"Slanted" just happens to be a terrific fucking album. EVEN IF lots of other people think so!
― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago) link
― otto, Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago) link
lots of super hot 18 year old chicks in the crowd, huh?
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link
You attend John Mayer concerts often, do you?
― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, Mayer loves those Mellow Candle covers.
― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
dude, don't.
― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link
― otto, Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago) link
― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link
― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link
I think the older Malkmus is indeed sexier than ever, in a way. It's weird: he doesn't necessarily look older - his face has just sort of gotten a little wider or something. He looks like some other guy mixed with Steve Malkmus.
― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link
Nah, I don't believe it, either. But maybe somebody who knows more than me can help.
― otto, Thursday, 8 January 2004 23:17 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 January 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 8 January 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
And "Us" is a break-up/love song!
Even when he's making an effort to be heart-on-sleeve, people still want to force him into being esoteric through sheer force of will!
Nothing by Malkmus is overrated. Everything he does is perfect. Believe me.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link
― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago) link
"Matthew, have you heard any songs SM wrote post-Pig Lib that haven't be released yet?"
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link
i have a specific song in mind here -- "we gotta get you a woman" from runt (the song that starts "leeeeroy, boy, is that you?").
― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link
It is getting more proggy, though, but only so much. It's not fucking Rush or Yes, it's more like...Pig Lib.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
Speaking of two-disc Malk....I got the one that had a bonus disc of b-sides (I'm assuming some of you have it)....Was I the only one that thought "Dynamic Calories" would have been one of the highlights of Pig Lib? I have no idea why they didn't sub that for the Craw Song, which I still hate.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link
― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
I don't get the dislike of BTC. I adore that record. Most of it was better live, though.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
Hmmm, I thought conventional wisdom was that it's Pavement's only misstep, too self-consciously wacky and not cohesive enough. I disagree; there are some days it's my favorite.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link
I think "Dynamic Calories" wasn't on the record perhaps out of a concern for leaning too heavy on novelty, lyrically. It'd be a better fit on the first Jicks record, probably. Malkmus clearly likes the song a lot, since it was played very frequently on the 2003 tours.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link
I get what you guys are saying about it having a different feel....however, "lyrical novelty"....what about "Cooked her a din...ner/and, boy, it's a win...ner" Yikes that drives me nuts...
Y'all are right about "Old Jerry" that would have been good on Pig Lib...
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Sam J. (samjeff), Friday, 9 January 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link
― otto, Friday, 9 January 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link
Maybe I just take too many things at face value, but I always interpret "Witch Mountain Bridge" as being a song about the occult.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago) link
― otto, Friday, 9 January 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link
Not strictly on topic, but am I alone in feeling "Pink India" is tremendously underrated? I've been really loving that one lately. I love the live versions, when he usually freaks out on the "Punjabi's finest, bring me your wine list" part.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
― andrew s, Friday, 9 January 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 9 January 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 9 January 2004 23:32 (twenty years ago) link