first listen on npr, the early stuff, 30 absolutely gorgeous songs from before "cut your hair". this very secial band was really ingenious. how they melded abrasive guitars with meandering songs, brittle tunes and a great vocal delivery still leaves me speechless.The Secret History Vol 1
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 3 August 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
This is super lazy of me but is there anything on there that isn't on Luxe & Redux?
― MaresNest, Monday, 3 August 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link
nope it's all just the bonus stuff from that reish.
― tylerw, Monday, 3 August 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
ty Tyler!
― MaresNest, Monday, 3 August 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/kannberg-favorite-pavement-songs.html
Spiral picks his 10 favorites.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 3 August 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
yeah i don't understand this reissue at all besides ~VINYL~ which i mean hey if it's an excuse for ppl to hear this for the first time, awesome!
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 3 August 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
I might get the Crooked Rain era one tbh - no way was I ever going to buy the reissues on CD cuz fuck CDs but it'd be nice to have the extras and on vinyl too. the only Pavement vinyl I have is Brighten the Corners and Terror Twilight.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 August 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
dunno, those pavement CD reissues were great -- not super expensive and loaded w/ good-to-great bonus stuff.
― tylerw, Monday, 3 August 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
I'm not buying albums I already own on CD again
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 August 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
but an album of extras that I don't own on vinyl, sure
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 August 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
tylerw otm. "CRCR" is, imo, the best of the lot. There's an unreleased track called "All My Friends" that's prob my #1 Pavement song of all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6JK4p_vnqo
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 3 August 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
I'm not buying albums I already own on CD againwould generally agree, but paying $12 for almost 2 hrs of bonus material seemed worth the cash.
― tylerw, Monday, 3 August 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
"All My Friends" is unusual in the sense that a snipped edit of the instrumental ending of it was released as a b-side to "Gold Soundz" as "Exit Theory (edit)"... I wonder why the full track was never released until the reissue?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 3 August 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link
I kind of like the idea of having this on one collection separated from another album
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 August 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
yeah it makes sense -- though i always thought they should do a complete BBC sessions double LP or something. those things are so fun. friend just sent me a tape of this summer of 96 show they did during the brighten the corners sessions, where malkmus is just making up lyrics for all of their new songs. a total blast.
― tylerw, Monday, 3 August 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
x-post
Exit Theory (Edit) is on the same single as my all time favourite Pavement song, Strings of Nashville.
― djh, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
that's a really good list that spiral chose. some of my very faves in there.
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
hmmm few too many spiral songs though
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
i'm aok with this existing and would def consider buying vol. 2 if vinyl was my primary mode of listening, but it's weird they're promoting this as a new album named THE SECRET HISTORY when its a reissue of widely available stuff
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
No reason to buy this, but man these are some great songs. Song for song, this band's B sides were almost as good as their album tracks
― Evan R, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
100% dud
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
This tweet from a couple of months ago hit too close to home.
http://i.imgur.com/o9tXyLo.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
O_____O
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
Fuk
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
Haha 13 yrs is what I think of the original "S & E" coming out
"Yeah came out in the early 90s dude, that was like, I dunno 13 yrs ago right?"
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
Knew most of these, and leaves some out, but pretty cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMaR6ljTK6c
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 29 August 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
Huh never noticed the croce or sly bits before lol
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 29 August 2015 22:52 (eight years ago) link
where's that video of Mark "E" Smith pissing his pants
― del griffith, Sunday, 30 August 2015 00:58 (eight years ago) link
Off the top of my head, missing are Raspberry Beret/Cut Your Hair and Hip Priest/Our Singer, but I'm curious about other ones....
― dlp9001, Sunday, 30 August 2015 01:49 (eight years ago) link
Also, I'm guessing that "nyah nyah nya nya nya" predates the sly bit?
― dlp9001, Sunday, 30 August 2015 01:57 (eight years ago) link
Ring around the rosie
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 30 August 2015 02:46 (eight years ago) link
Stop Breathin' =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VmM8qRRLwU
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 30 August 2015 06:08 (eight years ago) link
No Tan Lines = And Your Bird Can Sing
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Sunday, 30 August 2015 10:20 (eight years ago) link
Buddy Holly one is a stretch
― MaresNest, Sunday, 30 August 2015 10:33 (eight years ago) link
the silence kit melody is almost note for note "Everyday," I thought everybody knew that
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 30 August 2015 11:23 (eight years ago) link
problem with things like the buddy holly is that it's just a really rote diatonic melody... bit like those youtube videos that point out how a whole bunch of I V vi IV songs are "copying" each other. there are the basic tools of pop music! focusing on tiny little melodic cells is kind of missing the point when all these people are using the same twelve notes. the bit i like about the silence kit melody is that nice little switch on "grandmothers advice" anyway :)
― linee, Sunday, 30 August 2015 12:19 (eight years ago) link
Silent kid, it's a-gettin' closerGoin' faster than a rollercoasterLove like yours will surely come my wayA-hey, a-hey-hey
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― how's life, Sunday, 30 August 2015 12:23 (eight years ago) link
― linee,
I don't think we're meant to take the video seriously. I mean the Sly Stone bit is out of a nursery rhyme.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 August 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
I love S Kit and never noticed this either.
ChewingScrewingMyself with my hand
― calstars, Sunday, 30 August 2015 13:27 (eight years ago) link
Bob didn't seem to take too kindly to it on FB, but maybe I misread his reaction.I have no problems with these borrowings if they are real. Makes the point that they are magpies of the classic rock era
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 30 August 2015 13:41 (eight years ago) link
And the Sly one is bogus, the Buddy Holly one is as clear to me as the Croce one
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 30 August 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
Sly and 'stereo' belong here:Songs that incorporate the "nan nanny boo boo" melodyBut the buddy holly one is an obvious rip, but also a canonical example of nicking a tune but making your own clearly distinct song from it.
― ledge, Sunday, 30 August 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
I just hope no one gets sued over it.
― how's life, Monday, 31 August 2015 11:10 (eight years ago) link
what is the one at 1:35?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU7vXN-2j3A
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
lol I even own that album duh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
West and Nastanovich sit in with a Pavement cover band in Nashville: http://pitchfork.com/news/61813-pavement-members-perform-pavement-songs-with-pavement-covers-band/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5iDsc4pCc0
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
While Malkmus guested on a song with these folks for a song on an album (first publicized back in September):
Soldiers Of Fortune are a supergroup featuring Kid Millions (Man Forever, Oneida), Barry London (Oneida), Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Zwan), Jesper Eklow (Endless Boogie), Brad Truax (Interpol), and Mike Bones (Oneida). On November 6, Mexican Summer will release their new album Early Risers, which features contributions from Stephen Malkmus, Cass McCombs, Dan Melchior, Comets on Fire's Ethan Miller, and others
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
https://youtu.be/cyGbBCc8aU0
my 3rd wave coffee shop anthem
― calstars, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 00:49 (six years ago) link
walked past a chipotle today; they were blasting harness your hopes.
― wmlynch, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 01:02 (six years ago) link