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well i was going to say 'grounded' as well, it seems a popular choice. so, either that, or stop breathin.

i very rarely listen to pavement anymore, i need to make a decent cdr of all the good tracks

― gareth, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Trigger Cut" was my first favorite Pavement song and perhaps still a good summary of the band. It's quintessential Pavement in a number of ways: stream-of-consciousness lyrics perpetually threatening to make sense, classic pop hooks married with edgy guitar noise, a suffusion of twenty-something angst.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

*zurich is stained*

― jk, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Box Elder

― Leigh, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

without a doubt, I'll take Grounded from Wowee Zowee The melody is really pretty: the steady rhythm augmented by SM and Stairs' guitars that chime and ring unbelievably. I don't know what to make of the lyrics but Malkmus delivers them in such a way that "latent causes sterile gauzes and the bedsid morale" comes off as an anthem of sorts. Amazing song.

― John S., Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fillmore Jive!

― jel --, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

here
i was dressed for success
but success it never comes
and i'm the only one who laughs
at your jokes when they are so bad
and your jokes are always bad
but they're not as bad as this

For the sweet mellow tune and the words. One of the first songs I ever heard of them. Melancholic tenderness.

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

five months pass...

Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse)

"Slow it down, SONG IS SACRED!!"

― Tim Beam, Friday, 20 December 2002 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

three months pass...

Okay so I can't understand how nobody mentioned "No Tan Lines".

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 05:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Flux=Rad / Fight This Generation

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't have the record in front of me. But I pick the one on "side one" of "Crooked Rain" where he say "Up to the top of the Shasta gulch/To the bottom of the Tahoe Lake." That song is the one I love the most of all the songs I love.

― Jess Hill (jesshill), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

home
some king chooser will wind up with my number

― j fail (cenotaph), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

"inside the mouth, a desert" or "texas never whispers"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

heaven is a truck, right?

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Stop Breathin'", especially the ending.

― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

you're thinking of "Unfair," Jess Hill

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jody, which Can song does "Stop Breathin'" rip off? I've noticed that there's definitely subtle references to Can here and there, but I never noticed anything blatant.

― Andy Beckerman, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Silent Kit" or "Elevate Me Later"

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Pueblo," hands down. I've gotten in two bad car wrecks while listening to it, prolly cuz I used to like the song so much ("Who needs to steer when you can rawk out!!!!" *CRASH*)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

malkmus has said as much re. "stop breathin", but i dont think it's mean to mimic any particular song. the end sounds a lot like the guitar work on monster movie.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Gold Soundz" or "Range life." gosh those are great. "Spit on a Stranger" is pretty definitive, too.

― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

don't hear/get the monster movie/"stop breathin'" connection...

interested to hear what can song JBR thinks the outro rips... ^_^

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

It reminds me of the bass on a particular Ege Bamyasi song, but I can't remember which one.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

such vague mystery:
can one fingerpick a bass?
crack hath been smoken

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

is that from a b-side?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

you mean you don't know

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Unfair," yes. Good one.

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

No Tan Lines is pretty valid. But I'm gonna go with Texas Never Whispers.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

home
some king chooser will wind up with my number
-- j fail (unhalfbrickin...), April 8th, 2003.

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

i have the CANswer: it's "sing swan song" from Ege Bamyasi.

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

eleven months pass...

"Spit On A Stranger" came close, but in the end, I pick
"Silence Kit," in all of it's wistful classic-rock wannabe
glory.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago) link

Summer Babe, duh

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago) link

would i get verbally bitchslapped if i chose a song from terror twilight?

if yes, stop breathin'

if no, carrot rope

― joshua bastien (samsarascarred), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago) link

the hexx

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago) link

...or grounded. Tied

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:44 (twenty years ago) link

i am really appalled that no one has yet said "fillmore jive."

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

Weird, I was just gonna say "Fillmore Jive."

"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

gold soundz. the sound of crushing.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 April 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago) link

Tough one.
I always loved "Rattled by the Rush."

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

"Unfair" would be #2; as noted above, the lines about Shasta Gulch and Tahoe Lake are great, never fail to move me.

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

We Dance or Newark Wilder (i'm choosing my fave rather than the song that 'sums up pavement')

― Aaron A., Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

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

ten years pass...

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

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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

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 06:58 (six years ago) link

four years pass...

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 Day
Grounded
Silence Kit
Half a Canyon
Zurich is Stained
Texas Never Whispers
Frontwards
Gold Soundz
Shoot the Singer
Elevate 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 spies
He’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 remember
That I forgot to flag them down
when 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

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