― 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
^^^
― 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
I like Grounded a lot, but not my fave.
If I were allowed a POT, it would be Box Elder and Trigger Cut.
But as I'm not, Box Elder I think.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 22 December 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 22 December 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
unfair
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 22 December 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
too hard to pick one but Pueblo > Half a Canyon is just the best shit ever
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Friday, 22 December 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 22 December 2017 22:24 (six years ago) link
"Circa 1762" that was on the Slanted & Enchanted reissue, I guess it was never recorded other than a Peel Session?
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 22 December 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
Fight this Generation has everything.
― kraudive, Friday, 22 December 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
i am in fact leavin' (work) for the holiday season
but i always complain when it's hot
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 December 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
this could be pavement heresy but i really like 'speak, see remember'
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 22 December 2017 23:12 (six 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 (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