POO:PAVEMENT

I just always assumed it was a coincidence

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

Just heard their "killing moon" cover for the first time yesterday. God I love Pavement.

yeah that's legit one of my 5 favorite pavement songs, so good

no soap in the jar

the reference to "playing contract bridge" in Grounded seems like the most Pavement thing

i love the drumming on grounded

it seems very simple -- i don't really know anything about drumming -- but appropriate in a ringo way

“Shoot the Singer,” but these are all good choices. I miss Pavement.

this is such a beautiful performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_i4C8axWBs

really thrilling and moving

I love "Strings of Nashville".

Unseen Power of the Picket Fence

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

Greenlander!

x-post - how different would that version of "Grounded" be to usual Pavement?

There's a darkness to it, possibly?

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

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.

He’s one of nation’s spies
He’s one of our first recruits

"Fame Throwa"! If only because it's bonkers and no one seems to talk about it much.

[Hahahaha, XPOST!!!!]

I like how involved and audible spiral is in the old stuff

mike mills comp in 5, 4, 3……

In the Mouth of a Desert

I think I could say Shoot the Singer with little hesitation

Well I've seen saints, but remember
That I forgot to flag them down
when they passed

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!)

My pick is “Loretta’s Scars” (not sure if I’ve already posted in this thread).

^ “Lettuce”