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
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Thursday, July 31, 2014 9:20 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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
https://youtu.be/LoqsS_DiU_A
― Οὖτις, Monday, 31 July 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
enjoy this sweet Pavement ripoff that plays over the end credits of Kelly Reichardt's 1994 film River of Grass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJOwsOfQgFs
― flappy bird, Sunday, 1 October 2017 06:14 (six years ago) link
Sammy has a thread re: Sammy - C/D? , but yeah no they are most notable for either being the best band to have a future C-level billionaire exec on lead guitar... or Gerard Cosloy's least favorite band of the 90s.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 1 October 2017 06:43 (six years ago) link
I think that's what Pavement sounds like to people who don't like Pavement.
― bodacious ignoramus, Sunday, 1 October 2017 11:11 (six years ago) link
I was able to convince some pals that Malkmus was recording new Pavement songs under a different name. Look at the freakin' artwork! Listen to the freakin' vocals!!! https://clearance.bandcamp.com/track/close-encounters
― SA, Monday, 2 October 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
In another alternate world (that some call reality), Malkmus is recording new (Jicks?) material in the studio.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 2 October 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
I didn't know abt the Sammy billionaire thing (and I bought their album, not that I can remember anything about it)
sad, tho, that "what Sammy is most famous for" is not and probably never has been "say, didn't one of them go on to call himself Laptop and record 'End Credits'"
(quit ripping off Pavement to rip off Future Bible Heroes as reimagined for the Marcy Playground generation? eh whatever, I love that song)
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 2 October 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
X-post
Jicks sounds like Malkmus started some other band. Clearance sounds exactly like Pavement.
― SA, Monday, 2 October 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
Just getting home from a bar and the band played a “cut your hair” cover which was very low effort but if there is a band where low effort counts it’s this one. The looser the cover the closer to Pavement’s spirit it gets, I guess.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 October 2017 06:54 (six years ago) link
Is there any good biography or super long magazine article about Pavement? and specifically about their last days? This band still confounds me- I find all of S&E repellent, I like Crooked Rain, and a few songs here and there on other records... but "Grounded" is one of my favorite songs ever. And this performance is just stunning: their second to last show ever, first song of the set, as someone in the comments put it: "Malkmus's energy is so cool in this vid. It's like a mix of feeling it and pissed off frustration that culminates in jigging around with the guitar behind his head."
I want to know more about why Malkmus left Pavement... is it just personal animosity? Obviously wasn't sick of touring or recording. Also I would like to read more criticism and analysis because I've been trying to understand this band and why people love them so much for nearly 13 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_i4C8axWBs
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
sounds like you need to relisten to S&E until you like it
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
I want to know more about why Malkmus left Pavement... is it just personal animosity? Obviously wasn't sick of touring or recording. Also I would like to read more criticism and analysis because I've been trying to understand this band and why people love them so much for n
Boredom: with slackness, not making enough dough, the usual.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
listen to wowee zowee until it all clicks imo
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 8 February 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link
flappy bird this could be a gateway S&E song and also function as a dirge eulogizing pavement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5OeoVkTDLM
malkmus is a prickly ocd loner fwiu and grew increasingly disenchanted (ha!) with carrying the load of his college / post-college buds. the swerve into prog in his solo albums is heard by some as something of a rebuke to / growth beyond earlier chummy sloppiness
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 8 February 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
Surface take: SM outgrew Pavement. Aside from Ibold (& Gary Young), the other guys were just friends with marginal talent.
Behind the scenes: one of the other dudes was serially cheating on his then-wife, flirting with a shitty drug habit, all the while coattail-riding & making other questionable life choices.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 8 February 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link
so why is most of his solo output so boring while every single pavement album is good
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 04:25 (six years ago) link