― 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
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
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