Pavement:Classic or Dud

correct, nothing new.

although i will say it is kind of nice to have this stuff separated from the proper albums. reminds me of my 2CD homemade compilation of their b-sides that i made in, like, 1998ish - "Four Channel Destiny"

granted, this is soemthing you can easily do with streaming playlists, but i don't make playlists.

I think those alt versions of "Black Out" "Extradition" weren't streaming before(?)

But otherwise, yeah, I agree with alpine static – while you could recreate the track list, I still think it's cool that they made it available as a standalone thing.

Huh – the alt "Black Out" has "Gonna haunt you down, haunt you down..." lyrics

"Extradition" sounds pretty close to the album track

Also, I guess you still need to dial up the Westing... comp to hear the "Perfect Sound Forever" tracks (so Drag City Incorporated get their $0.0000002)

...and ftr, that's exactly what I'm doing now. I've never known most of these songs by title, but damn... "Internal K-Dart" and "Perfect Depth" are such anthems. After hearing those, you kinda have to play the final EP, and close out the trilogy.

Pavement have finally gone Gold:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-05-21/pavement-steven-malkmus-a-new-gold-record-tik-tok-harness-your-hopes

On May 16, the song (Harness Your Hopes) hit the RIAA’s classification for Gold status, meaning it hit the sales equivalent for 500,000 units across platforms. Malkmus was just as confused as the public by the song’s ascent — “I heard it was on a playlist or something,” he told Stereogum. “I’m not an expert on Spotify but, you know, one of those ‘Monday Moods’ or whatever the f— they do.”

lol SM

“Im pushing 60 i dont care”

Pretty wild that this is Pavement's top 10 on Spotify:

1. Harness Your Hopes 148M
2. Cut Your Hair 42M
3. Range Life 32M
4. Gold Soundz 27M
5. Spit on a Stranger 16M
6. Stereo 11.9M
7. Zurich Is Stained 11.3M
8. Shady Lane 10.8M
9. Grounded 10.1M
10. Father to a Sister of Thought 9.2M

Zurich is Stained 11.3M is the actual title

40M daggers

Here's the long version of how this song has exploded and a great read. Glenn McDonald is a hero too.

https://www.stereogum.com/2105993/pavement-harness-your-hopes-spotify/columns/sounding-board/

How cleanly the top 10 divides into tiers: S = "Harness Your Hopes", A = the three big radio-friendly songs from Crooked Rain, B = a career spanning selection of wistful tunez (+weird outlier "Stereo")

Stereo is an iconic Pavement song not a weird outlier

Yeah always felt that was a breakthrough single of sorts

What about the voice of Geddy Lee etc

an esteemed ilxor even took their name from it!

yeah, Stereo was a single at their commercial (until recently) peak, no?

that's enough fact checkin for now

Why is Zurich Is Stained up there now. This makes no obvious sense

It's not my fault