― Aaron A., Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― queenoftheharpies, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J Blount, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― paul, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jk, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leigh, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― John S., Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel --, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Slow it down, SONG IS SACRED!!"
― Tim Beam, Friday, 20 December 2002 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 05:17 (twenty years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Jess Hill (jesshill), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:01 (twenty years ago) link
― j fail (cenotaph), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:01 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:11 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Andy Beckerman, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
interested to hear what can song JBR thinks the outro rips... ^_^
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:14 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
I always liked, #2 I guess, "Westie Can Drum." Great riff.
― Jess Hill (jesshill), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 18:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:36 (twenty 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 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 years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:33 (nineteen years ago) link
if yes, stop breathin'
if no, carrot rope
― joshua bastien (samsarascarred), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:44 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 April 2004 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:48 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:57 (nineteen 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
I usually think people who pick obscure and/or early songs in these circumstances are try-hard bellends but, fuck it: 'Frontwards' ;-)
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Saturday, 23 December 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
Friends lifted Rattled by the Rush in those early seasons. I imagine if the band had done something about that they’d have made a fortune in royalties
― Evan R, Saturday, 23 December 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
XpRly good track
― infinity (∞), Saturday, 23 December 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
I'd like to check out your public protests
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 23 December 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
Lifted? Bit of a reach, really?
― kraudive, Saturday, 23 December 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
I know it sounds similar but
It’s a pretty blatant rip. Not “hey they kinda sound similar” but “hey this music wouldn’t exist if they hadn’t copied it from the source”
― Evan R, Saturday, 23 December 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
I just always assumed it was a coincidence
― kraudive, Saturday, 23 December 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
there is no way this is a coincidence, and "lifted" is definitely not a reach:
This transition in friends sounds exactly rattled by the rush by pavement pic.twitter.com/wtFZwP6Phe— gleemer (@GleemerBand) November 13, 2015
― alpine static, Sunday, 24 December 2017 04:16 (six years ago) link
Just heard their "killing moon" cover for the first time yesterday. God I love Pavement.
― brimstead, Monday, 25 December 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
yeah that's legit one of my 5 favorite pavement songs, so good
― k3vin k., Monday, 25 December 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
no soap in the jar
― mookieproof, Monday, 25 December 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
the reference to "playing contract bridge" in Grounded seems like the most Pavement thing
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 December 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
i love the drumming on grounded
it seems very simple -- i don't really know anything about drumming -- but appropriate in a ringo way
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 December 2017 03:45 (six years ago) link
“Shoot the Singer,” but these are all good choices. I miss Pavement.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 28 December 2017 07:08 (six years ago) link
this is such a beautiful performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_i4C8axWBs
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 06:58 (six years ago) link
really thrilling and moving
I love "Strings of Nashville".
― djh, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
Unseen Power of the Picket Fence
― calstars, Thursday, 28 April 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
No POX and can't do POO:
Give it a DayGroundedSilence KitHalf a CanyonZurich is StainedTexas Never WhispersFrontwardsGold SoundzShoot the SingerElevate Me Later
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Thursday, 28 April 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
Greenlander!
― tobo73, Thursday, 28 April 2022 14:57 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
He’s one of nation’s spiesHe’s one of our first recruits
― calstars, Saturday, 30 April 2022 03:43 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
I like how involved and audible spiral is in the old stuff
― calstars, Saturday, 30 April 2022 03:48 (one year ago) link
mike mills comp in 5, 4, 3……
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 30 April 2022 05:51 (one year ago) link
In the Mouth of a Desert
― And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Saturday, 30 April 2022 11:50 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
^ “Lettuce”
― calstars, Saturday, 30 April 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link