― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andy Beckerman, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
interested to hear what can song JBR thinks the outro rips... ^_^
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
I always liked, #2 I guess, "Westie Can Drum." Great riff.
― Jess Hill (jesshill), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
hey j fail I'm curious if you wrote a paragraph about "Home" to the pavement list a long time ago.
― Aaron A., Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
my personal pick is Forklift. all crackle, no fat, phoned-in gary peformance, lyrics Never to be fully deciphered - 110% pave, and it's great cos you get tired of singing along to the chorus so you actually LISTEN
― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
if yes, stop breathin'
if no, carrot rope
― joshua bastien (samsarascarred), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago) link
― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago) link
― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:44 (twenty years ago) link
so that.
but if it weren't that, it might be "box elder" (which has been said at least once above.)
― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 3 April 2004 03:19 (twenty years ago) link
"Wistful classic rock wannabe glory"? You mean tunefulness and rockin-ness? Don't forget the subtle Jim Croce quote in "Trigger Cut."
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:15 (twenty years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 April 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago) link
And "Speak, See, Remember" and "Westie Can Drum" are right up there as well...
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
dear Pavement,
today i have been having your 'Gold Soundz' filling up my head and it makes me v happy. i think i like it best from your songs.
have a nice day, Bobby
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 4 October 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
The Hexx
― bear, bear, bear, Thursday, 4 October 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Grounded
― flappy bird, Friday, 22 December 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
Summer Babe
― pomenitul, Friday, 22 December 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
Rattled by The Rush
(Grounded is the better song though)
― Evan R, Friday, 22 December 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
This is hard!Newark, Wilder
― brimstead, Friday, 22 December 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
Am I imagining that there's a comma there?
― brimstead, Friday, 22 December 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
Fillmore jive
― infinity (∞), Friday, 22 December 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
Shoot the Singer (1 Sick Verse)
― devvvine, Friday, 22 December 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
'Fillmore Jive' would be my second pick.
― pomenitul, Friday, 22 December 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
Gold SoundzorGive It a Day
― Here comes the phantom menace (ledge), Friday, 22 December 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
the way SM sings "and in the parking lot is the sedan he bought he never, he never complains when it's hot" in 'grounded' is so brilliant- the emphasis he puts on "is the sedan he bought he never" is really unusual & sounds like he's saying "anybody" or something else... i love songs where the sound of the words is more important or have more impact than the words themselves. or they create a new sound, sounds like made up words. i don't know, it's hard to describe, similar thing happens in the chorus of 'another nail in my heart' by squeeze, most nirvana songs...
― flappy bird, Friday, 22 December 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
Gold soundzzz wld be my second pick
― infinity (∞), Friday, 22 December 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
grounded has a slight element of socio-political commentary and i think of pavement as pretty apolitical, gold sounds is more pavement-y to me
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 22 December 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
fillmore jive
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Friday, 22 December 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
^^^
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 December 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
xxp hmm you could say the same about two states, conduit for sale, give it a day, stop breathin, pueblo...
― Here comes the phantom menace (ledge), Friday, 22 December 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
Impossible but today it's "Silence Kit" for me.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 22 December 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
Greenlander. Alt: Shady Lane.
― J. Sam, Friday, 22 December 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
Summer babe
― calstars, Friday, 22 December 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
Stereo
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Friday, 22 December 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
Get out those hard-hatsAnd sing us some skatBlade gushers gushChained and perfumedI don't need a minister to call me a groom
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 December 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
Grounded. It's a small masterpiece.
― nostormo, Friday, 22 December 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
Never really saw why Grounded is so well liked.
My default is Give It A Day
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Friday, 22 December 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
x-post - how different would that version of "Grounded" be to usual Pavement?
There's a darkness to it, possibly?
― djh, Friday, 29 April 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
I always assumed West was considered the “better drummer” than Gary but listening to the early stuff again, there isn’t any way in hell West could have pulled off the awesome fills at the end of Texas never whispers
― calstars, Friday, 29 April 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
Gonna go with those that say "Trigger Cut." Is it the very best song by Pavement? I'm not sure. But of the songs that could credibly be called the best song they ever wrote, it is the one, to me, which is most dead-center of the concept of what it is to be a Pavement song. There is no feature characteristic of Pavementness that it lacks.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 30 April 2022 03:12 (two years ago) link
He’s one of nation’s spiesHe’s one of our first recruits
― calstars, Saturday, 30 April 2022 03:43 (two years ago) link
"Fame Throwa"! If only because it's bonkers and no one seems to talk about it much.
[Hahahaha, XPOST!!!!]
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 30 April 2022 03:45 (two years ago) link
I like how involved and audible spiral is in the old stuff
― calstars, Saturday, 30 April 2022 03:48 (two years ago) link
mike mills comp in 5, 4, 3……
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 30 April 2022 05:51 (two years ago) link
In the Mouth of a Desert
― And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Saturday, 30 April 2022 11:50 (two years ago) link
I think I could say Shoot the Singer with little hesitation
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 13:39 (two years ago) link
Well I've seen saints, but rememberThat I forgot to flag them downwhen they passed
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 13:41 (two years ago) link
It's one of the songs where Malk is clearly trying to express something earnest, but can't do it directly, so it comes out sounding like nonsense. I prefer this to the sheer goof-off-itude of songs like "Fame Throwa", "Stereo" etc. (and I like those songs a lot!)
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 13:43 (two years ago) link
My pick is “Loretta’s Scars” (not sure if I’ve already posted in this thread).
― Hops: Mosaic, Citra, Simcoe (morrisp), Saturday, 30 April 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link
^ “Lettuce”
― calstars, Saturday, 30 April 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link