back!"
― http://i56.tinypic.com/xnsu1g.gif (max arrrrrgh), Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
pavement had one song where you can actually feel something: "In the Mouth a Desert". smashing pumpkins has at the very least: "1979", "tonight" and "thirty-three". not even their rock songs but at least they are memorable
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Pavement was a decent (if still overrated act) up to and sort of including S&E (which was still decent, but god knows nothing as special as it was made out to be). After that they basically sucked. The Smashing Pumpkins always sucked.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 10 February 2011 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the people that like pavement somehow get something out of the guy's voice. Whether they can relate to it or whatever. I don't know what
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 10 February 2011 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
but relating to a voice can be a big cause for liking something music-wise
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 10 February 2011 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
You're forgetting something: Billy Corgan's reedy thin whine/yelp.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 10 February 2011 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Whining is '30 Seconds to Mars' and a bunch of contemporary rock. Corgan's growl sounds more like holding out a long nasalized note than whining (or something to that effect).
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:01 (thirteen years ago) link
and his shitty middle school journal lyrics
xp
― Moreno, Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
"corgan's growl"??
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ultimately pavement is bro music
― pajamagram sam (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
the further i get out from when Smashing Pumpkins were at their peak, the more i appreciate how great their best stuff was. and with each passing year, i wonder more and more why the hell i ever liked Pavement enough to own all of their albums, shit just has no use to me outside of a handful of songs that only occasionally sound good.
― some dude, Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
...bros that go to coffee shops to play scrabble
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha
― some dude, Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
bros who go home to fuck other bros
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
TS: smugness vs megalomania
― gallagher 3 (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
bro life is a kaleidescope of experiences: scrabble, gay sex, preston school of industry, alcoholism, horse racing
― pajamagram sam (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
― mookieproof,
corgan's howl*
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
he growls like a ninny. awful
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
"corgan's howl"
^^if this was a broadway rock opera based on the ginsberg joint, now we'd be in business!
― pajamagram sam (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
despite all my rage i am still just a bitchy bald dude
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
that doesn't rhyme :-/
― gallagher 3 (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
despite all my gold soundz i am a neutered git
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
despite all my rage i will not come to terms with my age
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
despite how i squeal i am still just a mouse in a wheel
― some dude, Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Intoxicated by the badnessI'm in love with my lameness
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
we need our balls balls balls balls balls balls back right now
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I like where this thread is heading
― van smack, Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.pvusd.net/schools/central_zone/rolling_hills_middle_school/images/rollinghills-sign.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:31 (thirteen years ago) link
what about the voice of billy c
― gallagher 3 (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy?
I fucked him and he doesn't.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
you fucked him with your pussy
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
kool kids never had the whine
― pajamagram sam (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
that's not fair. pavement don't have any memorable lyrics
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
their lyrics also make fun of smashing pumpkins
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread took a turn for the awesome
― lmao reminisces about his days in southern china (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 February 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I/it has no function.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 February 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lorax straight tearing holes in u dudes
i loved pumpkins as a kid, never got into pavement at all. went back to siamese dream once and other than disarm which is still goth power ballad 4eva it was really clunky leaden shit
― goole, Thursday, 10 February 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I love this clip. The end where he apologizes for his shitty singing is quite a treat. btw there are endless amounts "Pavement Shreds" youtube clips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDtZousQsME
― van smack, Thursday, 10 February 2011 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
real lols
― van smack, Thursday, 10 February 2011 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Lorax just became one of my favourite posters
― uh oh i'm having an aneurysm (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 10 February 2011 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
despite all my rage I am still just a latter-day saint
― A Alphabetical Leader (Abbbottt), Thursday, 10 February 2011 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Pavement are the progenitors of 'ugh indie'.
― uh oh i'm having an aneurysm (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 10 February 2011 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
pavementi am sorry for the infinite sadness of people who do not get why― da croupier, Thursday, February 10, 2011 12:11 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
i am sorry for the infinite sadness of people who do not get why
― da croupier, Thursday, February 10, 2011 12:11 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
― there is a lout that never goes "aight" (bernard snowy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 05:01 (thirteen years ago) link
pavement:american 1990s :: wallace stevens:american 1950s
― there is a lout that never goes "aight" (bernard snowy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 05:02 (thirteen years ago) link
one of my friends hates everything after S&E b/c malkmus's voice is "too pretty" or "too pop" or something, I forget exactly how he put it but either way that's a pretty dumb thing to say
― there is a lout that never goes "aight" (bernard snowy), Thursday, 10 February 2011 05:04 (thirteen years ago) link
1979 > pavement's entire career (which I like!)
― iatee, Thursday, 10 February 2011 05:04 (thirteen years ago) link